The women's basketball team dumped Indiana, 97-70, last night to win its seventh consecutive game.
This week's NSFW ANTI-WORK #BANGERS:
- The legend of Hanzee Dent.
- Bill Burr destroyed Steve Jobs.
- George Carlin on baseball vs. football.
CROOTS LOVE HORSESHOE AND ITS EXPERIENCE. When Urban Meyer came to Ohio State, he demanded more night games. Gene Smith acquiesced to the point we've seen Illinois and Minnesota under the lights in the last two years.
Meyer didn't do it to spite sportswriters, and he didn't do it so people could swaddle their substance abuse issues with the social acceptance of a Buckeye game.
He did it for recruiting.
247sports.com polled recruits at the U.S. Army All-American game—here's Birm's latest report—on America's best stadiums and atmospheres.
The Horseshoe topped both charts.
| NUMBER OF VOTES | SCHOOL(S) |
|---|---|
| 8 | OHIO STATE, MICHIGAN |
| 7 | TENNESSEE |
| 6 | ALABAMA, TEXAS A&M |
| 5 | LOUISIANA STATE, NOTRE DAME |
| 4 | GEORGIA |
| NUMBER OF VOTES | SCHOOL(S) |
|---|---|
| 10 | OHIO STATE |
| 9 | ALABAMA |
| 6 | CLEMSON, TEXAS A&M |
| 5 | LOUISIANA STATE |
| 4 | FLORIDA, FSU, MICHIGAN, MICHIGAN, NEBRASKA, NOTRE DAME, OLE MISS, PENN STATE |
These are the psychological masterstrokes awarded to Meyer through his psychology degree from Cincinnati.
Here's another random factoid for you: Dr. Charles Xavier, founder of the X-Men, also owns a psychology degree from Cincinnati. (You young bucks may need to google Professor X's film to understand the depth of his powers.)
CRAFT BACK. The Santa Cruz Warriors made it official late last night: Aaron Craft, formerly of Hungary's Szolnoki Olaj KK, is back in the NBA D-League.
D-League Santa Cruz is signing guard Aaron Craft to replace new Grizzlies guard Elliot Williams, source said. Craft expected to play Friday.
— Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) January 7, 2016
Craft won a D-League championship and Defensive Player of the Year honors with the Warriors last year. He'll be in action tonight against the Iowa Energy at 10:30 ET on NBA TV if you're looking for something to do.
A TBDBITL #LONGREAD. The Best Damn Band in the Land suffered a hit to its sterling image last year in wake of accusations of a sanctioned sexually-charged culture that cost director Jon Waters his job.
TBDBITL got back to business during the football season—not that anybody expected anything less—that's peak included the greatest invasion of Britain since Emperor Claudius.
Yesterday, rollingstone.com released its #longform on TBDIBTL's reformation:
As part of its reform, the university administration took control of the group, expanding mandatory seminars on alcohol abuse and sexual harassment and strictly monitoring the behavior of its members. Ohio State faced a serious problem and reacted seriously. But the broader consequences of the band's makeover linger. While sexual assault scandals have upended campus life from Columbia to North Carolina and shaken college football programs from Notre Dame to Florida State, the Ohio State University Marching Band stands out as a voluntary student organization, where what matters most is not future success, wealth or fame, but friends, memories and the chance to indulge peculiar enthusiasms. How does this group of kids, once entrusted to carry on a cherished tradition, recover from feeling they were described as perverts by their own university?
"The hardest part about last year for us was the hurt we felt when we saw this organization we loved so much go through the mud like that," [drum major Nate] MacMaster tells me. "I read the report when it came out, and I thought, 'I don't even know this band,' because it's just not who we are. We love this band. And we kind of came together and decided we could control how we're represented from now on. That's the only way we could cope with what happened."
And that's why they're still The Best Damn Band in the Land.
Meanwhile, Jon Waters can no longer afford his high-priced lawyers in his lawsuit against the inexhaustible resources of The Ohio State University.
NOAH SPENCE ALMOST HOME. An addiction to ecstasy cost Noah Spence his Ohio State career. It's an addiction he'll battle for the rest of his life, but he appears to have righted the ship during his stint at Eastern Kentucky.
I've done a lot of digging on DE/OLB Noah Spence over the last few months, trying to gather as much info as possible on his character. (1/2)
— Dane Brugler (@dpbrugler) January 8, 2016
I don't think I've ever studied a player w/ his baggage yet there are so many (former coaches, etc) who still speak highly of his character.
— Dane Brugler (@dpbrugler) January 8, 2016
Glad to see addiction didn't cost Spence a shot at his dreams. He's going to slide to a good team with veteran leadership and (fingers crossed) have a career becoming of his talent.
I will, however, always be somewhat salty we never got to witness the true weaponization of the Spence/Bosa tandem.
MY BOSS TRIPPED TEDDY VALENTINE. From Wednesday night's men's basketball win over Northwestern: Watch the ref under the basket. That's "TV" Teddy Valentine falling over the feet of 11W's proprietor, Jason Priestas:
Poor Teddy is banned from the site now.
THOSE WMDs. Shadowing Baltimore murder police... How the weird, unfiltered internet became a media goldmine... Almost half of parents know their #teen's email password... The deadly car crash that led to GM's ignition switch scandal... Who controls your Facebook feed?
