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Welcome to Heimlich Maneuver Day!
Dr. Henry Heimlich came up with the Heimlich Maneuver in 1974. Also known as abdominal thrusts, this procedure is used to dislodge food and objects from the throat of a choking person. As the American Red Cross claims over 3,000 deaths are caused by choking each year, celebrating Heimlich Maneuver Day is an important way to raise awareness and help save lives. The origin of the day is unknown.
SU News
Syracuse Orange TOP 10 Football Players for 2023 (youtube.com; podcast; Broback CFB)
Syracuse Orange TOP 10 Football Players for 2023
Barbara Gauntt Clarion Ledger
https://www.si.com/college/syracuse...hite-taking-syracuse-official-visit-this-week (SI; McAllister)
Class of 2024 Madison (MS) Madison-Ridgeland Academy (MRA) quarterback John White will take an official visit to Syracuse starting Thursday, June 1st, he tells All Syracuse. White is listed at 6-0, 205 pounds and is currently committed to Southern Miss. He has not reported an official offer from the Orange to date. White also holds scholarship opportunities from Liberty, Arkansas State, West Virginia, Old Dominion, Tulane and others.
White was named the MVP of the 2024 quarterbacks at the Big 40 football camp last summer and given the Golden Gun Accuracy Award at the Oxford (MS) Elite 11 Camp.
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Syracuse football: Orange get early season primetime showcase (TNIAAM; Wall)
The Syracuse Orange will get an early season opportunity to impress a national television audience.
The Action Network is reporting that the Orange’s game at the Purdue Boilermakers will be featured as NBC’s Big Ten Saturday Night primetime game.
Syracuse will open with home games against Colgate and Western Michigan, then Purdue will be their first road game of 2023. It’s a rematch of that wild game from 2022 where Garrett Shrader hit Oronde Gadsden in the final 10 seconds to pull off the improbable win.
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SU football kick times, TV info released for 3 more games (PS; Leiker)
Syracuse football fans can put kick times for three more games on their calendars with fewer than 100 days until the beginning of the season.
Kickoff times for the season opener and two other games were released Wednesday by the ACC.
The Orange will kick off the season against Colgate at 4 p.m. on Sept. 2 on ACC Network Extra.
The two programs last met in 2016, when Syracuse won its 16th straight game to even the all-time series at 31-31. SU has played host to all but four of the matchups.
Syracuse’s two non-Saturday games this fall occur back-to-back: Week 9 against Virginia Tech is a Thursday night game, and Week 10 against Boston College is a Friday night game.
The Orange will play the Hokies in Blacksburg, Virginia, at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26 on ESPN.
SU and VT have met twice since the former joined the ACC, in 2016 and 2021, and 17 times before that. The series is split 11-8 in Syracuse’s favor with the Orange winning each of the past two matchups.
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4 'Cuse Kick Times Announced - Syracuse University Athletics (cuse.com)
Three of the four known kickoff times will be primetime matchups for Syracuse football this season.
The ACC and its television partners announced some early season kickoff times and weeknight games on the 2023 slate on Wednesday. Three of the four Syracuse games included in that announcement feature 7:30 p.m. kickoffs.
The year will begin with a 4 p.m. kickoff in the Loud House on Sept. 2 when Colgate comes to town. The Empire State matchup between the Orange and Raiders is set to be broadcast on ACCNX. 'Cuse's week three matchup at Purdue will be a 7:30 p.m. kickoff on NBC, in a rematch of last year's thrilling fourth-quarter comeback.
Syracuse's Thursday night trip to Lane Stadium vs. Virginia Tech on Oct. 26 will be a 7:30 p.m. kickoff on ESPN. The Friday night, Family Weekend game vs. Boston College in the JMA Dome on Nov. 3 will also kickoff at 7:30 and be shown on ESPN2.
Not part of the announcement was Syracuse's second game of the season. The home matchup vs. Western Michigan is still to be determined. All other Saturday kickoff times and network designations from week four and beyond will be announced 12 days prior to game day throughout the season.
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ACC News
ACC Network to Feature Three Straight Days of Games to Kickoff 2023 College Football Season, Beginning Aug. 31 (ESPN; Ufnowski)
ACCN will air 13 live football games over the opening weeks showcasing 10 conference teams and nine home openers. Weeks 1-3 will feature at least three games on ACCN, with Weeks 1 and 2 carrying five games.
Week 1 features three straight days of games beginning with Elon at Wake Forest on Thursday, Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. ET. Miami opens its season on ACCN on Friday, Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. against Miami (Ohio), while Boston College hosting Northern Illinois kicks off a Saturday tripleheader on the network at noon on Sept. 2. Pitt welcomes Wofford to Acrisure Stadium at 3:30 p.m., while Virginia Tech hosts Old Dominion for this season’s first installment of ACC Network Primetime Football at 8 p.m.
The action continues in Week 2 with a quadruple header on Saturday, Sept. 9 featuring three teams ranked in ESPN.com’s Way Too Early Top 25. Vanderbilt at Wake Forest leads off at 11 a.m., followed by Charleston Southern at reigning ACC Champion and No. 9 Clemson at 2:15 p.m., Appalachian State at No. 21 North Carolina at 5:15 p.m., and Southern Miss at No. 3 Florida State for ACC Network Primetime Football at 8:30 p.m. for the Noles’ home opener at Doak Campbell Stadium.
Highlighting Week 3 is Miami hosting Bethune-Cookman on Thursday, Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m., followed by a doubleheader on Saturday, Sept. 16 featuring Northwestern at Duke at 3:30 p.m., and Florida Atlantic at No. 9 Clemson at 8 p.m. for ACC Network Primetime Football.
In addition to the games slated for ACCN, ACCNX will carry four games in Weeks 1 and 2 – Colgate at Syracuse (Sept. 2, 4 p.m.), Holy Cross at Boston College (Sept. 9, Noon), South Carolina State at Georgia Tech (Sept. 9, 1 p.m.) and Lafayette at Duke (Sept. 9, 6 p.m.). Those games will also be simulcast on ESPN+.
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Syracuse Football: Orange gets prime-time NBC game at Big Ten’s Purdue (itlh; Fiello)
Last season, Syracuse football played Purdue in the JMA Wireless Dome and won 32-29 with seven seconds left in what might have been arguably one of the craziest 4th quarters of football in Orange program history.
This upcoming season, Syracuse football will head to Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Ind., to face the Boilermakers on their field and it looks like it’ll get a prime-time spot on network TV.
National college football insider Brett McMurphy of Action Network has reported via Twitter on several Big Ten Conference games scheduled for Saturday nights in September on NBC. And as it turns out, the Orange at Purdue is one of those contests, to air at 7:30 pm on Saturday, September 16.
This will be the third game of the Syracuse football 2023 season, following home games against Colgate and Western Michigan, with Army and Clemson left in September as well (Purdue is the only road game in September this year).
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Bruce Feldman "The 315" 5-31-23 (ESPN; radio; The 315)
Bruce Feldman, college football writer for The Athletic, joins Brian Higgins to discuss his new piece where he speaks with significant figures in Syracuse football history to give an oral history of the program’s recent fall from grace.
ACC Football Game Times and Networks Announced (theacc.com)
The Atlantic Coast Conference and its television partners on Wednesday announced the kickoff times and networks for most ACC football games during the first three weeks of the 2023 football season. The ACC’s early-season schedule features a pair of games over the first three weeks on ABC’s “Saturday Night Football” as well as 11 appearances on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2.
The announcement also includes the times and networks for the league’s Thursday and Friday night matchups throughout the 2023 campaign.
“The 2023 ACC Football season has no shortage of incredible matchups – including our new conference schedule – and we are thrilled to have our teams significantly highlighted on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2,” said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. “Our league will once again open with five consecutive games over Labor Day weekend, while continuing to arguable play the toughest non-conference schedule in the country. We appreciate our partners in Disney, ESPN and ACC Network and we all look forward to the upcoming season with great anticipation.”
Seven ACC contests are scheduled for national ABC broadcasts over the first three weeks of the season. ABC’s “Saturday Night Football” will feature ACC teams in two of the first three weeks. On Sept. 2, North Carolina and Heisman Trophy candidate Drake Maye take on South Carolina in the Duke’s Mayo Classic at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. On Sept. 16, Pitt travels to face off with rival West Virginia in the latest edition of the Backyard Brawl.
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Are the Clemson Tigers Really Underdogs This Season? 2023 ACC Football TV Schedule PREVIEW (youtube; podcast; Locked on Syracuse)
The Clemson Tigers are the defending ACC Champions and yet many still feel like they haven't received the respect they deserve. Heading into this season, what are the expectations for the Tigers and how will it trickle down to the rest of the ACC?
2023 ACC FB TV Schedule Weeks 1-3 (RX; HM)
2023 ACC FB TV Schedule Weeks 1-3
From the official ACC release of Wednesday, May 31, 2023...
The announcement also includes the times and networks for the league’s Thursday and Friday night matchups throughout the 2023 campaign.
“The 2023 ACC Football season has no shortage of incredible matchups – including our new conference schedule – and we are thrilled to have our teams significantly highlighted on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2,” said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. “Our league will once again open with five consecutive games over Labor Day weekend, while continuing to arguable play the toughest non-conference schedule in the country. We appreciate our partners in Disney, ESPN and ACC Network and we all look forward to the upcoming season with great anticipation.”
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Best Games of 2023 Weeks 7 - 13 (RX; HM)
Best Games of 2023 Weeks 7 - 13
This is part 2. Click here for part 1.
We previously posted a summary of Brendan's picks for weeks 0 through 6. Now we'll hit the rest of the season...
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Other
The Exposition Center at the New York State Fairgrounds. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com
The NYS Fair Expo Center was supposed to transform Central New York events. Mostly, it hasn’t (PS; $; Struck)
When construction of the NYS Fairgrounds’ vaunted Expo Center was completed in 2018, it promised two things.
First, it would keep the Fairgrounds humming with events year-round, not just during the summer fair. Second, it would draw in mega-sized shows that would have otherwise passed Syracuse by.
The new facility would be a “year-round economic engine,” said former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, at the unveiling of the facility’s blueprints in 2017. The Expo Center would “take this whole region to a new level,” he said a year later on opening day.
The price tag on that dream was $63 million. Now, five years after it opened, has the building lived up to expectations?
The majority of the events held there are shows that had been coming to the fairgrounds even before the Expo Center was built. Three big events — the Winter Fair, volleyball tournaments and a Motocross event —came to the fairgrounds expressly for the Expo Center. But one of those can’t use the massive new building because of a water damage issue.
The facility hosted events on 77 days last year (including the 12-day run of the NYS Fair). That’s down slightly from 2019. It has generated around $2.5 million in rental income for the fair since 2018.
Measuring the impact of the building is a murky process. Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard obtained rental invoice records through a Freedom of Information Act request. The initial records included clerical errors that estimated the total rental income as almost double the true value, and recorded shows that did not happen as having taken place. Syracuse.com checked the records with renters and the Fairgrounds to determine the final figures.
How often is the Expo Center used?
In 2018, the facility housed events a total of 26 days during the 131 days left after it opened in August, according to records.
The next year, that number increased to 85 days booked of 365. (Those tallies include NY State Fair days. They do not include the extra days organizers often need to move in or out of the space.)
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Site of proposed apartment complex off Route 31 in Clay. (Rick Moriarty | rmoriarty@syracuse.com)
220 apartments proposed for busy Clay road, just a few miles from future Micron site (PS; $; Doran)
A developer is proposing to build a large apartment complex off Route 31 in Clay, with a portion of the property devoted to commercial/retail use.
That’s a change from what was first proposed by the developer for the 45 acres back in 2018. At that time, the Widewaters Group wanted to build a 100,000-square-foot-plus retail complex with restaurants and stores on the north side of Route 31 in Clay. There was no residential component at the time.
Now, Route 31 Widewaters/Whitestone Development Partners is proposing a commercial/retail section in the front part of the project, at 3715 Route 31, with apartments in the back. About one-third or a bit more would be devoted to retail, according to town officials.
The proposal calls for five four-story buildings with 220 units total, according to the proposal presented to the town of Clay planning board. The units would be one and two-bedroom units, although that could change as the proposal moves through the approval process, said Mark Territo, town of Clay planning commissioner.
Plans for the full retail complex never progressed, and then Covid delayed the project, Clay officials said.
The project is west of the existing Kohl’s plaza, and is located on land between Kohl’s plaza and Sharon Chevrolet. It’s about five miles from Micron’s future site.
The developer needs a zone change from the town to move forward with the apartments. The planning board has recommended the change, and now it’s up to the town to decide. If that goes through, site plan review would begin.
The developer could not be reached for comment. James Trasher of Clough Harbor Associates, representing the developer, told the board recently that sewers have been extended for the project. Trasher did not return calls from Syracuse.com.
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Dr. Henry Heimlich came up with the Heimlich Maneuver in 1974. Also known as abdominal thrusts, this procedure is used to dislodge food and objects from the throat of a choking person. As the American Red Cross claims over 3,000 deaths are caused by choking each year, celebrating Heimlich Maneuver Day is an important way to raise awareness and help save lives. The origin of the day is unknown.
SU News
Syracuse Orange TOP 10 Football Players for 2023 (youtube.com; podcast; Broback CFB)
Syracuse Orange TOP 10 Football Players for 2023
Barbara Gauntt Clarion Ledger
https://www.si.com/college/syracuse...hite-taking-syracuse-official-visit-this-week (SI; McAllister)
Class of 2024 Madison (MS) Madison-Ridgeland Academy (MRA) quarterback John White will take an official visit to Syracuse starting Thursday, June 1st, he tells All Syracuse. White is listed at 6-0, 205 pounds and is currently committed to Southern Miss. He has not reported an official offer from the Orange to date. White also holds scholarship opportunities from Liberty, Arkansas State, West Virginia, Old Dominion, Tulane and others.
White was named the MVP of the 2024 quarterbacks at the Big 40 football camp last summer and given the Golden Gun Accuracy Award at the Oxford (MS) Elite 11 Camp.
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Syracuse football: Orange get early season primetime showcase (TNIAAM; Wall)
The Syracuse Orange will get an early season opportunity to impress a national television audience.
The Action Network is reporting that the Orange’s game at the Purdue Boilermakers will be featured as NBC’s Big Ten Saturday Night primetime game.
Syracuse will open with home games against Colgate and Western Michigan, then Purdue will be their first road game of 2023. It’s a rematch of that wild game from 2022 where Garrett Shrader hit Oronde Gadsden in the final 10 seconds to pull off the improbable win.
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SU football kick times, TV info released for 3 more games (PS; Leiker)
Syracuse football fans can put kick times for three more games on their calendars with fewer than 100 days until the beginning of the season.
Kickoff times for the season opener and two other games were released Wednesday by the ACC.
The Orange will kick off the season against Colgate at 4 p.m. on Sept. 2 on ACC Network Extra.
The two programs last met in 2016, when Syracuse won its 16th straight game to even the all-time series at 31-31. SU has played host to all but four of the matchups.
Syracuse’s two non-Saturday games this fall occur back-to-back: Week 9 against Virginia Tech is a Thursday night game, and Week 10 against Boston College is a Friday night game.
The Orange will play the Hokies in Blacksburg, Virginia, at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26 on ESPN.
SU and VT have met twice since the former joined the ACC, in 2016 and 2021, and 17 times before that. The series is split 11-8 in Syracuse’s favor with the Orange winning each of the past two matchups.
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4 'Cuse Kick Times Announced - Syracuse University Athletics (cuse.com)
Three of the four known kickoff times will be primetime matchups for Syracuse football this season.
The ACC and its television partners announced some early season kickoff times and weeknight games on the 2023 slate on Wednesday. Three of the four Syracuse games included in that announcement feature 7:30 p.m. kickoffs.
The year will begin with a 4 p.m. kickoff in the Loud House on Sept. 2 when Colgate comes to town. The Empire State matchup between the Orange and Raiders is set to be broadcast on ACCNX. 'Cuse's week three matchup at Purdue will be a 7:30 p.m. kickoff on NBC, in a rematch of last year's thrilling fourth-quarter comeback.
Syracuse's Thursday night trip to Lane Stadium vs. Virginia Tech on Oct. 26 will be a 7:30 p.m. kickoff on ESPN. The Friday night, Family Weekend game vs. Boston College in the JMA Dome on Nov. 3 will also kickoff at 7:30 and be shown on ESPN2.
Not part of the announcement was Syracuse's second game of the season. The home matchup vs. Western Michigan is still to be determined. All other Saturday kickoff times and network designations from week four and beyond will be announced 12 days prior to game day throughout the season.
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ACC News
ACC Network to Feature Three Straight Days of Games to Kickoff 2023 College Football Season, Beginning Aug. 31 (ESPN; Ufnowski)
- Tripleheader Week 1; quadruple header Week 2
- Appearances by No. 3 Florida State, No. 9 Clemson and No. 21 North Carolina
- ACC Network Primetime Football at Virginia Tech, Florida State and Clemson during first three weeks
ACCN will air 13 live football games over the opening weeks showcasing 10 conference teams and nine home openers. Weeks 1-3 will feature at least three games on ACCN, with Weeks 1 and 2 carrying five games.
Week 1 features three straight days of games beginning with Elon at Wake Forest on Thursday, Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. ET. Miami opens its season on ACCN on Friday, Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. against Miami (Ohio), while Boston College hosting Northern Illinois kicks off a Saturday tripleheader on the network at noon on Sept. 2. Pitt welcomes Wofford to Acrisure Stadium at 3:30 p.m., while Virginia Tech hosts Old Dominion for this season’s first installment of ACC Network Primetime Football at 8 p.m.
The action continues in Week 2 with a quadruple header on Saturday, Sept. 9 featuring three teams ranked in ESPN.com’s Way Too Early Top 25. Vanderbilt at Wake Forest leads off at 11 a.m., followed by Charleston Southern at reigning ACC Champion and No. 9 Clemson at 2:15 p.m., Appalachian State at No. 21 North Carolina at 5:15 p.m., and Southern Miss at No. 3 Florida State for ACC Network Primetime Football at 8:30 p.m. for the Noles’ home opener at Doak Campbell Stadium.
Highlighting Week 3 is Miami hosting Bethune-Cookman on Thursday, Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m., followed by a doubleheader on Saturday, Sept. 16 featuring Northwestern at Duke at 3:30 p.m., and Florida Atlantic at No. 9 Clemson at 8 p.m. for ACC Network Primetime Football.
In addition to the games slated for ACCN, ACCNX will carry four games in Weeks 1 and 2 – Colgate at Syracuse (Sept. 2, 4 p.m.), Holy Cross at Boston College (Sept. 9, Noon), South Carolina State at Georgia Tech (Sept. 9, 1 p.m.) and Lafayette at Duke (Sept. 9, 6 p.m.). Those games will also be simulcast on ESPN+.
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Syracuse Football: Orange gets prime-time NBC game at Big Ten’s Purdue (itlh; Fiello)
Last season, Syracuse football played Purdue in the JMA Wireless Dome and won 32-29 with seven seconds left in what might have been arguably one of the craziest 4th quarters of football in Orange program history.
This upcoming season, Syracuse football will head to Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Ind., to face the Boilermakers on their field and it looks like it’ll get a prime-time spot on network TV.
National college football insider Brett McMurphy of Action Network has reported via Twitter on several Big Ten Conference games scheduled for Saturday nights in September on NBC. And as it turns out, the Orange at Purdue is one of those contests, to air at 7:30 pm on Saturday, September 16.
This will be the third game of the Syracuse football 2023 season, following home games against Colgate and Western Michigan, with Army and Clemson left in September as well (Purdue is the only road game in September this year).
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Bruce Feldman "The 315" 5-31-23 (ESPN; radio; The 315)
Bruce Feldman, college football writer for The Athletic, joins Brian Higgins to discuss his new piece where he speaks with significant figures in Syracuse football history to give an oral history of the program’s recent fall from grace.
ACC Football Game Times and Networks Announced (theacc.com)
The Atlantic Coast Conference and its television partners on Wednesday announced the kickoff times and networks for most ACC football games during the first three weeks of the 2023 football season. The ACC’s early-season schedule features a pair of games over the first three weeks on ABC’s “Saturday Night Football” as well as 11 appearances on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2.
The announcement also includes the times and networks for the league’s Thursday and Friday night matchups throughout the 2023 campaign.
“The 2023 ACC Football season has no shortage of incredible matchups – including our new conference schedule – and we are thrilled to have our teams significantly highlighted on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2,” said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. “Our league will once again open with five consecutive games over Labor Day weekend, while continuing to arguable play the toughest non-conference schedule in the country. We appreciate our partners in Disney, ESPN and ACC Network and we all look forward to the upcoming season with great anticipation.”
Seven ACC contests are scheduled for national ABC broadcasts over the first three weeks of the season. ABC’s “Saturday Night Football” will feature ACC teams in two of the first three weeks. On Sept. 2, North Carolina and Heisman Trophy candidate Drake Maye take on South Carolina in the Duke’s Mayo Classic at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. On Sept. 16, Pitt travels to face off with rival West Virginia in the latest edition of the Backyard Brawl.
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Are the Clemson Tigers Really Underdogs This Season? 2023 ACC Football TV Schedule PREVIEW (youtube; podcast; Locked on Syracuse)
The Clemson Tigers are the defending ACC Champions and yet many still feel like they haven't received the respect they deserve. Heading into this season, what are the expectations for the Tigers and how will it trickle down to the rest of the ACC?
2023 ACC FB TV Schedule Weeks 1-3 (RX; HM)
2023 ACC FB TV Schedule Weeks 1-3
From the official ACC release of Wednesday, May 31, 2023...
ACC Football Game Times and Networks Announced
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference and its television partners on Wednesday announced the kickoff times and networks for most ACC football games during the first three weeks of the 2023 football season. The ACC’s early-season schedule features a pair of games over the first three weeks on ABC’s “Saturday Night Football” as well as 11 appearances on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2.The announcement also includes the times and networks for the league’s Thursday and Friday night matchups throughout the 2023 campaign.
“The 2023 ACC Football season has no shortage of incredible matchups – including our new conference schedule – and we are thrilled to have our teams significantly highlighted on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2,” said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. “Our league will once again open with five consecutive games over Labor Day weekend, while continuing to arguable play the toughest non-conference schedule in the country. We appreciate our partners in Disney, ESPN and ACC Network and we all look forward to the upcoming season with great anticipation.”
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Best Games of 2023 Weeks 7 - 13 (RX; HM)
Best Games of 2023 Weeks 7 - 13
This is part 2. Click here for part 1.
We previously posted a summary of Brendan's picks for weeks 0 through 6. Now we'll hit the rest of the season...
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Notable Week 7 games:
- Miami at North Carolina
- USC at Notre Dame
- Louisville at Pitt
Other
The Exposition Center at the New York State Fairgrounds. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com
The NYS Fair Expo Center was supposed to transform Central New York events. Mostly, it hasn’t (PS; $; Struck)
When construction of the NYS Fairgrounds’ vaunted Expo Center was completed in 2018, it promised two things.
First, it would keep the Fairgrounds humming with events year-round, not just during the summer fair. Second, it would draw in mega-sized shows that would have otherwise passed Syracuse by.
The new facility would be a “year-round economic engine,” said former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, at the unveiling of the facility’s blueprints in 2017. The Expo Center would “take this whole region to a new level,” he said a year later on opening day.
The price tag on that dream was $63 million. Now, five years after it opened, has the building lived up to expectations?
The majority of the events held there are shows that had been coming to the fairgrounds even before the Expo Center was built. Three big events — the Winter Fair, volleyball tournaments and a Motocross event —came to the fairgrounds expressly for the Expo Center. But one of those can’t use the massive new building because of a water damage issue.
The facility hosted events on 77 days last year (including the 12-day run of the NYS Fair). That’s down slightly from 2019. It has generated around $2.5 million in rental income for the fair since 2018.
Measuring the impact of the building is a murky process. Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard obtained rental invoice records through a Freedom of Information Act request. The initial records included clerical errors that estimated the total rental income as almost double the true value, and recorded shows that did not happen as having taken place. Syracuse.com checked the records with renters and the Fairgrounds to determine the final figures.
How often is the Expo Center used?
In 2018, the facility housed events a total of 26 days during the 131 days left after it opened in August, according to records.
The next year, that number increased to 85 days booked of 365. (Those tallies include NY State Fair days. They do not include the extra days organizers often need to move in or out of the space.)
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Site of proposed apartment complex off Route 31 in Clay. (Rick Moriarty | rmoriarty@syracuse.com)
220 apartments proposed for busy Clay road, just a few miles from future Micron site (PS; $; Doran)
A developer is proposing to build a large apartment complex off Route 31 in Clay, with a portion of the property devoted to commercial/retail use.
That’s a change from what was first proposed by the developer for the 45 acres back in 2018. At that time, the Widewaters Group wanted to build a 100,000-square-foot-plus retail complex with restaurants and stores on the north side of Route 31 in Clay. There was no residential component at the time.
Now, Route 31 Widewaters/Whitestone Development Partners is proposing a commercial/retail section in the front part of the project, at 3715 Route 31, with apartments in the back. About one-third or a bit more would be devoted to retail, according to town officials.
The proposal calls for five four-story buildings with 220 units total, according to the proposal presented to the town of Clay planning board. The units would be one and two-bedroom units, although that could change as the proposal moves through the approval process, said Mark Territo, town of Clay planning commissioner.
Plans for the full retail complex never progressed, and then Covid delayed the project, Clay officials said.
The project is west of the existing Kohl’s plaza, and is located on land between Kohl’s plaza and Sharon Chevrolet. It’s about five miles from Micron’s future site.
The developer needs a zone change from the town to move forward with the apartments. The planning board has recommended the change, and now it’s up to the town to decide. If that goes through, site plan review would begin.
The developer could not be reached for comment. James Trasher of Clough Harbor Associates, representing the developer, told the board recently that sewers have been extended for the project. Trasher did not return calls from Syracuse.com.
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