An Ohio State Sports Blog
You can take your high US News and World Report rankings, we don’t need ’em! Brian Williams says that, “There is nothing wrong with America that someone from Ohio State can’t fix.”
You know this, man!
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(via Breitbart.tv)
Huge congratulations to the OSU class of 2008. Welcome to the family.
“Confiming what we already knew: Michigan fans are a bunch of man-babies” – el Kaiser
You guys can do better than that. Add your captions in the comments.
I wanted to highlight a couple articles that have piqued my interested lately.
The first is a little bit old, but it was ESPN’s first mock draft for the NBA that had the Cavaliers somehow ending up with Kosta Koufos (h/t The Sports Diva Magazine). I think Kosta will eventually become a solid NBA performer but he needs to get mean first. He needs to get to the free throw line a little more frequently for a big man. But the Cavs have a need to start developing the next Zydrunas and he could fit that bill nicely. Another part of the article mentioned the possibility of the Bucks wanting to trade Michael Redd away in their efforts to rebuild. I know it’s a long shot and pipe dream, but I would love to see Redd in the Wine and Gold.
One can dream.
The other is about a MotSaG hero, our favorite #10, Troy Smith (h/t The Silver Bullet):
With a big arm and even bigger chip on his shoulder, Smith has outplayed the other quarterbacks during this spring’s minicamps, backing up his claim there is “no doubt” he can go from a fifth-round pick to a starting quarterback in one season.
Everyone in Buckeye Nation wants to see Troy prove all the non-believers wrong. Even if he is a Raven, we are all rooting for him to take over his team and succeed.
The coaching staff, though, has been just as impressed with Smith off the field as on it. He has perfect attendance in the weight room and the classroom.
This is what four years under Jim Tressel will do. When Smith was a freshman, a quote like this would have surprised me. Four years later, not so much.
He proved himself to the team when he showed poise despite being pushed into starting the final two games last season. It seems veterans respond to Smith more than the other quarterbacks.
Looks like the Ravens are starting to see what Buckeye fans saw at the end of the 2004 season and the beginning of 2005. The Buckeyes just played better when Troy came in. It was a noticeable difference in the way the other players responded when he came into the huddle. It was his team and everyone played that way.
So good luck, Troy. Just not when you play the Browns.
I know we have been slacking in the updates department around these parts, but we have legitimate excuses. They come in the form of little 12 cm discs of gaming goodness. To pass the boredom of the off-season, the Monkey and I turn to electronic entertainment to pass the time. Myself, I can’t drag myself away from Grand Theft Auto IV. You might have heard of it.
The Monkey and I also have been getting our Mario Kart Wii on. While it’s no GTA IV, it’s no slouch either.
We’ve also been Twittering away like the good Web 2.0 acolytes we are. Everyone should know what I had for breakfast, that’s my mantra.
If you’re interested in a different side of us bloggers, you can check out our Twitter feeds. You do Twitter, don’t you? Of course you do. How do we know? Lots of reasons. For one, you’re reading this blog. That says a lot about you. It says you’re savvy, you’re handsome/beautiful, and of course, due to your association with the Ohio State University, you’re well educated. So we’re sure you know all about Twitter. You can follow the Monkey here and el Kaiser here.
If you don’t know what Twitter is, let us know. We’ll be more than happy to explain.
We’ll be exploring other Web 2.0 fun stuff as we get closer to the season, but we’ll be going into full blogging mode as soon as we can shake the shackles of the real world. Niko isn’t going to take over Liberty City by himself, you know.
“Look, daddy, a girl football player”
– My five year old daughter, watching Sports Center with me, watching a bit on Jeremy Shockey with his golden locks flowing out from under his helmet.
Neither the sportsMonkey nor I will be able to make it to the Spring Game tomorrow, much to our chagrin, but we’d really like to have someone on the scene that could give us some first hand thoughts and remarks about what goes on during the game.
If you’ve ever dreamed of writing for Men of the Scarlet and Gray (and let’s be honest — who hasn’t?) then shoot us an email to motsag@gmail.com and let us know. I know it’s short notice, but we’d love to have some immediate feedback to post from the sidelines.
Also, if you’ve got pictures to share from the Spring Game, send them here, too. We’d love to see them!
Both the Monkey and I work in the same office, in an underground government facility deep within the bowels of the Marble Cliff Quarry. We are swamped with more work than either of us can handle. The stress is getting to us. I had to talk the Monkey off the ledge, telling he had so much to live for, that jumping wasn’t worth it. He would have only fell four inches (we are underground, afterall) but the kid has so much going for him. It would be a shame to see him throw it all away. He’s doing better now, but this is our way of saying that the blogging lightness will continue for a little while. You’d think we could blog from our Crays, but the powers-that-be kind of frown on that kind of online activity. So you get scatter-shot blogging for the time being. Apologies in advance.
We heard through the grapevine that Vernon Gholston was due to appear at a local Buckeye Corner this past weekend (wasn’t Easter a couple weeks ago?). Did anyone make it? I wanted to go, but I didn’t want my face to melt from the glory.
Hope everyone is having a good week. Mike Adams isn’t having one, but I’m optimistic. He’ll be pushing people around soon enough, making room for Beanie and his Stiff Arm of Tackling Fail. On his way to his Heisman.
On the blogging side of things, I recently upgraded to WordPress 2.5, which is a really nice improvement to the admin side of things for the blog. There is also a built-in image gallery, so I’ll be testing that out with all our pictures of our favorite #50. Look for that soon.
Our contact page is currently under repair, so if you want to get in touch with us, don’t hesistate to drop us a line at motsag@gmail.com!
… For which it apologizes.
Who says the NIT isn’t exciting? I was at the Quaker Steak last night with my bro-in-law, having my way with a basket of chicken wings with the UMass/Syracuse game on in the background. The BIL commented that certainly UMass couldn’t come back from 20 down, right? I mentioned there were ten minutes left, anything can happen, but probably not. We watched in awe as UMass did the pretty much impossible.
It was a lot more enjoyable to watch than Duke embarrass itself last week.
Let’s hope tonight’s game is just as exciting.
Sometimes I wish I could be adopted in the Tressel family. Just kidding mom and dad!
One of my favorite stories about Tressel is when he explained to his kids what it means to take the OSU job, and said, “when dad lost games at Youngstown State, eighty thousand people would say he was an idiot. Once I’m at Ohio State and I lose a game, eight hundred thousand people would say I’m was an idiot.” I think he underestimated.
No one likes the Knicks. And no one likes desperate fans. This is just sad.
For your OSU football fix, Sunday Morning Quarterback preps you for a season of smack talk from fans of teams from other conferences. No matter how irrational or ignorant we all know this kind of talk is, be prepared to listen to it all season long.
It is going to chafe so many people’s hides when the Buckeyes are in the BCS title game yet again. I can’t wait.
I don’t talk much about the Indians here, but I couldn’t pass this up. When The Dugout did their thing with the Indians, I almost died laughing. This is probably only funny to me, but man are those guys good.
Pronky_Kong: then we could talk about how my dog and I can do the Fastball Special like Wolverine and Colossus and how Casey Blake is totally screwed
That, my friends, is absolutely pure genius.
Finally, your new blogs are: Our Honor Defend and Dotting The “I”
Go Buckeyes! Beat the Flyers.
The Buckeyes aren’t in the tournament? That makes MM muy sad.
But that’s just the tip of the old iceberg. What else is happening in the world of sports in the Ohio?
Anything you can do, we can do better: There’s a brief article in the FreeP about Ohio State (and Minnesota) sending some of its defensive position coaches down to South Florida to get some pointers on stopping the Rodriguez Spread Express. The USF Bulls shut it down two years in a row, they must be doing something right. Unfortunately, it looks like they’re rather tight-lipped:
Burnham said, though, “There are a few subtle things I keep to myself. We don’t give away all our secrets.”
Punks.
Terrel Pryor watch: The blogs were abuzz late last week with the announcement that Pryor would be making his decision this week, as he had narrowed his choices down to two schools. I think there’s a 98.43% chance he’s a Buckeye. 11W are a little concerned about him throwing around the word “just” as in “I may just play basketball” as in “I may just go to Memphis.”
Nah, that ain’t happening.
I’m majoring in Quarterbacking: I mentioned yesterday about the academic shenanigans going on up north. Part two of the story is up.
Roll the Bones: Don’t forget about joining us in our Yahoo Tournament Pick’em.
New blogs: Jim Tressel’s Head (They’re on top of the preemptive smack talk going down at USC) and Cleveland Frowns, who gets a big old tip-of-the-hat for a most excellent blog name.
And finally, because it’s been a while, it’s your Vernon Gholston shot for the week:
I know it’s not as fun to play the brackets without our beloved Buckeyes, but that won’t stop us from holding the second annual Yahoo Pick’em Tournament contest!
Due to circumstances outside our control, last year’s prize was not redeemed. I guess that means we’ll just have an even bigger prize now.
If your interested in participating, email us at motsag@gmail.com or use the contact form and let us know you’re interested. We’ll send the invite along straight away.
