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Welcome to International Pancake Day!
Many people are familiar with Mardi gras celebrations on the day before Lent. But in Liberal, Kansas, the day before Lent means just one thing – it’s Pancake Day.
In Olney, England, the Pancake Race tradition dates back more than 500 years to 1445. A woman engrossed in using up cooking fats (forbidden during Lent) was making pancakes. Hearing the church bells ring calling everyone to the shriving service, she grabbed her head scarf (required in church) and ran to the church, skillet and pancake in hand and still apron-clad. In following years, neighbors got into the act and it became a race to see who could reach the church first and collect a "Kiss of Peace" from the verger (bell-ringer.)
The friendly little competition between Liberal, Kansas, and Olney, England, with women running down the streets of each town flipping pancakes, has been going on for more than 60 years now. It is still the only race of its kind on the planet.
SU News
Orange Watch: 2017 Syracuse football to play in traditional southern locales - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)
Item: With Syracuse spring football just around the corner starting next month culminating with the “Football Spring Showcase” in the Dome April 22, when we were recently taking a routine look at the upcoming season’s schedule for planning purposes, we realized that all five road games will be played in southern states, with Kentucky sort of the exception, marking the second time that’s occurred in the last three seasons – no road games to be played in the northeast or mid-Atlantic states. The first road game of 2017 is in Louisiana in late September to finish off the home-and-home series with LSU. Then it’s to North Carolina to meet N.C. State, Florida twice in a three week period for games against Miami and Florida State and finally to meet Louisville in November. That sort of itinerary allows Dino Babers and his staff to regularly unveil the program’s style of play in one of the country’s most fertile recruiting regions.
From focusing on competing for the 80 year old Lambert Trophy (now known as the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy) as the best FBS team in the East and former Big East titles, to playing for the upcoming 13th Dr. Pepper ACC Championship in the almost 64 year old conference long entrenched in Greensboro, N.C., has marked the past five seasons of the north-to-south transition for Syracuse football.
(Syracuse still competes for the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy which its won six times, last in 1992, and believe it or not, besides fellow eastern ACC members Boston College and Pittsburgh, Virginia and Virginia Tech are also eligible to win the Lambert Trophy.)
Several weeks ago ACC schools voted unanimously to no longer recognize the ACSMA (ACC Sports Media Association) All-ACC Basketball team/awards as “official” (full disclosure, The Juice is a member of ACSMA), and instead will substitute a hybrid collaboration of a coach, radio crew member and two media members who regularly cover the team as the official voting result.
The reason cited for the change was to ward off what some conference schools felt was a geographical bias in the voting results concentrated by media members in North Carolina and Virginia, which by sheer numbers tilt the geography no matter what because those two states comprise roughly 70% of ACSMA membership.
Newer conference schools, and even those that came in previous expansion in the 90s or early 2000s, but are still removed from that Carolina-centric core, had not seen enough evidence that their program’s were receiving equal consideration for all-conference honors.
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The Syracuse Football Team Gets Left At The Alter Again! (insidetheloudhouse.com; Edsen Jr)
The Syracuse football team had a rare opportunity, a second chance. A recruit that they wanted several years ago was about to come on, but was blocked.
Oh marriage is such a wonderful thing. But it seems more and more like in this day and age, commitments don’t mean as much as they used too.
That seems to be the case with former Miami running back, Gus Edwards. Back in 2013 during his original expenditure he was committed to the Orange. But commitment issues didn’t happen with Edwards, it happened with former Orange coach Doug Marrone when he jettisoned to the Buffalo Bills.
When Marrone left, Edwards didn’t want to stay in Syracuse any longer. But if things are meant to be, fate has a funny way of making things happen. So just when it appeared these two long lost lovers would finally be reunited, “the man” intervened.
By man of course I mean his former institution of choice, the Miami Hurricanes. They pulled the fine print out on Edwards and cited that he can’t go to SU due to a school policy. That policy doesn’t allow players to transfer to opponents on their next season’s schedule (SU plays Miami in the upcoming season).
What a shame, I’m sure head coach Dino Babers would’ve found a way to utilize the talented runner who rushed for nearly 1000 yards and double-digit touchdowns in three seasons with the Hurricanes.
...
Irish Links: How Much Does Notre Dame Spend On Food For The Football Team? (onefootdown.com; Vowles)
We got one week in the books for our new “Irish Links” and already I’m like- OH DEAR LAWD WHAT DO I LINK? You think that, and then the Notre Dame Fighting Irish- across the entire athletic department, goes ahead and has one hell of a day.
What’s that got to do with food? Well, I’m going to tell you in a minute. First, however, keep in mind that as far as I can tell, we have only been discussing (with seriousness) nutrition for athletes for about 10 years. I say this because we have come a long way since then, and yet... there is so much more to go.
Feed Them. FEEEEED THEM
Football teams are massive. There are around 100 players on each team, and a lot of those guys are pretty big. Big people need a lot of food to maintain their physical excellence. A lot of food also means a lot of money.
When it comes to Notre Dame, trying to find out the real cost of anything seems to be a a bit of a struggle. I didn’t reach out to the school to try and find their own numbers, so I won’t speculate too much about how much they spend- but do you think it’s anywhere near the neighborhood of the Alabama Crimson Tide? (That’s a genuine question and not a passive aggressive way of saying something else). I have a hard time imagining that they do.
According to Pete Sampson on the Irish Illustrated podcast, Notre Dame plans on expanding/renovating the Gug. This will include food services- which doesn’t really exist at Notre Dame inside the Gug. They wheel the stuff in and eat in a lobby.
The Gug isn’t that old, so you can really taste the incompetence of the planners when they first built it at Notre Dame. It’s shocking really, and to think it took this long to correct a fundamental part of a football program’s success... YIKES. There are many reasons that Notre Dame has fallen behind the elite schools over the past 25 years, and this is certainly one of them.
Let’s feed them boys. Everyone else seems to be.
Other
Keg Stand Mayfest 2015
Report: 'Scary' number of Syracuse University students hospitalized for alcohol (PS; Herbert)
Syracuse University is frequently ranked among the top 10 "party schools" in the nation, and a new report highlights the dangers of that reputation.
The Syracuse University Senate says an average of 10-12 students per week were taken to the emergency room for alcohol problems last year. According to the Daily Orange, the total number of hospitalizations for alcohol intoxication for the 2015-16 academic year was in the high 200s by March, already more than the previous full academic year.
John Sardino, associate chief of SU's Department of Public Safety, told the publication that dangerous drinking is a serious issue on campus. The student life committee said last year that several students had a blood alcohol content (BAC) level higher than 0.3 percent -- a level which can be life-threatening, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
"It's pretty scary when I look at the reports... and see that we've had 12, 14, 15 students transported to the hospital over a two-day period because of alcohol poisoning," Sardino said.
Concrete and current figures have not been released but Pamela Peter, director of the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities, told the DO that she's putting together data to see if student behavior has changed and "what those numbers mean." The last time exact figures were released by the office was in 2012.
One issue for the delay is students are not always charged with a crime if they seek help because of overintoxication, a DPS officer told the publication.
Syracuse University was named the No. 1 party school by the Princeton Review in 2014, coinciding with a 25 percent increase in liquor law violations from 2012 to 2013. Nearly 95 percent of drinking incidents occurred in residential facilities, rather than nearby bars on Marshall Street.
...
Many people are familiar with Mardi gras celebrations on the day before Lent. But in Liberal, Kansas, the day before Lent means just one thing – it’s Pancake Day.
In Olney, England, the Pancake Race tradition dates back more than 500 years to 1445. A woman engrossed in using up cooking fats (forbidden during Lent) was making pancakes. Hearing the church bells ring calling everyone to the shriving service, she grabbed her head scarf (required in church) and ran to the church, skillet and pancake in hand and still apron-clad. In following years, neighbors got into the act and it became a race to see who could reach the church first and collect a "Kiss of Peace" from the verger (bell-ringer.)
The friendly little competition between Liberal, Kansas, and Olney, England, with women running down the streets of each town flipping pancakes, has been going on for more than 60 years now. It is still the only race of its kind on the planet.
SU News
Orange Watch: 2017 Syracuse football to play in traditional southern locales - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)
Item: With Syracuse spring football just around the corner starting next month culminating with the “Football Spring Showcase” in the Dome April 22, when we were recently taking a routine look at the upcoming season’s schedule for planning purposes, we realized that all five road games will be played in southern states, with Kentucky sort of the exception, marking the second time that’s occurred in the last three seasons – no road games to be played in the northeast or mid-Atlantic states. The first road game of 2017 is in Louisiana in late September to finish off the home-and-home series with LSU. Then it’s to North Carolina to meet N.C. State, Florida twice in a three week period for games against Miami and Florida State and finally to meet Louisville in November. That sort of itinerary allows Dino Babers and his staff to regularly unveil the program’s style of play in one of the country’s most fertile recruiting regions.
From focusing on competing for the 80 year old Lambert Trophy (now known as the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy) as the best FBS team in the East and former Big East titles, to playing for the upcoming 13th Dr. Pepper ACC Championship in the almost 64 year old conference long entrenched in Greensboro, N.C., has marked the past five seasons of the north-to-south transition for Syracuse football.
(Syracuse still competes for the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy which its won six times, last in 1992, and believe it or not, besides fellow eastern ACC members Boston College and Pittsburgh, Virginia and Virginia Tech are also eligible to win the Lambert Trophy.)
Several weeks ago ACC schools voted unanimously to no longer recognize the ACSMA (ACC Sports Media Association) All-ACC Basketball team/awards as “official” (full disclosure, The Juice is a member of ACSMA), and instead will substitute a hybrid collaboration of a coach, radio crew member and two media members who regularly cover the team as the official voting result.
The reason cited for the change was to ward off what some conference schools felt was a geographical bias in the voting results concentrated by media members in North Carolina and Virginia, which by sheer numbers tilt the geography no matter what because those two states comprise roughly 70% of ACSMA membership.
Newer conference schools, and even those that came in previous expansion in the 90s or early 2000s, but are still removed from that Carolina-centric core, had not seen enough evidence that their program’s were receiving equal consideration for all-conference honors.
...
https://i2.wp.com/.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gus-1.jpg?fit=2000%2C1273
The Syracuse Football Team Gets Left At The Alter Again! (insidetheloudhouse.com; Edsen Jr)
The Syracuse football team had a rare opportunity, a second chance. A recruit that they wanted several years ago was about to come on, but was blocked.
Oh marriage is such a wonderful thing. But it seems more and more like in this day and age, commitments don’t mean as much as they used too.
That seems to be the case with former Miami running back, Gus Edwards. Back in 2013 during his original expenditure he was committed to the Orange. But commitment issues didn’t happen with Edwards, it happened with former Orange coach Doug Marrone when he jettisoned to the Buffalo Bills.
When Marrone left, Edwards didn’t want to stay in Syracuse any longer. But if things are meant to be, fate has a funny way of making things happen. So just when it appeared these two long lost lovers would finally be reunited, “the man” intervened.
By man of course I mean his former institution of choice, the Miami Hurricanes. They pulled the fine print out on Edwards and cited that he can’t go to SU due to a school policy. That policy doesn’t allow players to transfer to opponents on their next season’s schedule (SU plays Miami in the upcoming season).
What a shame, I’m sure head coach Dino Babers would’ve found a way to utilize the talented runner who rushed for nearly 1000 yards and double-digit touchdowns in three seasons with the Hurricanes.
...
Irish Links: How Much Does Notre Dame Spend On Food For The Football Team? (onefootdown.com; Vowles)
We got one week in the books for our new “Irish Links” and already I’m like- OH DEAR LAWD WHAT DO I LINK? You think that, and then the Notre Dame Fighting Irish- across the entire athletic department, goes ahead and has one hell of a day.
What’s that got to do with food? Well, I’m going to tell you in a minute. First, however, keep in mind that as far as I can tell, we have only been discussing (with seriousness) nutrition for athletes for about 10 years. I say this because we have come a long way since then, and yet... there is so much more to go.
Feed Them. FEEEEED THEM
Football teams are massive. There are around 100 players on each team, and a lot of those guys are pretty big. Big people need a lot of food to maintain their physical excellence. A lot of food also means a lot of money.
When it comes to Notre Dame, trying to find out the real cost of anything seems to be a a bit of a struggle. I didn’t reach out to the school to try and find their own numbers, so I won’t speculate too much about how much they spend- but do you think it’s anywhere near the neighborhood of the Alabama Crimson Tide? (That’s a genuine question and not a passive aggressive way of saying something else). I have a hard time imagining that they do.
According to Pete Sampson on the Irish Illustrated podcast, Notre Dame plans on expanding/renovating the Gug. This will include food services- which doesn’t really exist at Notre Dame inside the Gug. They wheel the stuff in and eat in a lobby.
The Gug isn’t that old, so you can really taste the incompetence of the planners when they first built it at Notre Dame. It’s shocking really, and to think it took this long to correct a fundamental part of a football program’s success... YIKES. There are many reasons that Notre Dame has fallen behind the elite schools over the past 25 years, and this is certainly one of them.
Let’s feed them boys. Everyone else seems to be.
Other
Keg Stand Mayfest 2015
Report: 'Scary' number of Syracuse University students hospitalized for alcohol (PS; Herbert)
Syracuse University is frequently ranked among the top 10 "party schools" in the nation, and a new report highlights the dangers of that reputation.
The Syracuse University Senate says an average of 10-12 students per week were taken to the emergency room for alcohol problems last year. According to the Daily Orange, the total number of hospitalizations for alcohol intoxication for the 2015-16 academic year was in the high 200s by March, already more than the previous full academic year.
John Sardino, associate chief of SU's Department of Public Safety, told the publication that dangerous drinking is a serious issue on campus. The student life committee said last year that several students had a blood alcohol content (BAC) level higher than 0.3 percent -- a level which can be life-threatening, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
"It's pretty scary when I look at the reports... and see that we've had 12, 14, 15 students transported to the hospital over a two-day period because of alcohol poisoning," Sardino said.
Concrete and current figures have not been released but Pamela Peter, director of the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities, told the DO that she's putting together data to see if student behavior has changed and "what those numbers mean." The last time exact figures were released by the office was in 2012.
One issue for the delay is students are not always charged with a crime if they seek help because of overintoxication, a DPS officer told the publication.
Syracuse University was named the No. 1 party school by the Princeton Review in 2014, coinciding with a 25 percent increase in liquor law violations from 2012 to 2013. Nearly 95 percent of drinking incidents occurred in residential facilities, rather than nearby bars on Marshall Street.
...
