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Syracuse Offers 2021 Running Back – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Hoppe)
Your first car, your first kiss, or maybe even your first trip to a professional sporting event. Those are all major milestones that, for the most part, we all share. However, 2021 running back/defensive back Nickel Fields just experienced a first that very few of us ever will.
Grateful to receive my 1st offer from Syracuse university!#go orangepic.twitter.com/O8pSUBa00O
— Nickel Fields (@nfields_2) April 25, 2018
When Syracuse offered Fields on Wednesday, it was the first time that had ever happened to the 5-foot-8 running back. Don’t let his size fool you, Fields has the capability to compete at the highest level of college football, which is why SU decided to offer him during his freshman year. Fields’ brother, Bryon, just finished up his redshirt-senior season at Duke as a defensive back.
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NFL draft 2018: SEC again leads all college football conferences with 10 first-round picks (usatoday.com; Smith)
The Southeastern Conference are again kings of the first round of the NFL draft.
For the seventh time in eight years, the SEC led all conferences with the most selections in the first round. The 10 players taken Thursday easily outpaced the ACC, which finished second with six.
Early in the draft it didn't look like the SEC's night, however. Just one of the first 10 picks was from the conference - Georgia linebacker Roquan Smith to the Chicago Bears at No. 8.
The run for the SEC then started. Alabama defensive standouts Minkah Fitzpatrick and Da'Ron Payne went off the board to the Miami Dolphins and Washington Redskins, respectively.
Two more Alabama players - Rashaan Davis and Calvin Ridley were selected in the later part of the round, giving the Crimson Tide four selections, the most of any school. Georgia had three choices - Smith, Isaiah Wynn and Sony Michel. Florida, Arkansas and South Carolina each had one pick.
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Pitt waiting on Penn State for answer on football series (triblive.com; Dipaola)
Pitt athletic director Heather Lyke said Wednesday she has proposed to Penn State a four-year agreement to resume the schools' football series in 2026, but she has not received a response from Penn State officials.
And she added Pitt does not plan to wait indefinitely.
"We're going to wait a tad more patiently," Lyke said, "but not much. We can't.
"We have people who want to play us and good opportunities to play what would be a very attractive game.
"But I think out of the respect for Penn State and the opportunity within the Commonwealth, we want to play Penn State. If they don't, we will obviously shift gears."
Lyke said she has been in repeated contact with Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour on the topic.
"I've been in as much contact as I can with Sandy, who I have a lot of respect for, tremendous leader, tremendous mentor, tremendous friend to me.
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Alton Brown: If you want great Buffalo wings, don't go to Buffalo (PS; Pucci)
TV host and food scientist Alton Brown has some harsh words for Buffalo's beloved wing.
"If you really want great Buffalo chicken wings...you don't go to frickin' Buffalo," Brown said in an episode of First We Feast's "Hot Ones," a video series that features celebrities eating chicken wings with increasingly hotter sauces, published earlier today.
Brown's comment starts around the 2:23 mark.
Alton Brown Rigorously Reviews Spicy Wings | Hot Ones
Likely knowing that his comments would ruffle some Western New York feathers, Brown added that "well, there you go, I won't be able to play Buffalo again."
Buffalo was not alone as a target of Brown's culinary scorn. Brown also mentioned that he was unable to find a good Cuban sandwich while touring in Tampa.
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