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Welcome to International Guinness World Records Day!
Record breaking attempts that are especially visual can be chosen for filming for this yearsGuinness World Record Day newsreel and shown world-wide.
Pictures of attempts can also be sent into the Guinness World Record and may be used for publicity on the website or even included in next years book.
In both 2009 and 2010, more than 300,000 people took part in attempting to break more than 50 different records.
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SU Football vs Clemson: Post-Standard Predictions (PS staff)
Stephen Bailey
No need for analysis here. It's going to be a long day for the Orange. Godspeed, Zack Mahoney. Clemson 52, SU 17
Nate Mink
Syracuse has played well at home but likely needs a letdown week from Clemson (plus a huge turnover number) just to be competitive. Clemson won't lack focus with a berth in the College Football Playoff still within its grasp. I'm intrigued by the attendance number though. Clemson 48, SU 14
Bud Poliquin
We can live with the idea that the No. 1 Tigers will likely show why they are four-touchdown favorites as they push the Orange to its seventh consecutive loss. But we cannot accept this idea that the Clemson players have never heard of Jim Brown. (How 'bout if we say we've never heard of Refrigerator Perry?) Clemson 45, SU 13
Syracuse 'Excited to Attack' Top-Ranked Clemson Tigers (tigernet.com; Hood)
The Syracuse football team got off to a 3-0 start this season, the best start for the program since the same start to the 1991 season. That team started 4-0 and finished 10-2, including a win over Ohio St. in the Hall of Fame Bowl.
This season has turned out different for the Orangemen – they’ve lost six in a row since that 3-0 start, giving up at least 40 points in three of those games and 34 in another. It doesn’t get any easier for Scott Shafer’s squad as they host top-ranked Clemson this week in the Carrier Dome, something that Shafer says is a “heck of a challenge.”
“The team has continued to work extremely hard. They are fighting the good fight to get better with all the things we are coaching them up to do,” Shafer said during his weekly press conference. “We know that we have one heck of a challenge with the number one team in the country coming into the Dome. It’s a great opportunity for us to go head to head with the best. It’s not easy when things aren’t going the way that you want it. It’s also an opportunity to judge your character, dig down from the depths of your mind and your guts and keep fighting. Let’s find that extra energy. Let’s do the opposite of what a lot of people do when times are down. We are never going to throw the towel in. We are never going to hang our heads. We will keep fighting until there is no time left on the clock.”
Syracuse is 101st nationally in total defense (430.8 yards per game) and 92nd nationally in scoring defense (30.7 points per game) and must contend with Clemson’s potent offense.
“First and foremost, if you look at the offensive side of the ball, everything starts with Deshaun Watson,” Shafer said. “He’s a great football player. He has been extremely decisive in his choices and decision-making on the football field. They have done a very nice job of coaching him and he is taking the coaching and you can see that he’s really grown. You can see that he has been eager to be one of the best quarterbacks in the country.
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SU's New Plaza 44 Was Meant to Be (PS editorial)
Some college campuses have shrines. They are places It's a place where students pay their respects, alumni go to recall their glory days and everyone has their picture taken with Sparty, or the Lion, or Woody Hayes.
The statues that will be unveiled Saturday at Plaza 44 in front of the Ensley Athletic Center will likely become that kind of a shrine for Syracuse University. A place to honor those who wore the storied No. 44 jersey--Jim Brown, Ernie Davis and Floyd Little, three of football's finest running backs—and Hall of Fame football coach Ben Schwartzwalder.
The 9-foot-tall bronze statues of the four, including a new one of Davis, will be unveiled to the public at 11:45 a.m. Saturday before the Orange take on the Clemson Tigers in the Carrier Dome. The project was funded through a donation by Jeff Rubin and Jennifer Rubin. Jeff Rubin is CEO and founder of Sidearm Sports and is a professor in Syracuse's School of Information Studies.
The number 44 is sacred at SU. It's the first two digits of the university's phone system and its zip code, 13244. On Saturday, the weather is supposed to reach a high of 44 degrees, surely that's a sign that Plaza 44 was meant to be.
