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Is SU Football Target DT Bo Peek Back in Play After Neighbor Rex Culpepper's Commitment to SU? (PS; Bailey)
Quarterback Rex Culpepper is one of the more interesting Syracuse commits in recent memory.
He's a straight-A student who received offers from traditional powers like Florida, Ohio State and Clemson early in his recruitment. His father, Brad, was an NFL defensive lineman. His mother, Monica, participated in two seasons of Survivor (with Brad in one of them).
So it should come as no surprise at this point that the Plant (Tampa, Fla.) High School junior lives three doors down from another Class of 2016 target: Berkeley (Tampa, Fla.) Preparatory School defensive tackle Bo Peek.
The 6-foot-3, 290-pound Peek visited Syracuse twice before committing to Stanford in late February. He is rated three stars and the No. 47 defensive tackle in the country by 247Sports.com with an offer sheet that includes Penn State, Louisville, Ole Miss, Nebraska, Vanderbilt and Wisconsin, among others.
But could Peek reconsider his pledge to Stanford now that his neighbor and friend is headed to Central New York?
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Feature on SU Target Brad Hawkins From February 2015 (courier-post.com; Minnick)
What makes Brad Hawkins the athlete that he is?
Is it something in his DNA, some strange combination of chemicals woven in a way that's simply different than most teenagers?
Is it the work ethic, his mental drive to just want to be better than the next guy?
A junior at Camden High School, Hawkins has immense athletic talent. Football is his No. 1 sport and a host of major colleges are waiting in line in hopes of landing him. Just ask the University of Florida how good he is. The Gators offered first, last winter as a sophomore.
"Big Play Brad" is also very good when it comes to basketball. He became the latest to join Camden's storied 1,000-point club, scoring with 3:23 left in the first quarter Saturday against Woodrow Wilson to reach the milestone.
Teammate Jamal Holloway did it a few weeks ago and Hawkins joined 25 others already on the list — the first being Pud Wilson in 1959. With 17 in the win, Hawkins has 1,015 career points and counting.
Throw in spring track and you have quite a three-sport performer.
"He has the heart of a lion," assistant boys' basketball coach Arthur Barclay said. "He's always wanted to be better than the next guy.
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Holes Cut for NY Prison Escape Show Stunning Expertise (PS; AP)
A licensed engineer who has done work at the Clinton Correctional facility in Dannemora where two killers escaped last weekend said the work of cutting through a cell wall and a steam pipe was done with a high degree of professionalism.
Larry Jeffords, owner of Jeffords Steel and Engineering in Upstate New York, told The Associated Press that convicts David Sweat, 34, and Richard Matt, 48, were either very proficient with the tools they used — or they had help.
"It tells me either they are very good at what they do, with a lot of good training. Or they had very good equipment. Or somebody else cut the hole for them," said Jeffords, whose knowledge of the escape is only based on seeing photographs released by the media.
During the breakout, Sweat and Matt used power tools to cut through steel and bricks and crawled through an underground steam pipe, emerging from a manhole outside the 40-foot walls of the maximum-security prison about 20 miles south of the Canadian border, authorities said.
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SU News
Is SU Football Target DT Bo Peek Back in Play After Neighbor Rex Culpepper's Commitment to SU? (PS; Bailey)
Quarterback Rex Culpepper is one of the more interesting Syracuse commits in recent memory.
He's a straight-A student who received offers from traditional powers like Florida, Ohio State and Clemson early in his recruitment. His father, Brad, was an NFL defensive lineman. His mother, Monica, participated in two seasons of Survivor (with Brad in one of them).
So it should come as no surprise at this point that the Plant (Tampa, Fla.) High School junior lives three doors down from another Class of 2016 target: Berkeley (Tampa, Fla.) Preparatory School defensive tackle Bo Peek.
The 6-foot-3, 290-pound Peek visited Syracuse twice before committing to Stanford in late February. He is rated three stars and the No. 47 defensive tackle in the country by 247Sports.com with an offer sheet that includes Penn State, Louisville, Ole Miss, Nebraska, Vanderbilt and Wisconsin, among others.
But could Peek reconsider his pledge to Stanford now that his neighbor and friend is headed to Central New York?
...
Feature on SU Target Brad Hawkins From February 2015 (courier-post.com; Minnick)
What makes Brad Hawkins the athlete that he is?
Is it something in his DNA, some strange combination of chemicals woven in a way that's simply different than most teenagers?
Is it the work ethic, his mental drive to just want to be better than the next guy?
A junior at Camden High School, Hawkins has immense athletic talent. Football is his No. 1 sport and a host of major colleges are waiting in line in hopes of landing him. Just ask the University of Florida how good he is. The Gators offered first, last winter as a sophomore.
"Big Play Brad" is also very good when it comes to basketball. He became the latest to join Camden's storied 1,000-point club, scoring with 3:23 left in the first quarter Saturday against Woodrow Wilson to reach the milestone.
Teammate Jamal Holloway did it a few weeks ago and Hawkins joined 25 others already on the list — the first being Pud Wilson in 1959. With 17 in the win, Hawkins has 1,015 career points and counting.
Throw in spring track and you have quite a three-sport performer.
"He has the heart of a lion," assistant boys' basketball coach Arthur Barclay said. "He's always wanted to be better than the next guy.
...
Other
Holes Cut for NY Prison Escape Show Stunning Expertise (PS; AP)
A licensed engineer who has done work at the Clinton Correctional facility in Dannemora where two killers escaped last weekend said the work of cutting through a cell wall and a steam pipe was done with a high degree of professionalism.
Larry Jeffords, owner of Jeffords Steel and Engineering in Upstate New York, told The Associated Press that convicts David Sweat, 34, and Richard Matt, 48, were either very proficient with the tools they used — or they had help.
"It tells me either they are very good at what they do, with a lot of good training. Or they had very good equipment. Or somebody else cut the hole for them," said Jeffords, whose knowledge of the escape is only based on seeing photographs released by the media.
During the breakout, Sweat and Matt used power tools to cut through steel and bricks and crawled through an underground steam pipe, emerging from a manhole outside the 40-foot walls of the maximum-security prison about 20 miles south of the Canadian border, authorities said.
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