Here’s something else that makes me proud of my alma mater — researchers at The Ohio State University have studied how often male and female college students think about sex. Thank God that our scarce scientific resources have finally been directed at that crucial, too-often-ignored topic!
In any case, the study debunks the canard that men think about sex every seven seconds, which would mean that men think about sex 8,000 times in a 16-hour day. Instead, the study found that the male subjects reported thinking about sex between 1 and 388 times each day, and the female subjects admitted to thinking about sex between 1 and 140 times per day.
On average, the men thought about sex 19 times a day, and the women thought about sex 10 times a day. By way of comparison, men thought about food an average of 18 times a day and sleeping an average of 11 times a day, and women thought about food an average of 15 times a day and sleeping 8.5 times a day.
So, according to the study, men aren’t thinking about sex every waking second, and women aren’t either. In fact, sex, food, and sleep account for only 48 of the thousands of the daily thoughts that college men presumably have. But that just begs the question: what in the world were these male college students thinking about the rest of the time? Here’s my guess on some of the likely results: (1) sports (200 thoughts per day); (2) beer (200 “thoughts” per day); (3) “This class sucks” (50 thoughts per day); (4) “Whoa, this room is trashed!” (40 times per day); (5) “When you think about it, Captain Picard was actually a better starship captain than Captain Kirk” (25 times a day).
You read it right: “toilet gaming.” Or, to be precise, urinal gaming. Apparently modern men simply can’t abide the 50 seconds or so of down time that usually accompanies the basic human function of bladder evacuation. It’s just so damn tedious, standing there on the sticky floor of a public restroom, staring at the wall a few inches ahead while you answer nature’s call! So, 
It’s hard to argue that with conclusion. It’s a 3 CD, concert DVD, vinyl record, coffee table book “boxed set” called Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook that carries an absurd $225 price tag. Costello tried to get the record company to reduce the inflated price. When it wouldn’t, he wrote on his website that he couldn’t recommend the boxed set to anyone because the price was either “a misprint or a satire,” and he recommended a collection from Louis Armstrong instead.
The game is part of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, the annual event that until recently hasn’t been much of a challenge for the ACC. The 
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It’s not just because Coach Meyer has been an extremely successful coach, although that is certainly part of it. He’s won everywhere he’s been, from Bowling Green to Utah to Florida. He knows how to build a program and how to recruit and then coach talented athletes. But for Ohio State fans, it is more than that. We want someone who understands what Ohio State means. We want someone who grew up in Ohio, who lived and died with the Buckeyes, who got their first coaching job at Ohio State. Urban Meyer has all of those qualities.
We’ll see how Coach Meyer performs as Ohio State’s coach; you never know how things will go. But I was encouraged by what he said at his news conference this afternoon, about wanting to make the state proud of its flagship university and its football team. And, more importantly, I was encouraged because Coach Meyer’s very decision to come back to Ohio State, when he could have had any job in the country, shows he feels the importance of Ohio State football in his gut, just like everyone else in Buckeye Nation does. This won’t be a job for him, it will be a passion and a crusade. He won’t rest until Ohio State football is as good as he can possibly make it.
Childhood obesity is a problem in America — but when should the state intervene to deal with individual cases? County workers say the boy’s weight is due to his environment and his mother’s failure to follow doctor’s orders; they consider the boy’s condition to be just another form of medical neglect. The mother, and her lawyer, say the county overreached because the boy is in no immediate danger and the mother has been trying to control his weight. They note that the boy is on the honor roll and participates in school activities, and add that removing a child from his home and family and putting him foster care can cause its own harms.
The film stars George Clooney in what is likely an Oscar nomination role. He plays a wealthy Hawaiian lawyer who has a lot on his plate. His wife is in a coma after being injured in a boating accident. He manages a soon-to-be-dissolved trust for his extended family and needs to decide whether to sell land that has been in his family for generations. His two daughters are acting out, then he learns that his wife will not survive the coma, and then he learns from the oldest daughter that his wife was having an affair. The arc of the movie addresses Clooney’s struggles to deal with his confused feelings about the affair, his wife, her approaching death, his daughters, and his native Hawaii.
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Smith is a 6-4 guard, and he plays the game the way it should be played. He sweats and scrambles when he’s guarding an opposing player and looks like he eventually could be as versatile on the defensive end as David Lighty — who could guard just about anybody. Smith has a solid offensive game; he’s patient, unselfish, and doesn’t force shots. But where Smith really shines is in transition. I love watching #32 rip down a rebound and rush pell mell down the court, head up and looking to dish. He’s made some terrific passes, including some alley-oop lobs leading to rim-rattling, crowd-pleasing dunks.
