Category: OSU Football (Page 33 of 42)

If you look at the list of past Lombardi award winners, some pretty good names. You got Chris Spielman and Orlando Pace on there, Warren Sapp, Julius Peppers, Cornelius Bennet….

This burglary at A.J. Hawk’s & Nick Mangold’s place doesn’t look good. Not at all. I agree with Chas Rich…there’s probably a lot more to this than meets the eye.

I won’t even speculate as to why it took them 5 days to make a police report. So, if Mr. Mangold doesn’t “have a lot,” can we assume the cash wasn’t his? One of the 3 kids better be quite wealthy to explain how they had $3000 just sitting around a college apartment. No reason to think that they may have received it from a booster or such. Or maybe they are lying just for the insurance settlement (learning nothing from Maurice Clarett).

I’ll speculate as to why it took them 5 days to make a police report. (a) They’re dopes, (b) they have something to hide, and (c) they’re dopes. Just what the team needs going into a bowl game. Apparently their folks are “funding” them.

“My son went off to college with a brand-new Impala — I bought it for him,” Vern Mangold said. “A.J. has a brand-new car that his dad bought for him. Not every kid that goes to Ohio State is indigent…Don’t get me wrong. Neither Keith (Hawk) nor I are wealthy, by any stretch of the imagination. We’re just above-average, middle-class folks. But we keep the kids funded. Whatever they need, we try to take care of them.”

How many parents send their kids off to school with $3,000 in cash?

The Fiesta Bowl should be a very good game. Ohio State’s great defense versus Notre Dame’s great offense.

This will be the fifth time the Fighting Irish and Buckeyes have met, the first time at a neutral site or in a bowl. Notre Dame won the first two meetings, 18-13 in 1935 in what many historians have referred to as one of the greatest college games ever. The Fighting Irish also won a year later, 7-2.

Aside from being in the national championship game, this is probably the best way to end a good year for the Buckeyes. It’ll be a real test…the Irish sometimes seem able to score at will. But they’ve never seen a defense like Ohio State’s.

Buckeyes stay at #6. Can they resist an OSU-Notre Dame matchup?

OSU’s Cleveland alumni chapter is holding its banquet tonight…the Cleveland Scores crowd will be in attendance. Jim Tressel, Troy Smith, and Ted Ginn Jr. were all there last year. I’m not an alum, but some of my best friends are! Should be fun….especially since OSU beat Michigan.