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Welcome to National Candy Corn Day!
National Candy Corn Day is today. Enjoy a handful of this sweet Fall treat. And, what perfect timing. National Candy Corn Day comes just a day before Halloween. That means you can eat plenty of it, before you go out Trick or Treating.
Candy corn is enjoyed all year long. Place it in a candy dish any time of the year, and watch it disappear by the handful. By far, the vast majority of candy corn is consumed during the Fall months, with both Halloween and Thanksgiving being the biggest times to eat it.
Candy corn was invented in the 1880s by George Renninger, and first manufactured by the Wunderle Candy Company. The Goelitz Candy company was the first to manufacture mass quantities around the turn of the century.
Lewis Black's take on candy corn...
SU News
Tyus Battle Impresses at USA Basketball Minicamp (thejuice; Cheng)
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Hope you’re having a great Thursday, everyone. Let’s get right to the recruiting links…
At their request, this network is being blocked from this site.’s Josh Gershon has released a highlight reel of 2016 Syracuse commit Tyus Battlefrom the USA Basketball Junior National Team Minicamp. Battle rates as the No. 24 prospect in his class and the No. 1 small forward in New Jersey.
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Former Syracuse recruit Harry Giles will make his college decision on Nov. 14 among Duke, Kentucky, Kansas and Wake Forest. SNY.tv’s very own, Adam Zagoria, says that Duke is “the overwhelming favorite.”
One final note for today: Who isn’t thrilled that basketball is back? Michael Carter-Williams, Carmelo Anthony, Dion Waiters and Jerami Grant all had great starts to the season last night. That’s all for today. See you tomorrow!
Highlights From ACC Media Day (TNIAAM; Burke)
The Atlantic Coast Conference held its annual Media Day on Wednesday in Charlotte, and representing Syracuse Orange were SU head coach Jim Boeheim, shooting guard Trevor Cooney and guard/forward Michael Gbinije. Here are some of the more noteworthy things that each said:
Jim Boeheim
Freshmen will play and shoot
Syracuse has three scholarship true freshmen on its roster -- Franklin Howard, Tyler Lydon and Malachi Richardson -- and Boeheim said that each will play this season. He added that the Orange will need minutes from all of them, likely because SU, with only nine scholarship players, won't be a very deep team in 2015-16.
"(The freshmen) all bring something unique, but basically they're good shooters and that's something we lacked last year," Boeheim said.
Last season, SU shot only 30.1 percent from 3, which ranked just 324th-best among all Division I teams. But with "five or six guys" capable of shooting -- Cooney, Gbinije, Kaleb Joseph and those three freshmen -- Boeheim expects that to change this season.
Better looks for Cooney?
Boeheim said that, as one of Syracuse's best shooters, Trevor Cooney always has the green light. But the coach wants to see Cooney shoot less this season, since unlike last season, he won't be asked to shoulder as much of a burden offensively. Boeheim said Cooney will ideally not take the "40 or 50" low quality shots he took a season ago.
"He had to take (those shots last season), and I wanted him to take them because he had the best chance," Boeheim said. "His percentage on the bad shots was better than some of the other guys that were shooting about 17 percent. This year I hope he will not have to do that."
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SU Basketball Player Profiles: The Starting Five (insidetheloudhouse.com; Stone)
I know that the Syracuse basketball season hasn’t officially kicked off, so it’s impossible to say with absolute certainty who the starters will be. I can however make an educated guess based on what we know.
The way I see it, the starting five will be: Michael Gbinije at the point guard, Trevor Cooney at shooting guard, Malachi Richardson at small forward, Tyler Roberson at power forward, and Dajuan Coleman at center.
It’s possible that Boeheim goes with a smaller, three guard lineup and puts Joseph at the point (at least on defense) and Gbinije at the three. Joseph has made some progress in the off-season and looks to have a better year than last year. I’m not sure if that’s enough to vault him back into the starting lineup though. Usually when Boeheim gets a McDonald’s All-American like Richardson, he starts him. Even if he only plays a minute before getting pulled. That was the case for Coleman, Christmas, Fab Melo, and many others as freshman.
The one thing we do know is that the guard duo of Gbinije and Cooney will be one of the most experienced in the country. Both are fifth year seniors, both started last year, and both averaged over 12 points a game. With Christmas gone, they will both be leaned on heavily to provide leadership and offense to a team that will have a completely new identity this year.
Let’s take a closer look at each of the potential starters on offense so that we’ll have some kind of idea of what to expect from them this year. Let’s start with guards.
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2015-16 Men's College Basketball Schedule (usatoday.com)
Games scheduled for national networks. Subject to change. Times p.m. Eastern unless otherwise noted.
Nov. 13
Colorado vs. Iowa State, ESPN2, 5
Wagner at St. John's, Fox Sports 1, 6
Pittsburgh vs. Gonzaga, ESPN, 7
North Carolina vs. Temple, CBSSN, 7
Siena at Duke, ESPNU, 7
Florida Atlantic at Michigan State, ESPN3, 7
McNeese State at LSU, ESPNU, 9
Florida at Navy, CBSSN, 9:30
Gardner-Webb at Iowa, ESPN3, 9:30
Texas vs. Washington, ESPN, 10
Nov. 15
Mount St. Mary's at Ohio State, ESPNU, 12
Vermont at Purdue, ESPN3, 2
North Dakota State at Illinois, ESPN3, 3
Fairfield at North Carolina, ESPNU, 4
South Alabama at N.C. State, ESPNU, 6
Siena at Wisconsin, ESPNU, 8
Nov. 16
UMBC at St. John's, Fox Sports 1, 7
BYU at Long Beach State, ESPN2, 1:45 am (Nov. 17 ET)
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Coyne Textile in Syracuse to Close After 86 Years in Business (PS; Moriarty)
J Stanley Coyne was a friend of SU Athletics Who Made the Naming Gift for Coyne Stadium
Coyne Textile Services, an industrial laundry company founded in Syracuse in 1929, will be sold to competitors and its Syracuse plant closed.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Margaret Cangilos-Ruiz on Thursday approved the sale of Coyne's business to three other industrial laundry companies for a total of $43.54 million. However, Coyne's plant at 140 Cortland Ave. in Syracuse and most of its other facilities in New York and in other states were not included in the sale and will shut down, said Stephen Selbst, an attorney representing Coyne.
Only 90 of the estimated 620 jobs at Coyne will be preserved. Selbst said none of them will be in Syracuse. Coyne is believed to employ less than 100 people at the Cortland Avenue facility, more than half of whom have worked for the company for more than 15 years.
"From the standpoint of Syracuse, it's a sad thing," said Selbst. "We're sorry we couldn't save more jobs."
It is not known when Coyne's Syracuse facility will close, but it could be anytime after the sale is completed. Attorneys for the company said the sale is expected to occur around Nov. 30.
Coyne filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of U.S. Bankruptcy Code in August.
Selbst said Cintas submitted the high bid of $33.6 million at an auction earlier this week for Coyne's business in Syracuse; Albany; Buffalo; Cleveland, Ohio; Bristol, Tenn.; and London, Ky. However, it will only be buying the company's operations, not its laundry facilities, and has told Coyne that it has no plans to offer jobs to any Coyne employees, he said.
"We have encouraged Cintas to hire our people, but they are not required to," he said.
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