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With 42 Bowl Games, Those Teams Not Invited (Like Syracuse?) Will be Shamed (PS; Poliquin)
These are happy times for those who believe kids should get trophies for brushing their teeth in the morning, for those who believe more is more and never less, for those who believe that America should not rest until Butte gets its very own bowl game.
Just when you thought it was safe to no longer laugh at college football, the sport's deciders have given you a reason to disabuse yourself of that silly notion.
Chortle, folks. Chortle.
Chortle because the bulbous college football postseason, which was already looking like Val Kilmer on a beach, was further expanded this week by the additions of (a) the Arizona Bowl in Tucson, (b) the AutoNation Cure Bowl in Orlando, and (c) the Austin Bowl in Austin, Tex.
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College Football News
SEC, ACC Not Happy Campers Regarding Satellite Camps (denverpost.com; Ringo)
College football coaches in the Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference have expressed their disapproval over the use of satellite camps by many of their peers, including Colorado's Mike MacIntyre and every other coach in the Pac-12.
A satellite camp offers coaches from one school the opportunity to work at camps hosted by other schools. Coaches in the SEC and ACC don't like the use of these camps because their conferences don't allow them. With much of the nation's best high school football talent in the ACC and SEC backyards, one could argue it helps level the playing field for the rest of the country.
MacIntyre, in his third year at CU, has been using satellite camps as a key part of his recruiting since he was named head coach at San Jose State in 2010. He prefers being able to conduct a CU camp in, say, Los Angeles in mid-July instead of being confined to campus.
"My whole issue all along is I don't even know why they don't let us travel anywhere you want to travel," MacIntyre said. "I mean, I think it's almost unconstitutional. If your school wants to travel and go have a camp somewhere else, why can't you go have a camp somewhere else?
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Other
Syracuse Voted #1 College Town in USA (Also #1 in Pizza and Hamburgers; globalflare.com)
Syracuse has just been crowned America’s best college town, at least according to Travel + Leisure magazine.
Our city was praised for its incredible food, activities, shopping, and jobs it offers to the students of Syracuse University, Onondaga Community College, SUNY-ESF, Le Moyne College, and the many other colleges, university extensions, and community colleges. Syracuse was also voted No. 1 for both pizza and hamburgers; No. 2 for both coffee and hipsters; and No. 4 for both food trucks and craft beers in the same publication.
“You’re likely to find aforementioned hipsters at Faegan’s Pub on Tuesday nights, when patrons earn their name on a plaque after completing a ‘tour’ of some of the 44 brews on tap. Syracuse also ranked in the top 20 for its historic sites; start that sort of tour at Hanover Square, surrounded by buildings dating back to the Civil War era.” the magazine writes.
The rankings were compiled by reviews and submissions from Travel + Leisure Magazine‘s ‘America’s Favorite Places survey’.
Here is complete list of America’s Best College Towns;
1. Syracuse, NY
2. Lafayette, LA
3. Charlottesville, VA
4. Fort Collins, CO
5. Duluth, MN
6. Saratoga Springs, NY
7. Asheville, NC
8. Flagstaff, AZ
9. San Luis Obispo, CA
10. Boulder, CO
Night Shift: For City Workers, Cleaning Up Syracuse One Street At a Time (PS; Sturtz)
It's after 10 p.m. and darkness and quiet blanket the city. The streets are devoid of people and cars.
A dull hum fills the cool spring air. The humming grows until it is deafening. The sidewalks rumble and suddenly a hulking machine turns the corner, slowly rolling forward like a tank.
Bruce Supernault steers the street sweepr down East Fayette Street with ease, carefully following the curb. The machine has no vacuum; it simply sprays water and brushes debris onto a conveyer that dumps it into a holding area. When it fills up, a dump truck takes the load away.
Barrel-chested and soft spoken, Supernault has worked for the city for 14 years. He grew up in Syracuse. Before he started running a sweeper about a year ago, Supernault ran a pay loader for the city.
He also ran a backhoe for the sewer department which, as it turns out, was his favorite job: people are usually ecstatic when you arrive to save them from sewer problems, he says. But when you're a street sweeper you are granted a certain amount of peace in your job that most people could only dream of.
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With 42 Bowl Games, Those Teams Not Invited (Like Syracuse?) Will be Shamed (PS; Poliquin)
These are happy times for those who believe kids should get trophies for brushing their teeth in the morning, for those who believe more is more and never less, for those who believe that America should not rest until Butte gets its very own bowl game.
Just when you thought it was safe to no longer laugh at college football, the sport's deciders have given you a reason to disabuse yourself of that silly notion.
Chortle, folks. Chortle.
Chortle because the bulbous college football postseason, which was already looking like Val Kilmer on a beach, was further expanded this week by the additions of (a) the Arizona Bowl in Tucson, (b) the AutoNation Cure Bowl in Orlando, and (c) the Austin Bowl in Austin, Tex.
...
College Football News
SEC, ACC Not Happy Campers Regarding Satellite Camps (denverpost.com; Ringo)
College football coaches in the Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference have expressed their disapproval over the use of satellite camps by many of their peers, including Colorado's Mike MacIntyre and every other coach in the Pac-12.
A satellite camp offers coaches from one school the opportunity to work at camps hosted by other schools. Coaches in the SEC and ACC don't like the use of these camps because their conferences don't allow them. With much of the nation's best high school football talent in the ACC and SEC backyards, one could argue it helps level the playing field for the rest of the country.
MacIntyre, in his third year at CU, has been using satellite camps as a key part of his recruiting since he was named head coach at San Jose State in 2010. He prefers being able to conduct a CU camp in, say, Los Angeles in mid-July instead of being confined to campus.
"My whole issue all along is I don't even know why they don't let us travel anywhere you want to travel," MacIntyre said. "I mean, I think it's almost unconstitutional. If your school wants to travel and go have a camp somewhere else, why can't you go have a camp somewhere else?
...
Other
Syracuse Voted #1 College Town in USA (Also #1 in Pizza and Hamburgers; globalflare.com)
Syracuse has just been crowned America’s best college town, at least according to Travel + Leisure magazine.
Our city was praised for its incredible food, activities, shopping, and jobs it offers to the students of Syracuse University, Onondaga Community College, SUNY-ESF, Le Moyne College, and the many other colleges, university extensions, and community colleges. Syracuse was also voted No. 1 for both pizza and hamburgers; No. 2 for both coffee and hipsters; and No. 4 for both food trucks and craft beers in the same publication.
“You’re likely to find aforementioned hipsters at Faegan’s Pub on Tuesday nights, when patrons earn their name on a plaque after completing a ‘tour’ of some of the 44 brews on tap. Syracuse also ranked in the top 20 for its historic sites; start that sort of tour at Hanover Square, surrounded by buildings dating back to the Civil War era.” the magazine writes.
The rankings were compiled by reviews and submissions from Travel + Leisure Magazine‘s ‘America’s Favorite Places survey’.
Here is complete list of America’s Best College Towns;
1. Syracuse, NY
2. Lafayette, LA
3. Charlottesville, VA
4. Fort Collins, CO
5. Duluth, MN
6. Saratoga Springs, NY
7. Asheville, NC
8. Flagstaff, AZ
9. San Luis Obispo, CA
10. Boulder, CO
Night Shift: For City Workers, Cleaning Up Syracuse One Street At a Time (PS; Sturtz)
It's after 10 p.m. and darkness and quiet blanket the city. The streets are devoid of people and cars.
A dull hum fills the cool spring air. The humming grows until it is deafening. The sidewalks rumble and suddenly a hulking machine turns the corner, slowly rolling forward like a tank.
Bruce Supernault steers the street sweepr down East Fayette Street with ease, carefully following the curb. The machine has no vacuum; it simply sprays water and brushes debris onto a conveyer that dumps it into a holding area. When it fills up, a dump truck takes the load away.
Barrel-chested and soft spoken, Supernault has worked for the city for 14 years. He grew up in Syracuse. Before he started running a sweeper about a year ago, Supernault ran a pay loader for the city.
He also ran a backhoe for the sewer department which, as it turns out, was his favorite job: people are usually ecstatic when you arrive to save them from sewer problems, he says. But when you're a street sweeper you are granted a certain amount of peace in your job that most people could only dream of.
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