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Welcome to National Hamburger Day/National Milk Chocolate Day!
Editor's Note: there are some days that are real stinkers, like yesterday, which was Bagpipe Appreciation Day, Cross Atlantic Communication Day, National Barbie-in-a-Blender Day, Take Your Pants for a Walk Day, National Scotch Day and Walk on Stilts Day. And then there are special days, like today, which is both National Hamburger Day and National Milk Chocolate Day. It is my fondest wish, okay not my very fondest, but it is my fond wish, that the powers-that-be work out a trade so that National Scotch Day and National Milk Chocolate Day are switched, so we as a nation never again have to choose between honoring hamburgers or milk chocolate. I say honor both. It will make for a grand day.
One other thing...according to my research, there is another national hamburger day on May 28th. May is also National Hamburger Month. I am a big fan of hamburgers but do we really need 2 national holidays to celebrate them?
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How Rakeem Christmas Fits in Indiana (TNIAAM; Burke)
It was roughly a year ago when Paul George suffered one of the more gruesome injuries you'll ever see, breaking his right leg during a Team USA scrimmage in Las Vegas and immediately sending the Indiana Pacers into a tailspin.
Before the injury, the Pacers were listed at 14-to-1 odds to win the 2015 NBA Finals, better than theGolden State Warriors, who ended up taking the crown.
But without George for most of the season, the Pacers were a shell of the team that won 56 regular season games in 2013-14 and reached that season's Eastern Conference Finals. Indiana won just 38 games in 2014-15, missing the playoffs in a historically bad Eastern Conference.
Perhaps not coincidentally, Larry Bird's team has undergone serious roster turnover since the end of the season, especially in its frontcourt. The Pacers dealt Roy Hibbert to the Los Angeles Lakers and watched power forwards Luis Scola and David West both walk in free agency.
Between those three players, they lost 31.7 points and 20.4 rebounds of nightly production and have attempted to replace it by adding Myles Turner, Jordan Hill and, most recently, former Syracuse center Rakeem Christmas.
Christmas was dealt Thursday from the Cleveland Cavaliers, who took him 36th overall in last month's draft, to the Pacers in exchange for a 2019 second-round pick.
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The Most Memorable Games in Carrier Dome History Part I (thejuice; Bierman)
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5. Syracuse vs. Pennsylvania lacrosse – May 28, 1988
The first of the three straight, Gary and Paul Gait-led NCAA championship teams, although after an 11-0 regular season, including games in which the Orangemen scored 26, 23, 20 and 19 goals in victories, including a first round NCAA rout of Navy 23-5 in which the Gaits combined for 16 of the 23 goals, unheralded Ivy League champ Penn proved to be a big obstacle in the NCAA semifinals played conveniently enough at the Dome (one of two Final Fours SU hosted, the other 1991).
In a tense back and forth affair that featured two Gary Gait famous “Air Gait” shots leaping from behind the Quakers cage to stuff the ball into the net behind goalie John Kanaras with 5:20 in the second quarter to tie the game 2-2, then again early in the third quarter to tie the game 4-4, a pair of shots that had the partisan SU crowd of 25,933 shaking it collective heads and was a said to be an “unprecedented” manner in which to score a goal in the field version of the game to anyone’s recollection.
Despite Gait playing like the “Air Jordan” of the sport, Syracuse still trailed 10-9 with 3:00 to play until a nifty goal by attackman John Zulberti tied the game, and Paul Gait’s quick one-on-one move to the goal off a pass from his brother, freed him up for an in-close shot that whistled home with 0:03 left to propel the ‘Cuse to the championship game two days later in which they would defeat Cornell 13-8 for the second NCAA title in program history.
4. Syracuse vs. Georgetown basketball – January 28, 1985
Big East basketball was in its formative years of increased popularity coast-to-coast thanks to its mega successful TV contract with ESPN during the 1984-85 season, a season in which the conference would shock the nation by becoming the first and only league to send three teams to the Final Four, and a season in which the SU-Georgetown rivalry was never so heated.
The defending national champion Hoyas led by Patrick Ewing, David Wingate, Reggie Williams, Bill Martin and Michael Jackson were ranked No. 1 for the first nine weeks of the season, before being shocked by No. 2 St. John’s 66-65 at the Capital Centre, and now two days later had to play in the Dome against the 11th ranked Orangemen led by Pearl Washington, Rafael Addison and a young Rony Seikaly, in front of a then-record crowd of 32,229 on the ESPN Big Monday broadcast.
In the predictable close game, Georgetown had the ball up 63-62 in the final minute, only to turn it over. After a timeout with 0:34 left, SU inbounded with a play for Washington to win it. He dribbled right from the side court to the foul line, pulled up and hit a 15 footer with 0:16 to put SU on top, and a late free throw followed by a desperation heave that missed by Jackson gave Syracuse the 65-63 win that so riled up those fans spilling onto the court, several famously crashed into the late ESPN courtside reporter Tom Mees during his postgame appearance, causing Mees to spontaneously elbow back defending his turf.
Come back next week for the top three moments in Carrier Dome history.
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Fireworks at Great Northern Mall Tuesday Night (PS; Moses)
The annual fireworks display at Great Northern Mall in the town of Clay is set for Tuesday night.
The fireworks, which are sponsored by the town of Clay Recreation Department in cooperation with the Great Northern Mall, will be begin around 9:30 p.m. The fireworks were originally scheduled for June 30, but were cancelled due to inclement weather.
Plenty of parking spaces are available around the mall. The fireworks show will be set up behind the Sears store.
A concert will be held at Clay Central Park before the fireworks from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Clay Central Park is located off Wetzel Road in Liverpool. The concert is part of the Concert in the Park series and will feature music from the 1960s to 1980s.
Visitors are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs to both the fireworks and concert.
