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Welcome to National Cheesecake Day!
Today is National Cheesecake Day and to celebrate, The Cheesecake Factory is offering half off every cheesecake for two days: July 29-30. Though limited to dine-in, guests can choose one slice from over 30 cheesecake varieties.
As part of its annual tradition of introducing a new cheesecake on this sweet treat holiday, The Cheesecake Factory debuted their new salted caramel cheesecake, a caramel cheesecake and creamy caramel mousse on a blonde brownie topped with salted caramelo Wednesday.
SU News
Frank Howard Talks 2-3 Zone, His Tattoo and Penny Hardaway (TNIAAM; Szuba)
Rising freshman Frank Howard has come to Syracuse by way of Maryland. Howard, originally from Suitland, turned down offers from Georgetown, Virginia, North Carolina State, Ohio State and Maryland to become a Syracuse Orange. Adrian Autry, a former assistant at Howard's high school, was able to get the 6-foot-5 combo guard to commit with his hometown being less than 30 minutes away from Georgetown and College Park.
Howard -- who will be the first player to don the No. 1 sinceMichael Carter-Williams, another tall guard -- figures to be Syracuse's most underrated recruit in the 2015 class. While missing his junior season with a torn ACL, Howard didn't get a chance to showcase his abilities on the court, which are virtually endless. Howard can play both guard positions -- he has excellent court vision, he can score from all over the floor and has a high basketball IQ.
Matt Park caught up with Howard and Tyler Lydon who have both been on campus during summer sessions. Howard speaks on how effective he can be in the zone, how Penny Hardaway is the most famous person he's ever met, (he plays just like him) and what he plans to study at Syracuse.
Speculation: Notre Dame and Texas to ACC? (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
Yesterday, an interesting bit of information came across Twitter -- information that most of us (maybe all of us) hadn't really heard before. From the always-reliable McSources:
Brett McMurphyVerified account@McMurphyESPN
ACC coaches want Notre Dame to join a league. If ND joins a league before 2027, its contractually bound to join ACC
It's timely to talk about it since a lot of folks around college football HAVE really been annoyed at Notre Dame lately (more so than usual), with regard to their cushy, independent situation. What we didn't know, however, was the bit about Notre Dame being locked into the ACC should they choose to join a conference before 2027.
For those who forgot all of the stupid conference realignment terminology, the ACC was seen as more vulnerable than other leagues for a spell because they just had a large exit fee, not a grant-of-rights that gives media revenues to the conference to dole out to member schools -- instead of just the schools. Notre Dame joining pretty much ended that talk, and now this information sets that in stone, as no school would have much drive to leave the ACC with Notre Dame in the fold.
So IS Notre Dame going to join the ACC full-time at some point? I'd argue yes, especially if they're shut out of the College Football Playoff for conference champions once or twice. But then that brings up the important question of who the ACC would bring in with Notre Dame to balance out an unwieldy, 16-team league. This is the part where UConn fans salivate, before crumbling in a heap.
The answer is Texas.
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Ex-Hoya Beats Back Depression, Now Playing for $1M Prize (nypost.com; Merman)
Former Knicks lottery pick Michael Sweetney, selected ninth overall in 2003, will be back in New York on Saturday night, playing basketball on ESPN for a $1 million prize at Fordham’s Rose Hill Gym.
But money isn’t the only thing driving the formerly hefty Knicks power forward in this wild, new 18-and-over pickup event called: “The Basketball Tournament.’’ Regaining his health and happiness is foremost.
Sweetney told The Post his NBA career was derailed because of a long and undiagnosed bout with clinical depression, causing him to eat too much and not take care of his body.
The 32-year-old only recently got professional help when he received the diagnosis. His weight still is at 320 pounds and he will wear a size 5XL jersey when he mans the post Saturday for the Baltimore-based “City of Gods’’
Sweetney had often talked about the funk he was in during his rookie year, with his father dying just one month after former Knicks general manager Scott Layden pulled the trigger on the rebounding, low-post scorer from Georgetown. Sweetney now realizes he never pulled out of his malaise.
“I don’t think I was honest back then, but I’m now open to be able to say everything that happened was my fault and I own up to it,’’ the 6-foot-8 Sweetney said. “I was in a bad depression, didn’t eat right or work out enough and I ate myself out of the league. I’ve just owned up recently to the problems of depression. I think I was in depression mode for years and I didn’t get proper help. I was in denial.’’
Soon after Isiah Thomas took over as Knicks president, Sweetney was traded to the Bulls in 2005 following his second season. He played two seasons in Chicago and hasn’t played an NBA regular-season game since 2007. Sweetney attempted to come back, but was cut by the Celtics after training camp in 2009 and 2011.
The 'Catcher's Interference' Tom Dotterer Can't Forget (PS; Kirst)
I received a note a few weeks ago about the passing of Jerry "Bo" Alletzhauser, a note hinting at a great tale of Syracuse baseball. Finding the heart of this story demanded a stop at Salina Retail Liquor and Wine, the amazing liquor store on North Salina Street in Syracuse with religious icons and a multitude of books and handwritten notes all scattered among the bottles on the shelves, to a degree that sort of requires seeing it to understand it.
Tom Dotterer, as always, was behind the counter, and I asked if indeed - as I'd been advised he would - he remembered the Jerry Alletzhauser story.
"The story!" Dotterer exclaimed, state lottery tickets unfurled behind him like hanging vines. "The story is that I'm still blowing finals, 60 years later!"
Dotterer, 79, is the longtime baseball coach at Christian Brothers Academy, and he was referring to his team's 11-3 loss in the Class A sectional finals in June to Vernon-Verona-Sherrill, but he was also speaking of memories triggered by the mention of Alletzhauser, who died in June of congestive heart failure. That news was passed on to me by Curt Young, a nephew, and was confirmed by Jerry's widow, Marilyn, who lives near Rochester.
Young, a Chittenango resident who can often be found in the village library - as a matter of fact, when I called there, the librarian handed him the phone - was Alletzhauser's nephew, and knows the story as family lore. Last summer, Dotterer was the first guy in line one morning for a free baked potato at the state fair, and who ends up behind him in line but Young, who immediately made the connection - Dotterer has been all over the papers in the past few years, both as a coach and because he was shot in the face during an attempted robbery in 2014, and was back to work a few days later.
Young exchanged a few pleasantries, then asked him:
You remember the Assumption game in 1953?
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