Big Tuesday night results from Cleveland: The basketball team beat the Knicks, 117-88, and the baseball team beat the Cubs, 6-0, in Game 1 of the World Series.
LeBron James and Corey Kluber are still good.
— Kenny Lofton (@Kenny_Lofton7) October 25, 2016
We now return to the regularly scheduled broadcast.
IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? Urban Meyer said Tuesday afternoon he expected his most veteran receiver, Dr. Corey Smith, to return against Northwestern.
What can the good doctor add to the receiving corps, besides firsthand Woody Hayes tales?
From cleveland.com:
A fifth-year senior, Smith has never really been much of a factor in the passing game. The biggest boost he has given the Buckeyes is on special teams.
But when asked what kind of lift Smith could provide, Meyer said two words that would make any Ohio State fan's ears perk up: "Deep threat."
"Experience, special teams, he's very active in special teams," Meyer said. "And (he's a) deep threat."
Ohio State could use help in both departments, so Smith returns at an opportune time.
You might be asking, "Why is he referring to Corey Smith as a doctor?" Well, he's almost been around long enough to earn a medical degree, which qualifies as one in the City of Kings.
He could also be the remedy. He has the speed to beat college cornerbacks. He has the talent to catch balls in the middle of the field underneath the deep zones. A talent like that is exactly what the doctor ordered for the OSU offense. It's on Smith to produce.
TWITTER COACHES TAKE HEED. If you've been four IPAs deep after your team suffers the fifth loss in five years and thought, "Hell, I could lead this program better than Urban Meyer," today is your lucky day.
It's time to show that three-time national champion what a real grid machine mastermind looks like. It's time to become a Master of Sports Coaching.
From ehe.osu.edu:
Master of Sports Coaching
The Master of Sports Coaching is a one-of-a-kind degree from The Ohio State University that gives highly motivated and experienced coaches the professional skills needed for success in the 21st century. You'll learn from Ohio State faculty who are experts and former coaches, as well as from current coaches in the Ohio State athletics department as they teach you what it takes to make critical decisions and maintain high ethical standards while you train and motivate youth and adult athletes to perform at their very best.Overview
The Master of Sports Coaching (MSpC) is designed to develop high quality graduates who possess an excellent understanding of coaching. The program of study provides you with advanced understanding in coaching effectiveness, mental preparation and performance in sport, nutrition and conditioning for athletes, sport ethics, skill analysis, sports medicine, the role of race and gender in sport, sport marketing and sport law. You will develop skills in analysis, critical reflection, problem-solving and coaching. Your work will be grounded in coaching practice, research and in considering case studies. You will learn from Ohio State faculty and coaches as well as from peers. There are no internships in this degree - you are expected to be actively involved in coaching during the degree.
As blogger and assistant to the offensive coordinator (only when they run the good plays), I don't need credentials like this.
But it's time for everybody slagging Ed Warinner and Tim Beck to put skin in the game. The local team needs your genius.
WHH AIN'T NO WGH, THO. The Buckeye State: The slice of paradise we all love to know. How did the moniker come to be, though? It wasn't something I pondered until yesterday while searching the post-loss hellscape for local team #content.
From ohiostate.edu:
William Henry Harrison.The Whig Party portrayed [Major General William Henry] Harrison as a poor man living in a cabin and sipping hard cider, the drink of the common man, when in reality, he lived in a mansion near Cincinnati and hated the alcoholic drink. But this was one of the first presidential campaigns — and hardly the last — in which facts didn’t matter much.
Hell, I await the day my enemies try to slander me for living like a hermit and drinking a dangerous alcoholic elixir while I'm actually living in a mansion. That will be the last mistake of their pathetic careers.
But, alas, 1840 wasn't as lit as 2016.
To test Harrison’s new image, the Whigs organized a huge rally in Columbus in February 1840. A miles-long parade featured full-sized log cabins on wheels and pulled by horses. Most of the cabins were made from buckeye trees. Riders on a rolling cabin from nearby Marysville sang a song written for the occasion by a local man, Otway Curry. He called it the “Log Cabin Song” and it went, in part:
Oh what, tell me what, is to be your cabin's fate?
We'll wheel it to the capital and place it there elate,
For a token and a sign of the bonnie Buckeye StateThe Harrison rallies spread across the country like wildfire, drawing thousands of people. Harrison became known as the Buckeye State candidate. More Buckeye songs were written about him and the state of Ohio.
And now we drink alcohol, grill meat, and eat cheese in the parking lot outside the Horseshoe before cheering on the Buckeyes. That's a way more baller legacy than the presidency of the United States (no offense, my interns are already trying to delete).
BOILER UP. People forget about Purdue. Penn State hosts Iowa for a night game next week, but the Nittany Lions want you to know they aren't overlooking the Boilermakers.
From centredaily.com:
The Nittany Lions host Iowa, arguably Penn State’s toughest opponent the rest of the season, for a night game on Nov. 5, but travel to West Lafayette to face the Boilermakers (3-4, 1-3) this weekend.
Gesicki watched some of Purdue’s game against No. 7 Nebraska in the team hotel before the Nittany Lions’ matchup with Ohio State, and he came away impressed.
“People are kind of disrespecting Purdue,” the tight end said of the Boilermakers, who led the Cornhuskers at halftime.
Penn State is losing between now and Nov. 26, but the Purdue game is impossible to read. No result would surprise me.
The only other game where I feel like that is Michigan at Michigan State. All signs point to UM downloading a decade of insecurities and anger onto Michael D'antonio's hard drive, but I could also see MSU powering through with the #disrespekt hustle.
I need to see the first five minutes to foretell what happens.
MIKE LEACH IS GOOD AGAIN. I got mad #online a month ago about Mike Leach throwing his team under the bus. The Cougs are 5-2 and 4-0 in the Pac-12.
Here's Leach, in typical Leach fashion, explaining how he picked a team captain:
Another MUST WATCH from Mike Leach: The most amazing reason for picking a player to be team captain. Hilarious!!! pic.twitter.com/XApp0tf0Gw
— Aaron Levine (@AaronQ13Fox) October 25, 2016
Like I said. Leach is good until he makes another bad remark. In the meantime, this feels like the year he knocks Washington out of the playoff hunt.
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