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Welcome to Bacon Day!
Are you sick and tired of celebrating the same old winter holidays?
Do you belong to a diverse group of individuals who all celebrate different gift-giving December holidays?
Are you sick and tired of having different Christmas/Chanukah/Solstice/Kwanzaa/Tom Waits' birthday celebrations?
Do you just flat out love bacon?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are soooo in luck. There is a holiday just for you.
The name? Bacon day!
When is Bacon Day? Dec. 30th of every year!
Jim Gaffigan on Bacon
SU News
Orange Watch: The Numbers Don't Lie: Syracuse is Indeed a Basketball School (the juice; Bierman)
Item: There’s an interesting breakdown of numbers among all-time winning Power 5 football and basketball programs in a recent Wall Street Journal article. It details that with a historical winning percentage of .693 (prior to Sunday’s win over Texas Southern) ranking fifth best among Div. I basketball programs, along with a football all-time winning percentage of .574 (no doubt weighed down by the Orange’s 84-145 mark since Donovan McNabb last game in the 1999 Orange Bowl), the subsequent total winning percentage disparity of .119 between the two sports lands Syracuse among the top ten schools that can truly call itself a ‘basketball school.’
It didn’t used to be this way. Once Ben Schwartzwalder was hired from tiny Muhlenberg College in 1949 to resurrect Syracuse football that had won only 11 games since the 1943 season was suspended due to World War II, at a time when the college version of the sport captured the preeminent national coverage as opposed to its professional counterpart, SU football took off. Coach Ben subsequently guided the Orangemen to seven bowls over his 25 seasons, a period when there was only a handful of postseason games to compete for an invitation, with the 1959 national championship cementing the school’s place as one of the Eastern region’s top programs, and the name “Syracuse” tied to collegiate gridiron success.
At the same time, the late 1950s and early 60s was not a period to reminisce fondly about SU basketball, including a frightful 27 game losing streak crossing over between the 1961 and ’62 seasons, for a program that was about to embark on a new era of playing games at Manley Field House, and welcoming freshmen recruits Dave Bing and Jim Boeheim in 1962 who would help lead the program to 17 victories in 1964, and a 22 win season that came within one victory of the Final Four in ’66.
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Applewhite in Auspicious Role as UH Coordinator (houstonchronicle.com; Smith)
Who needs boring ol' Tom Herman?
Major Applewhite was on a roll Tuesday. And the Cougars' fiery first-year offensive coordinator made his boss' much-hyped Houston takeover feel a little small-town, taking on the NCAA's relentless football machine and cutthroat coaching culture with passion and intelligence.
"Amateur athletics? Give me a break," Applewhite said at a downtown hotel, two miles from the Georgia Dome and two days before No. 14 Houston shares a Peach with No. 9 Florida State. "This is entertainment dollars. The only difference is these kids don't get paid the way they should."
And: "This business is not one to be jerked around with, with people with agendas and egos … and guys that are running out of town in the middle of the night to go take another job and leave you high and dry."
And: "We have completely lost our frickin' mind in these 18- to 22-year-old kids. And we're not taking care of them the way that we say that we are - we're just not."
Come on now, Major. Tell us how you really feel.
He did, with rare and refreshing honesty as Houston's biggest bowl in 31 years awaited. Applewhite, 37, also said nice, simple things about growing up as a devout SEC kid in Baton Rouge, La., still loving the look of burnt orange in Austin, and privately hoping to one day unite a disparate group of young men just like Herman has.
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Video: Man Claims Christmas Night Assault Victim Struck His Car (PS; Lohmann)
A man who claims to have been behind the assault of a local radio host and his relative on Christmas night tweeted a video clip Wednesday evening that he claims shows one of the victims striking his vehicle.
The eight-second clip goes on to show the men shouting expletives and threatening violence. Be advised that the video contains offensive language and profanities. The tweet is visible below.
And this is the video itself if the above link is deleted or gets broken:
Alleged video of Xmas day attack.mp4
Police did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the video's authenticity or whether the person who tweeted it is a suspect. Certain identifying features of the victims and suspected attackers are consistent with police descriptions, but it was not immediately verifiable if the man was telling the truth about the video or its content.
Joe Grosvent, a local radio host, said he and his cousin, James McElyea, were Downtown looking at Christmas lights when they tried to intervene on behalf of a homeless man who was being pestered by a group of men.
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