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Welcome to National Read a Book Day!
Read a Book Day is today. Take time out of your busy life, and relax with a good book. Cozy up on a chair, indoors or out. It doesn't matter where you read that book, as long as you can do so in a comfortable manner. If you doze off along the way, we won't tell anyone.
Reading is a great lifetime hobby. It offers so many positive attributes. It's relaxing and therapeutic. It's educational. Its entertaining. And, a whole lot of other good things, too.
If you have young children, or elderly people in your home, take the time to read a book to them today. It is a wonderful time to bond with them and it creates pleasant, lasting memories.
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With Dino Babers' debut, Syracuse gets a new beginning (DO; Libonati)
A tailgater cracked open her Syracuse notebook. “Syracuse Orange” was printed in italics on the front and a block “S” sat centered above the school’s name.
“New era, new journal,” she said, despite never having journaled an SU season before.
Her crew of tailgaters had Blue Moon Harvest Pumpkin Ales — the label is orange — a tent and some chairs. Stinson was scrawled along the worn side of a chair’s arm. She happened upon the journal when she went to the store and realized she could chronicle Dino Babers’ first season in it.
Everything they eat, everything they see, everything they smell will be written in the new journal.
On Friday, that was a 33-7 Syracuse (1-0) win over Colgate (0-1). The victorybreathed life into a program that looked beaten down after last season. The feel of the win was different. The feel of the win was new.
Some things, of course, never change. Students streamed out early. Fans only filled a little more than half the Carrier Dome. Tailgaters expressed hope for the season with the caveat of more hope they won’t be failed again.
And yet, the football on the field overcame that.
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Stock up/stock down: A look back at Syracuse’s season-opening win over Colgate (DO; Mettus)
Syracuse opened the Dino Babers era with a 33-7 win over Colgate on Friday. The Orange put up 554 yards of offense and contested a few single-game school records. Here’s a look at where some players and units stood out.
Stock Up
Eric Dungey, sophomore quarterback
Dungey was the star in Babers’ new offensive system. He was 13-for-13 in the first quarter, finished with just six incompletions on 40 attempts and had a career-high 355 passing yards. Dungey hit Steve Ishmael on comebacks, found Ervin Philips in the flat and connected with Amba Etta-Tawo over the top.
After last season ended early for Dungey because of an “upper-body” injury, it was unclear if he’d be the same quarterback that showed flashes of brilliance. Dungey proved he can stay in the pocket a bit and dink and dunk down the field.
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Orange Watch: If “Orange is the new fast” for Syracuse football, keep it coming - The Juice Online (The Juice; Bierman)
Item: Our dreams have finally been realized. After watching and reporting on Syracuse football for now 42 seasons, and 37 of them in the Carrier Dome era, after only one game – ONE GAME! – we’ve finally seen a ‘Cuse football coach abandon the traditional “Eastern Football methodology” of establishing the run game first and play not to lose, as opposed to taking advantage of the 100 percent unobtrusive weather conditions under the building’s Teflon roof, pass the ball like crazy with no wind or rain/snow to worry about, and dare teams to beat you by scoring more points. We’ve seen the future of the program’s renaissance under Dino Babers direction, and it’s as easy to see as one statistical line from last Friday night’s season opening blitz of FCS foe Colgate to successfully usher in the Babers era.
For 39 years the mark has stood so tall among those in the Syracuse football record book that when college and pro football Hall of Fame member Art Monk (1976-79) was honored in 2012 at the National Football Foundation’s annual glitzy, December black tie dinner at New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel, his 1977 sophomore season performance at Navy was heralded by the athletic department as “the greatest game by a receiver in Orange history” catching 14 passes for 188 yards and two touchdowns in SU’s 45-34 victory, the second of four straight wins to end a 6-5 season under Frank Maloney.
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Stevie Scott is One to Watch – Otto's Grove (.com; Kelly)
Anytime you’ve got big-time athletic talent in your own backyard, you want to not only keep an eye on it, but hopefully bring it into the program. Right now, Syracuse has such a talent playing just up the road at CBA: class of 2018 athlete Stevie Scott.
The 6-foot-2, 220 pound running back could also potentially grow into a linebacker prospect at the Division I level, and is currently playing both ways for Christian Brothers. It’s extremely early in his potential recruitment, and right now he doesn’t hold an offer but it’s worth noting that none other than Dino Babers follows this talented tailback on Twitter.
Along with having great size, Scott also has good speed. He reports a time of under 4.5 in the 40, and his numbers certainly back up that combination of size, strength, and speed. Last season, he earned All-CNY honors after scoring 25 touchdowns and piling up 155 yards per game. Despite being only a sophomore last year, he still put up 120 yards against state powerhouse Aquinas (last year’s state champion).
This year, Scott has gotten out to a hot start already. In a blowout win over Baldwinsville, Scott carried the ball just nine times but racked up 129 yards, scoring twice. One of those touchdown runs was an 89 yard jaunt, on a day when CBA was so dominant that its longest drive lasted only seven plays.
Again, it’s early on in Scott’s recruitment. But 6-foot-2, 220 pound running backs with sub-4.5 speed don’t come along often in Central New York. Keep an eye on this talented junior, who could very well find himself on Syracuse’s recruiting radar sooner than later.
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The Infinite SU Football Road Trip Diary: Colgate (TNIAAM; Suxa)
Hoya Suxa's first diary entry in his endless Syracuse football road trip.
Hoya Suxa is aiming to attend 10 of Syracuse's 12 regular season football games this year. He'll be filing short travelogues from his journeys.
THE MOMENT YOU REALIZE THAT YOU'VE FIREBOMBED YOUR ENTIRE FALL
It's 7:30 in the morning on September 2, 2016. I'm sitting in my Wrangler, a vehicle that is now held together with as much duct tape as actual mechanical engineering, and reset the trip meter on the dash -- this commercial dumpster with an engine is about to tick off the first of the almost 4,000 miles that it will cover over the next 13 weeks. This idea, one that was made with all the forethought of going to the grocery store while hungry, has yielded the realization that I have tethered my entire fall to a football team without a win warranty. There will come a point, I'm sure, where I will want to pilot my Jeep off of an exit ramp and directly into the nearest body of water.
With the exception of Syracuse's date with Notre Dame at MetLife Stadium, there really isn't an easy road trip on the agenda: The five expeditions that I'll take to Syracuse are, at a minimum, nine-hour round trip anger sessions; the two rides to New England are compounded by awful Friday and Sunday traffic; driving to the ass-end of Pennsylvania over Thanksgiving Weekend will make me want to punch a room full of puppies; and heading to Clemson (the best visit of the entire fall) requires flying out of and into LaGuardia, a great opportunity to get tetanus while a child with lungs strong enough to power an accordion screams in my ear for a few hours. It's not like this was an impossible-to-forecast reality, but being an idiot armed with time and sociopathic motivations, it was a truth that I only understood when I turned over the motor, dropped the emergency brake, and accelerated toward the longest autumn I've ever undertaken.
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Syracuse vs. Louisville depth chart gives Juwan Dowels a shot (TNIAAM; Keeley)
The Syracuse Orange might have rolled off a solid win in Week 1 against Colgate but there’s still plenty of tweaking to be done as the team prepares for the high-powered Louisville Cardinals and quarterback Lamar Jackson.
The depth chart for their second game has been released and SU has made a couple tweaks from last week to this one.
Syracuse's Week 2 depth chart changes: Juwan Dowels CB1, Devin Butler WR2, Colin Byrne co-C2, S. Hofrichter holder. pic.twitter.com/abiIHNv5ZC
— Stephen Bailey (@Stephen_Bailey1) September 5, 2016
The most notable is that Juwan Dowels is now listed as one of the starting cornerbacks, supplanting Cordell Hudson. There’s a chance these two will just keep pushing one another each week, though Hudson is likely taking the hit for his late turnaround on Colgate’s opening touchdown drive.
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Lamar Jackson is a Mutant (the crunch zone; Lankford)
“Allow me to reintroduce myself.” – Jay Z
After reviewing the Louisville v. Charlotte game on noonkick.com today, I’m certain that Lamar Jackson was gifted to the ‘Cards by Professor Charles Xavier. Perhaps the paraplegic brain trust of the X-men wanted to see what his powers would be like on a football field if his legs still functioned. Hyperbole aside, it appears that Lamar Jackson is the second coming of Michael Vick, but with better throwing accuracy. Louisville fans should rejoice and pack that stadium down by the bridge every week for the next two years because the world may never see another player like him in a long time, if ever.
In today’s arms race that is college football, Lamar Jackson is a one-man arsenal. While he comes with a rocket launcher attached to his right shoulder, the most deadly weapon in Jackson’s armory is his mutantesque change of direction ability.
People like to talk about “footwork” and make cute videos of running through ladders and around cones barefooted in the sand. That’s cool and all, but change of direction ability starts with a football player’s most important body part, his eyes. We are visual creatures so this shouldn’t be a surprise to you. Ball carriers must be able to see angles and diagnose them rapidly in order to negotiate finely tuned 240-pound linebackers hell bent on snapping their bones, ligaments, and cartilage all in the name of the prized NFL signing bonus.
The mind captures the destructive forces of the universe through the eyes then sounds the claxons that alert the hips to steer clear of the rocks. Once the angles are diagnosed, the body can react accordingly, in order to evade contact or at the least mitigate the force of impact. It’s not necessarily footwork, but quick twitch hip movement connected to vision, that allows for elite change of direction, allowing for proper deceleration and acceleration in and out of the cuts. In order to change direction without compromising speed, the hips must swivel while the legs churn. Often, we hear the term “drop the hips” when discussing getting in and out of cuts. But the better expression is “syncing the hips.” That’s syncing not to be confused with “sinking.”
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SU Commit Coley Off to Fast Start for F-M – Otto's Grove (ottossgrove.com; Kelly)
It’s still a little unclear where Eric Coley will wind up playing for Syracuse, but the class of 2017 commit is quickly making a case for himself as one of the top athletes playing football in the state of New York. In his first game for Fayetteville-Manlius, Coley scored three times to help F-M to a 35-19 win.
Coley, the son of Syracuse defensive line coach Vince Reynolds, scored on runs of 42 and 20 yards and hauled in a 42 yard touchdown pass, as well. He was named the Kickoff Classic MVP as his team took on Gates Chili in his future home, the Carrier Dome.
Among the other Syracuse commits in action over the weekend, wide receiver prospect Josh Palmer, playing this season for powerhouse St. Thomas Aquinas in Fort Lauderdale, caught an eight yard touchdown pass in a blowout victory over Miramar. Another wide receiver, Nykeim Johnson of Friendship Collegiate in Washington DC, hauled in a 60 yard touchdown on the very first play from scrimmage in a 30-6 win.
Things weren’t quite as rosy for star QB recruit Tommy DeVito’s Don Bosco, as the New Jersey signal caller and his team were shut out by Florida powerhouse American Heritage, 21-0. American Heritage features one of the most talented secondaries in America at the high school level. Among the stars for the top 10-ranked team is defensive back Patrick Surtain, who’s pretty much the consensus No. 1 cornerback prospect in the class of 2018. DeVito finished 7-of-23 for 66 yards with two interceptions.
Running back recruit Allen Stritzinger, meanwhile, scored twice in an easy 42-6 victory for his Warren De La Salle team over Canadian team Lorne Park (Ontario). Stritzinger had a 26 yard touchdown, and then on the team’s next possession, broke loose for a 53 yard touchdown run.
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Chicago plays radiant two-hour set, a deserving end to a record-breaking NYS Fair (review) (PS; Tulloch)
Surprising absolutely no one, Chicago performed a vibrant, flawless set for 31,200 people atChevy Court on Monday, Sept. 5, the final night of the 2016 New York State Fair.
The show marked Chicago's first appearance at the fair in 26 years and fourth appearance overall. The Labor Day concert also doubled as the final show of the band's summer tour.
Under a cloudless sky, the band members took turns in the spotlight, playing two hours of their classic hits including "Hard Habit to Break," "Saturday in the Park," "Free" and "25 or 6 to 4."
In the past two weeks, Chevy Court has hosted many instrumental and vocal talents, from Robert Cray's blues guitar to Bruce Hornsby on piano, accordion and even the dulcimer.
The main difference between this show and those instrumentally savvy acts is how Chicago fills the stage, with each member rushing up to the very front for his solos.
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