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Injuries Slowed DeShaun Watson and Will Gardner During the Spring
Questions Linger for QBs in ACC Atlantic Division Post Spring Practice (ncaa.com; Beard)
It was easy to spot all the quarterback uncertainty during the spring for Atlantic Division teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
It starts with the health of Deshaun Watson at Clemson and how Florida State will replace Jameis Winston. But the questions extend beyond the two teams who have finished alone atop the division for three consecutive seasons, whether due to personnel loss at Boston College, injury at Louisville or a new scheme at Syracuse.
Watson is a potential all-ACC star after an impressive freshman season, but he's recovering from surgery for a torn knee ligament. The injury kept him out of the bowl win against Oklahoma, then limited his spring activity while the team broke in new co-offensive coordinators.
"He was able to do a lot this spring from a football standpoint, drill work and things like that, throwing," Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. "I really just basically had him with me the whole time when we would do our competitive team stuff, so he had to really mentally stay sharp."
The Seminoles spent the spring preparing for life after Winston, the Heisman Trophy winner and top overall NFL draft pick.
Rising junior Sean Maguire won a start against Clemson last year when Winston was suspended, and led the spring race as FSU's most experienced quarterback. But he had an up-and-down spring game to head into the offseason.
"We've got to play better around him," coach Jimbo Fisher said afterward, "but he has to play a little better, too."
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Lincoln's Walls Getting His Opportunity (newstribune.com)
One NFL-related drought continues for the Lincoln Blue Tigers, but they’re hoping another one could come to an end soon.
The school was hoping to end its streak of not having a player selected in the NFL draft since 1974 this season, but that wasn’t to be when defensive lineman Davon Walls didn’t hear his name called in the event that ran Thursday though Saturday.
But Walls did get some good news Sunday when he signed a free-agent contract with the New York Jets.
That could help Lincoln end another dry spell of not having a Blue Tiger play at the game’s highest level since 1987.
Walls told syracuse.com he was pleased to get a chance to continue his playing career.
“Nobody has seen that they missed out on me, but it’s alright,” he said. “But they’ll understand when I get on the field with their team. It’s cool right now. I’m still blessed. Happy to be alive.”
Walls, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., followed a winding road to the NFL, playing at five colleges in five years.
He started out at Fresno City (Calif.) Community College, playing both basketball and football, then went to Hinds Community College in Raymond, Miss., but didn’t play a game. Walls then moved to Coahoma Community College in Clarksdale, Miss., before gaining attention from bigger schools, eventually landing at Syracuse.
He played in just three games for the Orange in 2012 was dismissed from the team following a 2013 criminal incident.
Walls later admitted in court breaking into a fellow student’s apartment and stealing an Xbox, video games, a TV and other items. He eventually completed probation, which resulted in the charges dropping to misdemeanor trespassing.
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Mel Kiper Says Buffalo Bills Had Worst Draft (PS; Fairburn)
The Buffalo Bills aren't getting great reviews for their performance in the 2015 NFL Draft.
Without a first-round pick, the Bills had six picks in rounds two through seven and came away with Florida State cornerback Ronald Darby, Louisville guard John Miller, Florida State running back Karlos Williams, Florida State tight end Nick O'Leary and Central Arkansas wide receiver Dezmin Lewis. Of those players, Miller looks like he could make the most immediate impact, but most of the experts think the Bills fell short in this draft.
ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr. even had the Bills with the worst draft grade in the entire NFL at the end of the weekend.
Here's a roundup of what the experts are saying.
Mel Kiper Jr., ESPN: C-
Kiper's draft grades are ESPN Insider content, but his main reasoning involves the trade for Sammy Watkins keeping the Bills out of the first round and still representing poor value. He also thought the Bills reached a bit on Darby and didn't need to add a running back in the fifth round the way they did. That was enough to keep the Bills at the bottom of his draft rankings.
Rob Rang, CBS: C-
Rob Rang of CBS followed suit with a C- grade, making the Bills his lowest-graded team in the AFC East. He wasn't all that high on the Bills' picks of Darby and Williams, either, and doesn't see this draft as one that will close the gap in the AFC East.
When it comes to housing, Syracuse is among the most segregated cities in the United States
SU Students Tell Stories of Segregated Syracuse (PS; Davis)
Late last year, a local nonprofit released a comprehensive report on housing in the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County. It got brief notice in the press.
That said, the conclusions drawn from Census data were stark: Minorities are isolated in the city, and within neighborhoods in the city. Blacks and whites live apart, work apart and go to school apart. That's especially worth noting given all that is going on in communities around the country, starting with Ferguson, Missouri. While people live apart, they continue to be pressed together during times of crisis.
The findings
Central New York Fair Housing Executive Director Sally Santangelo says, "Where you live determines everything." The services in your neighborhood, the jobs accessible to you, the education you get. And, ultimately, how our community — collectively — lives and gets along in good times and bad.
Where do we live? In the ninth-most segregated U.S. city. The Syracuse Metropolitan Statistical Area has a segregation index of 71, meaning 71 percent of blacks would need to move to a different neighborhood to be distributed similarly to whites. Whites live in neighborhoods that are 90 percent white, 4 percent black. Blacks are clustered in the city, which struggles to deliver services and whose schools are especially segregated.
According to the report, African-Americans are:
• Four times more likely to live in an area of low educational outcomes.
• Two times more likely to live in an area of low economic opportunity.
• Three times more likely to live in an area of low housing and neighborhood opportunity.
The project
Over the past three months, Syracuse University journalism students at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications set out to put a face to the numbers. The students got to know many people who have been living with these odds. You can find their stories at MyHousingMatters.com. The students also produced in-depth pieces about the issues and institutions: the $20 million Section 8 rent subsidy program, for example, as well as the professionals who look out for housing discrimination and pursue it when they find it.
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Injuries Slowed DeShaun Watson and Will Gardner During the Spring
Questions Linger for QBs in ACC Atlantic Division Post Spring Practice (ncaa.com; Beard)
It was easy to spot all the quarterback uncertainty during the spring for Atlantic Division teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
It starts with the health of Deshaun Watson at Clemson and how Florida State will replace Jameis Winston. But the questions extend beyond the two teams who have finished alone atop the division for three consecutive seasons, whether due to personnel loss at Boston College, injury at Louisville or a new scheme at Syracuse.
Watson is a potential all-ACC star after an impressive freshman season, but he's recovering from surgery for a torn knee ligament. The injury kept him out of the bowl win against Oklahoma, then limited his spring activity while the team broke in new co-offensive coordinators.
"He was able to do a lot this spring from a football standpoint, drill work and things like that, throwing," Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. "I really just basically had him with me the whole time when we would do our competitive team stuff, so he had to really mentally stay sharp."
The Seminoles spent the spring preparing for life after Winston, the Heisman Trophy winner and top overall NFL draft pick.
Rising junior Sean Maguire won a start against Clemson last year when Winston was suspended, and led the spring race as FSU's most experienced quarterback. But he had an up-and-down spring game to head into the offseason.
"We've got to play better around him," coach Jimbo Fisher said afterward, "but he has to play a little better, too."
...
Lincoln's Walls Getting His Opportunity (newstribune.com)
One NFL-related drought continues for the Lincoln Blue Tigers, but they’re hoping another one could come to an end soon.
The school was hoping to end its streak of not having a player selected in the NFL draft since 1974 this season, but that wasn’t to be when defensive lineman Davon Walls didn’t hear his name called in the event that ran Thursday though Saturday.
But Walls did get some good news Sunday when he signed a free-agent contract with the New York Jets.
That could help Lincoln end another dry spell of not having a Blue Tiger play at the game’s highest level since 1987.
Walls told syracuse.com he was pleased to get a chance to continue his playing career.
“Nobody has seen that they missed out on me, but it’s alright,” he said. “But they’ll understand when I get on the field with their team. It’s cool right now. I’m still blessed. Happy to be alive.”
Walls, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., followed a winding road to the NFL, playing at five colleges in five years.
He started out at Fresno City (Calif.) Community College, playing both basketball and football, then went to Hinds Community College in Raymond, Miss., but didn’t play a game. Walls then moved to Coahoma Community College in Clarksdale, Miss., before gaining attention from bigger schools, eventually landing at Syracuse.
He played in just three games for the Orange in 2012 was dismissed from the team following a 2013 criminal incident.
Walls later admitted in court breaking into a fellow student’s apartment and stealing an Xbox, video games, a TV and other items. He eventually completed probation, which resulted in the charges dropping to misdemeanor trespassing.
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Other
Mel Kiper Says Buffalo Bills Had Worst Draft (PS; Fairburn)
The Buffalo Bills aren't getting great reviews for their performance in the 2015 NFL Draft.
Without a first-round pick, the Bills had six picks in rounds two through seven and came away with Florida State cornerback Ronald Darby, Louisville guard John Miller, Florida State running back Karlos Williams, Florida State tight end Nick O'Leary and Central Arkansas wide receiver Dezmin Lewis. Of those players, Miller looks like he could make the most immediate impact, but most of the experts think the Bills fell short in this draft.
ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr. even had the Bills with the worst draft grade in the entire NFL at the end of the weekend.
Here's a roundup of what the experts are saying.
Mel Kiper Jr., ESPN: C-
Kiper's draft grades are ESPN Insider content, but his main reasoning involves the trade for Sammy Watkins keeping the Bills out of the first round and still representing poor value. He also thought the Bills reached a bit on Darby and didn't need to add a running back in the fifth round the way they did. That was enough to keep the Bills at the bottom of his draft rankings.
Rob Rang, CBS: C-
Rob Rang of CBS followed suit with a C- grade, making the Bills his lowest-graded team in the AFC East. He wasn't all that high on the Bills' picks of Darby and Williams, either, and doesn't see this draft as one that will close the gap in the AFC East.
When it comes to housing, Syracuse is among the most segregated cities in the United States
SU Students Tell Stories of Segregated Syracuse (PS; Davis)
Late last year, a local nonprofit released a comprehensive report on housing in the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County. It got brief notice in the press.
That said, the conclusions drawn from Census data were stark: Minorities are isolated in the city, and within neighborhoods in the city. Blacks and whites live apart, work apart and go to school apart. That's especially worth noting given all that is going on in communities around the country, starting with Ferguson, Missouri. While people live apart, they continue to be pressed together during times of crisis.
The findings
Central New York Fair Housing Executive Director Sally Santangelo says, "Where you live determines everything." The services in your neighborhood, the jobs accessible to you, the education you get. And, ultimately, how our community — collectively — lives and gets along in good times and bad.
Where do we live? In the ninth-most segregated U.S. city. The Syracuse Metropolitan Statistical Area has a segregation index of 71, meaning 71 percent of blacks would need to move to a different neighborhood to be distributed similarly to whites. Whites live in neighborhoods that are 90 percent white, 4 percent black. Blacks are clustered in the city, which struggles to deliver services and whose schools are especially segregated.
According to the report, African-Americans are:
• Four times more likely to live in an area of low educational outcomes.
• Two times more likely to live in an area of low economic opportunity.
• Three times more likely to live in an area of low housing and neighborhood opportunity.
The project
Over the past three months, Syracuse University journalism students at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications set out to put a face to the numbers. The students got to know many people who have been living with these odds. You can find their stories at MyHousingMatters.com. The students also produced in-depth pieces about the issues and institutions: the $20 million Section 8 rent subsidy program, for example, as well as the professionals who look out for housing discrimination and pursue it when they find it.
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