Full disclosure. I've got (ahem) a few miles under the hood, but my brain still longs to be thirty. So you might imagine my shock when reality collided with illusion. Not only am I old enough to be a grandma, I AM one. And I am completely, totally, whole-heartedly in love. We didn't know whether ...

First and 4: Recapping week 1 Top-10 Bold Prediction: Alabama starts 0-1 for the first time in 15 years USC came in with some swagger, and actually looked decent early in the game, particularly on defense.  But eventually it became clear that they were over-matched, as ...

A couple weeks ago, 11W Buckshot linked to a series of "heat maps" created by the Rukkus blog, which mapped out the hometowns of all 13K+ players on 2016 FBS rosters. The following week, the Cleveland Plain Dealer pondered why Ohio State football might be one the most indest...

THE RUNNING START When: Saturday, September 10, 2016 Where: Columbus, OH, Ohio Stadium TV: 3:30 ABC / WatchESPN Announcers: Dave Pasch, Greg McElroy and Tom Luginbill This is the inaugural game between Ohio State and Tulsa in football.  ...

Welcome to the much anticipated 2016 regular season debut of Under the Fedora. sure to be almost as spectacular as the Buckeyes' season opener. Green With Envy I'd like to think that Ohio State is at good as it looked against the Falcons, but since old coaches never die, they just write st...

In the 127th season-opener, Bowling Green has its stats stuffed. BOWLING GREEN'S OFFENSIVE NUMBERS In 2015, Bowling Green finished the season as the nation's fourth-ranked offense in total yards (546.8) and averaged 42.2 points per game (6th). With a new c...

 >poof< Time Traveler here. Ah, my friends in the midst of my history!  Greetings and Sanitation to you all! Hey, I found these ancient history pods in the basement of the old monument building, and I just had to portal back and share this incredible find.  Yeah, I know...

First and 10: Off-season recap Some things happened.   Second and 15: Predicting the future! Top-10 Bold Prediction: Alabama starts 0-1 for the first time in 15 years USC rolls the Tide: 27 - 24.   B1G Bold Prediction: Eastern Kentucky upsets Purdue in op...

It's a new season, and with it comes a new format for my college football coverage. All the bold predictions, recaps, analysis, tongue-in-cheek commentary, and more jammed into one weekly post (except for this first week, which will have two). This is College Football Three and Out.   Fir...

Good write-up in Sunday's Columbus Dispatch by Todd Jones titled "Games are about wins, losses, big money"  Jones begins "Like the universe, college football keeps expanding. More teams. More games. More money. The sport stretches on and on, year after year." The editorial ends by asking thi...

Due to the overwhelming response I have received from the the offseason haikupalooza, I have prepared a very special Fedora for fans of the ancient art of haiku.  Enjoy! On the Browns: Hope springs eternal Another season begins Browns still in first place   Josh Gordon is...

Was watching the BTN Network's BTN Live this morning. The highlights and interviews from TTUN make my skin crawl.  My deep seated animosity envelops everything about the program.  It hasn’t always been this rooted into the fabric of my being, rather it has grown over the years as...

Not sure about you, but I've reached that point in my summer where I can officially focus on almost nothing but Buckeye football. Sure, I have a wife and kid, but they understand. As such, when I think about Buckeye football, I also keep an eye on That School Up North to try and gauge what ...

We sat on the bus in silence as it traveled through the darkness.  All of us felt the weight of what was coming in the hours ahead.  It was a nervousness filled with anticipation.  It was a foreboding quiet.  It was a void that would later be filled with an explosion of sounds an...

"So there I was, diligently covering up all the continuum tracks that would lead back to me..." <poof> Oh...hi.  Time Traveler here. If I told you that a thousand years from now you'd have practical jokers like me showing up just to humor the ancient Ohio State fans (from...

This edition of Under the Fedora will be a bit of a departure.  There will be no Ohio State Football talk, no general sports blathering, no hot Browns takes (sorry, CWRU).  This Fedora is a tale of incompetence, rage, and incomprehensibility.  It is long, but hopefully written in a wa...

First, a little background. I was born and raised in the Akron/Canton area (a long time ago). My parents were quite frugal when it came to food, so we rarely ate out or ordered pizza. My extended family lived in Columbus (my father had been transferred to Canton just before I was born) and when we v...

While taking my daughter to her physical therapy appointment this morning, I was listening to Mike and Mike. They were talking with Darryl Strawberry about his time with the Mets and his struggle with addiction that nearly ruined his life. One thing that he discussed at length was the fact that...

A trial date has been set for the alleged murder of former New Orleans Saints and Ohio State defensive lineman Will Smith, but the defense doesn’t approve of it.  Sept. 20 is the date set for the trial of Cardell Hayes, who has been charged with second-degree murder for shooting and...

Our long regional nightmare is over, Cleveland sports fans.  Led by a favorite prodigal son of NEO, once both rejecter and rejected, now etched into the annals of Cleveland sportslore as the former manchild, now manbeast who would conduct them to a place that only a remaining few fans had ...