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Welcome to National Lost Sock Memorial Day!
We don’t know where they go, but we know they’re always disappearing there. Is there some kind of vortex created within the whirl of hot air and tumbling wet clothes that exists within the drier? Or perhaps within the washer there is some form of strange kraken like creature that exists that eats them, and only the left one. Whatever the case, it is an inevitable fact of life that somewhere out there exists an ever growing pile of missing left socks, and Lost Sock Memorial Day is your opportunity to mourn your dearly departed foot warmers, wherever they may be.
Seinfeld bit about missing socks!
SU News
A great depiction of the unlimited uses of Beam -- see how Syracuse University's football team uses Suitable Technologies' Beam Pro to take their football recruitment to the next level.
Syracuse 2017 FPI - Orange - ESPN (espn)
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SCHEDULE DATE OPPONENT RESULT/PROJ OPP FPI (RK)
----Fri, Sept 1Central Connecticut; 99.5%
---Sat, Sept; Middle Tennessee 86.6% -7.8 (86)
--Sat, Sept 1; Central Michigan 86.5% -8.3 (89)
--Sat, Sept 23; @LSU 8.8% 19.6 (6)
--Sat, Sept 30; @NC State 20.7% 12.2 (22)
--Sat, Oct 7; Pittsburgh 57.7% 4.3 (44)
--Fri, Oct 13; Clemson 18.3% 19.6 (7)
--Sat, Oct 21; Miami 15.2% 14.4 (16)
--Sat, Nov 4; @Florida State 6.0% 24.3 (4)
--Sat, Nov 11; Wake Forest 65.4% 1.9 (54)
--Sat, Nov 18; @Louisville 15.6% 14.9 (14)
--Sat, Nov 25; Boston College 74.5% -2.0 (70)
Derwin James: FSU's Versatile DB | ACC Football Spring Spotlight | Videos (theacc.com)
FLORIDA STATE DEFENSIVE BACK DERWIN JAMES IS ONE OF THE MOST VERSATILE PLAYERS IN THE ACC. AFTER MISSING MOST OF 2016 WITH AN INJURY, JAMES HAS RETURNED WITH PLANS TO MAKE HIS MARK. CHECK OUT THE SEMINOLES' STAR SAFETY IN THE ACC DIGITAL NETWORK'S SPRING SPOTLIGHT SERIES!
ACC anniversary marks a milestone for power conferences (newsobserver.com; Jacobs)
As secession efforts go, the formation of the Atlantic Coast Conference 64 years ago Monday was accomplished with remarkable cordiality.
The departure of seven Southern Conference members to form a league of larger, football-fancying schools did not precipitate lawsuits, the payment of late
exit fees, raids on other conferences, or even a waning of decorum. Once the split was formally proposed at the Southern’s annual meeting at Greensboro’s Sedgefield Inn, conference president Max Farrington of George Washington mildly announced to the breakaway members: “I suggest that you fellows who have presented the resolution go outside near the golf course and talk for awhile.” And so representatives of Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, N.C. State, South Carolina and Wake Forest adjourned to lounge chairs by the pool and ninth green to await the future they had just forged.
Most newspapermen – who at times drank, swapped stories and insults, and played poker with the coaches and athletic directors they covered – had an inkling change was in the offing before arriving at Greensboro. “We knew it was going to happen unless lightning struck,” insists Irwin Smallwood, who covered the four meetings spread over two days for the Greensboro Daily News.
Smallwood, the only known surviving witness to the ACC’s start, sees at play in the Southern’s dissolution the same forces that continue to shape college sports. “Reflecting on it, my memory is that the culture of the haves and the have-nots had come to really play a role,” says Smallwood, long retired after 42 years as a sports and news reporter and editor. “The more I think about it, the more I realize the have and have-nots culture, that whole concept is what created (today’s) five power conferences, is it not?”
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Lake Ontario hits record level after 'unbelievable' amounts of rain (PS; Coin)
Lake Ontario is higher than it has been in mid-May in at least 157 years, and could soon break the month's all-time record.
The lake level is now at 248.46 feet above sea level, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The previous record for this time of year was 248.20 feet, in 1973.
Records date back to 1860.
The lake is likely to keep rising, too, and could set another record for the highest average level for the month of May.
The Lake Ontario basin has had "unbelievable amounts of rain" since April 1, said Keith Kompoltowicz, spokesman for the Army corps office in Detroit.
Nearly 8 inches of rain has fallen in the Lake Ontario basin since April 1, about double the normal amount, according to the agency's statistics.
"The precipitation has impacted Lake Ontario like a bullseye," Kompoltowicz said.
The Army corps predicts it could continue to rise throughout May and finally start to recede in June, although Kompoltowicz said if rain continues to fall, the lake could keep rising into June.
Frank Bevacqua, spokesman for the International Joint Commission, which regulates water levels along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, said the lake is likely to continue to rise for a couple of weeks.
Communities along the lake have been under flood warnings for much of the past few weeks, and states of emergency have been declared.
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