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Basketball positions
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The five basketball positions normally employed by organized basketball teams are the point guard, the shooting guard, the small forward, the power forward, and the center. While these position names are used, most modern teams use a point guard. The rules of basketball do not mandate them, and they are not used. Typically, the point guard is the leader of the team when on the court and this position requires substantial ball handling skills and the ability to facilitate the team during a play. The shooting guard, as the name implies, is often the best shooter and they are probably capable of shooting accurately from longer distances. Generally, they also have good ball-handling skills, the small forward often has an aggressive approach to the basket when handling the ball. The center is typically the larger of the two, during the 1980s, as team strategy evolved, more specialized roles developed, resulting in the five position designations utilized today. Team strategy and available personnel, however, still dictates the positions used by a particular team, for example, the Dribble drive motion offense and the Princeton offense utilize four interchangeable guards and one center. The point guard, also known as the one, is typically the teams best ball handler and passer, therefore, they often lead their team in assists and steals. They are often quick and are able to hit shots either outside the three-point line or in the paint, point guards are looked upon as the floor general or the coach on the floor. They should study the game and game film to be able to recognize the weaknesses of the defense, good point guards increase team efficiency and generally have a high number of assists. They are often referred to as dribblers or play-makers, in the NBA, point guards are usually the shortest players on the team and are mostly 6 feet 5 inches or shorter. The shooting guard is known as the two or the off guard. Along with the forward, a shooting guard is often referred to as a wing because of its use in common positioning tactics. As the name suggests, most shooting guards are good shooters from three-point range, besides being able to shoot the ball, shooting guards tend to have good ball handling skills and the ability to drive the ball to the basket, often creating their own shots off the dribble. A versatile shooting guard will have good passing skills, allowing them to point guard responsibilities known as combo guards. In the NBA, shooting guards usually range from 6 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 7 inches, the small forward is considered to be perhaps the most versatile of the main five basketball positions. Versatility is key for small forwards because of the nature of their role and this is why the small forward and shooting guard positions are often interchangeable and referred to as wings
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Munich
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Munich is the capital and largest city of the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, the Munich Metropolitan Region is home to 5.8 million people. According to the Globalization and World Rankings Research Institute Munich is considered an alpha-world city, the name of the city is derived from the Old/Middle High German term Munichen, meaning by the monks. It derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who ran a monastery at the place that was later to become the Old Town of Munich, Munich was first mentioned in 1158. From 1255 the city was seat of the Bavarian Dukes, black and gold—the colours of the Holy Roman Empire—have been the citys official colours since the time of Ludwig the Bavarian, when it was an imperial residence. Following a final reunification of the Wittelsbachian Duchy of Bavaria, previously divided and sub-divided for more than 200 years, like wide parts of the Holy Roman Empire, the area recovered slowly economically. In 1918, during the German Revolution, the house of Wittelsbach, which governed Bavaria since 1180, was forced to abdicate in Munich. In the 1920s, Munich became home to political factions, among them the NSDAP. During World War II, Munich was heavily bombed and more than 50% of the entire city, the postwar period was characterised by American occupation until 1949 and a strong increase of population and economic power during the years of the Wirtschaftswunder after 1949. The city is home to corporations like BMW, Siemens, MAN, Linde, Allianz and MunichRE as well as many small. Munich is home to national and international authorities, major universities, major museums. Its numerous architectural attractions, international events, exhibitions and conferences. Munich is one of the most prosperous and fastest growing cities in Germany and it is a top-ranked destination for migration and expatriate location, despite being the municipality with the highest density of population in Germany. Munich nowadays hosts more than 530,000 people of foreign background, the year 1158 is assumed to be the foundation date, which is the earliest date the city is mentioned in a document. The document was signed in Augsburg, by that time the Guelph Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, had built a bridge over the river Isar next to a settlement of Benedictine monks—this was on the Old Salt Route and a toll bridge. In 1175, Munich was officially granted city status and received fortification, in 1180, with the trial of Henry the Lion, Otto I Wittelsbach became Duke of Bavaria and Munich was handed over to the Bishop of Freising. In 1240, Munich was transferred to Otto II Wittelsbach and in 1255, Duke Louis IV, a native of Munich, was elected German king in 1314 and crowned as Holy Roman Emperor in 1328. He strengthened the position by granting it the salt monopoly
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Bavaria
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Bavaria is a free state and one of 16 federal states of Germany. Located in the German southeast with an area of 70,548 square kilometres and its territory comprises roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany, and, with 12.9 million inhabitants, it is Germanys second most populous state. Munich, Bavarias capital and largest city, is the third largest city in Germany, the Duchy of Bavaria dates back to the year 555. In the 17th century CE, the Duke of Bavaria became a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Bavaria existed from 1806 to 1918, when Bavaria became a republic. In 1946, the Free State of Bavaria re-organised itself on democratic lines after the Second World War, Bavaria has a unique culture, largely because of the states Catholic majority and conservative traditions. Bavarians have traditionally been proud of their culture, which includes such as Oktoberfest. The state also has the second largest economy among the German states by GDP figures, modern Bavaria also includes parts of the historical regions of Franconia, Upper Palatinate and Swabia. The Bavarians emerged in a north of the Alps, previously inhabited by Celts. The Bavarians spoke Old High German but, unlike other Germanic groups, rather, they seem to have coalesced out of other groups left behind by Roman withdrawal late in the 5th century. These peoples may have included the Celtic Boii, some remaining Romans, Marcomanni, Allemanni, Quadi, Thuringians, Goths, Scirians, Rugians, the name Bavarian means Men of Baia which may indicate Bohemia, the homeland of the Celtic Boii and later of the Marcomanni. They first appear in written sources circa 520, a 17th century Jewish chronicler David Solomon Ganz, citing Cyriacus Spangenberg, claimed that the diocese was named after an ancient Bohemian king, Boiia, in the 14th century BCE. From about 554 to 788, the house of Agilolfing ruled the Duchy of Bavaria and their daughter, Theodelinde, became Queen of the Lombards in northern Italy and Garibald was forced to flee to her when he fell out with his Frankish overlords. Garibalds successor, Tassilo I, tried unsuccessfully to hold the frontier against the expansion of Slavs. Tassilos son Garibald II seems to have achieved a balance of power between 610 and 616, after Garibald II little is known of the Bavarians until Duke Theodo I, whose reign may have begun as early as 680. From 696 onwards he invited churchmen from the west to organize churches and his son, Theudebert, led a decisive Bavarian campaign to intervene in a succession dispute in the Lombard Kingdom in 714, and married his sister Guntrud to the Lombard King Liutprand. At Theodos death the duchy was divided among his sons, at Hugberts death the duchy passed to a distant relative named Odilo, from neighbouring Alemannia. He was defeated near Augsburg in 743 but continued to rule until his death in 748, saint Boniface completed the peoples conversion to Christianity in the early 8th century. Bavaria was in ways affected by the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century
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West Germany
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West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990. During this Cold War era, NATO-aligned West Germany and Warsaw Pact-aligned East Germany were divided by the Inner German border, after 1961 West Berlin was physically separated from East Berlin as well as from East Germany by the Berlin Wall. This situation ended when East Germany was dissolved and its five states joined the ten states of the Federal Republic of Germany along with the reunified city-state of Berlin. With the reunification of West and East Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, enlarged now to sixteen states and this period is referred to as the Bonn Republic by historians, alluding to the interwar Weimar Republic and the post-reunification Berlin Republic. The Federal Republic of Germany was established from eleven states formed in the three Allied Zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom and France, US and British forces remained in the country throughout the Cold War. Its population grew from roughly 51 million in 1950 to more than 63 million in 1990, the city of Bonn was its de facto capital city. The fourth Allied occupation zone was held by the Soviet Union, as a result, West Germany had a territory about half the size of the interbellum democratic Weimar Republic. At the onset of the Cold War, Europe was divided among the Western and Eastern blocs, Germany was de facto divided into two countries and two special territories, the Saarland and divided Berlin. The Federal Republic of Germany claimed a mandate for all of Germany. It took the line that the GDR was an illegally constituted puppet state, though the GDR did hold regular elections, these were not free and fair. For all practical purposes the GDR was a Soviet puppet state, from the West German perspective the GDR was therefore illegitimate. Three southwestern states of West Germany merged to form Baden-Württemberg in 1952, in addition to the resulting ten states, West Berlin was considered an unofficial de facto 11th state. It recognised the GDR as a de facto government within a single German nation that in turn was represented de jure by the West German state alone. From 1973 onward, East Germany recognised the existence of two German countries de jure, and the West as both de facto and de jure foreign country, the Federal Republic and the GDR agreed that neither of them could speak in the name of the other. The first chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who remained in office until 1963, had worked for an alignment with NATO rather than neutrality. He not only secured a membership in NATO but was also a proponent of agreements that developed into the present-day European Union, when the G6 was established in 1975, there was no question whether the Federal Republic of Germany would be a member as well. With the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989, symbolised by the opening of the Berlin Wall, East Germany voted to dissolve itself and accede to the Federal Republic in 1990. Its five post-war states were reconstituted along with the reunited Berlin and they formally joined the Federal Republic on 3 October 1990, raising the number of states from 10 to 16, ending the division of Germany
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Towson Catholic High School
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Towson Catholic High School was a private Catholic, co-educational high school in the Baltimore suburb of Towson, Maryland, whose closing was announced in July,2009. At its peak enrollment in the 1960s and 1970s, more than 400 children attended, founded in 1922 by a Catholic priest, Phillip Sheridan, it was the oldest co-educational Catholic high school in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore when it closed. During its 86 years, the school was long noted for its successful athletics program as well as personalized secondary-level education. The high school was renowned for its basketball program, producing a number of NBA players, including Gene Shue, Carmelo Anthony. Towson Catholics athletic teams participated in the Baltimore Catholic League, the resulting budget deficit of $650,000 projected for the following year necessitated the schools closure, an Archdiocesan spokesman told the Baltimore Sun. The parishs adjacent Immaculate Conception elementary-middle school is unaffected by the schools closing and is said to be thriving, according to the Archdiocese. At the announcement of the schools closing, alumni said its students got a solid education. They praised the small schools personalized instruction and sense of community, the protesters said they had no warning of the schools abrupt closing and told a reporter that greater fund-raising efforts should have been made to save the school. Baltimore Archbishop Edwin F. OBrien said in a release that the schools administrators had expended great energy
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Towson, Maryland
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Towson is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland. The population was 55,197 at the 2010 census and it is the county seat of Baltimore County and the second-most populated unincorporated county seat in the United States. The first inhabitants of the future Towson and central Baltimore County region were the Susquehannock Indians who hunted in the area and their region included all of Baltimore County, though their primary settlement was farther northeast along the Susquehanna River. Towson was settled in 1752 when two Pennsylvania brothers, William and Thomas Towson, began farming an area of Saters Hill, northeast of the present-day York and Joppa Roads. Williams son, Ezekiel, opened the Towson Hotel to serve the traffic of farmers bringing their produce. Towson located the hotel at current-day Shealy Avenue and York Road, the village became known as Towsontown. The property in West Towson came from two grants,400 acre Gott’s Hope in 1719 and Gunner’s Range in 1706. Charles Ridgely completed the magnificent Hampton Mansion just north of Towsontown, the Ridgelys lived there for six generations, until 1948. It is now preserved as the Hampton National Historic Site and open to the public and they consolidated four of the structures into a larger dwelling that they called ‘Marshmont’. The brothers went into business together as medical practitioners, neither had any heirs but were joined in practice later by their nephew Dr. Grafton Marsh Bosley who eventually inherited the medical practice, the ‘Marshmont’ compound, and a 140-acre farm. The farm extended West of York Rd, south of Joppa Rd. North of the Sheppard Pratt Hospital, and East of Woodbine Ave. In 1869, Dr. Grafton Bosley and his wife Margaret Nicholson then built a new home in an area of the property known as Highlands or ‘Highland Park’ that they named ‘Uplands’. The County Courthouse was subsequently enlarged in 1910 through additional designs for north and south wings by well-known and regarded city architects, additional expansion later in 1926 and 1958 eventually created an H-shaped plan for the entire older courthouse. During the Civil War, Towson was the scene of two minor engagements, the Union Army found it necessary to overtake the town by force on June 2,1861. During the raid, the Union Army seized weapons from citizens at Adys Hotel. ”The second engagement took place around July 12,1864, the First and Second Maryland Cavalry, led by Baltimore County native and pre-war member of the Towson Horse Guards, Maj. Harry W. Following what became known as Gilmors Raid, the cavalry encamped in Towson overnight at Adys Hotel where his men rested, the next day, a large federal cavalry unit was dispatched from Baltimore to overtake Gilmors forces. Gilmors forces traveled south along York Road as far south as Govans, following the war, Gilmor served as the Baltimore City Police Commissioner in the 1870s. The Towson fire of 1878 destroyed most of the 500 block along the York Turnpike causing an estimated $38,000 in damage, during the summer of 1894, the Towson Water Company laid wooden pipes and installed fire hydrants that were connected to an artesian well near Aigburth Vale
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Syracuse Orange men's basketball
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The Syracuse Orange mens basketball program is an intercollegiate mens basketball team representing Syracuse University. The program is classified in the NCAAs Division I, and the team competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Orange currently hold an active NCAA-record 46 consecutive winning seasons. In those games, the Orange lost to Indiana in 1987 and Kentucky in 1996, Syracuse fielded its first varsity basketball team in 1900-01. The program rose to prominence early in its history, being recognized by the Helms Athletic Foundation as national champions for 1918 and 1926. The program made National Invitation Tournament appearances in 1946 and 1950, won the 1951 National Campus Tournament, notable early era players included Hall of Famer Vic Hanson and racial pioneer Wilmeth Sidat-Singh. The modern era of Syracuse basketball began with the arrival of future Hall of Famer Dave Bing. As a sophomore in 1964, Bing led the team to an NIT appearance and as a senior in 1966, he led the team to its second NCAA Tournament appearance, Bings backcourt partner on these teams was future Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim. Syracuse remained competitive after Bings departure, with NIT appearances in 1967,1971, under coach Roy Danforth, in 1973, the team began a string of consecutive NCAA appearances highlighted by a Final Four appearance in 1975. The 1975 squad featured guard Jim Lee and forward Rudy Hackett and was known as Roys Runts. Following the 1976 season, Danforth was hired away by Tulane University, Boeheim extended the string of NCAA appearances to nine, with bids in each of his first four seasons, a period in which his teams won 100 games. These teams featured star forward Louis Orr and center Roosevelt Bouie and were referred to as the Louie and Bouie Show. Syracuse was a member of the Big East Conference in 1979, along with Georgetown University, St. Johns University. Over the next ten seasons, these two schools met eight times in the Big East Tournament, four times in the finals, Syracuse won the Big East Tournament in 1981, but was passed over by the NCAA Tournament. The team, featuring Danny Schayes and Leo Rautins, finished runner-up in the NIT, the team returned to the NIT in 1982, before beginning another extended streak of NCAA appearances in 1983. Heralded high school phenomenon Dwayne Pearl Washington joined the team in 1983, and led the school to NCAA appearances in 1984,1985, led by guard Lawrence Moten and forward/center John Wallace, the school returned to the NCAAs in 1994 and 1995. The 1997 squad won 19 games but was bypassed by the NCAA Tournament, the 1998,1999, and 2000 squads featuring guard Jason Hart and center Etan Thomas all earned NCAA bids. In 2000, the University also named its All-Century Team, recognizing its greatest players of the 20th century, the team made a fourth consecutive NCAA appearance in 2001, but returned to the NIT in 2002, despite having a 20-win season. This marked the first time a school with 20 wins from the Big East Conference was denied a bid to the NCAA Tournament, Anthony was named NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player
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2008 NBA draft
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The 2008 NBA Draft was held on June 26,2008 at the Washington Mutual Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. According to the NBA,44 players,39 collegiate players and five international players and these numbers do not include players who are automatically eligible for the draft. The Chicago Bulls, who had a 1.7 percent probability of obtaining the first selection, won the NBA Draft Lottery on May 22. The Bulls winning of the lottery was the second-largest upset in NBA Draft Lottery history behind the Orlando Magic, the Miami Heat and the Minnesota Timberwolves obtained the second and third picks respectively. For the first time in history the first three draft picks were all freshmen. Another record was set when twelve freshmen were drafted, ten of whom were drafted in the first round, of the players drafted,29 are forwards,19 are guards, and 12 are centers. The 2008 NBA Draft was the time that the Seattle SuperSonics made an NBA Draft appearance. In early July, the relocated to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Thunder made their first NBA Draft appearance in 2009 and this draft also marked the first time that an NBA D-League player was drafted. He had represented the United States internationally at youth level in 2007, since 2010, he has represented Jamaica internationally. ^ d, Kosta Koufos was born and raised in the United States to Greek parents. He has represented Greece internationally. ^ e, Serge Ibaka and he has represented Spain internationally since 2011. ^ f, Donté Greene was born in West Germany to American parents. He has represented the United States internationally at youth level. ^ g and these players were not selected in the 2008 NBA Draft but have played in the NBA. The first 14 picks in the draft belonged to teams that had missed the playoffs, the lottery determined the three teams that would obtain the first three picks on the draft. The remaining first-round picks and the second-round picks were assigned to teams in order of their win-loss record in the previous season. As it is commonplace in the event of identical win-loss records, the lottery was held on May 20,2008, in Secaucus, New Jersey. The Chicago Bulls, who had the ninth-worst record, won the lottery with just a 1. 7% chance to win, the Miami Heat and Minnesota Timberwolves, with the worst and third-worst records, respectively, won the second and third picks. B12 Portland acquired the rights to 11th pick Jerryd Bayless and Ike Diogu from Indiana in exchange for the draft rights to 13th pick Brandon Rush, Jarrett Jack. The trade was finalized on July 9,2008, the trade was finalized on July 9,2008
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Memphis Grizzlies
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The Memphis Grizzlies are an American professional basketball team based in Memphis, Tennessee. The Grizzlies compete in the National Basketball Association as a team of the leagues Western Conference Southwest Division. The Grizzlies play their games at FedExForum. The team is owned by Robert Pera, the Grizzlies are the only team in the major professional North American sports leagues based in the city of Memphis. The team was established as the Vancouver Grizzlies, an expansion team that joined the NBA for the 1995–96 season. After the 2000–01 NBA season concluded, the Grizzlies moved to Memphis, the Vancouver Grizzlies were a Canadian professional basketball team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. They were part of the Midwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association, the team was established in 1995, along with the Toronto Raptors, as part of the NBAs expansion into Canada. Following the 2000–01 season, the relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The Grizzlies played their games at General Motors Place for the entirety of their six seasons in Vancouver. The Vancouver Grizzlies applied with the NBA to relocate to Memphis on March 26,2001, Memphis became the easternmost city in the Western Conference. In their first three seasons in Memphis, the Grizzlies played their games at the Pyramid Arena. In the 2001 NBA draft, the Atlanta Hawks chose Pau Gasol as the 3rd overall pick, forward Shane Battier was selected with the 6th pick in the same draft by the Vancouver Grizzlies. They also acquired Jason Williams from the Sacramento Kings in exchange for Mike Bibby that same year, after the Grizzlies first season in Memphis, Gasol won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. The Grizzlies also drafted Shane Battier, who became an unofficial spokesman for the team. However, despite the strong draft class, general manager Billy Knight was let go, during the 2002–03 season, Hubie Brown was hired to coach the Grizzlies. They also won a then record 50 games under Gasol and Williams, in the playoffs they faced the San Antonio Spurs, who swept them out of the playoffs in four games. Brown stepped down as coach during the 2004–05 NBA season. At the time of his resignation, the Grizzlies had a record but West hired TNT analyst
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Sacramento Kings
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The Sacramento Kings are an American professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California. The Kings compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the leagues Western Conference Pacific Division. The Kings are the team in the major professional North American sports leagues located in Sacramento. The team play its games at the Golden 1 Center. The Kings are the oldest franchise in the NBA, and one of the oldest continuously operating professional basketball franchises in the nation and they originated in Rochester, New York as the Rochester Seagrams in 1923 and joined the National Basketball League in 1945 as the Rochester Royals. They jumped to the Basketball Association of America, forerunner of the NBA, as the Royals, the team was often successful on the court, winning the NBA championship in 1951. However, they found it difficult to turn a profit in the comparatively small market of Rochester. In 1972, the relocated to Kansas City, Missouri. In 1975, the Kings ceased playing home games in Omaha, the team again failed to find success in that market, and moved to Sacramento in 1985. The Royals defected to the NBLs rival, the Basketball Association of America, in 1948. In 1949, as a result of that absorption of the NBL by the BAA, the Royals became members of the newly formed NBA along with the Fort Wayne Pistons, Minneapolis Lakers. A year later, the BAA absorbed the remaining NBL teams to become the National Basketball Association, the move to the BAA took away Rochesters profitable exhibition schedule, and placed it in the same Western Division that Minneapolis was in. Of the two best teams in pro basketball, only one of them could play in the finals from 1949 to 1954. Minneapolis, with George Mikan, was almost always a little better at playoff time than the Royals, Harrison knew that the NBA was outgrowing Rochester, and spent most of the 1950s looking for a buyer for his team. The Royals won the NBA title in 1951 by defeating the New York Knicks 4 games to 3 and it is the only NBA championship in the franchises history. However, the title did not translate into profit for the Royals, the roster turned over in 1955, except for Bobby Wanzer, the team moved to the larger Rochester War Memorial. Now a losing team filled with rookies, the Royals still did not turn a profit, meanwhile, the NBA was putting pressure on Harrison to sell or relocate his team to a larger city. With this in mind, the 1956–57 season was the Royals last in Rochester, in April 1957, the Harrison brothers moved the Royals to Cincinnati
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Reno Bighorns
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The Reno Bighorns are a National Basketball Association Development League team based in Reno, Nevada. They are owned and operated by their NBA parent club the Sacramento Kings, the Bighorns compete in the Development Leagues Western Conference Pacific Division, beginning play in the 2008–09 season with their home games at the Reno Events Center. Their namesake is the desert bighorn sheep, which is the animal of Nevada. The team colors of green, tan, and blue are designed to be an allusion to nearby Lake Tahoe, the Bighorns are currently only affiliated with the Sacramento Kings, which has been with the team since its inception in 2008. Reno has previously affiliated with the New York Knicks, Orlando Magic, Golden State Warriors, Atlanta Hawks, Memphis Grizzlies, during the 2014–15 season the Bighorns led the NBA D-League in scoring and also in call-ups to the NBA with seven. On October 20,2016, the Bighorns were purchased by their parent club, with the purchase, the Bighorns became the fifteenth D-League team to become directly owned its parent club. Below are a selection of players who have donned a Reno Bighorns uniform and in what year they played for Reno. J
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Shenzhen Leopards
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The Shenzhen Leopards, also known as Shenzhen New Century, are a professional basketball team which plays in the South Division of the Chinese Basketball Association. New Century is the corporate sponsor and its mascot is a leopard. The team is based in Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, the club was founded in Dongguan, Guangdong, in 2003 and played its first 12 seasons in that city before moving to nearby Shenzhen in 2015. Success came early in their existence for the Leopards, as they were runners-up in the 2004 Chinese Basketball League championship, in its first season in the CBA in 2005–2006, Dongguan finished in seventh and last place in the South Division, and out of the playoffs. The team would soon battle its way to respectability, however, in July 2011, seven months before achieving worldwide fame in the NBA, point guard Jeremy Lin played for the Leopards during a three-game summer tournament, and was named MVP of the competition. On December 26,2013, Leopards player Bobby Brown scored a franchise-record 74 points in a game against Sichuan Blue Whales, Shenzhen New Century Leopards at Sports. Sina. com. cn
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Capitanes de Arecibo
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The Capitanes de Arecibo are a Puerto Rican professional basketball team based in Arecibo, that competes in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional league. In 2010, the also had the distinction to play in the Premier Basketball League under the name Capitanes de Puerto Rico. The team began play in the league in 1946, home games are held at Manuel Iguina Coliseum, which the team shares with the Capitanes de Arecibo mens volleyball team. The team has won six BSN Championships and has had a total 16 finals appearances, in 1946, coached by Wilfredo Franco, Tingo Díaz, Piro Méndez and for a pre-Olympic tournament, the Capitanes emerged. On August 19,1959, the Capitanes won their first basketball championshinp against the Rio Piedras Cardinals at the Rodríguez Olmo Stadium in Arecibo. In 2005, general manager Regino Babilonia hired Carlos Mario Rivera as head coach, in a hard-fought and emotional series of plays and calls, the Captains came up just short of another championship. During the 2008 season, the Capitanes advanced again to the finals against the Carolina Giants, the series went to seven games, with both teams winning three games at home. Arecibo won the game, 99-94, for the third championship in the franchises history. Ángel Figueroa was selected the Finals Most Valuable Player, was forty-six years since the Captains succeed in that first championship in Basket Boricua. That was on August 19,1959 and we come in 1966 when we lost in overtime against Ponce and in a seventh game finals held at the court of Manuel Carrasquillo Herpen Country Club. In 1992 the attorney Hiram Ruiz saw the Lions came from behind in the series to another major celebration in Arecibo. In 2005, there were and big, Back in March it was known that a blunderbuss Arecibo present this year. So in my preseason analysis predicted a series between the Arecibo and Ponce. However, unlike the team of 1959,2005, played with many ups and downs during the regular season, so, as you beat the best propinaba losing to last-place. The reason for not dominated as expected it was the failure of Nick Davis as well as reinforcement of their replacements until he came, of course, in the round robin won five and lost as many games. And were torn between Dickey Simpkins change or stay with the player that looked more like a man with the added reinforcement that was hurt. With all that were chosen as a finalist in the analyzes that the Cowboys favored above all others for having excelled in the stage of the tournament. Unlike the 1959 champion who dominated with 20 wins and one defeat, Carlos Mario Rivera deserves much credit for the victory of the Captains and output is sufficient to note the great success of Keenan Jourdon brought to Ponce
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TNT KaTropa
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The franchise began in 1990 when Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines, Inc. acquired a PBA franchise. Under PCPPI, the franchise played under the names Pepsi and 7 Up, in 1996, the franchise came under the control of Pilipino Telephone Corporation and played under the name Mobiline. In 2001, the franchise was renamed Talk N Text after the operations of Piltel was absorbed by Smart Communications, the team is currently one of three PBA teams under the control of businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan – the others are the Meralco Bolts and NLEX Road Warriors. To date, the franchise has won seven official PBA titles, Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines, Inc. was accepted as one of two new members of the PBA during the 1990 season, joining soft drink rival Pop Cola. They were known as the Pepsi Hotshots in their maiden year 1990 and their first coach was Ed Ocampo, assisted by Olympian Bobby Littaua, and the team manager was Steve Watson. After winning its inaugural game against another expansion team Pop Cola, 149–130, with import Derek Hamilton scoring 77 points and their 15-game losing streak stretched into the All-Filipino, before they finally won over Diet Sarsi, formerly Pop Cola. In 1991, Pepsi acquired Manny Victorino from Presto, and the team increased its number of wins and they attempted to become a competitive team by offering a 5-year, P25 million contract to Purefoods TJ Hotdogs top gun Alvin Patrimonio. Patrimonio stayed with Purefoods after his mother team matched the offer, however, this did not stop Pepsi from entering the semifinals and finishing fourth among the eight teams in the third conference. In 1992, Pepsi acquired ROY Eugene Quilban in a trade which sent Jun Reyes to Alaska, the Hotshots placed 7th in the first conference. After the Pepsi 349 controversy, the team was renamed as the 7 Up Uncolas,7 Up placed runner-up in the 1992 Reinforced Conference. Their import was an NBA veteran point guard, Dell Demps and they were swept by the Swift Mighty Meaties, led by Tony Harris in the finals, 4–0. Prior to the finals,7 Up and Swift were fined on a game where Swift intentionally lost the match in order to eliminate Ginebra from the finals race. 7 Up was bannered by players Manny Victorino, Abet Guidaben, Eugene Quilban, Quilban recorded 28 assists during a game that year, which is still a PBA record. Despite getting 2nd overall pick Victor Pablo,7 Up failed to reach the semifinals in the first two conferences of the season, in the third conference, the teams name reverted to Pepsi, but to be known as the Pepsi Mega Bottlers. They eventually placed fourth in the 1993 Governors Cup, before the 1994 PBA Governors Cup, Pepsi and Sunkist were involved in a rare coaching trade that saw Derrick Pumaren moving to the RFM franchise for Yeng Guiao. Despite the coaching change, Pepsis on-and-off performance continued with their best finish, in the 1995, even with a strong start in the Governors Cup, they had a 5–2 win-loss card but never took home a trophy at the end of the tournament. Pepsi was also known as a hard-luck PBA team because it never found success after finishing runner-up in the 1992 Reinforced Conference. After it failed to land Alvin Patrimonio in 1991, the ballclub attempted again in 1995 to dangle a 5-year, lucia Realtors main man Jun Limpot
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Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut
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Al Riyadi, also known as Riyadi Club and Sporting Club is a Lebanese Basketball club based in Raouché, Beirut where mens and womens tournaments are held every year. An amateur side also exists, where participants can sign up for classes, the club also holds ping-pong, martial arts, dancing, and other tournaments. The clubs foundation began in 1934 by Hussein Sejaan, Hassan Ladki, Fouad Zantout, Youssef Shaker, Mustafa Shaker, Zouheir Yatim, Helmi Chehab, and Wafic Nsouli at that time. In 1945, the Ministry of the Interior gave permission to Riyadi Club in Beirut to get involved in sports in its location in Raouché. Some of these sports were basketball, volleyball, handball, tennis, in 1947, Al Riyadi club moved from Raouché to Sanayeh. President Bechara El Khoury, Prime Minister Riad El-Solh and Saeb Salam attended the opening ceremony and they were also all present at Al Riyadis first basketball game against Turkish Galatasaray S. K. The club returned to its current location in Raouché facing the Bain Militaire in 1954, in 1965, Riyadi launched its first women basketball team to compete with other clubs that already had women teams at that time such as Homenetmen Beirut and Antranik SC. Al-Riyadi Club is the team in Lebanon to win the Lebanese Basketball Championship 26 times. Al-Riyadi won the Championship of the Dubai International Tournament in its 16th version which was held in Dubai and they scored six wins and collected most of the tournaments prizes. In 2006, Riyadi preserved the title by scoring a historical 45-point win over Fast Link of Jordan in the semi-final, Ismail Ahmad was named MVP of the tournament, Tony Madison best scorer and best 3-point shooter, Ali Mahmoud best point guard and Fouad Abou Chakra best coach. On May 1,2005, coached by Fouad Abou Chakra and his assistant Tygran Gyokechian, the team broke a record by winning 25 times in 25 games, to become the first team in the recent Lebanese Basketball History to win the championship without any loss. In the final game, Al Riyadi won over Sagesse Club in Manara by 40 points, and ended the series a by clean sweep of. Few days after they were crowned champions of Lebanon for the season 2004–2005, Al Riyadi team headed to Dubai, UAE, Al Riyadi, once again undefeated, was crowned Champion of The Tournament after overcoming Saba from Iran. Tony Madison was nominated MVP and best scorer of the tournament, the team continued its success in the 2004–2005 season, and on May 26,2005, Al Riyadi won the Pan Arab Tournament cup over Fast Link from Jordan, in al Nasr Stadium in Dubai, UAE. It was the first time that Riyadi won the Arab championship and this tournament showed the first loss—after 66 straight wins—for Riyadi in more than 450 days, against the Fast Link in the second round. Riyadis winning streak in the league ended on March 7,2006 when the team lost to Sagesse for the first time after an 8–0 record against the archrivals in the past two years. Al Riyadi won over Sagesse in the final 3–0 with the first game ending with 23 points difference, the second with 29 points difference, and the third with 22 points difference. Al Riyadi Club was up to the challenge and brought the cup back to Lebanon after beating the Egyptian National Team in the final game
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Big East Conference
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The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that competes in NCAA Division I in all sports except football, which is not sponsored. The conference has officially recognized as a Division I multi-sport conference. Butler University, Creighton University, and Xavier University also joined the conference on its July 1,2013 launch date. The football-playing members of the old Big East, along several other schools, formed the American Athletic Conference. However, both conferences claim 1979 as their founding date, as part of the separation agreement, the basketball schools were able to retain the basketball records while the football schools retained the football records respectively. Val Ackerman, former WNBA president, has been commissioner since June 26,2013, on the same day Ackerman was named as commissioner, it announced that it will be headquartered in New York City. None of the schools sponsor varsity football in the top-level Division I FBS. Georgetown, Villanova, and Butler do operate football programs in the second-level Division I FCS, the core of the Big East formed when Providence, St. Johns, Georgetown, and Syracuse invited Seton Hall, Connecticut, Holy Cross, Rutgers, and Boston College. Holy Cross turned down the invitation, as did Rutgers initially, while BC, Seton Hall, gavitt became the Big Easts first commissioner, and Villanova and Pittsburgh joined the conference shortly thereafter. PR firm Duffy & Shanley is credited with the branding and naming work for the conference. The conference remained largely unchanged until 1991, when it began to sponsor football, adding Miami as a member, and Rutgers, Temple, Virginia Tech. Rutgers and West Virginia upgraded to full Big East membership in 1995, Notre Dame also joined as a non-football member effective in 1995. Temple football was kicked out after the 2004 season, but rejoined in 2012, the unusual structure of the Big East, with the football and non-football schools, led to instability in the conference. The conference reorganized following the period of realignment that hobbled the Big East between 2010 and 2013. The Big East was one of the most severely impacted conferences during the most recent conference realignment period, in all,14 member schools announced their departure for other conferences, and 15 other schools announced plans to join the conference. Three of the group later backed out of their plans to join. On March 14,2013, it was reported that the Big East would be adding members in the seven to ten days. At a news conference in New York City on March 20,2013, the league was formally introduced with Butler, Xavier
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2007 McDonald's All-American Boys Game
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The 2007 McDonalds All-American Boys Game was an All-star basketball game played on Wednesday, March 28,2007 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, home of the University of Louisville Cardinals. The games rosters featured the best and most highly recruited high school graduating in 2007. The game was the 30th annual version of the McDonalds All-American Game first played in 1978, the 48 players were selected from 2,500 nominees by a committee of basketball experts. They were chosen not only for their skills, but for their performances off the court as well. Coach Morgan Wootten, who had more than 1,200 wins as head coach at DeMatha High School, was chairman of the selection committee. Legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, who has involved in the McDonalds All American Games since its inception, served as chairman of the Games. Proceeds from the 2007 McDonalds All American High School Basketball Games went to Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kentuckiana, the game was telecast live by ESPN. The crowd at Freedom Hall was electric as super-producer Timbaland took the court with the All American girls for a performance to remember. That atmosphere carried over into a second half of basketball. J. J. Hickson scored a team-high 14 points, while shooting 78% from the field, naismith Sportsmanship Award winner Gani Lawal recorded a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds. Nick Calathes contributed with a performance, as he scored 13 points, grabbed 5 rebounds. The West Team was led by Michael Beasley, as he tallied 23 points and 12 rebounds, both of those totals place Beasley in the record books and for that he was crowned the John R. Wooden MVP of the game. Wootten Award winner Kevin Love proved he was deserving of the honor, long-range specialist Jerryd Bayless added 11 points and was a perfect 2–2 from three-point range. Shooting 54% from the field and 42% from three-point land, the West team took an 11-point lead into the locker room, a strong defensive effort by the East team in the second half helped keep the game close. The West squad was limited to just one three-point basket and three free throws in the second half. Held scoreless from the 2,31 mark on, the West relied on solid defense, the slam dunk contest was first held in 1987, and a 3-point shooting challenge was added in 1989. This year, for the first time, a basketball skills competition was added to the schedule of events. The 2007 Powerade Slam Dunk contest was won by Blake Griffin, chris Wright was winner of the 2007 3-point shoot-out
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Basketball
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Basketball is a non-contact team sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of five players each. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high that is mounted to a backboard at each end of the court. The game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket being defended by the opposition team during regular play. A field goal scores three points for the team if the player shoots from behind the three-point line. A team can also score via free throws, which are worth one point, the team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time is mandated when the score is tied at the end of regulation. The ball can be advanced on the court by passing it to a teammate and it is a violation to lift, or drag, ones pivot foot without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. The game has many techniques for displaying skill—ball-handling, shooting, passing, dribbling, dunking, shot-blocking. The point guard directs the on court action of the team, implementing the coachs game plan, Basketball is one of the worlds most popular and widely viewed sports. Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the Euroleague, the FIBA Basketball World Cup attracts the top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for teams, like EuroBasket. The FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup features the top womens basketball teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the WNBA, whereas the EuroLeague Women has been dominated by teams from the Russian Womens Basketball Premier League, in early December 1891, Canadian Dr. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied, after rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot elevated track. Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball and these laces could cause bounce passes and dribbling to be unpredictable. Eventually a lace-free ball construction method was invented, and this change to the game was endorsed by Naismith, dribbling was not part of the original game except for the bounce pass to teammates. Passing the ball was the means of ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the shape of early balls. Dribbling only became a part of the game around the 1950s
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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United States men's national basketball team
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The USA Basketball Mens Senior National Team, commonly known as the United States Mens National Basketball Team, represents the United States in international mens basketball. The USA team is the most successful team in competition, winning medals in all eighteen Olympic tournaments it has entered. The United States is currently ranked first in the FIBA World Rankings, traditionally composed of amateur players, a 1989 rule change by FIBA allowed USA Basketball to field teams with professional players. The first such team, known as the Dream Team, won the medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. With the introduction of professionals, the team was able to spark a run of dominance after capturing only a bronze medal in 1988. A team of professional players competed at the 1994 FIBA World Championship, in 1996,2000,2008,2012, and 2016 the USA again captured gold medals at the Olympics. Facing increased competition, the USA failed to win a medal at the 2002 FIBA World Championship, determined to put an end to these failures, USA Basketball initiated a long-term project aimed at creating better, more cohesive teams. The USA won its first seven games at the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan before losing against Greece in the semi-finals, the USA won gold two years later, though, at the 2008 Summer Olympics with a dominant performance. The USA continued this streak of dominance by going undefeated and capturing gold once more at the 2012 Summer Olympics,2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, the United States possessed a clear advantage in the early decades of international play. Through the next six tournaments, the United States went undefeated, collecting gold while not losing a single contest in the held in London, Helsinki, Melbourne, Rome, Tokyo. Roster until the formation of the 1992 Dream Team, the 1952 team included big man Clyde Lovellette of the University of Kansas, a future Hall of Famer and NBA star, but Kurland once again led the team to victory. The 1956 team was led by San Francisco Dons Bill Russell, the 1972 Olympic mens basketball gold medal game, marking the first ever loss for the USA in Olympic play, is arguably the most controversial in Olympic history. The United States rode their seven consecutive gold medals and 63–0 Olympic record to Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics, the team won its first eight games in convincing fashion, setting up a final against the Soviet Union. With three seconds left in the medal game, American forward Doug Collins sank two free throws to put the Americans up 50–49. However, the buzzer sounded before Collins second free throw, immediately following Collins free throws, the Soviets inbounded the ball and failed to score. But one official had whistled play to stop with one remaining after hearing the earlier horn. The Soviets argued that they had requested a timeout before Collins foul shots, the referees ordered the clock reset to three seconds and the games final seconds replayed. However, the clock was in the process of being reset when the referees put the ball in play
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Lebanese Basketball League
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The Lebanese Basketball League or FLB League is the top-tier professional mens basketball league in Lebanon and one of the top leagues in Asia. It is organised annually as a championship with playoffs and a national cup by the Lebanese Basketball Federation. Currently the Mens Division A league is made up of ten teams, the initial Lebanese basketball league was formed in as early as the 1950s and was stopped during the civil war. After the war ended, in 1994 the league was reformed in a new fully professional format that is being since the foundation of the league today. The same year in 1998 Riyadi lost the Lebanese championship to their big rivals Sagesse Club, Lebanon hosted a big tournament, the Arab club Championship Which Sagesse won to be the 1st ever trophy for Lebanon. Beirut did not sleep that night all over the people were on the roads partying till dawn. In 1999 Beirut hosted the Asian Championship for clubs, Sagesse managed to win the first ever Asian title for any Lebanese or Arab team and this same year Sagesse managed to retain their title in the Arab club Championship which was held for the second consecutive time in Beirut. In May 2000, Lebanon once more hosted the Asian Championship for clubs and again Sagesse Club won it, many undrafted and free agent players from Europe and the NBA play in the Lebanese league. There are 10 teams in the league and they play against each other twice in the league, once at their home, at the end of those two rounds, the final 8 teams enter to the playoffs they play three games series. The winners of the Quarterfinals advance to the best of four game series Semifinals, the two teams that advance play best of four games in the Final to determine the league champion. The season starts in December and ends in May The Big Rivalry Al Riyadi vs Sagesse Club. J
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Syracuse University
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Syracuse University, commonly referred to as Syracuse, Cuse, or SU, is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States. The institutions roots can be traced to the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded in 1831 by the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lima, after several years of debate over relocating the college to Syracuse, the university was established in 1870, independent of the college. Since 1920, the university has identified itself as nonsectarian, although it maintains a relationship with The United Methodist Church, the campus is in the University Hill neighborhood of Syracuse, east and southeast of downtown, on one of the larger hills. Its large campus features a mix of buildings, ranging from nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival structures to contemporary buildings. Syracuse University athletic teams, known as the Orange, participate in 20 intercollegiate sports, SU is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference for all NCAA Division I athletics, except for the mens rowing and womens ice hockey teams. SU is also a member of the Eastern College Athletic Conference, the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary was founded in 1831 by the Genesee Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lima, New York, south of Rochester. In 1850, it was resolved to enlarge the institution from a seminary into a college, or to connect a college with the seminary, however, the location was soon thought by many to be insufficiently central. Its difficulties were compounded by the set of technological changes. The trustees of the college then decided to seek a locale whose economic. Meanwhile, there were years of dispute between the Methodist ministers, Lima, and contending cities across the state, over proposals to move Genesee College to Syracuse. At the time, the ministers wanted a share of the funds from the Morrill Land Grant Act for Genesee College and they agreed to a quid pro quo donation of $25,000 from Senator Cornell in exchange for their support for his bill. Cornell insisted the bargain be written into the bill and Cornell became New York States Land Grant University in 1865. In 1869, Genesee College obtained New York State approval to move to Syracuse, but Lima got an injunction to block the move. By that time, however, the injunction had been made moot by the founding of a new university on March 24,1870. On that date the State of New York granted the new Syracuse University its own charter, the City of Syracuse had offered $100,000 to establish the school. Bishop Jesse Truesdell Peck had donated $25,000 to the school and was elected the first president of the Board of Trustees. Rev. Daniel Steele, a former Genesee College president, served as the first administrative leader of Syracuse until its Chancellor was appointed, the university opened in September 1871 in rented space downtown. George F. Comstock, a member of the new Universitys Board of Trustees, had offered the school 50 acres of farmland on a hillside to the southeast of the city center
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Munich-Riem Airport
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Munich-Riem Airport was the international airport of Munich, the third-largest city of Germany. It was closed down on 16 May 1992, the day before the new Munich Airport commenced operations and it was located near the old village of Riem in the borough of Trudering-Riem in the east of Munich. The area has been redeveloped into Messestadt Riem, a new borough consisting of housing projects, a mall, recreation areas. The first plane landed on 25 October 1939, signalling the beginning of air traffic, at this time it was one of the most modern airports in the world. It replaced the airfield at Oberwiesenfeld, in World War II it was home to Adolf Gallands legendary Jagdverband 44. It was almost completely destroyed by bombings on 9 April 1945, until that day, civilian air traffic had also been handled in Riem. George Raffeld of the United States Rainbow Division was the first of the forces to arrive at the airport. He reported to his officers that the airport had been abandoned by the Germans. After the war Munich-Riem was the first airport in Germany to be used for civil aviation, post-war operations started on 6 April 1948 with the landing of a DC-3 operated by Pan American World Airways. On 12 October 1949 the Flughafen München-Riem GmbH was founded, Wulf-Dieter Graf zu Castell became one of its managing directors. The airports runway was lengthened to 1,900 metres in November 1949, on 6 February 1958 an Airspeed AS57 Ambassador charter plane crashed soon after take-off. The accident cost the lives of 23 people including eight players from Manchester United. The British pilot, James Thain, was blamed for the disaster after investigators claimed that ice on the wings had caused the take-off attempt to end in tragic failure. The cause of the crash was established as slush on the runway. On 29 October 1958, the first jet aircraft, a Sud Aviation Caravelle operated by Air France, in 1962 more than one million passengers had passed through the airport. As early as 1963 the Öchsle Commission initiated a search for a new location as it was obvious that further extension would not be legally or politically possible. Constructing additional runways parallel or perpendicular to the one would require relocating a number of nearby communities. A number of accidents further encouraged the decision to build a new airport away from the city
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National Security Agency
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NSA is concurrently charged with protection of U. S. government communications and information systems against penetration and network warfare. Moreover, NSA maintains physical presence in a number of countries across the globe. SCS collection tactics allegedly encompass close surveillance, burglary, wiretapping, breaking and entering, additionally, the NSA Director simultaneously serves as the Commander of the United States Cyber Command and as Chief of the Central Security Service. Originating as a unit to decipher coded communications in World War II, NSA surveillance has been a matter of political controversy on several occasions, such as its spying on anti-Vietnam-war leaders or economic espionage. In 2013, the extent of some of the NSAs secret surveillance programs was revealed to the public by Edward Snowden, internationally, research has pointed to the NSAs ability to surveil the domestic Internet traffic of foreign countries through boomerang routing. The origins of the National Security Agency can be traced back to April 28,1917, a code and cipher decryption unit was established as the Cable and Telegraph Section which was also known as the Cipher Bureau. It was headquartered in Washington, D. C. and was part of the war effort under the executive branch without direct Congressional authorization, during the course of the war it was relocated in the armys organizational chart several times. On July 5,1917, Herbert O. Yardley was assigned to head the unit, at that point, the unit consisted of Yardley and two civilian clerks. It absorbed the navys cryptoanalysis functions in July 1918, World War I ended on November 11,1918, and MI-8 moved to New York City on May 20,1919, where it continued intelligence activities as the Code Compilation Company under the direction of Yardley. MI-8 also operated the so-called Black Chamber, the Black Chamber was located on East 37th Street in Manhattan. Its purpose was to crack the codes of foreign governments. Other Black Chambers were also found in Europe, during World War II, the Signal Security Agency was created to intercept and decipher the communications of the Axis powers. When the war ended, the SSA was reorganized as the Army Security Agency, on May 20,1949, all cryptologic activities were centralized under a national organization called the Armed Forces Security Agency. This organization was established within the U. S. Department of Defense under the command of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The AFSA was tasked to direct Department of Defense communications and electronic intelligence activities, in December 1951, President Harry S. Truman ordered a panel to investigate how AFSA had failed to achieve its goals. The results of the led to improvements and its redesignation as the National Security Agency. The agency was established by Truman in a memorandum of October 24,1952. Since President Trumans memo was a document, the existence of the NSA was not known to the public at that time
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Japan
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Japan is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea, the kanji that make up Japans name mean sun origin. 日 can be read as ni and means sun while 本 can be read as hon, or pon, Japan is often referred to by the famous epithet Land of the Rising Sun in reference to its Japanese name. Japan is an archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, the country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions. Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one, the population of 127 million is the worlds tenth largest. Japanese people make up 98. 5% of Japans total population, approximately 9.1 million people live in the city of Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period, the first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, from the 12th century until 1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns who ruled in the name of the Emperor. Japan entered into a period of isolation in the early 17th century. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan is a member of the UN, the OECD, the G7, the G8, the country has the worlds third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the worlds fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the worlds fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer, although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the worlds eighth-largest military budget, used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan is a country with a very high standard of living. Its population enjoys the highest life expectancy and the third lowest infant mortality rate in the world, in ancient China, Japan was called Wo 倭. It was mentioned in the third century Chinese historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms in the section for the Wei kingdom, Wa became disliked because it has the connotation of the character 矮, meaning dwarf. The 倭 kanji has been replaced with the homophone Wa, meaning harmony, the Japanese word for Japan is 日本, which is pronounced Nippon or Nihon and literally means the origin of the sun. The earliest record of the name Nihon appears in the Chinese historical records of the Tang dynasty, at the start of the seventh century, a delegation from Japan introduced their country as Nihon
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Germany
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Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of 357,021 square kilometres, with about 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. After the United States, it is the second most popular destination in the world. Germanys capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while its largest conurbation is the Ruhr, other major cities include Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Leipzig. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity, a region named Germania was documented before 100 AD. During the Migration Period the Germanic tribes expanded southward, beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation, in 1871, Germany became a nation state when most of the German states unified into the Prussian-dominated German Empire. After World War I and the German Revolution of 1918–1919, the Empire was replaced by the parliamentary Weimar Republic, the establishment of the national socialist dictatorship in 1933 led to World War II and the Holocaust. After a period of Allied occupation, two German states were founded, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, in 1990, the country was reunified. In the 21st century, Germany is a power and has the worlds fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP. As a global leader in industrial and technological sectors, it is both the worlds third-largest exporter and importer of goods. Germany is a country with a very high standard of living sustained by a skilled. It upholds a social security and universal health system, environmental protection. Germany was a member of the European Economic Community in 1957. It is part of the Schengen Area, and became a co-founder of the Eurozone in 1999, Germany is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the G8, the G20, and the OECD. The national military expenditure is the 9th highest in the world, the English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. This in turn descends from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz popular, derived from *þeudō, descended from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂- people, the discovery of the Mauer 1 mandible shows that ancient humans were present in Germany at least 600,000 years ago. The oldest complete hunting weapons found anywhere in the world were discovered in a mine in Schöningen where three 380, 000-year-old wooden javelins were unearthed
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Hanover, Pennsylvania
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Hanover is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania,19 miles southwest of York and 54 miles north-northwest of Baltimore, Maryland and is 5 miles north of the Mason-Dixon line. The town is situated in an agricultural region. The population was 15,289 at the 2010 census, the borough is served by the 717 area code and the Zip Codes of 17331-34. Hanover is named after the German city of Hannover, in 1727, John Digges, an Irish nobleman of Prince Georges County, Maryland, obtained a grant of 10,000 acres of land where Hanover is now located from Charles Calvert, the fourth Lord Baltimore. The area was called Digges Choice, and in 1730, a group of Catholics started the settlement that became known as the Conewego Settlement, settlers from both Maryland and Pennsylvania began moving into the area in the 1730s. At this time, the border of Maryland and the southern border of Pennsylvania did not agree with each other. This led to disputes about property ownership from the 1730s until 1760. The dispute was settled when Maryland and Pennsylvania hired British experts Charles Mason and this line was surveyed between 1763 and 1767, and put an end to decades of disputes over rights and ownership. In 1745, a Scotch-Irishman named Richard McAllister purchased the tract of land upon which the town of Hanover was built. McAllister was a Presbyterian who had migrated from the Cumberland Valley. Hanover at that time was covered with a dense forest of hickory, walnut, McAllister erected a log house at what is now the corner of Baltimore and Middle streets, and opened a store and tavern. In 1763, McAllister divided his farm lots and founded the town of Hanover. German settlers nicknamed the settlement Hickory Town after the thick groves of trees that grew in the area. The name Hanover was suggested by Michael Tanner, who was one of the commissioners who laid out York County in 1749, tanners choice of the name came from the fact that he was a native of Hanover, Germany. The towns founders, who wanted to please the German settlers, Hanover was also sometimes referred to as McAllisters Town in its early years. Thomas Jefferson spent the night of April 12,1776 at the Sign of the Horse, records indicate that Jefferson paid Rhenegher 11 shillings,6 pence for dinner and lodging. He was on his way from Monticello to Philadelphia to attend the first meeting of the Continental Congress, where on June 10 he would begin the draft the Declaration of Independence. At the time, Hanover was located at the crossing of two well-traveled roads, one from the port of Baltimore to points north and west and the other between Philadelphia and the Valley of Virginia
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San Antonio
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San Antonio, officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh-most populated city in the United States and the second-most populous city in the state of Texas, with a population of 1,409,019. It was the fastest growing of the top 10 largest cities in the United States from 2000 to 2010, the city straddles South Texas and Central Texas and is on the southwestern corner of an urban megaregion known as the Texas Triangle. San Antonio serves as the seat of Bexar County, recent annexations have extended the citys boundaries into Medina County and, though for only a very tiny area near the city of Garden Ridge, into Comal County. Due to its placement, the city has characteristics of other urban centers in which there are sparsely populated areas. San Antonio is the center of the San Antonio–New Braunfels Metropolitan Statistical Area, growth along the Interstate 35 and Interstate 10 corridors to the north, west and east make it likely that the metropolitan area will continue to expand. San Antonio was named for Saint Anthony of Padua, whose feast day is on June 13, the city contains five 18th-century Spanish frontier missions, including The Alamo and San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, which were designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2015. Other notable attractions include the River Walk, the Tower of the Americas, the Alamo Bowl, the city is home to the five-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs and hosts the annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, one of the largest such events in the country. The U. S. Kelly Air Force Base operated out of San Antonio until 2001, the remaining portions of the base were developed as Port San Antonio, an industrial/business park and aerospace complex. San Antonio is home to six Fortune 500 companies and the South Texas Medical Center, at the time of European encounter, Payaya Indians lived near the San Antonio River Valley in the San Pedro Springs area, calling the vicinity Yanaguana, meaning refreshing waters. In 1691, a group of Spanish Catholic explorers and missionaries came upon the river and Payaya settlement on June 13 and they named the place and river San Antonio in his honor. It was years before any Spanish settlement took place, father Antonio de Olivares visited the site in 1709, and he was determined to found a mission and civilian settlement there. He directed Martin de Alarcón, the governor of Coahuila and Texas, differences between Alarcón and Olivares resulted in delays, and construction did not start until 1718. The families who clustered around the presidio and mission formed the beginnings of Villa de Béjar, on May 1, the governor transferred ownership of the Mission San Antonio de Valero to Fray Antonio de Olivares. On May 5,1718 he commissioned the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar on the west side of the San Antonio River, one-fourth league from the mission. On February 14,1719, the Marquis of San Miguel de Aguayo proposed to the king of Spain that 400 families be transported from the Canary Islands, Galicia, or Havana to populate the province of Texas. By June 1730,25 families had reached Cuba, and 10 families had sent to Veracruz before orders from Spain came to stop the re-settlement. Under the leadership of Juan Leal Goraz, the group marched overland from Veracruz to the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, due to marriages along the way, the party now included 15 families, a total of 56 persons. They joined the community established in 1718
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Serbia
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Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a sovereign state situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. Relative to its territory, it is a diverse country distinguished by a transitional character, situated along cultural, geographic, climatic. Serbia numbers around 7 million residents, and its capital, Belgrade, following the Slavic migrations to the Balkans from the 6th century onwards, Serbs established several states in the early Middle Ages. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by Rome and the Byzantine Empire in 1217, in the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the regions first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, Serbia formed a union with Montenegro which dissolved peacefully in 2006, in 2008 the parliament of the province of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, with mixed responses from the international community. Serbia is a member of organizations such as the UN, CoE, OSCE, PfP, BSEC. An EU membership candidate since 2012, Serbia has been negotiating its EU accession since January 2014, the country is acceding to the WTO and is a militarily neutral state. Serbia is an income economy with dominant service sector, followed by the industrial sector. The country ranks high on the Social Progress Index as well as the Global Peace Index, relatively high on the Human Development Index, located at the crossroads between Central and Southern Europe, Serbia is found in the Balkan peninsula and the Pannonian Plain. Serbia lies between latitudes 41° and 47° N, and longitudes 18° and 23° E. The country covers a total of 88,361 km2, which places it at 113th place in the world, with Kosovo excluded, the area is 77,474 km2. Its total border length amounts to 2,027 km, all of Kosovos border with Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro are under control of the Kosovo border police. The Pannonian Plain covers the third of the country while the easternmost tip of Serbia extends into the Wallachian Plain. The terrain of the part of the country, with the region of Šumadija at its heart. Mountains dominate the third of Serbia. Dinaric Alps stretch in the west and the southwest, following the flow of the rivers Drina, the Carpathian Mountains and Balkan Mountains stretch in a north–south direction in eastern Serbia. Ancient mountains in the southeast corner of the country belong to the Rilo-Rhodope Mountain system, elevation ranges from the Midžor peak of the Balkan Mountains at 2,169 metres to the lowest point of just 17 metres near the Danube river at Prahovo. The largest lake is Đerdap Lake and the longest river passing through Serbia is the Danube, the climate of Serbia is under the influences of the landmass of Eurasia and the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea
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Carmelo Anthony
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Carmelo Kyam Anthony is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association. Anthony attended Towson Catholic High School and Oak Hill Academy before playing college basketball at Syracuse, in Anthonys freshman season, he led the Orangemen to their first and only National Championship and was named the NCAA Tournaments Most Outstanding Player. Anthony then entered the 2003 NBA draft where he was selected with the third pick by the Denver Nuggets. Since entering the NBA, Anthony has been named an All-Star ten times, while playing for Denver, he led the Nuggets to the playoffs every year from 2004 to 2010, winning two division titles in that span. In 2009, Anthony led the Nuggets to their first Conference Finals appearance since 1985, in 2011, he was traded from Denver to the New York Knicks just days prior to the NBA trade deadline. On January 24,2014, against the Charlotte Bobcats, Anthony set the Madison Square Garden and Knicks single-game scoring record with a career-high 62 points. Anthony has been a member of the USA Olympic basketball team a record four times, winning a medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and gold medals at the 2008,2012. He is the United States Olympic mens national basketball team all-time leading scorer, leader in rebounds, Anthony was born in the Red Hook projects in Brooklyn, New York City. He was born to a Black Puerto Rican father and an African-American mother and his father died of cancer when Anthony was two years old. When Anthony turned eight, his family moved to Baltimore, where he honed not only his athletic skills, but his survival skills. Kenny Minor, one of Anthonys childhood friends, said, from drugs, to killings, to anything you can name that goes on in the roughest parts of town, weve seen and those are the things that teach you toughness and keep you mentally focused on your goals. Sports would serve as an important diversion from the violence and drug dealing that were pervasive in the housing projects a few blocks from the homes of Anthony, Anthony commuted to Towson Catholic High School for his first three years of high school. During the summer of 1999, Anthony grew five inches into the frame of a 6–5 swingman, during his sophomore year, he averaged 14 points,5 rebounds,4 assists and 2 steals. Towson Catholic surged to a record of 26–3 and finished third in the state tournament, Anthony enjoyed a successful high school basketball career as a junior, almost doubling his numbers in scoring and rebounds, averaging 23 points and 10.3 rebounds. Despite his successful year, Anthony was distracted by all of the attention and he barely registered a blip on the radars of pro scouts with his skinny frame and lack of strength, many scouts felt that he was not ready for the physical demands of the NBA. After his junior year, Division I coaches were lined up to recruit Anthony to a school on the East Coast, which included North Carolina and Syracuse. As Anthonys grades dropped under a C average and his scores on the ACT were below acceptable standards, for his senior year, his mother considered transferring him to a different school. During the summer of 2001, Anthony led an AAU Baltimore Select team to the Final Four of the Adidas Big Time Tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada
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Gerry McNamara
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Gerry McNamara is a retired American basketball player and current assistant coach of the Syracuse University mens basketball team. A former guard for the Orange, he never missed a start in his career lasted from 2002 to 2006. He also helped lead the team to a title in 2003, after leaving Syracuse, McNamara played professionally for Panionios BC, Olympiacos BC, the Bakersfield Jam, BK Ventspils, and the Reno Bighorns. In 2009, McNamara announced his retirement from basketball and returned to Syracuse as a student and assistant coach. McNamara was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he is the youngest of the four children of Joyce and Gerard McNamara. He has a brother, Timothy, and two sisters, Bridget and Maureen and he married Katie Marie Stott on July 21,2007. He enjoys fishing almost as much as he enjoys basketball, McNamara attended Bishop Hannan High School under head coach John Bucci. In his four seasons at Hannan, the Golden Lancers compiled a record of 109-17, McNamara finished as Pennsylvanias seventh all-time leading scorer with 2,917 points. He still holds the record at Holy Cross. The team also went to the finals his sophomore season and finished the state runner-up in both 1999 and 2000 to Kennedy Christian High School of Hermitage, Pennsylvania. After and before, but not during the 1999 and 2000 seasons, after McNamara graduated in 2002, the school, and all the neighboring Bishop schools except Bishop Hoban, went back to A for population reasons. In 2007, when the school combined with Bishop OHara of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, in 2001 the Golden Lancers were defeated by eventual PIAA Class AA champion Trinity High School of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, in the Eastern Final. In 2002 Bishop Hannan and Trinity met once again in the Eastern Final, three days later his 32 points led all scorers as Hannan held off Sto-Rox High School and won the Class AA state title, 70-68. Following his senior season, McNamara was named the 2002 Pennsylvania Gatorade Player of the Year, for his high school accomplishments, McNamara was also named the 20th greatest athlete in Scranton-area history by the Scranton Times in 2004. McNamara had offers from such as Duke and Florida. McNamara helped capture the schools first ever National Championship in 2003, McNamara started every game his freshman year, helping lead the Orange to a 30-5 record, including a perfect 17-0 at home. He averaged 13 points,4.6 assists and 2.2 steals a game while shooting 35 percent from 3-point range and 91 percent from the foul line, McNamara showed early on that he was a clutch performer, nailing a game-winning 3-pointer as then-No. 17 Syracuse notched an 82-80 win over then-No, in a March game at Georgetown, McNamara missed a free-throw with 10 seconds left that allowed the Hoyas to force overtime
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Seton Hall University
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Seton Hall University is a private Roman Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States. Seton Hall consists of 11 schools and colleges with an enrollment of about 5,800 students. It was ranked tied for 118th in Best National Universities by U. S. News & World Report in 2017, the Stillman School of Business was ranked 78th of 132 undergraduate business schools in the nation by Bloomberg Businessweek in 2014. Seton Hall University was also ranked one of the top five universities for undergraduate internships by the International Business Times in 2011. The Diocese of Newark had been established by Pope Pius IX in 1853, Seton Hall College was formally founded on September 1,1856, by Newark Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley, a cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt. Bishop Bayley named the institution after his aunt, Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton, the main campus of the college was originally in Madison, New Jersey. Initially, Seton Hall had only five students – Leo G. Thebaud, Louis and Alfred Boisaubin, Peter Meehan, by the end of the first year, the student body had grown more than tenfold to 60. The college moved to its current location in 1860, by the 1860s, Seton Hall College was continuing its rapid growth and began to enroll more and more students each year. However, among other difficulties, several fires on campus slowed down the growth process, the first of several strange fires in the Universitys history occurred in 1867 which destroyed the colleges first building. Two decades later on March 9,1886, another destroyed the universitys main building. In the 20th century, another fire burned down a classroom as well as several dormitory buildings in 1909. During the 19th century, despite setbacks, financially tight times and the American Civil War, Seton Hall opened a military science department during the summer of 1893, but this program was ultimately disbanded during the Spanish–American War. Perhaps one of the most pivotal events in the history of Seton Hall came in 1897 when Seton Halls preparatory, by 1937, Seton Hall established a University College. This marked the first matriculation of women at Seton Hall, Seton Hall became fully coeducational in 1968. In 1948, Seton Hall was given a license by the FCC for WSOU-FM, the College was organized into a university in 1950 following an unprecedented growth in enrollment. The Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry was established in 1954 as the first medical school and it was located in Jersey City, adjacent to the Jersey City Medical Center, which was used for clinical education. Although the college, set up under the auspices of the Archdiocese of Newark, was a legal entity from the University
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Robert Morris University
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Robert Morris University is a private, coeducational university located in Moon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The school was founded in 1921 and it enrolls more than 4,000 undergraduates and more than 1,000 graduate students and offers more than 60 bachelors degree programs and more than 20 masters and doctoral programs. Most students are from the Pittsburgh area, while 17 percent of freshmen in 2014 were from outside Pennsylvania, Robert Morris University is named after Robert Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and financier of the American Revolution. It is not affiliated with Robert Morris University Illinois, Robert Morris University originated in 1921 as the Pittsburgh School of Accountancy, founded by Andrew Blass. It was based in downtown buildings during its early decades. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania then granted the permission to award associate degrees. The first new buildings, Franklin Center and three halls, were erected in 1963. The school became Robert Morris College in 1969, and for decades operated two separate campuses, in 2002, it attained university status and was thus renamed Robert Morris University. In 2010, the university sold its Downtown Center at 600 Fifth Avenue to Duquesne University, on Dec.4,2014, Gregory G. DellOmo announced that he had accepted an offer from Rider University to become its next president in August 2015. The university at that time announced plans for the formation of a search committee. On Sept.10,2015, Robert Morris named Christopher Howard, currently president of Hampden-Sydney College, Howard, the first African-American president in school history, assumed office in February 2016. The core campus consists of a 230-acre tract in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, of the 21 instructional and administrative buildings, the newest are the Scaife Centers School of Nursing building, opened in 2015, and the Wheatley Center, opened in 2012. Of 14 residence halls, three are newer apartment-style complexes, the university also has converted a former hotel nearby into Yorktown Hall, more than 2,000 students live in campus housing, including 86 percent of freshmen. The main building on campus is the Edward A. Nicholson Student Center, or Nicholson Center for short, the Ground Level, which contains a Barnes and Noble Bookstore that doubles as a school spirit store. The Mezzanine Level, which houses the PNC Cafe as well as the Office for Student Life, the mail room, the Plaza Level, which contains the Admissions Office, Heritage Room, and RoMos Cafe. The Library Level, which consists of the School of Education and Social Sciences, the Nicholson Center is attached to the Patrick Henry Center, which has recently undergone exterior renovations. The library is on the second and third floors of the Patrick Henry Center, RMU participates in inter-library lending consortia PALINET and PALCI that allow RMU students to borrow books on site from most of the college and university libraries in the Pittsburgh area. The building also houses 12 Bloomberg Terminals, and an 18-seat Cisco telepresence room which enables videoconferencing experience, the Center also has an outdoor 18-hole miniature golf course
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Jonny Flynn
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Jonny William Flynn is an American former professional basketball player. A three-year National Basketball Association veteran, he last played for the Orlandina Basket of the Lega Basket Serie A, Flynn and Niagara Falls High School won the 2005 New York state public high school and federation championships. He was also named New York State Mr. Basketball following his senior year. When he graduated with the class of 2007, he was ranked the No.22 overall recruit and No.4 point guard by Rivals. com as well as the No.23 overall and the No.4 point guard by Scout. com. Flynn was a high school and college teammate of guard/forward Paul Harris. In his senior year, Flynn averaged 26.7 points,6.0 assists,3.5 steals and 3.3 rebounds. In his first game ever, on November 12,2007, later in the season, he matched his debut performance with another 28-point effort in an 82-77 loss to Pittsburgh on March 21,2008. Flynn would go on to a freshman year, collecting co-Big East Rookie of the Year honors with averages of 15.7 points and 5.3 assists per game. Flynn and fellow freshman Donte Greene were the second-highest scoring freshman duo in the country, Flynn was named to the preseason All Big East team and started the season with a 27-point effort against Richmond on November 18,2008. Seven days later, Flynn scored 25 points and hit a 3-pointer with 6.4 seconds left in regulation as Syracuse defeated then-No,23 ESPN/USA Today, No.22 AP Kansas 89-81 in overtime in the championship game of the CBE Classic. Flynn was named MVP of the Tournament, flynns leaping ability was on display on a January 11,2009, game against Rutgers. With Syracuse clinging to a 52-48 lead, Flynn drove to the hoop, in the quarterfinals of the 2009 Big East Tournament on March 12 and 13th, Flynn led the Orange to a 127-117 win in six overtimes over the favored University of Connecticut Huskies. Flynn played 67 out of a possible 70 minutes on the floor that evening, leading the Orange by scoring 34 points, adding 11 assists and making all 16 of his free throw attempts. The next day, Flynn then played all 45 minutes of Syracuses 74-69 overtime victory over the West Virginia Mountaineers in the Big East semifinals and he scored 15 points and had 9 assists. Syracuse, however, would fall to Louisville in the Big East championship game. For his efforts, Flynn was named the 2009 Big East Tournaments MVP, in his first career NCAA tournament game in 2009, Flynn led all scorers in their first round matchup against Stephen F. Austin, tallying 16 points and 7 assists. Syracuse went on to win the game 59-44, on March 22,2009 Flynn would score 11 points and add 7 assists as Syracuse defeated Arizona State 78-67 advancing Syracuse to its first Sweet Sixteen since 2004. On April 9, it was announced by Syracuse University that Flynn would declare himself eligible for the upcoming 2009 NBA draft, however, Flynn would retain his NCAA eligibility by not immediately hiring an agent
