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Welcome to National No Beard Day!
No Beard Day exists so you have a good reason to shave your beard.
You've had a beard so long, that you don't know what you'd look like without one. And, your lady friend isn't so fond of it. Today brings the extra incentive you need, to shave it off and go without a beard for the first time in who knows when.
So, bare it all and show off your chin. If you don't like it, you can always grow it back.
Have a happy and clean-shaven No Beard Day !!
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Orange Watch: The greatest victory for each of the last seven Syracuse football coaches - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)
It’s amazing how sometimes a single Syracuse football victory, usually of the unexpected variety since the program hasn’t been ranked in the Top 25 for 15 long seasons, can change the pulse of Orange Nation in a matter of hours. In the case of the start-to-finish, all three phases of the game beating of the Hokies, the euphoria is certainly still carrying over to this week while eyeing consecutive ACC wins for just the second time since joining the league in 2013 with Saturday’s trip to Boston College (0-3, 3-3) for a 12:30 (ET) kickoff (ACCN).
While Babers’s top Orange-tinted victory is still fresh in our minds, here’s a look at the best win of each of his six predecessors in the modern (post-World War II) era:
Ben Schwartzwalder (1949-1973 – 247 games)
No doubt it’s the 1960 Cotton Bowl to give Syracuse its lone National Championship for the 1959 season. But what’s forgotten is the final poll rankings were conducted before the New Year’s Day bowl games were played, and the Cotton pitted No. 1 SU against fourth-ranked Texas. The tone of the game was set just 1:13 into the first quarter when Ger Schwedes hit future Heisman trophy winner Ernie Davis for a game-record 87 yard scoring pass as the Orangemen beat the Longhorns 23-14.
Frank Maloney (1974-1980 – 78 games)
Hired with great fanfare from Bo Schemblecher’s staff at Michigan, Maloney did get the Orange back to a bowl game for the first time in 12 years, and the program’s first bowl win since 1961. His 1979 team beat unknown, but home-state draw, McNeese State of the Southland Conference, 31-7 in the Independence Bowl in Shreveport to close out a season in which the Dome was being built and the team played at three “home” venues. Joe Morris ran for 155 yards and was the game’s offensive MVP.
Dick MacPherson (1981-1990 – 116 games)
Like Coach Ben during his decade-long run of the school’s first bowl appearances, Coach Mac’s run of five bowl games in his final six seasons guiding the Orange produced many great moments, but there’s no topping a rare undefeated regular season. The 1987 finale against West Virginia is an all-timer not only for preserving an 11-0 finish, but how it was accomplished.
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The Other College Football Top 25: Dino Babers and Syracuse are in the house (washingtonpost.com; Culpepper)
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2. THE CASE OF THE BURNING OAR. As Western Michigan and 35-year-old Coach P.J. Fleck have surged to 6-0 and No. 20 with the slogan “Row The Boat,” Akron players used pregame for a ceremonial oar-burning on the field, before their 41-0 loss. Here is another reminder that we Americans are some of the weirdest people on Earth.
1. A SPEECH IN SYRACUSE. For audience participation, for pacing, for body language, for needling Las Vegas wagering lines and for stoking players perched atop lockers to bang those lockers, first-year Syracuse Coach Dino Babers’ postgame masterpiece raised the goose bumps after the upset of Virginia Tech. Watch the thing a few times, you almost wish Syracuse into the playoff.
Suxa's massive football road trip is half over. What happened this week? (TNIAAM; Suxa)
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.
I DRANK LABATT'S BLUEBAZ AND GENNY CREAM ALE, ATE SMOKED MEATLOAF AND TESTICLES: SATURDAY IS FOR MOVING THROUGH SPACE AND CRASHING INTO AS MANY GALAXIES AS POSSIBLE
There are lots of cooking shows on TV. Many of them are very good, featuring feats of culinary achievement that make you want to chew on your flat screen, the impulse to bite through your set stopped by only the persistent sting of an electrical charge rushing through your face as you slowly make your way through the LED screen and into the circuit-organs of your television. None of these shows, though, speak exactly to me -- Where is the show that pairs a perfect barbecue sandwich with liquid poured from a sewage beer spigot? I need shows that I can relate to, and there's nothing I can relate to more than my suspect attempt at being a living human operating in a contemporary society.
ACT I: Our guide eats a smoked meatloaf sandwich with Doritos and Genesee Cream Ale. Critics go wild over the no-mayonnaise cole slaw put directly on to the sandwich as if it were an attempt to open a door into a new dimension where people are only happy and internet comments don't exist. The dramatic twist of our guide drinking Genesee Cream Ale instead of Genesee Light is massive, causing audible gasps from everywhere between Rochester and some other fungible dead-tree town on the Thruway. The rising action caused by our guide drinking a Genesee Cream Ale with a carefully smoked and grilled concrete block of meatloaf is the genesis for serious Emmy talk just five minutes into the show's pilot episode. Our guide is in talks to appear on the cover of Tiger Beat magazine.
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How does Dino Babers compare to famous Hollywood football speeches? (PS; Axe)
Dino Babers has gone viral.
The Syracuse University football head coach's passionate pleas of "who's house?"following the Orange's upset of then-No.17 Virginia Tech on Saturday night has been featured on 'Sportscenter' and shared thousands of times on social media.
"People don't know what we went through," Babers said to a captivated Orange locker room in the wake of Syracuse's win over the Hokies. "They don't know about the kumbaya meetings we had this week. They had no idea. We are together. We play as one. We win as one."
"Somebody in Vegas told them they were going to win by 20-23 points," Babers said. "They didn't look into your heart." They didn't know . It's not their fault."
Seeing that Babers is a big movie buff, we wanted to compare Babers' speech to some of the most famous coaches' speeches from film and television.
Watch the video above and see how it stacks up with some of the best Hollywood has to offer below.
(Warning: Some of the videos below may contain bad language).
Any Given Sunday
"The inches we need are everywhere around us."
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Who will be the next mayor of Syracuse? 21 people to keep an eye on (PS; photo gallery)
In just more than a year, Syracusans will go to the ballot to elect the next city mayor. Incumbent Stephanie Miner finishes her second and final term at the end of 2017. While that race is still a year away, names are beginning to surface as each party begins the early work of finding a candidate. Formal campaign announcements won't come until this year's election has passed, but more than a dozen people are being considered for (or are considering) the job.
Ben Walsh
The former director of business development under Mayor Stephanie Miner, Ben Walsh has made little secret of his intent to run for the city's top post. He currently works as business development director for Mackenzie Hughes law firm. He told Syracuse.com he is "taking the necessary steps" to put himself in a position to run in 2017. Walsh isn't enrolled in either major party. He's worked under Miner, yet comes from a...
