16th May 2012
Urban Meyer talks about Buckeyes moving into the lineup and more
From the conference’s pre-bowl release (Dec. 2011):
Into Opponent’s Territory: For the seventh consecutive season, at least two of the Big Ten bowl matchups will be virtual road games, with conference teams facing schools from the state in which the bowl will be played. This season, five of the Big Ten’s bowl contingent will face an opponent who will be playing in their home state this postseason. Purdue will take on Western Michigan in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl (Detroit, Mich.), Northwestern takes on Texas A&M in the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas (Houston, Texas), Illinois faces UCLA in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl (San Francisco, Calif.), Penn State challenges Houston in the TicketCity Bowl (Dallas, Texas) and Ohio State will take on Florida in the TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl (Jacksonville, Fla.). Including these virtual road bowl contests, the Big Ten leads all conferences with 21 “road” bowl games over the last seven seasons. Over that span, the Big East is next with just nine “road” bowl games, followed by the ACC (7), Big 12 (7), SEC (4) and Pac-12 (2).
(Source: bigten.org)
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From the lotto, it’s Votto!
Some hits and misses in this piece from Steve Kerr, a guy who brings the perspective of player, executive and broadcaster.
The most interesting is in regards to Garnett and Bryant and the contrast with Howard and James.
Garnett and Bryant both came into the league as curiosities with little expected or asked of them as rookies. After they blazed the trail, expectations were raised for guys like Howard and James, for better or for worse.
This entry in “Country Song Or College Football Recruiting Ballad?” earns its spot thanks to the chorus:
For me you’ll always be 18
And beautiful and dancin’ away with my heart
But the third verse doesn’t hurt, either, if you’re familiar with how the tide turns on many a highly rated player who doesn’t quite pan out:
You headed off to college at the end of that summer and we lost touch
I guess I didn’t realize even at that moment we lost so much
‘Right,’ he said. ‘We’ll go native.’"
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#project365 a #photography project by @a_sablan From the Walkway at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio.
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