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Welcome to National Cherry Popsicle Day!
It’s National Cherry Popsicle Day! According to legend, an eleven-year-old boy named Frank Epperson accidentally invented the popsicle in 1905. He was stirring up a soft drink when he got distracted and left the cup and the stirring stick out on his front porch overnight. The next morning he discovered a delicious frozen treat with a convenient stick handle!
Nowadays, popsicles are quite a fashionable dessert. Today we celebrate the classic cherry-flavored variety, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Gourmet popsicle shops turn out dozens of unique flavors—avocado, hibiscus, chai, cranberry cosmopolitan, cucumber-jalapeño, and many more.
To celebrate National Cherry Popsicle Day, make your own homemade popsicles! Team up with some friends to invent a totally unique flavor or put a twist on a classic.
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Niko Tamurian's 2015 Syracuse Orange Football Preview (cnycentral.com; Tamurian)
It's that time of year, the State Fair is just about here and football is in the air. You know, the time of year when football fans are clamoring to watch any NFL Preseason game or past college football games on ESPN Classic. Any way you slice it, here in Central New York it's time to dig in for another season of Syracuse Orange Football.
To do so, for some national analysts is as simple as looking at the games on the schedule and assigning a record based on the perceived difficulty of the opponents and where those games are played. The beginning of my prediction will be my way of assuring Orange fans that they don't have to believe every prediction that those magazines that come out in June make. I'm not blaming those pundits or saying that they're wrong it's just the nature of the beast. When you have to predict the results for 120 or so teams it's just human nature that when you get to a team that is predicted to be in the bottom-three of the ACC that you start to assume things. It's a team coming off a 3-9 season that lost most of its defensive starters, sure.
My prediction is to tell you why you can't judge this year's Orange team by its cover.
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SU Football 2015 Position Previews (TNIAAM; Staff)
The 2015 Syracuse Orange football position previews are complete. Check here for anything you may have missed.
Why the Orange Will Finish 4-8 (TNIAAM; Burke)
Ed. Note - This week, TNIAAM writers are taking a stab at telling you why this football team will finish with a specific record.
- Monday: 3-9 (Brian Tahmosh)
- Tuesday: 4-8 (Michael Burke)
- Wednesday: 5-7 (James Szuba)
- Thursday: 6-6 (John Cassillo)
- Friday: 7-5 (Sean Keeley)
If SU does finish with four wins, it might be the ultimate worst-case scenario. Anything worse than 4-8 and it's probably time to move on from Scott Shafer. Anything better and it's probably enough to warrant keeping him at least another year. But 4-8 itself is tricky, because it doesn't indicate much progress but it is a slight improvement after a dreadful 2014.
Whether or not Shafer were to keep his job after a 4-8 campaign might depend largely on how the Orange arrives at four wins. Here's how I see it playing out:
Rhode Island: Last year, we thought Villanova was a cupcake. The Wildcats didn't turn out to be, but Rhode Island certainly is. The Rams finished 1-11 in 2014 and had a point differential of minus-259. They likely won't be much better this season, either. So on this Friday night opener, it won't come down to a goal-line stand. Syracuse cruises. W (1-0, 0-0 Atlantic Coast)
Wake Forest: Though Wake Forest's front seven could be really good in 2015, there are no signs pointing to its offense being anything but really bad. As was the case in last season's loss to SU, the Demon Deacons can't score enough points to keep it close. W (2-0, 1-0)
Central Michigan: Behind Cooper Rush's arm, the Chippewas keep it interesting -- or at least more interesting than the 40-3 drubbing they suffered to the Orange a year ago. ButTerrel Hunt and Syracuse get the best of a shaky CMU secondary and pull away in the second half.
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Butter Sculpture Will be Unveiled at NYS Fair at 10 AM Today (cnycentral.com; Hoffman)
