It's Banana Lovers Day! Today we celebrate one of the most popular fruits in the world. Did you know that the average person eats about 33 pounds of bananas a year? That's approximately 100 individual bananas per person!
Bananas are high in fiber and potassium. These properties can help prevent calcium loss, ulcers, high blood pressure, and certain kinds of cancer. Although bananas are often pictured as growing on trees, the banana “tree” is actually an herb. The banana is the fruit of this herb.
To celebrate Banana Lovers Day, grab a bunch of bananas to share with family and friends. Fry them, grill them, add them to a s'more, or just enjoy them plain. Have fun!
Nigeria now plays Gabon, an upset winner over Cape Verde, on Thursday in the quarterfinals of AfroBasket. If Nigeria wins, it reaches the final four of AfroBasket.
The tournament is now in the knockout rounds, meaning that a loss would eliminate Nigeria from winning the AfroBasket title and the automatic qualifier to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
Gbinije finished with seven points in nearly 25 minutes of work. He was 3-of-8 overall and sank 1-of-5 from the 3-point line. Nigeria, as dominant as it was against Mozambique, struggled as a team to make threes (7-of-28, 25 percent) on Wednesday.
Dwayne “Pearl” Washington, who came to our town 32 years ago as a legendary basketball player (and proved that he was all of that), has grown into a favorite son.
Today, at the age of 51, he is scheduled to undergo brain surgery at Crouse Hospital. It seems a good time, then, to ponder the question: Why does this community so love Pearl? Following are 10, and only 10, reasons why:
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Loss of Diagne Hurts Syracuse Frontcourt Depth (thejuice; Marcus)
The summer is (sadly) nearing its end. Colleges are welcoming back students. The school year beckons.
It’s Syracuse basketball time, folks.
What, you thought I was going in the football direction? Come on. As a Syracuse fan, you should know there’s never a bad time to talk Cuse bball.
And it’s time for the latest roster check (these happen quite often these days). Here it is.
The latest news in the summer of Cuse basketball involves incoming freshman Moustapha Diagne. The NCAA is looking into a course the big man took in Senegal, and Diagne will go to a 2-year school this fall.
It’s tough to predict the long-term ramifications for this move, but for this coming season, with SU at 10 scholarship players now, the Orange can start its penalty if it wants.
Technicalities aside, the Orange are now down a man. SU may have 10 scholarships players, but one of those players (Providence transfer Paschal Chukwu) is sitting out this year because of the usual transfer rule.
Now, I’m not here to state the facts we know. I want to look at what (or who) SU does have on the roster.
The nine players seeing the court this year are seniors Michael Gbinije, Trevor Cooney and DaJuan Coleman, junior Tyler Roberson, redshirt Chinoso Obokoh, sophomore Kaleb Joseph, and freshmen Malachi Richardson, Tyler Lydon and Frank Howard.
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Stripped of the game that had defined his life up to that point, and with graduation only a few months away, the decision weighed heavily.
Whatever he did, Appolon knew he wanted to help others. As it turned out, Scoop Jardine, a childhood friend from Philadelphia, had the same idea and was in the early stages of opening a basketball academy in Delray Beach, Fla. “Come down to Florida with me,” Jardine kept telling him.
Eventually, those repeated pleas got through, and Appolon’s search for a new chapter in his life found a fitting end.
About two weeks ago, the former Colonials guard moved to Florida to help Jardine, a former Syracuse standout, train young basketball players at his Palm Ocean Sports Institute, a school where children from troubled areas can live in a house on-site and train with basketball coaches.
“It’s just to give back to the kids who don’t really have anything, to get them to a better place in their life through basketball,” Appolon said. “It’s doing something positive for a kid who is already in a negative place in their life.”
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Taylor Coppenrath announced his retirement from a 10-year professional basketball career on Wednesday night.
The former University of Vermont men's basketball great and Vermont native shared the news of his decision on his personal social-media pages. His overseas career included time in Greece and most recently Spain.
A St. Johnsbury Academy graduate from West Barnet, Coppenrath, 33, has returned to his alma mater as a full-time teacher and assistant coach with the boys basketball program. He completed his first full day on Wednesday.
In a Facebook message to a Burlington Free Press reporter, Coppenrath said he's officially retired from basketball. Coppenrath and his wife Anna gave birth to their first child in April.
"With the birth of our daughter and my body telling me I'm getting old, I felt it was a good time to retire," Coppenrath said. "Going out on a good note."
Coppenrath said he's excited for the next chapter in his life.
"I had a wonderful high school experience and hopefully I can help students enjoy their high school experience," Coppenrath said. "It's a great opportunity to teach where I went."
Guiding the UVM program during its golden era of hoops, Coppenrath and the Catamounts went to three straight NCAA tournaments, capping it in 2005 with the historic victory over 2003 national champion Syracuse in the first round of March Madness.
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