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Welcome to National Grand Marnier Day!
National Grand Marnier Day is annually observed on July 14th. An 1880′s French invention by Alexandre Marnier-Lapostolle, this cognac concoction is used in mixed drinks and in desserts.
Grand Marnier in used in a long list of desserts including liquor cream buns, Yule log, cranberry sauce, Crepes Suzette’ and Grand Marnier souffle creme brulee’. Grand Marnier is also used in the sauce of the roasted duck dish, “Canard a l’Orange”.
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Tyus Battle Joins Syracuse, Sam Vecente Discuss What a Great Fit He is for the Orange (video; cbssports.com; Vecente)
Tyus Battle Picks Syracuse, Leaving UM With Huge Hole (detroitnews.com; Beard)
Michigan got the confirmation it didn't want to hear on Monday, losing its top recruit for the 2016 class.
Five-star Tyus Battle, who decommitted from UM last month, revealed on Twitter that he is changing his verbal commitment to Syracuse, the school he visited after backing out of his Michigan pledge.
Battle, a 6-foot-7 wing, was projected as the heir apparent to UM senior Caris LeVert, but his loss means the Wolverines have a gaping hole for a shooter in their recruiting plans.
Battle also had visited Duke and Louisville, and after making his verbal commitment to Michigan in May, Beilein's 2016 class seemed to be set, with big men Austin Davis and Jon Teske.
But Battle, ranked the No. 20 overall prospect in the 2016 class, opted for the Orange.
In an interview with ESPN's Jeff Goodman, Battle said proximity was the main reason for his change of heart.
"I wanted to be closer to home," said Battle, who is from Edison, New Jersey. "They (Syracuse) told me I could be a versatile guard who could have the ball in my hands a lot.
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Commitment of Tyus Battle Huge Recruiting Win for Syracuse, Boeheim (si.com; Johnson)
Syracuse emerged as a strong candidate to land Tyus Battle when he took an official visit to the school the weekend after he decommitted from Michigan in mid-June. On Monday, Battle announced his intentions to play with the Orange. “Excited to say I have officially committed to Syracuse University!!,” Battle wrote on Twitter.
Battle, 's No. 21 player in the class of 2016, initially pledged to the Wolverines in May, days after taking a trip to Ann Arbor, Mich. According to Syracuse.com, Battle and his family began to question the commitment shortly after Battle announced it, and his father, Gary, urged Battle to visit Syracuse. Battle had canceled a previously planned visit to Syracuse when he committed to Michigan. Gary later declined to comment on his son’s recruitment, but Battle said late last month that “I still really like Michigan a lot.”
Ultimately Battle elected to commit to a different program than the one to which he originally pledged. In explaining his decision to ESPN.com’s Jeff Goodman and Jeff Borzello, Battle said that he “wanted to be closer to home” and that Syracuse sold him on the chance to become a “versatile guard who could have the ball in my hands a lot.” Battle told the outlet that he picked the Orange over the following schools: Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan, UConn and Virginia.
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Dana O'Neil Tells Syracuse Fans to 'Simmer Down' About Attendance (TNIAAM; Tahmosh)
You can take the girl out of State College but you can't take State College out of the girl...
Dana O'Neil decided to have some fun with attendance numbers this week, and boy was it FUN! Most of it was just a blogger trying to fill space during the summer by combing through a press release and some statistics - meaning it was pretty useless.
But there was one nugget that might be of interest here, in regards to Syracuse's claim to the top spot in the per-game attendance rankings once again:
Now before Orange fans get too full of themselves and start gloating at the Big Blue Nation of runner-up Kentucky, realize that Carrier Dome seats 35,000-plus for hoops. Rupp Arena taps out at 23,500 (or 22 more than UK somehow squished on average in the place). And if you built a 600,000-seat arena in Lexington, they would come.
So congrats Syracuse, but simmer down.
It's summer here too, so let's have a little fun with fact-checking Dana's attendance comments, one by one.
"Rupp Arena taps out at 23,500"
Sure, that's the listed capacity, but considering 10 games cracked the 24,000 mark, it's not actually the capacity, so let's not pretend every game was a sellout in Lexington.
"If you built a 600,000-seat arena in Lexington, they would come"
Six home games came in at less than 23,000 and a total of eight fell below the listed capacity of 23,500. There were some empty seats in Rupp last year - though obviously not many. If Kentucky fans really could fill a giant arena every night, they surely would have gotten the 24,428 they got for the Florida game for every game, and then this attendance crowd would be theirs alone with no asterisk.
"So congrats Syracuse, but simmer down"
Well, what about Kentucky fans simmering down as well? If Syracuse should apologize to UK for having a larger capacity for its arena, surely Kentucky fans should apologize to the rest of the NCAA for the size of theirs. Rupp Arena is the second-largest arena in the NCAA, so they have the same advantage over every other school in the nation other than Syracuse.
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Orange Watch: Part I, 40 Seasons of Highs, Lows in Syracuse Jim Boeheim's Career (sujuiceonline.com; Bierman)
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Having covered the Orange and Orangemen during the entire Boeheim run, as we approach an astounding 40th season, we take a look back at the high and low moments of each campaign.
1976-77: High-In only his fourth game as coach, SU goes to Freedom Hall and knocks off Darrell Griffith and Louisville 76-75. Low-After a thrilling overtime upset win over Tennessee’s Ernie and Bernie show in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, the Orange lose by 22 points to “Cornbread” Maxwell and UNC-Charlotte in the Sweet 16.
1977-78: High-The Orangemen hold on and beat Michigan State and its standout freshman Ervin “Magic” Johnson in the initial Carrier Classic (played from 1977-2000), although Johnson wins tournament MVP honors over SU’s Marty Brynes. Low-Syracuse drops both of its postseason games, first to St. Bonaventure in the ECAC Upstate playoffs, then to a 14-13 Western Kentucky team in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
1978-79: High-In Boeheim’s first game coaching SU at Madison Square Garden, the Orangemen knock off South Carolina 71-64 in front of a partisan Syracuse crowd. Low-Falling to Ivy League member Pennsylvania in the Sweet 16, although the Quakers were ranked No. 14 and would go on to the Final Four.
1979-80: High-Achieving a first-ever No. 2 ranking in the country with only two regular season defeats. Low-“Manley Field House is officially closed.”
1980-81: High-The triple overtime 83-80 win over Villanova to take the Big East championship in the Dome, and until the SU-Duke game in 2014, was the best college basketball game ever played under the Teflon top. Low-Not making the NCAA Tournament without an automatic Big East bid, and subsequently falling to Tulsa in the NIT final 86-84 in OT.
1981-82: High-You know it’s a tough year (16-13) when a gritty 92-87 loss to No. 4 DePaul in the Dome is the highlight (SU did beat 8th ranked Georgetown in the Dome), a game in which DePaul star forward Terry Cummings had four, first-half fouls but did not foul out. Low-A first round Big East Tournament defeat to Boston College in Hartford, where forward Ron Payton and center Andre Hawkins were charged with the rape of a Villanova student in a hotel room. The charges were dismissed the following summer.
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