This year’s Buckeye basketball team has to be the deepest and most athletic team Thad Matta has put on the court during his time at Ohio State. One of the more spectacular athletes is Sam Thompson, who seems like he could jump out of the gym if he really put his mind to it. Thompson, [...]
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A Beautiful Buckeye Dunk
Posted in sports, tagged Buckeye Basketball, Dunks, Ohio State, Sam Thompson, sports on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Concluding The Kohl Center Curse (Finally!)
Posted in sports, tagged Aaron Craft, Buckeye Basketball, Deshaun Thomas, Jared Sullinger, Jordan Taylor, Kohl Center, Lenzelle Smith Jr., Ohio State, sports, William Buford, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Badgers on February 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Ohio State Buckeyes have finally — finally! — won a game at Wisconsin’s Kohl Center. They beat the Badgers today today, 58-52, in as tough and hard-fought a game as you would ever expect to see. Jared Sullinger was a beast on the inside; he scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and Wisconsin [...]
Coach Tressel Finds A New Home
Posted in Family, Ohio, sports, tagged Buckeye Bebe, Buckeye football, Family, Jim Tressel, NCAA Violations, Ohio, Ohio State, sports, University of Akron on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel has accepted a new job. He will be moving to Akron and taking a position at the University of Akron — not as a football coach, but as the Vice President for Strategic Engagement. I’m happy for Mr. Tressel (although I will always think of him as Coach [...]
The Challenge Of The Kohl Center
Posted in sports, tagged Big Ten, Bo Ryan, Buckeye Basketball, Jared Berggren, Jordan Taylor, Kohl Center, Ohio State, sports, Thad Matta, Wisconsin on February 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow afternoon the Ohio State Buckeyes travel to the Kohl Center to play the Wisconsin Badgers. They’re hoping to come away with their first win at Wisconsin under Coach Thad Matta. The Buckeyes have enjoyed great success under Coach Matta — but not at the Kohl Center. There, they are 0-6, and many of the [...]
How Do I Brick Thee?
Posted in Humor, sports, tagged Big Ten basketball, college basketball, Doggerel, Humor, Illinois, Michigan State, Poems, Poetry, sports on February 1, 2012 | 3 Comments »
College basketball is one of my favorite sports. Often, I’ll watch a game even if one of my favorite teams isn’t playing. Last night I watched Illinois play Michigan State. It promised to be a tough game between two teams fighting for the Big Ten lead — but it became an ugly brickfest in which [...]
Urban On The Recruiting Trail
Posted in sports, tagged Buckeye football, college football, football recruiting, National Letter Of Intent Day, Ohio State, sports, urban meyer on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Urban Meyer has been the head football coach at the Ohio State University for a little over two months. Tomorrow we will get the first tangible sign of his impact on the program, because it’s National Letter of Intent Signing Day! For those of you not hip-deep in college football recruiting news, breathless updates, and [...]
Time For The Nut House To Rock The Schott!
Posted in sports, tagged Aaron Craft, Big Ten, Buckeye Basketball, Deshaun Thomas, Jared Sullinger, Jordan Morgan, Michigan Wolverines, Nut House, Ohio State, Schott, sports, The Schott, Tim Hardaway, Trey Burke, William Buford, Zack Novak on January 28, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Tomorrow the Buckeyes play the Michigan Wolverines at the Schott. The winner will stay atop the Big Ten. The loser is, well, the loser. Michigan has a good team this year. Tim Hardaway is one of the Big Ten’s best offensive players. Jordan Morgan plays a tough inside game. Trey Burke has been a huge [...]
The Road Gets Tougher For The Buckeyes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aaron Craft, Big Ten, Big Ten basketball, Buckeye Basketball, Jared Sullinger, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, sports, William Buford, Wisconsin on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Ohio State pulverized Penn State tonight, 78-54. The Nittany Lions were just overmatched, as Ohio State improved to 6-2 in the Big Ten and 18-3 overall. It was a good victory for the Buckeyes, who have won their last three games resoundingly after a tough loss to Illinois. Tonight, the Ohio State offense was clicking, [...]
The Big Ten, On The Road
Posted in sports, tagged Big Ten, Big Ten basketball, Buckeye Basketball, Ohio State, Ohio State Buckeyes, sports, Thad Matta on January 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Big Ten is tough this year, and road wins are especially hard to come by. Just ask the Buckeyes — they lost two heart-breakers on the road. That’s why last night’s win against Nebraska was so valuable. Nebraska clearly is not one of the elite teams in the Big Ten, but this is a [...]
Paterno’s Legacy
Posted in sports, tagged Joe Paterno, Penn State, Penn State Child Sex Abuse Scandal, sports on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
ESPN is reporting that Joe Paterno is dead at 85. According to the story, he died this morning after fighting a two-month battle against lung cancer. Paterno was a legendary coach who took the Penn State program to the pinnacle of college football, but his legacy will be forever tarnished by the alleged child sex [...]
Float Like A Butterfly, Age Like A Bee
Posted in sports, tagged Aging, Boxing, Howard Cosell, Life, Muhammad Ali, sports on January 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Today is Muhammad Ali’s 70th birthday. The recent years have not been kind to the former Undisputed Heavyweight Champion Of The World, who once was the most famous man in the world, known on every continent and in every nation. During Ali’s prime in the ’60s, he became the greatest celebrity athlete of the television [...]
Snow On Pine
Posted in Columbus, Ohio, weather, tagged Columbus, New Albany, Ohio, Photography, sports, weather, Winter on January 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday morning the snow was still fresh when Penny and I took our walk. We passed one pine tree where the snowflakes had been caught by the clusters of pine needles like a baseball is caught by a catcher’s mitt. It looked like ice cream cones or cotton candy. The snow was so new, and [...]
The Big Ten Free-For-All
Posted in sports, tagged Big Ten, Big Ten basketball, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan State, Northwestern, Ohio State, sports, William Buford on January 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This afternoon Ohio State hosts Indiana at the Schott. Even though the season is young, it’s being viewed as a must-win game for the Buckeyes — but then again, just about every game in the Big Ten this year may be of the must-win variety. This year appears to be the most balanced Big Ten [...]
Tebow, Schmeebow
Posted in sports, tagged Denver Broncos, Drudge Report, New England Patriots, NFL, religion, sports, Tim Tebow on January 14, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Tonight Tim Tebow leads the Denver Broncos in an NFL playoff game against the New England Patriots. I won’t be watching. Even though the Drudge Report seems to feature him daily, and others appear to be watching his every move, I really don’t care much one way or the other about Tim Tebow. I rooted [...]
Big Ten BMWs
Posted in sports, tagged Amateur athletics, Big Ten, BMW, college sports, Corporate sponsorships, sports on January 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This season BMW and the Big Ten Conference announced a partnership to make the BMW the “official luxury automobile” of the Big Ten. I suppose we all just have to accept the fact that college athletics is awash in cash and that conferences like the Big Ten want to maximize their generation of money by [...]
