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Welcome to International Coq Au Vin Day!

Today is International Coq Au Vin Day! Coq Au Vin is French for “rooster with wine." It is a popular dish made with braised chicken that is slowly cooked with red wine, mushrooms, pork fat, and various spices. According to some legends, Coq Au Vin has ties to Julius Caesar or Napoleon, but most historians agree that the dish has more humble roots. Roosters are only butchered when they are quite old and rather inedible. Peasant families most likely invented the Coq Au Vin recipe to avoid wasting the meat.

Coq Au Vin became popular in the United States thanks to Julia Child, who featured the dish in her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking. It also appeared many times on her TV show "The French Chef." Today, it is a popular dish in many French restaurants, but it is also a fabulous dish to cook at home.

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Syracuse Football: Eric Dungey can’t afford a setback with Giants (itlh; Esden Jr)

Former Syracuse football QB Eric Dungey can’t afford a setback with the New York Giants. Here’s why that’s the case and what he has to do to prevent that.
This is what we like to call a double-edged sword in the business.

On one hand, former Syracuse football quarterback Eric Dungey is learning an entirely new position (tight end) with the New York Giants on the same timeline that someone else is trying to make the team on a position they know.

That second point is important because time is of the essence. Players who are on the bottom can’t afford a setback and that’s especially true for Dungey.

Per New York Giants beat reporter Art Stapleton, Dungey has encountered a potentially serious setback:
“Former Syracuse QB Eric Dungey working with TEs and on special teams. Spent most of today’s OTA practice in the field house. I’m told the rookie’s work being monitored right now after he tweaked his back. He’s been in attendance throughout.”
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Selecting an All-ACC defense from the past 15 years is a daunting task. But here's one writer's stab at it. (pilotonline.com; Teel)

Not a lot of love for Syracuse...

With six different champions in the past six seasons, ACC football’s Coastal Division is handicapping’s Mount Everest. Sherpas are recommended, and if you consistently reach the summit you’re truly elite.

No summit beckons on the following quest because definitive conclusions are impossible. But the task — selecting an All-ACC team from the past 15 years — rivals Coastal forecasting in degree of difficulty.

Why 15? Well, that’s how many seasons the ACC has played since its first multi-school expansion, in 2004. Virginia Tech and Miami were the additions that year, and the league subsequently welcomed Boston College, Pittsburgh and Syracuse, and replaced Maryland with Louisville.

Researching the team was enlightening, and the choices were baffling, indicative of the conference’s quality at every turn.

Indeed, with the exception of receiver and linebacker, the ACC in the past 15 years produced multiple consensus All-Americans at every position, including nine defensive ends, nine offensive linemen, six cornerbacks, three quarterbacks and even two punters and two placekickers.

The NCAA defines consensus All-Americans as those named first-team by at least two of the five recognized All-America voting entities: Football Writers Association of America, Associated Press, Walter Camp, Sporting News and American Football Coaches.
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Lamar Jackson, Deshaun Watson and Jameis Winston were megastars. But who's the best ACC QB in the past 15 years? (pilotonline.com; Teel)

At least Syracuse got a few honorable mentions here...

Lamar Jackson, Deshaun Watson and Jameis Winston rank 1-2-3 among ACC players in career total offense per game. Winston won the 2013 Heisman Trophy, led Florida State to the national championship and never lost a conference game; Louisville’s Jackson won the 2016 Heisman Trophy and finished third a year later; Watson steered Clemson to consecutive College Football Playoff finals and the 2016 national title.

How to select an All-ACC quarterback for the last 15 years from among those luminaries? The group is so accomplished that they overshadow Boston College’s Matt Ryan and North Carolina State’s Russell Wilson.

To mark the 15 seasons since the ACC’s 2004 expansion, I thought it would be fun to pick an all-league team from that time. Yesterday was the defense, and today the offense, and quarterback wasn’t the only paralyzing decision, illuminating the conference’s depth.

Consider tight end, where Virginia’s Heath Miller, Clemson’s Dwayne Allen and Florida State’s Nick O’Leary were consensus All-Americans, but Wake Forest’s Cam Serigne set ACC career records for receptions, receiving yards and touchdown catches by a tight end.

Boston College’s Andre Williams shattered the conference’s single-season rushing yardage standard with 2,177 yards in 2013, when he became the league’s only winner of the Doak Walker Award as the nation’s top running back. But does one landmark year — that was Williams’ only season with more than 600 yards — make the cut?
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Virginia Tech football: 95 days until kickoff with a look back at Jim Davis (gobblercountry.com; Manning)

Today is May 28, 2019, which means we are officially 95 days away until the Virginia Tech Hokies open the football season with a trip to Boston College. As our countdown rolls on, today we take a look back at another former outstanding defensive lineman for the Hokies, Jim Davis.

Much like number 98 on our countdown, Derrick Hopkins, Davis also played at Highland Springs High School in the Richmond area, a school that has been kind to the Hokies over the years. Other than Hopkins and Davis, Antoine Hopkins, Macho Harris, Noland Burchette and Cris Hill all played their high school ball for the Springers. Now, former Hokie defensive back Loren Johnson is the head coach at Highland Springs.

Davis arrived in Blacksburg in 2000 and impressed Bud Foster to the point he was one of only three true freshmen to see action that season. Overall, he played in 11 games, finishing with 28 tackles and 3.5 sacks. Playing as a true freshman defensive lineman for Foster is quite the accomplishment and Davis proved the coaches right with a strong season.
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Lindy’s: DE transfer Hill is the top draft prospect in the ACC (247sports.com; Lake)

The University of Miami is welcoming plenty of transfers this offseason with the hope that the majority of those players will be immediate impact players for the Hurricanes.

One of those transfers that has plenty of hype surrounding him going into this 2019 season is defensive end Trevon Hill.

Hill (6-3, 245) is a graduate transfer from Coastal Division rival and is expected to immediately provide a pass rushing boost for UM’s defense and challenge for a starting job. In 29 games at Virginia Tech, Hill totaled 94 tackles, 20 tackles for loss, 11.5 sacks, and one interception. He started 16 games during his Virginia Tech career.

Hill will have one eligibility remaining at Miami as a redshirt senior. He is widely regarded as a NFL talent and Lindy’s annual preseason college football magazine ranks Hill as the number one draft eligible player in the ACC going into this year.

The publication ranks Hill ahead of Clemson junior running back Travis Etienne and Virginia senior defensive back Bryce Hall.
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Three questions facing the ACC this offseason (orlandosentinel.com; Murschel)

Clemson made a statement with its 44-16 win over Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game back in January that the Tigers weren’t going anywhere anytime soon. The program’s dominance has been a point of pride for the ACC which celebrated its third title since 2013.

Heading into this season, here are three questions facing the ACC:

1. Can anyone challenge Clemson?

It’s easy to see why Clemson signed Dabo Swinney to a 10-year, $93 million contract extension this spring. The Tigers have quickly ascended to the top of the college football mountaintop, winning two of the past three national championships. And there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight. Even after losing the core of its defense to the NFL Draft, Clemson still managed to secure commitments from the nation’s top quarterback, defensive tackle and safety for its 2020 recruiting class.

With wunderkind quarterback Trevor Lawrence, running back Travis Etienne and receiver Justyn Ross back, Clemson returns a 3,000-yard passer, a 1,000-yard rusher and a 1,000-yard receiver for the second time in school history. The Tigers may have lost several all-Americans up front but the defense is still loaded with depth and experience.

After handing Clemson a shocking 27-24 loss in 2017, Syracuse nearly pulled off the upset again in 2018 if not for a fourth-quarter rally. The Orange are coming off their first 10-win season since 2001 and return 15 starters including ACC Defensive Rookie of the Year Andre Cisco but must find a replacement for quarterback Eric Dungey.

NC State is coming off back-to-back nine-win seasons but the Wolfpack also have to replace several key position players including quarterback Ryan Finley. To make matters worse, the program hasn’t beaten Clemson since 2011.

Across the divisional divide, it’s been nine years since a team from the Coastal has won an ACC Championship with six different teams claiming the division crown each of the past six seasons.

2. Will Florida State bounce back after a disappointing 2018 season?
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FSU Football predicted to make decent bowl game after 2019 season (chopchat.com; Parker)

FSU football is eager to make it back to a bowl game after missing one for the first time in over three and a half decades during last season.

By now, the secret is out of the bag if you are a fan of the FSU football team – the Seminoles did not make it to a bowl game last season for the first time since the 1981 campaign thanks in large part (well, thanks entirely if we’re going to be honest) to the first losing season for the program in over four decades.

But, never fear Seminole fans: the 2019 season is just 14 weeks away from beginning when the Noles hit the road and invade Jacksonville for the season premiere against the Boise State Broncos – a season that is going to be the definition of make or break for the program and their second year coach, Willie Taggart.

But, the Noles are in a good spot as they are finally starting to get some proper respect after last season’s losing campaign – and one respected outlet has FSU football back in the bowl season when the 2019 regular season campaign comes to an end.

This week, Sporting News predicted the thousands of bowl games this coming season – okay, slightly over 40 games to once again be honest – and has the Seminoles heading to the Belk Bowl in Charlotte, North Carolina in a game scheduled to be played at noon on New Year’s Eve.

Their opponent for the predicted game? An Ole Miss Rebels team that fans in garnet and gold will remember from that epic second half comeback to open the 2016 season in a game between the teams played in Orlando in front of a nationally televised audience.

Now, you can call me whatever you want to with this one, but I will say this to whoever handles the 2019 college football season for the Seminoles and everyone else: MAKE THIS EVENT TAKE PLACE RIGHT NOW AND DO NOT QUESTION THAT DECISION AT ALL!!!

(Let us forget for a moment that the predictions also had the Florida Gators and Syracuse Orange playing in the Orange Bowl and had the Clemson Tigers and Alabama Crimson Tide playing for the national title (again) and look at the fact that it also has FSU football playing in a pretty decent bowl game after what took place in 2018.)
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Virginia could be one of the surer things in the 2019 ACC (sbnation.com; Connelly)

Bill C’s annual preview series of every FBS team in college football continues. Catch up here!

As a pure thought experiment, Virginia’s hire of Bronco Mendenhall was one of my favorites of the 2015-16 coaching carousel.

He had the résumé for a major conference gig, having been a successful defensive coordinator for seven years before winning 99 games in 11 seasons as BYU’s head coach, and he was somehow only 49 years old. He had navigated BYU through its tricky transition to independence and beaten Nebraska, Boise State, Ole Miss, Virginia, Georgia Tech, Washington State, Oregon State, and Texas. Plus, he had gotten used to the always-fraught game of BYU roster balance, in which a healthy percentage of your signing class in a given year won’t show up on campus until after a two-year LDS mission. He had brought stability to a tricky job.

However, his 1997 season as Louisiana Tech’s DBs coach was the only one he had ever spent east of Mountain Standard Time. He would be recruiting and coaching kids from a completely different part of the country, doing so amid strong competition — Clemson’s Dabo Swinney had just found fifth gear, Florida State’s Jimbo Fisher was still dominant, Miami had just hired Mark Richt, Syracuse had just hired Dino Babers, and Virginia Tech had just hired Justin Fuente.

We’re starting to get a pretty good idea of the answers.

2016: 2-10, 83rd in S&P+
2017: 6-7, 69th in S&P+
2018: 8-5, 42nd in S&P+

After stripping the house down to the foundation, Mendenhall fielded Virginia’s best team per S&P+ since 2004 ... in just his third season in Charlottesville. And he did it, above all else, with development.
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Five reasons Miami football should be favored in the ACC Coastal (caneswarning.com; Rubenstein)

There are a lot of questions about the ACC Coastal Division entering 2019. The last six years have produced six different division champions. The Miami football program finally won their first Coastal division title in 2017.

Virginia is the only team that has a that has not won the Coastal Division and earned a trip to the ACC Championship game. Many college football analysts are projecting the Cavaliers to win the ACC Coastal in 2019. Based on many factors the Miami football team should be favored to win the Coastal in 2019.

Athlon Sports recently asked their college football analysts which program should be favored in the Coastal Division. Several picked the Miami football team. The reasons expressed by the Athlon analysts ranged from the defensive front seven, the schedule and the renewed energy brought by Manny Diaz ascending to head coach.
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Links, news and rumors - 5/29/19 (RX; HM)

Links, news and rumors - 5/29/19
CFP
I thought this was interesting:
Help us welcome the #CFBPlayoff’s sixth intern class as they prepare to join the team for the 2019-20 college football season!
— College Football Playoff (@CFBPlayoff) May 1, 2019

So Wake Forest and Clemson both have an intern working for the CFP this year... cool!
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Rx for Clemson

A pair of Clemson players will miss the 2019 season after their appeal over failed drug tests was denied by the NCAA. Tight end Braden Galloway and offensive lineman Zach Giella were ruled ineligible for previously testing positive for trace amounts of ostarine in December. The pair, along with Tigers star defensive lineman Dexter Lawrence, failed two NCAA-administered tests prior to the College Football Playoff semifinal against Notre Dame at the Cotton Bowl.

Ostarine is a performance-enhancing substance used for muscle-building and is currently on the World Anti-Doping Agency's prohibited list. It is also a contaminant in legal products. Both Clemson and the athletes have maintained they did not knowingly ingest the drug.

"Student-athletes at Clemson have taken 329 tests for PEDs since 2014, and all results have been negative except for the trace amounts found during the December 2018 tests," the statement continued. "The two current student-athletes were tested prior to the December test, including in April and October of 2018 and again in January and February of 2019, and results came back negative for PEDs."
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Top 25 Stadiums (RX; HM)

Top 25 Stadiums
From Popular Mechanics' Top 25 College Football Stadiums - here are the ACC-related ones, from an architectural engineering point of view:

#25 - Memorial Stadium, Clemson
Opened in the early 1940s and originally constructed in a valley below a cemetery, “Death Valley” has more than a little mystique. The now roughly 80,000-seat venue has grown above the original horseshoe design to include towering upper decks and luxury seating. It’s a fitting home for Dabo Swinney’s fierce program.

#7 - Notre Dame Stadium, Notre Dame
A unique brick limestone covers the Notre Dame campus. The stadium is no different. Detailed with a gothic aesthetic, the 1930 building has grown plenty but always ties back to the original exterior. Legendary coach Knute Rockne helped Osborn Engineering Company design the 54,000-seat upgrade, using more than two million bricks to rise nine stories.

#2 - Doak-Campbell Stadium, Florida State
Florida State’s stadium was meant to mimic the academic buildings around it, using brick as an all-encompassing feature. It took three million bricks to make it work. Originally opened in 1950 with 15,000 seats, the Tallahassee venue has grown into a stadium of 83,000-plus seats and one of the largest continuous brick buildings in the nation.

Dangerous Games for GT in 2019 (RX; HM)

Dangerous Games for GT in 2019
Yellow Jacket

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are going through some major changes this Fall. Besides having the least returning production of any ACC team, they are also changing the coaching staff and the basic scheme of the offense. Any one of those things would be legitimate cause for concern, but there's more... Besides the annual dogfight with Georgia, the Jackets face a dangerous pair of teams from the American conference OOC (USF and Temple) and one ACC Coastal team that's going to be hungry for revenge (Virginia Tech).

Now the South Florida Bulls proved they were not to be taken lightly last season when they came from behind to upset GT, and there is no reason to doubt that they can do it again. For the Yellow Jackets, this is a revenge game.

The Temple Owls are dangerous for a different reason: they will be motivated by the feeling that GT stole something from them... their head coach! And if that wasn't motivation enough, the game is in Philadelphia.

There's a notable ACC game which will be played in revenge, too - Virginia Tech. I can't tell you how many times Paul Johnson's Yellow Jackets were the thorn in the Hokies' flesh (and 2018 was no exception). After winning 3 in a row, GT is no longer running the triple option, so VT can use a more standard defensive game plan against them.
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Analyst Names College Football’s Most “Hated” Team Of All-Time (thespun.com; Holleran)

Few sports enjoy hating more than college football. The rivalries the sport displays on an annual best are some of the most-heated in the world. The traditions and pageantry are often mocked by opponents.

The specific teams themselves, of course, can be pretty hated, too.

What college football team was hated more than the rest?

Brad Crawford of 247Sports ranked the 10 most hated college football teams in the history of the sport.

Coming in at No. 1…an old Miami Hurricanes squad.

1. MIAMI (1986)
The birth of swag, so they say. When the inmates run the asylum, you get instant chaos and that’s exactly what the Hurricanes hoped to create on the field in the 1980s when ‘The U’ became college football’s bad boys. Then-Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly said it best, “Miami may be the only squad in America that has its team picture taken from the front and from the side.” On a team loaded with future NFL talent, Johnson basically didn’t believe in suspensions and handled all disciplinary action in-house. That included several slap-on-the-wrist penalties for alleged shoplifting and fraud infractions. Miami’s swag wasn’t enough in the national championship game against Penn State after the Hurricanes infamously stepped off the plane in military fatigues. Heisman-winning Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde threw five interception and the Hurricanes fell, 14-10, for their only loss of the season. The widespread hate started the previous season when Johnson and the Hurricanes blasted Notre Dame by 51 points in a Catholics vs. Convicts showdown. Over five seasons with the Hurricanes, Johnson went 52-9 with a national title in 1987 and three Top 3 finishes.

It’s tough to argue with that pick.

No college football teams sparked more vitriol reactions than those 1980s Miami teams and the ’86 squad was the one that prompted it all.

Miami is no longer one of the country’s most hated programs, though. The Hurricanes simply haven’t been good enough lately.

We ranked the 10 most hated programs in the country last year. You can view our list here.
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Oz-stravaganza, 1911 new drink launch: 13 things to do in CNY (PS; Hernandez)

Fly to "Finding Neverland" with Peter Pan or get whisked away to the land of Oz-stravaganza in Chittenango this weekend. As we head in to June, outdoor festivals are starting to come into full bloom.

Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland tells the story behind one of the world’s most beloved characters: Peter Pan. Playwright J.M. Barrie struggles to find inspiration until he meets four young brothers and their widowed mother. Two Ithaca College graduates make their tour debut in this production.
Where: Crouse Hinds Theater, 800 S State St, Syracuse, N.Y. 13202
When: May 28-30 at 7:30 p.m., May 30 will be an ASL performance
How much: $35-$65, tickets can be purchased on Ticketmaster

The Last Five Years

Jason Alexander (TV’s Seinfeld, Tony Award Jerome Robbins’ Broadway) directs "The Last Five Years", Jason Robert Brown’s musical about two young New Yorkers who fall in and out of love. Cathy, a musical theatre performer tells their story from the end, Jamie a novelist tells it from the beginning.
Where: Syracuse Stage, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse, N.Y. 13210
When: May 29, 30, June 1, 2, 4-9, 12-16. Times vary and include both evening and matinee performances.
How much: $25 to $60. Tickets can be purchased on the Syracuse Stage website, by phone at 315-443-3275, or at the box office from Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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