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Local March Madness TV Plans

March 17, 2009

Local CBS affiliate WOIO (Channel 19) will also use its companion station, WUAB (Channel 43), to get in all the Northeast Ohio-related games during the NCAA tournament. Akron-Gonzaga and Ohio State-Siena will be on 19, while Cleveland State-Wake Forest will be on 43. Details from the stations' announcement after the jump.

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Lucas, Hondo and the Gator

January 7, 2009

I'm on the SI.com e-mail list and today's missive included a link to the 1962 story presenting Ohio State's Jerry Lucas as Sportsman of the Year. The story is here and I loved it for a couple of reasons. One was this passage:
As a freshman, Lucas got a reputation for helping his less able dormitory [...]

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A Post-Fiesta Bowl Inspirational Message

January 6, 2009

In the wake of another Ohio State BCS bowl loss, I can't help but think of Fran Tarkenton's old monologue on "Saturday Night Live" after the Vikings lost yet another Super Bowl:
Now, I want everyone to know — especially you Vikings fans out there — that the Vikings aren't dead yet. [ the audience cheers [...]

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Monday Morning Notebook: Ugly Nights

September 15, 2008

Watched great quantities of two football games this weekend: OSU-USC and Browns-Steelers. Each was, in its own special way, ugly ball. The college game was a blowout, the pro one a mishmash of poor play by both sides — although the Browns ended up on the short end of the score and management skills, with [...]

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The Sporting Life

September 7, 2008

Besides catching a lot of pieces of "Brothers & Sisters" while the bride plowed through the second-season DVD set (and let me see that the show improved a great deal after an unpromising start), this has been a weekend for watching sports.
Defying a threat of rain, we saw the University of Akron men's soccer team, [...]

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