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Welcome to St Swithin's Day!
St. Swithin's Day is 15 July, a day on which people watch the weather for tradition says that whatever the weather is like on St. Swithin's Day, it will continue so for the next forty days.
There is a weather-rhyme is well known throughout the British Isles since Elizabethan times. copied from projectbritain.com
'St. Swithin's day if thou dost rain
For forty days it will remain
St. Swithin's day if thou be fair
For forty days 'twill rain nae mair.'
dost = does
thou = you
nae mair = no more.
Who was St. Swithin?
St. Swithin (or more properly, Swithun) was a Saxon Bishop of Winchester. He was born in the kingdom of Wessex and educated in its capital, Winchester. He was famous for charitable gifts and building churches.
SU News
2016 Louisville football preview: Syracuse Orange (cardchronicle.com; Keown)
How will the Orange look under new head coach Dino Babers?
Syracuse Orange
2015 Record
4-8
Wins
URI, Wake Forest, Central Michigan, Boston College
Loses
LSU, USF, Virginia, Pittsburgh, Florida State, Louisville, Clemson, NC State
Season Recap
Syracuse got off to a 3-0 start to the 2015 season with a 30-27 OT victory over Central Michigan. They would then not win a game for the rest of the season until the very last week against Boston College at home. Among those 8 losses is a 34-24 loss against LSU, a 45-21 loss at Florida State, 37-27 loss against Clemson, and a 41-17 beating by the Cards. Had they won one more game and brought their record to 5-7, they quite possibly could have made it to a bowl game with the amount of bowl games there are now. The last time Syracuse made it to a bowl game was back in 2013 against Minnesota in the Texas Bowl.
Coach Resume
With the poor records from the previous couple of years, first-year Athletic Director Mark Coyle fired Scott Shafer on November 23rd. In comes Dino Babers, who was previously the head coach at Bowling Green. From reports, the two finalists were Dino Babers and Ohio State's defensive coordinator Chris Ash. However, Ash pulled his name from consideration for the position. Some of the excitement that Babers has brought to the Syracuse fanbase is that he comes from the coaching tree of Art Briles, and will model the Syracuse offense around Baylor's high-scoring offense.
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Dontae Strickland Poised For A Breakout Season For Syracuse - TU (todaysu.com; Holcomb)
There’s a lot of excitement around Syracuse football lately. Getting a new head coach, athletic director and highly regarded recruits all at the same time will do that to a program, but the fact of the matter is it’s going to take a little bit of time to take flight.
Nearly every Syracuse starter this fall is going to be a carry-over from the Scott Shafer era, and anyone new coach Dino Babers recruited probably wouldn’t have been his very top choice. The incoming freshmen class will technically be his, but he didn’t have the full calendar year to recruit.
However, he does have one dynamite star to work with this coming fall – running back Dontae Strickland.
The sophomore-to-be received reps with the first-team offense during the second week of spring practice. His dazzling performance during the spring game will likely keep him there for a while.
Strickland ran for 84 yards on 12 carries and added 18 receiving yards with three receptions in the spring game. He not only showcased his elusiveness, making a defender miss on a spin move out in the flat on one occasion, but also ran tacklers over with his brute strength.
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Florida Georgia Line Could Hurt Opening Night Dome Atmosphere for Syracuse Football (TNIAAM; Weinheimer)
The country superstars are set to perform at the brand new Lakeview Amphitheater in Syracuse September 2nd, the same day the Orange open their 2016 season.
We knew it wouldn't be good, but the fact that it's a country group at the pinnacle of the genre certainly makes it that much worse for Syracuse fans.
Over the weekend, the promoting group Live Nation confirmed that on September 2nd at the Lakeview Amphitheater in Syracuse country stars Cole Swindell, The Cadillac Three, and Florida Georgia Line will be performing. While this normally would be news that would make any music fan jump for joy, it stinks considering the concert is the same night as the debut of Dino Babers and the 2016 Syracuse Orange in the Dome against Colgate.
In a city that loves live events and partying, Florida Georgia Line will absolutely hurt the attendance and atmosphere in the Dome that night. Many of the fans that go to Syracuse Orange football games are the same crowd that attend concerts, which means some tailgating enthusiasts may find themselves having a good time at the New York State Fair rather than on the SU hill.
I don't know what goes in to deciding dates for scheduling football games, but depending on whether or not Syracuse had a say on if the game could've been on a Saturday (or even a Thursday), they made either a terrible decision or have terrible luck. While Florida Georgia Line was only confirmed over the weekend, it was planned long ago that there was going to be a country act coming to the amphitheater that day. I'd imagine University officials had that on their radar, so I'm more inclined to think the date was pushed on them rather than embraced by administrators.
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Whatever happened to: Ex-Falcon Tim Green (myajc.com; Rosenberg)
Tim Green has done it all. He graduated summa cum laude from Syracuse University, has a law degree, is a best-selling author and has been a commentator for NFL football games on Fox.
Oh, and he also played a little football for the Atlanta Falcons.
A first-round choice (17th overall) in the 1986 NFL draft, Green played during one of the franchise’s toughest periods, an eight-year stretch where the Falcons won only 45 games (six double-digit-loss seasons) and made just one playoff appearance.
But always a fan favorite, the good looking kid from Liverpool, N.Y., Green was one of the club’s better players, a hard-working linebacker/defensive end who dropped more than a few quarterbacks on their back.
Green began playing at the age of 8, then going on to Liverpool High School as an offensive lineman. He switched to defense his sophomore year when his team won sectionals and he was named defensive MVP. The colleges came calling — Notre Dame, Penn State, Georgia — but he chose Syracuse, the school that told him he could play right away.
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Construction has stalled on Central New York Raceway Park, a 150-acre motorsports complex under development by racing entrepreneur Glenn Donnelly near Central Square, New York
Cuomo: Super DIRT Week moving to Oswego (PS; Moriarty)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed Thursday that the 2016 edition of the Super DIRT Week racing extravaganza will be moved to Oswego Speedway because of construction delays at a big racing complex under development near Central Square.
Cuomo, in Oswego to announce a $10 million downtown revitalization grant, told reporters in response to a question that the plan "is to hold Super Dirt Week at the Oswego Speedway."
The five-day dirt car racing event had been scheduled to move to racing entrepreneur Glenn Donnelly's Central New York Raceway Park under construction in the Oswego County town of Hastings, 24 miles south of Oswego, this year after more than 30 years at the State Fairgrounds in Geddes. Donnelly had committed to hosting the event for the next 10 years in exchange for a $5 million state grant.
However, construction delays mean Donnelly's 150-acre raceway will not be ready in time for the event, which is scheduled for Oct. 5 through Oct. 9. Lan-Co Cos., the North Syracuse contractor building the facility, pulled off the job several weeks ago because Donnelly owes it $1.2 million.
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