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Hoping To Avoid Hoosier Hubris
Tonight the Buckeyes take on Indiana at Memorial Stadium in a rare Saturday night matchup. It’s one of those games where Ohio State fans will hold their breath and hope to avoid the dreaded letdown...
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Where’s The Defense?
Today the Ohio State Buckeyes play the Purdue Boilermakers. I’ll be there, in what is likely to be a very soggy Horseshoe, looking to answer one question: what the heck has happened to the Ohio State...
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Will The Sophomores Step Up?
Tonight the Ohio State University men’s basketball team plays its first Big Ten contest of the season. The Buckeyes take on Nebraska at the Schott. It will be the start of what promises to be a very...
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The Big Ten At Midpoint
The Big Ten conference season has reached the halfway point. Two things appear to be true: the conference is filled with good teams, and the race for the regular season championship is likely to go...
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The Dreaded 9 O’Clock Start
I’m a working man. On weekdays, I get up before 5 a.m. I’m out the door and off to work by 7 a.m., and I typically don’t get home until after 6:30 p.m. Why do college basketball game planners hate...
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Huge Win In The Old Conference Now!
I stayed up for it, and I’m glad. Let the snow fall, and the winter storm roll in. I’ll take it, because the Ohio State Buckeyes have beaten the Indiana Hoosiers in one of the most improbable...
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The Reptile At Courtside
Normally I don’t pay much attention to coaches. I may hate opposing players, or think they are overrated, or wish we had them on our team, but the opposing coach is more of a non-entity. That’s why I...
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The Big Ten In The Big Dance
The NCAA Tournament is put up or shut up time. All year we hear about teams and conferences, and then March Madness comes and separates the pretenders from the contenders. This year, there’s been a...
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Pinch Me, I’m Dreaming
What year is it, anyway? Is it 1986? 1980? 1964? I’m asking because I look at the ESPN website tonight, and the Cleveland Browns are in first place, alone, in their division — thanks to the...
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Scrapping Along
Today the OSU basketball team won their first game of the season against a ranked opponent, beating Indiana 82-70. It’s a nice win, but it sure took a while to get it — a lot longer than we’ve come to...
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5-0, 1-0
Ohio State (other than Ezekiel Elliott) didn’t exactly knock my socks off yesterday in their close win over a very game Indiana Hoosiers squad, but the statistics above are the ones that count: Ohio...
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Thursday Night Big Ten Buckeyes
It’s August, it’s Thursday night, and the Ohio State Buckeye football team is playing a Big Ten game — and on the road, no less. This sort of thing isn’t supposed to happen to one of the most...
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Playing In A Pandemic
Yesterday, the Ohio State Buckeyes beat in the Indiana Hoosiers in a matchup of two top ten teams. It was an entertaining game, we learned that Justin Fields is in fact a human being, and the Buckeyes...
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The New Q(s)
Ohio State’s football season starts tomorrow, when the Men of the Scarlet and Gray travel to Bloomington to take on the Indiana Hoosiers. Every college football team starts the season with questions,...
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Some Monday-After Thoughts
I watched the Ohio State-Indiana game on Saturday. It wasn’t easy viewing. In fact, if you were not a fan of either team, or not scouting an upcoming opponent, you would have snapped off the TV and...
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