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One of America’s all-time favorite hot sandwiches, it is often made with ground beef, onions, tomato sauce, brown sugar, cola or maple syrup to sweeten it and seasonings to spice it, all served up on a hamburger bun or roll.
There are different claims to the origin of the sloppy joe. In Havana, Cuba in the 1930s there was a genuine bartender who gained popularity with vacationers who went by the name of Sloppy Joe. He earned his name for his less than enthusiastic way of cleaning the bar. He was, however, an attentive bartender, and the bar was a hot spot for the jet set.
However, no mention is found in papers from the era of a hot sandwich on the menu matching the description of a Sloppy Joe, and the man of the same name retired to Spain in 1933.
Reader Steven Hirsch wrote to National Day Calendar and informed us that Town Hall Deli in Maplewood, NJ has a direct connection to Sloppy Joe of Havana fame. It opened in 1927 and during the 1930s, Maplewood’s Mayor Sweeney traveled to Havana where he met the bartender named Sloppy Joe and was served a delicious sandwich. He came back to New Jersey and with a well-developed taste for Joe’s sandwich. The mayor enjoyed it so much in fact he asked one of Town Hall Deli’s proprietors, Fred Heinz, to replicate it. According to the website “It was made with coleslaw, ham, cow tongue, swiss cheese, with lots of dressing and was served on thin rye bread. Hence, the origin of the Sloppy Joe sandwich and how Town Hall Deli of South Orange became The Birthplace of the Sloppy Joe!”
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First and 10: Asmussen's 10 best basketball-and-football programs (news-gazette.com; Asmussen)
Our college football writer ranks the best football programs that also excel in basketball or basketball programs that excel in football. It works both ways:
1. Kentucky
Football in Lexington has always been underrated. Now, Mark Stoops is building a power, finishing 12th in the AP rankings. John Calipari keeps piling up lottery picks and victories.
2. LSU
Better mark this spot with an asterisk pending the outcome of cheating allegations against coach Will Wade. Football is rolling with Ed Orgeron in charge. Don't be surprised if the Tigers compete for the playoffs this season.
3. Michigan
The Ann Arbor school has a long history of success in both sports. Johnny Orr, Steve Fisher and now John Beilein haven't seemed at all bothered by the shadow from football.
4. Ohio State
No arguing what sport ranks No. 1 in Columbus. But the place has produced all sorts of basketball stars. Current coach Chris Holtmann's team is on the bubble for this year's NCAA tournament.
5. Clemson
The defending CFP champions are firmly on the tournament bubble. An 0-5 start in ACC play against a brutal schedule might cost them. Football's national title eases the pain.
6. Oklahoma
We will get to see Lincoln Riley's skills as a coach now that quarterback Kyler Murray has moved to the NFL. There is no questioning the ability of basketball coach Lon Kruger, the former Illini leader who seemingly always has the Sooners in the mix for an NCAA tournament berth.
7. Washington
Chris Petersen has another CFP contender in Seattle. That pairs nicely with Mike Hopkins' basketball team, which easily won the Pac-12.
8. Cincinnati
Luke Fickell's football team finished in the Top 25 and Mick Cronin's basketball team is there, too. Beware of the Bearcats in March.
9. UCF
Tacko Fall and the Knights are on their way to the NCAA tournament. There is plenty of pressure in Orlando thanks to the football team, which has lost one game the last two seasons.
10. Syracuse
No surprise based on his work at Eastern Illinois that Dino Babers (below) is winning big with the Orange. On the court, Hall of Famer Jim Boeheim is approaching 1,000 wins.
Orange Set to Perform at Pro Day - Syracuse University Athletics (cuse.com)
Syracuse will hold its annual Pro Day for NFL coaches, scouts and player personnel directors tomorrow. A total of 12 players, including 11 from last year's squad, are expected to participate.
Following weigh-in and measurements, participants will be tested in the bench press and vertical jump in the Iocolano-Petty Football Complex Weight Room. Positional workouts, plus the 40-yard dash, broad jump, 20-yard shuttle and 3-cone drill will take place inside the Ensley Athletic Center.
Those expected to work out include quarterback Eric Dungey and fellow All-ACC performers Cody Conway, Jamal Custis, Ryan Guthrie, Koda Martin and Chris Slayton. Custis and Slayton recently attended the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. Custis ran a 4.5 flat in the 40-yard dash and had the largest hands (10 7/8 inches) of any receiver in attendance.
Additionally, former Orange wide receiver and punt returner Brisly Estime is scheduled to work out. Estime played for the Orange from 2013-16 and is searching for professional opportunities. Estime signed with the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2017. He spent the year on injured reserve after tearing his Achilles during offseason workouts. Estime is the ACC career leader in punt return average at 18.0 yards per return.
After Pro Day, Syracuse's draft hopefuls will spend the next few weeks working out privately and interviewing with teams leading up to the 2019 NFL Draft. This year's draft is scheduled for April 25-27 in Nashville, Tenn.
2019 Pro Day Participants (By Position)
Wide Receivers (3): Ben Brickman, Jamal Custis, Brisly Estime
Linebackers (2): Ryan Guthrie, Kielan Whitner
Offensive Linemen (2): Cody Conway, Koda Martin
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2019 ACC FOOTBALL RECRUITING BREAKDOWN: CLEMSON (thekeyplay.com; Jessee)
It's been a bit longer than I anticipated, but it's finally time for Round 2 of my ACC Football Recruiting Breakdown for 2019.
Next up is Clemson.
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2019 Class:
ACC Rank: 1
Top Recruit: Andrew Booth, CB, Lawrenceville GA
Biggest Need: A Bigger Trophy Case...
The scary part is, I'm not trying to be funny with the need for Clemson being more room for trophies. It took Dabo 4 or 5 years to build it, but he has an absolute machine running in the middle of absolute nowhere in South Carolina. Clemson has been able to bring in the right players at the right position for really the last 5 recruiting classes. That's not to say they're all 5 star guys. That's not the case. It just always seems like Clemson has veteran players at every position and young, electric talent coming right up behind them. If there is a roster weakness the Tigers need to address, it will have to deal more with injuries than lack of depth.
Most Exciting Recruit: Frank Ladson, WR, Miami FL
Clemson grabbed this one right out of The U's backyard. At 6'3" with a 10" hand measurement, Ladson looks like some of the elite, big bodied Clemson receivers of the past like DeAndre Hopkins and Sammy Watkins. Having Trevor Lawrence at QB has a way of making every WR recruit look like a potential All-ACC guy, but with Tee Higgins and Justyn Ross being on the roster for a few more years Ladson could find himself covered by the second, even third choice CB in certain formations.
Early Contributor(s): Tyler Davis, DT, Apopka FL
Even for Clemson, the amount of attrition on the DL is going to be a major obstacle to overcome. Davis (6'1", 293lbs.) relies more on his athleticism than size and strength in the interior, which fits the Clemson mold very well. He won't start, but he'll be pushing for playing time and could rack up some good stats against lesser opponents. I'm looking at you WOFFORD and UNC-CHARLOTTE.
Sam's Grade: A-
It's hard to find anything negative to say about how Clemson has attacked recruiting recently. Trust me I tried to find something. The only thing I could say is Clemson missed on some big time recruits. Zacch Pickens (no typo) is a top 10 DT recruit from South Carolina with all the measurables. He chose the Gamecocks. CB Cameron Smith was another top recruit from the Palmetto State who chose South Carolina. In fact, Clemson was unable to land a top 5 recruit in state in 2019. (#3 WR Jacoby Pickney is a Hokie)
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Thank You Raycom! (bloggersodear.com; Foster)
The ACC Tournament this weekend ended a long run of covering ACC football and basketball for Raycom Sports as ESPN’s new ACC Network takes over this fall.
For as long as I can remember every Saturday afternoon and some weeknights from September to March, ACC Football or ACC Basketball has been on WFMY News 2 broadcasting games from Raycom/Jefferson Pilot Sports.
The sweet sounds of Tim Brandt, Tim Brando, Steve Martin, Bob Rathbun, Wes Durham, Mike Gminski, Dan Bonner, Bobby Cremins, Evan Lepler, Dave Odom, Jason Capel, Brian Oliver, Tom Werme, Debbie Antonelli, Tommy Bowden, Riley Skinner, Roddy Jones, Kate Whitham, Renaldo Wynn, and Dave Archer all came through my TV set every Saturday during those months for as long as I can remember.
And of course we can't forget about Mike Hogewood. No one ever showed as much passion for the ACC on TV as he did.
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ACC Football Rx: Revenue Projections for 2023 (RX; HM)
How might the Power Five conference distributions look after (1) the launch of the ACC Network in 2019, and (2) the new SEC tier 1 deal in 2023?
Let’s start out by listing current conference distributions for the 2018 fiscal year.
Big Ten $51 million per school (actual)
SEC $43.7 million per school (actual)
Big 12 $38 million per school (actual)
Pac-12 $32.5 million per school (projected)
ACC $28 million per school (projected)
(Note: Big 12 figure includes an estimated net average of $1.5 million for each school from Tier 3/local broadcast rights; Texas and Oklahoma collect much more, others get less.)
ACC Network.
Revenue projections from the conference, as laid out by former Florida State athletic director Stan Wilcox, show each school receiving a whopping $8 million-to-$10 million initially, with that figure rising to $10 million-to-$15 million once the network is mature. Some have been very skeptical of those numbers; we'll use a more modest $5M initially, growing to $12M in time [see "2017 FSU AD statement revisited"].
SEC Tier 1 Contract.
The current, grossly-undervalued contract ($55 million per year) runs through 2023. Many expect to see a new deal done “well before” that. One college professor at an SEC school* recently estimated the SEC's tier 1 TV rights could be worth as much as $300 million per year. Based on what Fox and ESPN are paying the Big Ten ($2.64B over 6 years for around 53 games per year = an average of $8.3M per game), I'm going with a Tier 1 SEC contract more like $124.5M/year, or around $8.7M per team after league overhead. If you want to say "but it's the SEC!", I'd be willing to round up to $10M per team.
Now, let’s add in those revenue numbers to the above table:
SEC $52.4 to $53.7 million per school
Big Ten $51 million per school
ACC $34 to $40 million per school
Big XII $38 million per school
Pac-12 $32.5 million per school
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ACC Football Rx: 2017-19 2-sport excellence (RX; HM)
A bowl in football and the NCAA Tournament in basketball are pretty good measuring sticks of program excellence (although the football side was watered down a bit when they decided to allow 6-6 teams, but that's another story for another time). In 2019, 29 teams achieved both - including 4 ACC schools:
29 schools made a bowl and the NCAA Tournament this year:
• Big Ten: MICH, MSU, PUR, WISC, Iowa, OSU, MINN
• SEC: UK, AUB, LSU, MSST, UF
• ACC: UVA, Duke, VT, CUSE
• AAC: HOU, CIN, UCF, TEM
• Big 12: ISU, OU, BAY
• Pac-12: ASU, ORE, WASH
• MWC: NEV, USU
• MAC: BUFF
Less than half of those schools also achieved 2-sport success in 2018, but 3 of those 4 ACC schools did:
13 of these have made both a Bowl & the Tournament 2 years in a row:
• Big Ten: Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue, Ohio State
• ACC: Virginia, Duke, Virginia Tech
• SEC: Kentucky, Auburn
• AAC: Houston
• Big 12: Oklahoma
• Pac-12: Arizona State
• MAC: Buffalo
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ACC Football Rx: Links, news and rumors - 3/18/19 (RX; HM)
According to NCAA Statistics, 4 of the 6 toughest football schedules in the country last year were played by ACC teams:
Opponents
Rank Institution Conf Wins Losses
1 Texas A&M SEC 106 50
2 Clemson ACC 120 57
3 Pittsburgh ACC 108 58
4 Georgia SEC 109 59
5t Louisville ACC 92 51
5t Florida St. ACC 92 51
So before you make too much fun of the losses suffered by Pitt, Louisville or FSU, remember: they played a schedule tougher than Alabama's last year.
Oh, as for Clemson - they truly earned the national championship!
Other
Speakeasy, 2 restaurants with an ‘Orange’ twist, opening in downtown Syracuse (PS; Pucci)
There’s a new bar coming to downtown Syracuse, but unless you look closely, you might walk right by.
That’s because The Fitz, named after jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald, is themed like a Prohibition-era speakeasy, a basement-level bar with soft lighting, tin ceilings and live 1920s music played on a baby grand piano during the week and live quartets on the weekend.
The Fitz will be joined by Clementine, a grab-and-go lunch counter, and Oh My Darling, a full-service restaurant offering lunch, dinner and weekend brunch, on the lower floors of the Whitney Lofts project in downtown Syracuse, 321 S. Salina St., located in what was the Whitney Department Store and before that, the Park Brannock Shoe Store, birthplace of the Brannock Device.
Oh My Darling will have a soft opening with select appetizers and cocktails, including a 1911 Established bloody mary booth, during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Saturday. The restaurant will serve a limited brunch and dinner menu on Sunday before celebrating its grand opening on Monday, March 18.
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