Both basketball teams battled Wisconsin on Thursday night with mixed results.
- The women felled the Badgers, 87-61.
- The men fell to the Badgers, 79-68. JaQuan Lyle finished with 27 points after using haters' words as motivation. The starters finished with 22 points.
This week's NSFW ANTI-WORK #BANGERS:
- Isaac Hayes – Black Moses (Japan Edition).
- Chris "Beanie" Wells – Stiff-arm compilation.
- Chappelle's Show – Haters' Ball.
AN UNBREAKABLE BOND. Former Buckeye footballer Tyson Gentry suffered a broken neck in 2006 after a routine tackle at the hands of safety Kurt Coleman. He's been paralyzed ever since.
That bond is one only the two of them can understand, and it's one that even 10 years couldn't break.
From espn.com:
When Coleman takes the field for the Super Bowl on Sunday, Gentry and his wife Megan will be rooting hard for the Panthers from their home in Tampa, Florida. Coleman, in part, is playing for Gentry and hopes to "bring him back something." This is the story of a remarkable relationship that sprung from that horrific accident 10 years ago.
"Obviously," Coleman said last week at the Panthers' training facility, "you can never brace yourself for the impact of severely hurting somebody and paralyzing them for the rest of their lives. He's one of the greatest men that I've known through what he's done and the person that he's become."
Said Gentry: "I cannot honestly put myself in his shoes as far as what he felt after that play, but I think it connected us forever."
It's easy to talk about Buckeye family and brotherhood when trophies are being hoisted... this friendship is the embodiment of those words.
Props to both of these men. BTW, that article comes with a video, and it will bronco kick you in the feelings.
LOOKS LIKE DARRON LEE'S BEEN TRAINING. Darron Lee, in a since-deleted tweet, laughed at a draft analyst who speculated he could come into the combine at 225. Lee has been moving weight in preparation for the draft, and he expects to shatter that number.
The added weight doesn't appear to be weighing him down, however:
I think Ohio State LB Darron Lee is pretty athletic! #GoBucks pic.twitter.com/FinASAeZSc
— The Buckeye Nut (@TheBuckeyeNut) February 4, 2016
That video was taken at the 2016 All-Star Football Challenge down in Dallas. If you're bored and thirsty for Buckeye football tonight, it airs at 7 p.m. on ESPN2. Cardale Jones also participated.
SMITH GETS B1G HONORS. The No. 1 factor in Urban Meyer's judgment of his assistants is recruiting. Zach Smith, who could see two former pupils drafted in the first round of the 2016 draft, earned Scout's Big Ten Recruiter of the Year for his 2016 efforts.
From scout.com:
Smith landed two four-star receivers, Austin Mack and Binjimen Victor. The latter is a Florida kid who could have easily stayed down south. He also landed Wayne Davis, another four-star prospect, as well as offensive lineman Gavin Cupp, who was a Michigan State commitment and ended up in the Buckeye class.
Here's a tidbit I picked up from Birm on National Signing Day: The shorthand of Binjimen is Ben. Another one: He's of Haitian descent.
South Florida to Columbus can be a helluva jump for an 18-year-old. (*Torrance Gibson, somewhere in the distance, nods wistfully*) Let's hope the winters stay mild.
TED GINN TALKS MUSIC. Ted Ginn's game day playlist: Meek Mill, Future, Drake, and Jay Z. Given the results this year, it's hard to argue with that. Hell, Future basically beat the Seahawks when he dropped Purple Reign on game day.
You can see more of this behind-the-scenes look at Ted Ginn on The Lineup, which airs Saturday at 9 p.m. on FUSE.
BROWNS TRY A HUSTLE, GET CAUGHT. Becoming a Browns fan was easily one of the worst decisions of my life. Whenever you think they hit rock bottom, they bust out jackhammers and burrow into previously unlocked circles of Hell. El Chapo would shit himself with envy if he learned about the Browns' tunneling abilities.
The Browns are coming off a train wreck 3-13 season. Jimmy Haslam hit up a Harvard job fair for a new brain trust. Their trash third-string quarterback is a worse person than he is a quarterback.
And yet! Annnnd yeeeettt!
They found a completely new way to make me want to stuff the last shards of my soul into a blender.
From cleveland.com:
The Cleveland Browns and the Columbus business community want Greater Cleveland taxpayers to help pay $5 million for the Browns to move their training camp to a site on or near the Ohio State University campus.
This outrageous request was quietly added to a list of projects the Columbus Partnership wants funded in the biennial state capital improvements bill, scheduled to be introduced in late March or early April.
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That list, asking that Ohio taxpayers spend $5 million to move the Browns' training camp to Columbus every year for at least the next decade, has been sent to leaders in the House and Senate, and to the office of Gov. John Kasich.
Word of advice to the Columbus Partnership: When trying to bilk $5,000,000 to help a billion-dollar franchise move practice 130 miles south... don't go into business with literally the most inept billion-dollar franchise in existence. YOU WILL GET CAUGHT.
Word of advice to the Browns: The good people of Cleveland have given way too much money and been rewarded with way too little to ever justify moving practice to Columbus. It's thirsty, and there are only 83 Bengal fans here anyway. Please stop pandering and win some games.
THOSE WMDs. T. S. Eliot on what makes good fiction... Missing cat found twice its size after spending 14 months in a pet food factory... Search any Simpsons quote and get the stills... The lives and lies of a professional impostor... Yeah, this is a bad newspaper ad.
