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Seven New Offers Go Out (TNIAAM; Ross)
The train that is the spring evaluation period is still picking up plenty of steam, as the Syracuse Orange offered SEVEN players on Tuesday. Here's a quick rundown on the players who received offers yesterday.
TE Christian Roberson (Powder Springs, GA)
Christian Roberson is a 2016 TE out of McEachern HS in Georgia. At 6-foot-5 230 pounds, he definitely has good size for the tight end position. According to At their request, this network is being blocked from this site.,he is rated 3-Stars and holds offers from schools such as Missouri, Florida, Kentucky, Michigan State, and Mississippi State just to name a few.
DT Ellison Jordan (Baltimore, MD)
Jordan is a 4-Star 2016 DT out of Gilman School in Maryland. The 6-foot-1 260 pound Jordan is ranked the 75th best player in the 2016 class by At their request, this network is being blocked from this site. and said that he will look into Syracuse and hopes to visit, but that he has not met any of the coaches yet. His most notable offers are currently Michigan State, Penn State, and South Carolina.
S Devin Studstill (Palm Beach Gardens, FL)
Studstill is a 2016 safety out of Palm Beach Gardens High School in Florida. The 6-foot-1 183 pound safety is rated 3-Stars by At their request, this network is being blocked from this site., despite a subpar 4.76 40-yard dash, which indicates that coaches eitherbelieve that his speed is something that can be fixed or that he just performs at a different gear in games. He currently holds offers from the likes of Kentucky, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame.
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ACC News
One Year Into Playoff System, ACC Teams Still Fight Battle of Perception (si.com; Staples)
Dan Radakovich and Michael Kelly should have been among friends as they met with ACC football coaches during this week’s spring meetings. Radakovich is Clemson’s athletic director, and Kelly, the chief operating officer of the College Football Playoff, is a former ACC associate commissioner. Yet the duo got interrogated as to how a team from the league could go 13-0 last season, finish as the only undefeated squad in the FBS and still wind up being seeded No. 3 in the inaugural playoff field.
“Coaches sometimes look at other leagues and maybe some perceptions that could be out there,” said a diplomatic Radakovich. “They always want to move our product forward.”
“It was a bitch session,” said a less diplomatic coach who was in the room.
The ACC coaches can be forgiven for defending their turf. For years, the league was considered a second-class citizen in football. The SEC, which shares four states with the ACC, has been considered the top conference in the sport for most of the past decade. The ACC’s best teams have made great strides over the last couple of years, and the most recent results invalidate that old perception. So, when the ACC’s undefeated champion gets ranked behind the one-loss champs of two other leagues, it’s only natural that the coaches blame perception and not reality. In this case, those coaches are simultaneously correct and incorrect.
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Other
Derek Stepan's OT Goal Lifts NY Rangers to Game 7 Win Over Capitals (PS; AP)
Derek Stepan scored 11:24 in overtime, lifting the New York Rangers past the Washington Capitals 2-1 and into the Eastern Conference finals Wednesday night.
Stepan's wrist shot from the left wing after he won a faceoff — a rarity for the Rangers — capped a comeback from a 3-1 deficit in the series. The Rangers are the only team to manage that in successive years, doing the same thing to Pittsburgh in the second round in 2014.
Alex Ovechkin scored in the first period for Washington, which has lost five Game 7s in as many tries when leading a series 3-1. Kevin Hayes tied it in the second.
Box
New York, which had the NHL's best record this season, will face Tampa Bay for a spot in the Stanley Cup finals, where the Rangers lost to Los Angeles last spring. The series begins Saturday at Madison Square Garden.
Although the Rangers were badly outplayed early in overtime, Henrik Lundqvist stood tall in goal and the Capitals couldn't find that winning touch. That's something the Rangers seem to own in a seventh game: New York has won six in a row, including the last three series against Washington.
It was the Rangers' fourth overtime win in as many tries this year, all by 2-1 scores. It was a cruel finish for Braden Holtby, who was superb all series and made 37 saves Wednesday night.
Former WTVH Sportscaster Mark Cooper, Now VP of Marketing and Public Relations for Ohio Dominican University
Tim Green, Fat Guy Race and the Running Diary of a 1985 WTVH Newscast (PS; Axe)
God bless the Internet.
A place where a random newscast on WTVH-5 from Nov. 10, 1985, can find a home and entertain us all.
When Syracuse Nostalgia tweeted this gem on Tuesday night, I couldn't just watch it or simply retweet it.
We had to do a running diary of this one.
There are three key elements of the video.
1. A local sportscast we pick up already in progress.
2. Perhaps the greatest story package ever done in the history of Central New York television news.
3. Retro commercials.
Let's dig in.
...
Seven New Offers Go Out (TNIAAM; Ross)
The train that is the spring evaluation period is still picking up plenty of steam, as the Syracuse Orange offered SEVEN players on Tuesday. Here's a quick rundown on the players who received offers yesterday.
TE Christian Roberson (Powder Springs, GA)
Christian Roberson is a 2016 TE out of McEachern HS in Georgia. At 6-foot-5 230 pounds, he definitely has good size for the tight end position. According to At their request, this network is being blocked from this site.,he is rated 3-Stars and holds offers from schools such as Missouri, Florida, Kentucky, Michigan State, and Mississippi State just to name a few.
DT Ellison Jordan (Baltimore, MD)
Jordan is a 4-Star 2016 DT out of Gilman School in Maryland. The 6-foot-1 260 pound Jordan is ranked the 75th best player in the 2016 class by At their request, this network is being blocked from this site. and said that he will look into Syracuse and hopes to visit, but that he has not met any of the coaches yet. His most notable offers are currently Michigan State, Penn State, and South Carolina.
S Devin Studstill (Palm Beach Gardens, FL)
Studstill is a 2016 safety out of Palm Beach Gardens High School in Florida. The 6-foot-1 183 pound safety is rated 3-Stars by At their request, this network is being blocked from this site., despite a subpar 4.76 40-yard dash, which indicates that coaches eitherbelieve that his speed is something that can be fixed or that he just performs at a different gear in games. He currently holds offers from the likes of Kentucky, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame.
...
ACC News
One Year Into Playoff System, ACC Teams Still Fight Battle of Perception (si.com; Staples)
Dan Radakovich and Michael Kelly should have been among friends as they met with ACC football coaches during this week’s spring meetings. Radakovich is Clemson’s athletic director, and Kelly, the chief operating officer of the College Football Playoff, is a former ACC associate commissioner. Yet the duo got interrogated as to how a team from the league could go 13-0 last season, finish as the only undefeated squad in the FBS and still wind up being seeded No. 3 in the inaugural playoff field.
“Coaches sometimes look at other leagues and maybe some perceptions that could be out there,” said a diplomatic Radakovich. “They always want to move our product forward.”
“It was a bitch session,” said a less diplomatic coach who was in the room.
The ACC coaches can be forgiven for defending their turf. For years, the league was considered a second-class citizen in football. The SEC, which shares four states with the ACC, has been considered the top conference in the sport for most of the past decade. The ACC’s best teams have made great strides over the last couple of years, and the most recent results invalidate that old perception. So, when the ACC’s undefeated champion gets ranked behind the one-loss champs of two other leagues, it’s only natural that the coaches blame perception and not reality. In this case, those coaches are simultaneously correct and incorrect.
...
Other
Derek Stepan's OT Goal Lifts NY Rangers to Game 7 Win Over Capitals (PS; AP)
Derek Stepan scored 11:24 in overtime, lifting the New York Rangers past the Washington Capitals 2-1 and into the Eastern Conference finals Wednesday night.
Stepan's wrist shot from the left wing after he won a faceoff — a rarity for the Rangers — capped a comeback from a 3-1 deficit in the series. The Rangers are the only team to manage that in successive years, doing the same thing to Pittsburgh in the second round in 2014.
Alex Ovechkin scored in the first period for Washington, which has lost five Game 7s in as many tries when leading a series 3-1. Kevin Hayes tied it in the second.
Box
New York, which had the NHL's best record this season, will face Tampa Bay for a spot in the Stanley Cup finals, where the Rangers lost to Los Angeles last spring. The series begins Saturday at Madison Square Garden.
Although the Rangers were badly outplayed early in overtime, Henrik Lundqvist stood tall in goal and the Capitals couldn't find that winning touch. That's something the Rangers seem to own in a seventh game: New York has won six in a row, including the last three series against Washington.
It was the Rangers' fourth overtime win in as many tries this year, all by 2-1 scores. It was a cruel finish for Braden Holtby, who was superb all series and made 37 saves Wednesday night.
Former WTVH Sportscaster Mark Cooper, Now VP of Marketing and Public Relations for Ohio Dominican University
Tim Green, Fat Guy Race and the Running Diary of a 1985 WTVH Newscast (PS; Axe)
God bless the Internet.
A place where a random newscast on WTVH-5 from Nov. 10, 1985, can find a home and entertain us all.
When Syracuse Nostalgia tweeted this gem on Tuesday night, I couldn't just watch it or simply retweet it.
We had to do a running diary of this one.
There are three key elements of the video.
1. A local sportscast we pick up already in progress.
2. Perhaps the greatest story package ever done in the history of Central New York television news.
3. Retro commercials.
Let's dig in.
...
