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Welcome to National New England Clam Chowder Day!
It’s New England Clam Chowder Day! Chowders originated in fishing villages on the coast of France in the 16th century. Back then any kind of fish chowder was considered a poor man’s dish. Most recipes called for salt pork and biscuits, which were both part of a standard sailor’s ration. Today, we’ve substituted the biscuits (also known as hardtack) for salty crackers!
There are many different varieties of clam chowder including New England, Manhattan, Rhode Island, Down East, and Outer Banks. New England clam chowder is made with milk or cream, and the use of tomatoes is frowned upon. In fact, in 1939 the state of Maine made it illegal to put tomatoes in clam chowder!
Celebrate this great culinary tradition and enjoy a bowl of delicious chowder in honor of New England Clam Chowder Day!
SU News
Orange Watch: SU See-Sawing Between NCAA and NIT Finish (the juice; Bierman)
Item: An impressive first-ever victory in hallowed Cameron Indoor Stadium edging Duke Monday night has quickly turned around the fortunes of an Orange team that’s been climbing out of an initial 0-4 ACC hole. However, if (still a big “if”) Mother Nature disrupts Saturday’s game at Virginia (12:00 p.m. ET / ESPN) with the current likelihood of “significant snowfall” predicted by Charlottesville-area meteorologists, then it would turn out to be a 10 day break before Syracuse resumes play a week from Thursday hosting Notre Dame, continuing its quest to move up the conference standings.
As we wrote about this built-in, unusual two coach season following the first exhibition game victory against Le Moyne back in early November, the one main difference turned out to be the NCAA changing the rules as the season had already gotten underway, providing a scant 48 hours notice to the program on Dec. 2 that Boeheim’s suspension could begin immediately, with the renewal of the Georgetown rivalry only days away in D.C., instead of the eight week cushion the program was expecting before the mandatory period of non-communications with the boss.
After slogging through disappointing defeats to their former Big East brothers the Hoyas and a week later embarrassingly to St. John’s, along with the two tough ACC road games at nationally-ranked Pitt and Miami and letting one slip away in overtime versus Clemson, the abnormal situation for Mike Hopkins happened so quickly, he suddenly had to carry out the role of “substitute teacher” using the play book of his boss, as opposed to the nine games serving as an audition of his head coaching abilities because after all, as Boeheim declared, it was still “my team.”
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Syracuse Basketball Roundtable: Rebounding, X-Factors and the Bubble Watch (DO; Staff)
After starting conference play 0-4, Syracuse has turned things around with three straight wins, most recently on the road against No. 20 Dukeon Monday night. The Orange’s (13-7, 3-4 Atlantic Coast) season is now somewhat back on track and head coach Jim Boeheim is 3-1 since returning from his nine-game suspension. SU visits No. 13 Virginia on Saturday before starting a four-game home stand. With ACC play heating up, beat writers Sam Blum, Jesse Dougherty and Matt Schneidman discuss three questions surrounding Syracuse basketball.
1. Can Syracuse continue to out-rebound ACC opponents?
Sam Blum: Can Syracuse out-rebound teams or can Tyler Roberson out-rebound teams? As long as Roberson remains “plugged in” Syracuse is in contention for any rebound. You can just tell there’s a better sense of urgency on the glass in the past couple games. Duke isn’t one of the best rebounding team out there, but North Carolina is, and SU handled the Tar Heels on the glass as well. The short and obvious answer is yes. Syracuse has out-rebounded teams and clearly has the ability to continue to do that, especially with Roberson playing the way he is.
Jesse Dougherty: After these four games, why not? There are still going to be teams that are simply bigger and stronger than the Orange — Pittsburgh and North Carolina State immediately come to mind — but Roberson and Tyler Lydon have really stepped it up on the glass. Then factor in that Dajuan Coleman has played the most he has all season since Boeheim’s return from suspension, and you have a frontcourt capable of out-rebounding, or at the very least rebounding with, a handful of SU’s upcoming opponents.
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Virginia Held Players-Only Meeting Before Clemson Game to Right the Ship (richmond.com; Barber)
After losing three of their past four basketball games, Virginia’s seniors called a players-only meeting the day before Tuesday night’s win over Clemson.
It wasn’t to jump on anyone or criticize, senior forward Anthony Gill said. It was more a pep talk, designed to give confidence in a team that still believes it can reach all the goals it set before the season.
“It was good for us, just trying to instill confidence in the guys, and try to understand what we have to do to win,” Gill said after the Cavaliers’ 69-62 win over Clemson, a victory that snapped the Tigers’ five-game win streak. “… It was just something we did. It was something we wanted to do to try to get everybody on the same page.”
Maybe it was that meeting. Maybe it was playing at home. Maybe it was just bound to happen at some point.
But Tuesday night, No. 13 U.Va.’s defense appeared to get back, in stretches, to doing the things that helped it win ACC regular-season titles the past two seasons. And its offense, particularly senior star Malcolm Brogdon, got back to being patient, as coach Tony Bennett said afterward.
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Woman Behind Apple's Siri Found Her Voice in Central NY (PS; Weaver)
In the great universe of what-ifs, there's this: What if Siri sounded more like the "Car Talk" brothers — or even a Kennedy — rather than the unflappable speaker whose pitch-perfect elocution helps and befuddles us all?
Inevitably, it would make for an even better response when asking Siri to beatbox.
For better or worse, that never happened. Susan Cameron Bennett, the woman who became the original American female voice for Siri, moved from New England to Clinton, N.Y., in the early 1960s.
» Listen to Siri put Syracuse pronunciation controversy to rest
There, she encountered the Central New York accent — broad A's, yes, but little else to get in the way of a future voiceover artist.
"They don't have as thick an accent as New England," she said of her Oneida County neighbors from decades ago. "So I consider it very lucky for me to have moved there and adopted the Central New York state accent as opposed to the New England accent."
To Bennett, that Syracuse-area accent has been the perfect foundation to become the voice behind recorded messages and promos for Apple, Delta Airlines, The Home Depot, Coca-Cola, Six Flags and many others.
Bennett's family moved to Dwight Avenue in 1961, she said. Her father commuted to Syracuse and Utica. She remembers it fondly — spending time at the creek next to her house, preparing for school productions, absorbing the intellect from nearby Hamilton College.
"It was a great place to grow up," she said. "There were a lot of creative people there. We did a lot of interesting stuff for a tiny little town."
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