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Welcome to National Cheese Day!
This is a day to celebrate cheese, which comes from the milk of cows, goats, sheep and buffalo. Its age, temperature, spices, and seasonings affect its flavor and texture. Cheese is good on its own, but it also goes well with souffles, soups, and pastas, and can be paired with many foods. It many times is also paired with white or red wine.
While it cannot be definitively said why National Cheese Day is celebrated on June 4, rumor has it that a shepherd discovered Roquefort cheese on June 4, 1070. Apparently he had left bread and cheese in a cave a few days or months before and the mold had overtaken the cheese and transformed it when he returned. Could this be why we celebrate cheese on this day?
National Cheese Day is being observed today! It has always been observed annually on June 4th.
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Bring a college football title back to the Northeast, Syracuse coach Dino Babers tells Lauren’s First & Goal campers (mcall.com; Wogenrich)
Check out the video linked at the beginning of this article...
Syracuse football coach Dino Babers recruited for his competitors Sunday, urging high school football players to go to Penn State, Pitt, Rutgers or Army if they wanted. He had a reason.
Babers told more than 2,000 players at the annual Lauren’s First & Goal football camp that he wanted to see them stay, and play, close to home. He insisted that there was “enough talent on this football field to win a national championship in the Northeast."
Babers then raised eyebrows by saying, “Go to Penn State” and “Go to Rutgers” before finding a player in the crowd wearing a Pitt shirt.
“Go to Pitt,” the Syracuse coach said to 2,000 gasps. “Did he just say that? Yeah. Go to Pitt. I’d rather see one of those schools do it with people at home than to [see players] run down to Clemson, Alabama or Florida State. You can play your ball right here.”
Babers began what he called the busiest three weeks of his year by bringing his staff to the 16th annual Lauren’s First & Goal camp, held at Lafayette College’s Metzgar Fields. The camp drew players from 17 states and, this year, from Mexico, Germany and Austria via international football organizations.
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More than 300 college coaches attended, including much of Penn State’s staff (led by head coach James Franklin) and the Army West Point staff, for which camp organizer John Loose works.
Loose, a former Lafayette assistant, began the camp in 2004 with his wife Marianne to honor their daughter Lauren, a survivor of pediatric brain tumors. Lauren Loose, 22, spoke to the campers, urging them to follow their dreams no matter the obstacles.
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Syracuse Football: SU vs Clemson labeled “game to beware” by ESPN (itlh.com; Edsen Jr)
Syracuse football vs Clemson in Week 3 of the 2019 season labeled “game to beware”. Here are all the details and looking forward to that matchup.
In the featured article on ESPN.com Monday morning, the staff put together a ranking of the top-25 games to beware either for a potential trap game or a tough road environment.
The upcoming Syracuse football vs Clemson matchup coming in Week 3 for the 2019 season was ranked the No. 1 item on the list overall and the top challenge for the Tigers for their upcoming season:
“There’s no doubt Syracuse will have the Tigers’ full attention this year. First, Syracuse is likely Clemson’s biggest competition in the ACC, with the schedule looking particularly weak this year. Second, the Orange came inches away from knocking off Clemson in Death Valley a year ago. But, of course, the biggest reason is what happened the last time Clemson went to the Carrier Dome, as it will in Week 3. Syracuse, which would win just four games in 2017, pulled one of the most stunning upsets of the year”. — David M. Hale of ESPN.
Syracuse is clearly Clemson’s biggest competition in the ACC:
NC State is replacing their starting quarterback Ryan Finley and lost several other key cogs.
Florida State is in the middle of a rebuild or reload or whatever you want to call it.
Louisville has imploded with Lamar Jackson gone off to the NFL and now are starting over with a new head coach up top (Scott Satterfield from Appalachian State University).
While Boston College and Wake Forest aren’t realistic threats.
The Orange upset the Tigers two years ago in the lovely confines of the Carrier Dome. Many people speculated that it was a fluke win. Then SU shut up those naysayers by nearly topping the Tigers in Death Valley before allowing the game to slip through their fingers in the waning moments.
Taking a peek at the upcoming Clemson football schedule, there’s Syracuse and then a bunch of scrubs:
Nonconference games for the Tigers include (2018 record in parentheses):
Texas A&M (9-4)
Charlotte (5-7)
Wofford (9-4)
South Carolina (7-6)
Conference games for Clemson include (2018 record in parentheses):
Georgia Tech (7-6)
North Carolina (2-9)
Florida State (5-7)
Louisville (2-10)
Boston College (7-5)
NC State (9-4)
Wake Forest (7-6)
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Complete Syracuse Football Recruiting Guide 2020 – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Leonard)
Syracuse currently has 3 commits in the 2020 football cycle. Here you will find the complete list of SU commits and other high-priority targets they’ve offered of note.
RB: Sean Tucker (Calvert Hall College, Towson, MD)
Calvert Hall won its first track meet of the outdoor season against McDonogh on 3/25/19. I won 1st place the 100m and 200m. Video of the 100m race pic.twitter.com/jWdxtoRE3d
— sean tucker (@seantucker2020) March 27, 2019
Size: 5-10, 190
Ranking: 774th, 3-Star, 86 overall rating (via 247sports.com)
Other Offers: Air Force, Kent State, Rutgers, Wisconsin
Maryland-based back with speed for days (HS track star). Reported 4.28 40-yard dash. Needs to develop strength. Committed early on April 13th, 2019. Complementary style to Jarveon Howard.
FULL TUCKER PROFILE:
RB: Marlowe Wax (Mount Saint Joseph, Baltimore, MD)
Size: 6-0, 219
Ranking: 1534th, 3-star, 82 overall (via 247sports.com)
Other Offers: East Carolina, Marshall, Pittsburgh, Kent State, Temple, Toledo
Another Maryland-back that committed the day after Tucker did. If Tucker is lightning, he’s more of a thunder. Known for breaking tackles. With lower ratings than Tucker, will need to prove his agility and vision translates at next level. HIGHLIGHTS
FULL WAX PROFILE:
DE: Kevin Lemieux (The Governors Academy, Ashburnham, MA)
Size: 6-4, 235
Ranking: 1239th, 3-star, 83.5 overall (via 247sports.com)
Other Offers: Boston College, Army, Dartmouth, UCONN, Rutgers, Tulane, Maine
Strong side end with great height (6-4 like Alton Robinson). Likely needs to add strength, develop technique and finesse to prove he can make the leap from Massachusetts ball to D1. First commit of 2020 cycle. HIGHLIGHTS
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NY Giants: Inside Eric Dungey's intriguing NFL quest as a football player, not just a QB (northjersey.com; Stapleton)
The most intriguing circumstance for a rookie with the Giants involves a quarterback who currently isn't playing quarterback.
Eric Dungey tied or set 25 school records at Syracuse, including those in categories such as career passing yards, total offense and rushing touchdowns by a quarterback. He finished his tenure as one of five ACC quarterbacks to tally more than 11,000 yards of total offense.
To keep his NFL dream alive, though, Dungey has had to embrace this gridiron reality:
He might still think like a quarterback, and he has every right to believe he can still play quarterback at this level if given the chance again, but for the time being, Dungey isn't a quarterback anymore.
"I'm a football player, and that's why I'm here," Dungey told NorthJersey.com and USA TODAY Network New Jersey in a recent interview, promising that he has embraced the quest to make it in the NFL with the Giants by switching from quarterback to tight end, hoping to become a special teams ace and an asset that can be valuable in a variety of ways. "It's challenging, but as long as I can get the ball in my hands somehow in a way that I can help this team win, that's what I want to do. If it's me blocking, making plays however I can - at the end of the day, they brought me here to try and win games, and that's what I'm gonna try and do for 'em."
Giants rookie Eric Dungey (12) and assistant coach Ryan Roeder, center, watch first-round pick Daniel Jones (8) throw a pass during rookie camp in East Rutherford. Dungey, a quarterback at Syracuse, is trying to make the team as "a football player," switching positions to tight end while hoping to contribute on special teams to show his versatility.
Giants rookie Eric Dungey (12) and assistant coach Ryan Roeder, center, watch first-round pick Daniel Jones (8) throw a pass during rookie camp in East Rutherford. Dungey, a quarterback at Syracuse, is trying to make the team as "a football player," switching positions to tight end while hoping to contribute on special teams to show his versatility. (Photo: Michael Karas/NorthJersey.com)
The Giants will begin their three-day mandatory minicamp Tuesday and there will be plenty of attention on quarterbacks Eli Manning and Daniel Jones, and for good reason. They'll be among the four signal callers wearing non-contact red jerseys - Alex Tanney and Kyle Lauletta are the others - while Dungey, having switched his number from 12 to 5, likely won't throw a pass this week with the group.
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Analyst Names College Football’s Most “Favorable” 2019 Schedule (thespun.com; Holleran)
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Clemson is likely to start the 2019 college football season ranked No. 1 in the country. The Tigers are coming off a national title season that ended with a blowout win over Alabama. Dabo Swinney’s team returns much of its ’18 talent, too, including star quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
So, the Tigers are certainly going to be a popular national title pick again.
Clemson surely has the schedule to get back to the College Football Playoff and repeat as national champions.
The Tigers have a couple of notable non-conference games in Texas A&M and South Carolina, though the game against the Aggies is at home and the Gamecocks aren’t expected to seriously contend in the SEC.
The ACC isn’t projected to be very deep, either. Syracuse is the only other ACC team ranked in ESPN’s latest preseason top 25 poll and the Orange are down at No. 22.
All of this adds up to Clemson having the country’s most “favorable” 2019 schedule, per 247Sports’ Brad Crawford.
No. 1: Clemson
Go ahead and pencil the Tigers in as the unbeaten ACC champion unless they surprisingly stub their toe in September on the road at Syracuse. Seriously, no ACC team on this year’s schedule can compete with Clemson’s two-deep during the regular season and that’s the primary reason this schedule appears so one-sided three months out from opening kickoff. Clemson’s toughest game is probably its Week 2 home bout with Texas A&M, who we expect to be inside the Top 15 in the preseason rankings. Jimbo Fisher’s squad fought the Tigers to the bitter end last fall in College Station and won’t be intimidated to go against the defending national champs. With that being said, going into Death Valley is a different animal entirely.
There are probably a couple of teams on Clemson’s 2019 schedule that will surprise and be better than expected, but even so, it would take a major upset or two for the Tigers to miss the College Football Playoff in 2019.
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ACC power rankings: Can anyone stop Clemson? (No, but please read anyway) (sbnation.com; Connelly)
At the end of each conference previews run-through, I take a look at how I perceive the conference’s balance of power heading into the season. This is in no way based on schedules, so they are not predictions. This is just how I would rank the teams after writing thousands of words about each of them. We have already completed the MAC, Conference USA, Sun Belt, AAC, and MWC.
Bill C’s ACC power rankings
Here’s a link to every team’s data, and each team’s name below is linked to its preview.
Tier 1
1. Clemson
Duh. Let’s just move on to the interesting part.
Tier 2
2. Miami
3. Florida State
4. Virginia
5. Virginia Tech
6. Syracuse
7. NC State
Any of these teams could end up the second-best team in the conference without surprising me too much, though because of pure upside, the top two have slightly better odds.
We know Miami’s and FSU’s issues pretty well by now — Miami had shaky QB play in 2017 and downright bad play last year, and FSU attempted to field a team without an offensive line, with predictably awful results. (Okay, they tried to field an offensive line. You just couldn’t tell.) If either team gets back to average in these units, they’ll have enough proven pieces elsewhere to do well. They just won’t catch up to Clemson.
Tier 3
8. Pitt
9. Wake Forest
10. Duke
11. North Carolina
12. Boston College
Pitt won the Coastal last year with barely more than a month of quality play — they were 5-1 from October 6 to November 17 and 2-6 otherwise. If the Panthers beat both Virginia and Miami at home, they could make a run at a repeat. But they, like all the other teams in this group, have deficiencies that give them slightly longer odds.
Tier 4
13. Georgia Tech
14. Louisville
Year Zero situations. The goal is to be better in November than September and hit the offseason with optimism. Don’t worry about win totals.
How does S&P+ see things?
Here’s how my statistical system has the ACC laid out for 2019, with zero equating to an average FBS team. (You can find full 2019 S&P+ projections here.)
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Update on 2020-25 ACC Bowl Lineup (RX; HM)
Update on 2020-25 ACC Bowl Lineup
McMurphy is attempting to scoop everyone again on the bowl lineup...
College Football Bowl Game Lineup for Next Six Seasons to Be Announced
Here are the changes to expect according to Brett McMurphy:
Changes: The 15-member ACC – including Notre Dame for bowl purposes – will have guaranteed bowl bids for 73 percent of its membership, most among all conferences. The ACC will no longer play in the Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit, instead participating in the new Fenway Park Bowl against the American and the ACC replaced the Big Ten in the Holiday Bowl. Also, the ACC will play in the Outback Bowl in place of the Big Ten any year in which the Big Ten has a team in the Orange Bowl. This arrangement was previously with the Citrus Bowl.
Here's a quick side-by-side comparison of the new bowl lineup (left) vs. the current lineup (right):
2020-25 Bowl Opponent Current Bowl Opponent
Orange SEC/B1G/ND Orange SEC/B1G/ND
Outback SEC Citrus SEC
Camping World Big XII Camping World Big XII
Belk SEC/B1G Belk SEC
Holiday Pac-12 Pinstripe B1G
Fenway Park American Sun Pac-12
Pinstripe B1G Gator/Music City SEC
Sun Pac-12 Military American
Gator SEC Quick Lane B1G
Military American Independence SEC
Independence Pac-12 Gasparilla American
Gasparilla SEC Birmingham SEC
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Hidden Stories - 6/4/19 (RX; HM)
Hidden Stories - 6/4/19
From 247Sports' Expert Roundtable: Hidden CFB storylines, here are the ACC-related stories...
NOTRE DAME: HOW WILL THE MIDDLE OF THE DEFENSE HOLD UP?
Tim Prister, Irish Illustrated: Notre Dame is ranked among the nation’s top 10 in most pre-season polls with the Irish coming off their first College Football Playoff appearance... Notre Dame is getting the benefit of the doubt that it can successfully absorb significant losses on the defensive side of the football.
Yet the middle of Notre Dame’s defense took huge hits with the loss of NFL first-round defensive tackle Jerry Tillery, veteran interior defensive lineman Jonathan Bonner and inside linebacker workhorses Drue Tranquill and Te’von Coney. Also gone is Julian Love, one of the most productive cornerbacks in Irish history. The Notre Dame offense shows the potential to average in the vicinity of 40 points per game, which would compensate for the defensive losses. But with trips to Georgia, Michigan and Stanford – not to mention home tilts against rising Virginia (the week after traveling to Georgia), long-time rival USC and physical Boston College – Notre Dame could be hard-pressed to enter November with national championship aspirations for the sixth time in eight years.
FLORIDA STATE: WHO RUSHES THE EDGE?
Brendan Sonnone, Noles247: The major storyline for Florida State this offseason is the offensive line... and rightfully so. That unit was horrendous in 2018 and there doesn’t appear to be a quick fix in sight, so it makes sense that most outlets are focusing on this area.
However, the trenches on the other side of the ball deserve attention as well. Brian Burns had 10 sacks last year and just went in the first round of the NFL Draft, and FSU doesn’t have a clear heir apparent in place. Former blue-chip prospects Janarius Robinson and Joshua Kaindoh are expected to get more snaps with Burns going pro, but it’s worth noting that FSU returns just 45 percent of its sack production from last season. Do Robinson and/or Kaindoh step up? Will Marvin Wilson lead the pass-rush as an interior defender? Does an incoming freshman make an instant impact? This is a storyline deserving of attention, because FSU’s defense will need a new pass rushers to step up if it’s going to field a complete unit.
VIRGINIA TECH: WIDE RECEIVER TRE TURNER
Matej Sis, VT Scoop: Tre Turner is name not often mentioned in pre-season write-ups that is a major candidate for a breakout season in 2019. When previews speak of the Virginia Tech Hokies, the writers are quick to address the attrition and entries into the NCAA Transfer Portal, but stop short of explaining the talent that may be able to be inserted into place. Former Hokies WR Eric Kumah was a major storyline when he opted to transfer, but an underlying reason may have been that Turner would have taken snaps away from him regardless. The talented sophomore essentially played all of his snaps during the last five games of the season, where he compiled a 26 reception, 535 yard, four-touchdown campaign. On paper those numbers may not seem too impressive, but projected over a course of the season and with a much weaker schedule, and Turner could develop into the best player on Virginia Tech next year.
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60-Second Syracuse: 500 serve as extras in the movie ‘Slap Shot’ (PS; Croyle)
Last month it was reported that two Hollywood productions had “taken over” several bars in downtown Syracuse for filming scenes.
It is impossible to know if either “The Night House” or “Paper Spiders” will have the staying power of the sports cult classic “Slap Shot,” probably the most famous film to have a scene shot in Syracuse.
The hockey film, starring Paul Newman, filmed scenes at the Onondaga County War Memorial on June 1, 1976.
The director of the movie, George Roy Hill, had previously directed Newman in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “The Sting,” for which he won an Oscar. Like those films, “Slap Shot,” dealt with themes of violence, in this case a failing small-town hockey team’s resorting to fisticuffs to find success.
Newman played Reggie Dunlop, the aging player/coach of the Charlestown Chiefs.
Universal Pictures was paying Onondaga County $1,000 a day for use of the arena.
Five hundred local extras were hired to play fans of the “home” team, the Hyannis Port Presidents.
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