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Welcome to National Fried Scallops Day!
National Fried Scallops Day is observed annually on October 2nd.
A scallop is a common name which is applied to many species of marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae. Scallops are a cosmopolitan family and are found in all of the world’s oceans.
Many scallops are highly prized as a food source, and the name scallop is also applied to the meat of the scallops when it is used as seafood.
HOW TO OBSERVE
Enjoy these Fried Scallop recipes on National Fried Scallops Day:
Pan Fried Sea Scallops
Pan Fried Scallops
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Bowl watch: As Syracuse football falls below .500, is there still hope? (PS; Carlson)
The Syracuse football team lost its second consecutive game on the road against a borderline Top 25 opponent over the weekend, dropping under .500 for the first time this season.
The loss to North Carolina State was a missed opportunity to pull off a much-needed upset, potentially the Orange's best chance on the schedule. Worse yet, the week's results from across the country illustrated just how many missed opportunities sit in SU's rear-view mirror.
Middle Tennessee State was a different team without injured star quarterback Brent Stockstill and wide receiver Richie James and was beaten soundly by Florida Atlantic (2-3). Much worse than that, short-handed LSU was upset by Troy, changing the look of last week's moral victory into a missed opportunity.
ESPN's Football Power Index lists Syracuse as having the 18th most difficult schedule remaining in the country the rest of the season. Its projections average out to a final record of 4.2-7.8, a dip from last week.
None of that is good, but there was a lone silver lining in a bad week for the Orange's bowl hopes.
If you squint hard enough you can see that a very challenging path (we're talking Frodo Baggins level of difficulty) to six wins still exists.
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Syracuse football opens as 4.5-point home favorite over Pittsburgh (PS; Carlson)
Either Syracuse or Pittsburgh will get its first victory over a power-five team and crawl back to the .500 mark this week.
While Syracuse (2-3, 0-1) has rallied late and fallen short in two consecutive games against power-five teams, Pittsburgh (2-3, 0-1) has lost by an average of 25 points to Penn State, Oklahoma State and Georgia Tech.
Those results have left Syracuse as a 4.5-point home favorite for Saturday's contest, according to the website VegasInsider.com. The game is scheduled for a 12:30 p.m. kickoff in the Carrier Dome.
Both teams have trotted out one-dimensional offenses this season.
Pittsburgh has rotated quarterbacks, returning to USC graduate transfer Max Browne in this past week's blowout win over hapless Rice. The Panthers have also tried using redshirt sophomore Ben DiNucci at the spot. Both have likely been asked to do too much.
Pittsburgh thrived behind an overwhelming run game last year, churning out 225.1 yards per game on the ground. But that number has dipped to just 114.4 this season as the Panthers have gone without star running back James Conner, quarterback Nathan Peterman, offensive coordinator Matt Canada and a pair of offensive linemen who were NFL Draft picks.
The Panthers have been even worse on defense, where head coach Pat Narduzzi's blitzing-style has been prone to surrendering big plays.
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Syracuse Football: Top 5 bittersweet oranges from loss to NC State (itlh.com; Esden Jr)
Here's how it all happened #CUSEvsNCST: record breaking day for Erv Philips (@Ambition1_)
Courtesy of @CuseFootball: pic.twitter.com/bdHTHig0to
— InsideTheLoudHouse (@LoudHouseFS) September 30, 2017
5. Where’s the running game tho?
It appears even more obvious now that the 300 yard rushing performance from a few weeks ago
was nothing more than a blip on the radar. That makes it back-to-back weeks for the Orange that they’ve failed to go over 100 yards on the ground.
After a one week vacation, Eric Dungey returns as the leading rusher for the Syracuse Orange. He finished with 44 yards on 16 carries with an atrocious 2.8 yards per clip. The next leading rusher on the list? Chris Elmore.
Lets just address the elephant in the room. The Orange are a one-dimensional offense. They can’t get anything going on the ground which forces Dungey to drop back 47 times. Is that the recipe for success? Perhaps with the way SU has been running the football, we may be forced to realize that’s the only way Cuse can win games.
I know NC State was extremely good against the run and so is LSU, but you’ve got to be able to do something, anything! The Elmore package, despite the marginal stats, did work in spurts. But SU kept going to it in odd situations: second and long, third and medium, it just didn’t make sense.
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Three Things We Learned In Syracuse’s Loss To NC State – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Aki)
As the calendar flips to October, Syracuse football has provided as many moral victories as actual wins. After this week’s loss to NC State, it’s pretty clear what SU’s identity is at this point: a team that has made strides to hang with good competition, but not quite good enough to actually get over the hump, unless its offense wakes up in the first half. While the conference-opening loss solidified what this team is, we did learn some more about the Orange this week.
Eric Dungey Is All Grown Up
Over the last two weeks, the Orange has played far superior opponents. Eric Dungey has also thrown an interception on his first pass in both games. Despite the early punches in the mouth, the junior has responded and then some. Dungey could easily become passive with deep shots and other passes, but he continues to be the aggressor on offense. He backed it up again with fearless runs in big situations, most notably his Superman-esque two-point conversion. Syracuse has stood against a double-digit deficit in each of the last two games against more talented teams, and Dungey has sparked the offense. Now, the quarterback needs to put together a full game offensively. But it’s tough to blame him given that only two wideouts have emerged as legitimate receiving threats.
Kendall Coleman Is The Most Important Non-Linebacker On Defense
To say the Orange struggled to finish tackles against the Wolfpack is a gross understatement. Countless missed tackles led to Syracuse allowing by far and away its season high of 260 yards on the ground. With Kendall Coleman out this past weekend due to a death in the family, the Orange truly missed his presence. Entering the game, Coleman was the team’s third leading tackler and was a big part of SU’s stingy run defense. However, that seal has been broken these past two weeks. The common theme? Coleman has been absent. The sophomore went down with an injury against LSU and then missed the NC State game. Over the last two games, SU has allowed a total of 411 yards on the ground. Coleman’s presumed return this week should certainly improve the rush defense.
Chris Elmore Is Being Misused
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Herman Frazier’s track to Syracuse ran from North Philly, through Olympic gold (DO; Bloss)
Herman Frazier’s world ranking as a sprinter was on the line. Then, the gun sounded. In his red top, blue short-shorts and white tube socks, he took off from the starting blocks for the first leg of the 4×400-meter final in the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
It was raining. But he couldn’t slow down. Down the backstretch, somehow, through the roar of 85,000 spectators, the 21-year-old heard his father’s voice alone from the stands, urging him to run even faster.
Frazier heeded the advice, handing the baton off in 45.3 seconds. He set the pace in what became a United States win by nearly three seconds.
He never ran another Olympic heat.
The U.S. boycotted the 1980 Moscow games, where, he said, he would have been favored to take the individual 400-meter gold. He’s been back several times, twice as the U.S. Olympic Committee’s vice president and as the Chef de Mission in 2004 at the Athens games.
Years later, on a Tuesday in mid-September in Manley Field House, Frazier’s left hand flashes with the bling he earned through his Olympic career.
“I’ve had two careers,” Frazier said.
His second gig brought him to Syracuse in 2011 as SU’s deputy athletic director and chief of staff. He now assembles head football coach Dino Babers’ schedule, approves complimentary ticket requests, handles discipline issues and runs just about all the day-to-day activity of SU Athletics. He likely wouldn’t be here, though, if it weren’t for his high-profile athletic career and the administrative work that began as a temporary solution to help him stay involved.
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Six individuals, 1970 football headed to Mynderse HoF
Plaque to honor Davis
SENECA FALLS — The man considered the greatest coach in the history of Mynderse Academy football — and one of the best the area has seen — will be memorialized during Mynderse Academy Athletic Hall of Fame weekend.
A plaque in honor of Section V and Mynderse Hall of Famer George Davis will be dedicated during an Oct. 7 ceremony at Bracht Field. It's set to start at 4 p.m.
The Hall of Fame Committee and Davis-coached 1970 football team — that 8-0 squad is being inducted into the Hall of Fame Oct. 8 — teamed up on the plaque.
Davis coached the Blue Devils from 1950-70. His overall record at Mynderse was 130-30-8.
The Syracuse University graduate and football player taught physical education at Mynderse.
Davis passed away on July 10, 2015.
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Auburn native's bid to make Dodgers' playoff roster takes him from Denver to Los Angeles (PS; Kramer)
The painting and paving can wait. Tim Locastro's long-shot bid to make the Los Angeles Dodgers' playoff roster remains alive.
The Auburn native flew from Denver to Los Angeles on Sunday night for a simulation game on Monday, according to Locastro's dad, also named Tim.
The younger Locastro had been summoned from Auburn to Coors Field to play in a three-game set for the Dodgers against the Rockies this weekend. The Dodgers are assessing whether to add Locastro to their playoff roster as a utility player/pinch-runner.
Locastro, 25, made his major league debut Friday and also played Saturday and Sunday. Overall, he went 0-for-1 and stole a base.
Locastro's dad, mother Colleen, girlfriend and three other friends all made the trip to see him play the Rockies. Sunday night, the older Locastro said he didn't have any information about Los Angeles' timetable for making a decision.
Locastro hit .308 with 34 stolen bases between Double-A Tulsa and Triple-A Oklahoma City this season. He wasn't among the Dodgers' callups when rosters expanded in September, so he returned home.
At the time of his callup, he was splitting time between painting the basement in his parent's home and working for his dad's paving company.
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