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Welcome to National Chocolate Chips Day!
Chip, chip hooray! - August 4 is National Chocolate Chips Day!
Chopping up a chocolate bar into little morsels and putting them in a batch of cookie dough may be one of the best ideas Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House Inn ever had. Since we don't know dear Ruth, it's safe to say that chocolate chip cookies are one of the best American creations to date.
But don't stop with cookies! You can pop these in pancakes, waffles, crêpes, pies, muffins, cakes or just pop them in your mouth right out of the bag (we aren't ones to judge). Or how about 100 ways to use chocolate chips to whet your inspirational appetite?
If your own prized cookie recipe requires the attendance of all-important chocolate chips, carry on! Otherwise, you may want to take a gander at this fine rendition from iReporter Cynthia Falardeau's grandmother:
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SU News
Terrence Roberts
How Syracuse Basketball Players Use Training Masks for Conditioning (PS; Ditota)
Terrence Roberts first noticed the apparatus on a training workout in Runyon Canyon, a Los Angeles haven for hikers and serious athletes seeking to stay or get in shape.
The original training contraption resembled a traditional gas mask, and it intrigued Roberts enough to stop a Runyon Canyon wearer and inquire about it. Once Roberts learned about the training mask, he scoured online sites to buy the latest incarnation, a sleeker device that covers the nose and mouth.
Terrence Roberts Training MaskFormer Syracuse basketball player Terrence Roberts shoots in the Melo Center wearing his training mask.
"It helps you focus on your breathing," Roberts said last Friday in the Melo Center, where he took a break from masked shooting. "The better you are at controlling your breathing, even when you're tired, the easier it is to actually breathe. A lot of guys you see playing (basketball), the first thing you'll see is they start sucking air through their mouth. But you're way better off if you inhale and exhale like the doctor makes you do."
The training mask, designed to simulate working out at altitude, is slowly gaining traction among current and former Syracuse basketball players. Eric Devendorf discovered it last spring in the office of Ryan Cabiles, SU's strength and conditioning coach who works with the basketball teams. Devendorf incorporated the mask into his workout routines and has seen Dajuan Coleman, Michael Gbinije and Trevor Cooney experiment with them.
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Key Player for Team That Beat Boeheim's Army Banned for Steroid Use (PS; Ditota)
Pops Mensah-Bonsu, partially responsible for eliminating Boeheim's Army from The Basketball Tournament, has been banned from basketball for two years following a drug test:
Mensah-Bonsu scored 16 points and hauled in 12 rebounds in 26 minutes of play in a game where City of Gods defeated Boeheim's Army 80-76. That win advanced City of Gods to TBT's final four in New York last weekend. Mensah-Bonsu was a relentless physical presence for the Baltimore-based team and an articulate captain for COG.
Mensah-Bonsu, who has had brief flings with the NBA, has played overseas almost exclusively for the last five years. His two-year ban from basketball was announced in Greece last month, where he played last season. Mensah-Bonsu released a statement saying the drug in question was Adderall.
Overseas Elite defeated City of Gods in the semifinals and won TBT and its $1 million prize money.
LeMoyne vs. Michigan Might Not be Much of a Game, But It Will be Great Father-Son Story (PS; Poliquin)
It'll be almost six years to the day that Le Moyne slayed the Syracuse basketball giant in the Carrier Dome. And who knows? If that kind of crazy history can be repeated this fall in Ann Arbor, the Michigan Wolverines might spend a season (and more) explaining the Dolphins and their wonder.
Indeed, if those Orange athletes of 2009-10 — the Wesley Johnson ones who ascended to No. 1 in the polls, coulda/shoulda gone to the Final Four and finished 30-5 — were asked once, they were asked dozens of times: Just how good is that D-II team back in your hometown?
You remember. SU lost to Le Moyne 82-79 on Nov. 3, 2009. In an exhibition affair, yes. On a night during which Jim Boeheim showed his club just what would happen if he capitulated and allowed it to play man-to-man defense, yes. During that time on the calendar when games become laboratories and experiments are conducted right out there on the floor, yes.
But little Le Moyne did beat big Syracuse. And just last autumn, the Jesuit school sold T-shirts on its friendly campus commemorating the five-year anniversary of that indisputable fact.
And now? Well, now — on Nov. 6, actually — the Dolphins will get their chance to swim again in deep water when they head out to Michigan (on a Michigan football weekend, no less) to take on the Wolverines in another one of those preseason hoops contests.
It'll be Beilein vs. Beilein — Le Moyne's Patrick vs. UM's John … current Dolphins coach (in his first season on the job) vs. former Dolphins coach (of nine campaigns) … son vs. father. And that'll be the fun of it.
Dad (John) gives kid chance. Kid (Patrick) hopes to kick dad's keister. Wife/mom (Kathleen) covers her eyes in the stands.
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