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Welcome to Asparagus Day!
It's Asparagus Day, so enjoy this very healthy vegetable that contains folic acid, potassium, fiber, vitamin B6, vitamins A and C, thiamin which is also low in sodium, and contains no cholesterol or fat. Asparagus is a member of the lily family along with onions and garlic. Under ideal conditions an asparagus spear can grow 10″ in a 24-hour period. Size matters -- the thicker the diameter the better. Asparagus was considered a delicacy and was prized by the Romans and Greeks. The Greek word for stalk or shoot is asparagus. Asparagus is known to have diuretic properties, be a laxative, and even a sedative. Some people notice a strong odor in their urine after eating asparagus this may be due to a sulfur compound called a mercaptan that is in asparagus which when broken down releases a funny scent.
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Dreaming about Syracuse football coach Dino Babers’ third second season - The Juice Online (the juice; Stechschulte)
Lacrosse season just came to an abrupt halt at Syracuse and basketball is never far from the minds of Orange fans, but what about football? Yes, practice is over three months away, but the first summer session is on the horizon. So, what’s the harm in dreaming a little based on what Babers has gotten out of his teams in his previous two stops? After all, “a cold drink and a cool breeze in the hammock” time is getting close, too.
One person not spending much time in his hammock is Dino Babers, who is headed toward his second season at the helm of the Syracuse football program with a bit of symmetry behind him. The head coach attests his offensive scheme will click for the team around the midpoint of the second season and has witnessed it at his previous stops at Eastern Illinois and Bowling Green.
That makes this curious party wonder about expectations and if anything can be gleaned from those two previous “second seasons” under Babers. Now, there is obviously a list of variables as long as my arm that would affect any attempt at math, so projecting the production for the 2017 Syracuse football team based on what Babers’ Panthers and Falcons teams did is a fool’s errand. But…
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Swofford-led ACC enjoying current success even as it plans for TV network's arrival (pilotonline.com; Minium)
When ACC officials gathered last week in a posh hotel on Florida’s Amelia Island for their annual spring meeting, it was as much a pep rally as it was a chance to do business.
They watched a slick, 12-minute video highlighting the 2016-2017 season, with an emphasis on football and basketball.
No word on whether they held fingers aloft and chanted, “We’re No. 1.” But they could have.
The ACC has much to celebrate.
Clemson’s football national championship and North Carolina’s basketball national championship in the same season has done much to bolster the image of a league that has long been thought of as a great basketball conference that also happens to play football.
“The ACC is a tremendous basketball league,” Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher told the Orlando Sentinel. “But it’s also the best football league, too.”
When you dive into the numbers that’s arguably true, for the moment, and it’s a radical departure from just four years ago, when the ACC appeared to be light-years behind the SEC.
In 2012, Alabama gave the SEC its seventh national title in a row. Meanwhile, five of the 12 ACC teams had losing records and Georgia Tech limped into the league championship game at 7-7.
This past season, the ACC had the nation’s best bowl record at 9-3. The ACC put five teams in the top 25, its 17-9 record against Power 5 schools was the nation’s best and the league won 10 of 14 games against the SEC.
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Wegmans: First look inside the DeWitt expansion, including Burger Bar, larger cafe (photos) (PS; Doran)
Wegmans will open the first part of its 12,350-square-foot expansion to the DeWitt store on Friday.
A portion of the all-new food court seating area, with new tables and chairs, sofas and banquettes, will be rolled out Friday, Wegmans officials said today. The Rochester-based supermarket offered a first look at the expansion today.
The DeWitt Wegmans is already the largest store in the 92-store chain, said Evelyn Carter, speaking for Wegmans.
The new cafe seating, which includes a children's area with child-size tables and toys, looks out over the east side of the supermarket's property, facing the Liquor City/ Hobby Lobby shopping plaza.
Several new rooms with cafe seating will be open for Memorial Day weekend. About 140 seats are ready indoors, and another 70 are in the outdoor patio area, which opened today.
