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The original Pooh animals can be seen in New York Public Library
Welcome to National Winnie the Pooh Day!
AA Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh, was born on January 18, 1882, which is why today’s date is celebrated as National Winnie the Pooh Day
1. The hyphens in the original name were dropped when Disney bought the rights to the characters.
2. The origins of the name go back to a bear bought by a Canadian soldier in the First World War named Winnie after his hometown Winnipeg.
3. The soldier left Winnie with London Zoo where it was seen by Milne’s son Christopher Robin.
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Top 10 facts about Winnie the Pooh
SU News
Syracuse football recruiting: Get to know running back commit Allen Stritzinger (PS; Bailey)
Each day leading up to National Signing Day on Feb. 1, Syracuse.com will take a look at one of Syracuse football's verbal commitments for the Class of 2017.
Completed profiles: quarterback Tommy DeVito, inside receiver Sharod Johnson, defensive end Zach Morton, linebacker Tyrell Richards, inside receiver Nykeim Johnson, offensive lineman Dakota Davis, defensive back Eric Coley, wide receiver Cameron Jordan.
Today, we'll take a look at Allen Stritzinger, a two-way star from Michigan who is being recruited by SU as a running back.
The basics
Name: Allen Stritzinger
Position: Running back
Height: 6 feet, 1 inch
Weight: 190 pounds
High School: De La Salle (Warren, Mich.) Collegiate High School
Twitter: @Stay_Winnin_
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Orange in the NFL Playoffs: Divisional Round (cuse.com)
The Orange football program featured one active alum during the divisional round of the NFL Playoffs. Here's how he fared:
Dwight Freeney, Atlanta Falcons
- Played in the Falcons' 36-20 win against Seattle and had two quarterback hits.
- Atlanta will host Green Bay in the NFC Championship game on Sunday, Jan. 22.
Dorsey Levens, so familiar with concussions, understands Bo Jackson's feelings about football (PS; Poliquin)
It was just last week that Bo Jackson, equal parts athlete and icon (and thus a legend), declared that, yes, he does have some misgivings in the matter of his playing football.
In fact, he announced that his participation in the sport that eats its young was a testimony to the ignorance of the times and that he'd never allow his children to suit up today.
"If," Bo said, "I knew back then what I know now …"
Likely, you could finish that sentence. And, definitely, so could Dorsey Levens, who took the time the other day to weigh in on Jackson's words. Or more to the point, on the inspiration for Jackson's words.
"I understand the way Bo feels," said Levens, the former Nottingham Bulldog who was rated second on the Syracuse Media Group's recently-released list of Central New York's 50 All-Time Greatest High School Football Players. "When you look in hindsight, when you look at some of the guys who have issues and see how damaging they are … well, if you don't look back and wonder if you'd do it all over again, you'd be crazy."
Levens, now 46, went on from Nottingham to play 207 games (excluding exhibition affairs and scrimmages) at Notre Dame and Georgia Tech in college, and for Green Bay, Philadelphia and the New York Giants in the NFL. He spent parts of those 16 seasons after leaving his Syracuse home additionally getting banged around during countless practices and drills. By his own count, he imagines football provided him with "hundreds" of concussions, as determined by the strictest of definitions, along the way to middle age.
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What ACC schedules would look like with ‘power pairings’ (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
In early January, FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver brought up the idea of how to improve college football scheduling. Specifically, improving it to remove the need for conference championship games, increase rivalry games and of course, remove the awful divisions we’re annually subjected to. This should be a very welcome sight for Syracuse Orange fans in particular, who must suffer through a gauntlet of an ACC Atlantic schedule we could very much do without.
So what would these “power pairings” Silver describes look like for the ACC? (he only breaks them down for the Big Ten) Some advance rules, as Silver spells them out:
- Teams play rivalry games in weeks 2, 4 and 7.
- The matchups in weeks 1 and 3 are based on the previous season’s standings.
- Weeks 5, 6, 8 and 9 are flex or power-paired matchups, where teams are paired against others with similar records that they haven’t played previously and that they aren’t already scheduled to play against in the future.
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Immigration, CNY, funding: 5 issues Syracuse University chancellor wants to focus on (PS; McMahon)
As students returned for the first day of classes this semester, Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud discussed five issues he wants to prioritize this year.
Syverud said he'd be watching the incoming presidential administration's policies with regard to higher education. He compared the current "turbulent" political and social climate in the U.S. to nearly 50 years ago, during the Vietnam War, when SU was celebrating its first 100 years.
He discussed how the university would tackle issues of immigration, community and financing. Syverud said he will continue to watch many of these issues as President-Elect Donald Trump takes office.
Syverud outlined his areas of focus during a winter address to the campus community Tuesday in the Life Sciences Complex at SU.
Here are the five key issues on the chancellor's docket:
Immigration
Syverud responded to growing calls to designate SU as a "sanctuary campus" for undocumented immigrants.
He reiterated his support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act, which protects students and other undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
He said he would be open to learning more about what a "sanctuary campus" means, but declined to declare SU one without more information. He said the university would support all of its students however it can within the confines of the law.
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