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The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is a large Christmas tree placed annually in Rockefeller Center, in Midtown Manhattan. The tree is erected in early to mid November and lit in late November or early December. In recent years, the lighting has been broadcast live, nationwide, on NBC's Christmas in Rockefeller Center show and scheduled for the Wednesday after Thanksgiving with the tree lighting ceremony held at the end of every broadcast.[1] The tree, usually a Norway spruce 69 to 100 feet (21 to 30 m) tall, has been put up every year since 1933.[2] The 2015 Christmas Tree Lighting took place on December 2 and remained on display through January 6, 2016.[3]

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How best to realign ACC football divisions, scrap annual crossover games? (Dailypress.com; Teel)

The ACC’s opposition to a nine-game league football schedule reaffirmed this season, it’s time to explore other models that would allow its teams to play one another more often.

Ditch divisions? Abandon annual crossover matchups? Realign divisions to make scrapping the permanent crossovers more palatable?

Considering those options is based on the premise that teams in a conference should play one another more than once every six years. That has been the ACC’s flawed ratio since the arrival of Pittsburgh and Syracuse in 2013 grew football membership to 14.

“I don’t think you ever stop looking at ways to make scheduling better,” Commissioner John Swofford told me, “if there’s a way to do it and to see each other more frequently, because that’s kind of a basic part of being in a league.”

Here’s how the ACC’s eight-game league schedule works: You play your six division rivals, plus one permanent crossover partner, every season. Your eighth conference game rotates among the six other teams from the opposite division.
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Syracuse Football: Ervin Philips Got Gypped By The ACC
(insidetheloudhouse.com; Edsen Jr)

The Syracuse football team finished their season with a disappointing 4-8 final record. But their explosive offense didn’t get the full credit it deserved.
While the Syracuse football team had a lackluster finish, don’t blame their gaudy offensive production. Several players stood out in an otherwise disappointing season for the Orange.

Some of those players garnered national recognition, but not everyone did apparently. One player in-particular seemingly did enough to get some sort of recognition, but not an honorable mention.

Honorable mention

— Ervin Philips (@Ambition1_) November 28, 2016

Syracuse throughout the season. He more than tripled his production from the year prior in this

new Dino Babers offense. Finishing the season with 90 receptions for 822 yards and six scores. But when the ACC released their All-ACC teams, Philips was no where to be found.

While the voting process usually isn’t all about numbers, it still seems a bit puzzling he didn’t make it in. The other three receivers who made it over him all had significantly less production in all the major categories.

Erv has a pretty good case.

His season stats:
90 receptions/822 yards/6 TDS.

The three 3rd-teamers:
58/703/9
63/545/5
42/488/6 Ervin Philips on Twitter

— Stephen Bailey (@Stephen_Bailey1) November 28, 2016
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Monday Night Football play-by-play commentator talks career, lessons in broadcasting (DO; Nair)

It was Sean McDonough’s father, the Boston sportswriter Will McDonough, who Sean said he credits with setting him on the path to broadcasting. Sean was introduced through his father to “Monday Night Football,” which he now serves as the play-by-play commentator for on ESPN.

A night after broadcasting the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers game Monday night, McDonough was in Syracuse on Tuesday night, when he spoke in front of a group of students in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. McDonough, a Class of 1984 Syracuse University alumnus, returned to Syracuse to accept the Marty Glickman Award for Leadership in Sports Media.

McDonough recounted parts of his career in the sports broadcasting field, from covering the Syracuse Chiefs in the minor leagues, to reaching the Boston Red Sox and eventually CBS. McDonough also spoke at length about his decision to leave for ESPN, replacing fellow Syracuse alumnus Mike Tirico on Monday Night Football. He added that Tirico encouraged him to take the spot.

McDonough said his experience with the Chiefs, where he called 400 games before the age of 22, helped him earn his position with CBS.
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Matt Patricia, Bill Belichick's Right-Hand Man on D | The MMQB with Peter King (si.com; Rohan)

In 2004, when the Patriots were at the height of their dynasty, they put out word that they had an opening for a “coaching assistant,” an entry-level position. A Syracuse football grad assistant named Matt Patricia applied, was summoned to New England and found he would be interviewing with Bill Belichick himself. Belichick grilled Patricia on plays, schemes and terminology. He kept pushing for more detailed answers, probing deeper with his questions, putting Patricia under constant psychological pressure.

Patricia left the interview wondering, what just happened? He had studied aeronautical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Firms such as Boeing, General Electric and Lockheed Martin had flocked to RPI to recruit bright minds like him. But this Belichick interview, Patricia would later tell his friends, was the hardest interview he ever had.

The Patriots sent Patricia home around midday, earlier than he expected, and he spent the trip back replaying the conversation in his head. He didn’t know that everyone who works or plays for Belichick is at some point subjected to intense evaluation. Belichick needs to know that he can trust you, that you can deliver, and then maybe he’ll give you some responsibility, and then some more, until, a decade later, you’re his right-hand man running his defense.

Patricia’s phone rang. The Patriots. The job was his, but they wanted an answer immediately. He hesitated. Understandably, he told them he needed to consult his wife first.
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Former Maryland receiver Amba Etta-Tawo had a record-breaking season at Syracuse
(dbknews.com;
Beatus)

Amba Etta-Tawo had 61 catches for 938 yards and 3 touchdowns in three seasons as a wide receiver for Maryland football. He has shattered all of those career totals in one season at Syracuse.

If this story sounds somewhat familiar, don't be fooled — we wrote about how he was off to a hot start earlier this year. However, having a really good four weeks is very different from having a breakout season where he was named to the first-team all-ACC by Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association. The Orange receiver earned as many votes (125) as Heisman Award favorite Lamar Jackson, which tied for the fourth highest of any ACC player.


The graduate transfer had 94 catches for 1,482 yards and 14 touchdowns. Let that sink in for a moment. For the Terps, Teldrick Morgan led the team with 40 receptions, less than half of Etta-Tawo. D.J. Moore had a phenomenal season for the Terps, leading the team with 597 yards and six touchdowns. Etta-Tawo had 178 yards and five touchdowns this week in an absurd 76-61 loss to Pitt. He was named ACC receiver of the week.


Here are the highlights to this shootout (see above):

This season, Etta-Tawo has etched his name in Syracuse record books. He has the most receiving yards in a single game (270 against UConn), the most receiving touchdowns in a game (five against Pitt), as well as the most single-season records in receptions, receiving yards, touchdowns and career 100-yard receiving games (7), according to syracuse.com.
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Carrier says it has reached deal with Trump, will keep 1,000 jobs in Indiana (PS; AP)

Air conditioning company Carrier said Tuesday that it had reached a deal with President-elect Donald Trump to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in Indiana. Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence planned to travel to the state Thursday to unveil the agreement alongside company officials.

Trump spent much of his campaign pledging to keep companies like Carrier from moving jobs overseas. His focus on manufacturing jobs contributed to his unexpected appeal with working-class voters in states like Michigan, which has long voted for Democrats in presidential elections.

The details of the agreement were unclear. Carrier tweeted that the company was "pleased to have reached a deal" with Trump and Pence to keep the jobs in Indianapolis.

We are pleased to have reached a deal with President-elect Trump & VP-elect Pence to keep close to 1,000 jobs in Indy. More details soon.

— Carrier (Carrier) November 30, 2016
A transition official confirmed that the president-elect and Pence, who is ending his tenure as Indiana governor, would appear with Carrier officials Thursday. The official insisted on anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the trip ahead of an official announcement.

Trump said last week that he was "making progress" on trying to get Carrier to stay in Indiana.

In a September debate against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, he railed against Carrier's decision to move hundreds of air-conditioner manufacturing jobs from Indianapolis to Mexico.

"So many hundreds and hundreds of companies are doing this," Trump said. "We have to stop our jobs from being stolen from us. We have to stop our companies from leaving the United States."

During the Republican primaries, Trump said he would said he would demand that Carrier parent company United Technologies reverse a decision to move two of its Carrier heating and ventilating parts plants to Mexico, eliminating 2,100 U.S. jobs.
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