Super Bowl
Blog: Mo from Radio Row at the Super Bowl in Indianapolis
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Ooops
This is the front of the official NFL Super Bowl Tervis Tumbler glass that I purchased in Indianapolis.
This is the back of the official NFL Super Bowl Tervis Tumbler glass that I purchased in Indianapolis
Notice how Bengals is spelled on the official NFL Super Bowl Tervis Tumbler glass.
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OSU
Statement from Gene Smith, Ohio State Director of Athletics
“I am disappointed that negative references have been made about our football coaches, and particularly head coach Urban Meyer regarding recruiting. In our league appropriate protocol, if you have concerns, is to share those concerns with your Athletic Director (AD). Then your AD will make the determination on the appropriate communication from that point forward. The ADs in our league are professionals and communicate with each other extremely well. Urban Meyer and his staff have had a compliance conscience since they have arrived.”
Statement from Ohio State Head Coach Urban Meyer
“I was pleased to take part in a productive, regularly scheduled meeting of the Big Ten Conference coaches today in Chicago. We had an opportunity to discuss a number of issues with each other and conference staff, including those that have arisen this week. It should be noted that my coaching staff is in full compliance with our recruiting efforts, and no one on this staff did anything illegal or unethical. We will continue to comply with NCAA rules and recruit with relentless effort, especially the great state of Ohio.
“I want to thank Commissioner Delany for his insight and leadership, and at this point we all look forward to moving past this week and getting ready for the start of spring football.”
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College basketball
What if college basketball had a trade deadline?
NBCSports.com
Xavier trades Tu Holloway to Duke for Tyler Thornton and likely Duke commit Tony Parker
OK first off, we have to assume that the Blue Devils will land the highly coveted big man they are aggressively pursuing. If they do, why not flip his rights to the Musketeers for one of the country’s most talented point guards currently on an underachieving team?
The Musketeers would never admit their season is proverbially over, but I’m sure Chris Mack would embrace a blue-chip recruit to replace senior Kenny Frease. He also would receive a defensive stopper that could develop into a starter in Thornton.
For Coach K, he now gets a true point guard, which allows Austin Rivers to play off the ball and drive to the hoop from the wing.
Both teams win, and Duke may just be in position to capture the program’s fifth National Championship this season.
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Super Bowl
The 21 Rules of Surviving a Super Bowl Party
Wall Street Journal
10. Bringing a box of doughnuts to a Super Bowl party is like telling your friends you hate them.
11. You have to decide right away if this is going to be a "shushing" or "nonshushing" Super Bowl Party. In a shushing party, it's acceptable to shush someone if you want to hear what the analysts are saying. In a nonshushing party, you get smacked in the jaw if you shush somebody.
12. There is no shushing people during the commercial breaks. Absolutely not.
13. There's always one guest at every party who works in advertising or marketing and can tell you every behind-the-scenes detail about a Super Bowl commercial. This information is nowhere near as interesting as they think it is.
A Game Guide for Three Types of Fans: Novice, Casual, Expert
Wall Street Journal
Sunday's Super Bowl could be the most-watched TV show in the U.S. ever. Last year's game drew 111 million viewers, the most ever for a TV show. This year's matchup could well surpass that. As a percentage of households—the traditional measurement—the game won't approach what certain broadcasts earned in the 1970s and 1980s did, including "M*A*S*H," "Dallas" and several Super Bowls. But in this era of fragmented audiences, the game's value has soared because it leaves everything else in the dust.
This doesn't mean that all these people watch the game in the same way. Setting aside each team's loyalists, the vast majority of the viewers for Super Bowl XLVI fall into three main categories. For some, this is the only football game they will watch all year. They care little about the teams, or even the sport, but indulge in the personal and emotional sagas that the game always carries with it. Others—call them casual sports fans—keep up with the country's most popular sport throughout the fall but may have had more pressing matters in the past two weeks than breaking down the Patriots zone-blitz packages. Members of the final group make no apologies. For them, it's X-and-O heaven
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UC
Hoard: Bearcats get wake-up call
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Bengals
Boomer makes a Super call
Geoff Hobson, Bengals.com
INDIANAPOLIS — Boomer Esiason, who has called more Super Bowls than Joe Montana won, surfaced here Thursday saying he thinks the Bengals have a shot to win the AFC North next season.
“Absolutely, because of two things,” said Esiason, who is the analyst on Westwood One’s national radio call. “Baltimore is old on defense and Pittsburgh isn’t blowing up their whole team but they’re going to lose a lot of players. I think the Bengals have a chance now. If they do it right. They’ve got to get some good players in there and with a couple of good draft picks this could be a team that is a formidable foe for both Pittsburgh and Baltimore.”
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MLB
Eventful offseason has clear winner
MLB.COM
10. Reds: Cincinnati gave up a lot for frontline starter Mat Latos, sending promising slugger Yonder Alonso, starter Edinson Volquez, highly touted catching prospect Yasmani Grandal and a solid young reliever in Brad Boxberger to San Diego. But general manager Walt Jocketty also got Madson for $8.5 million, added outfielder Ryan Ludwick for $2.5 million, signed innings-eater Jeff Francis to a Minor League contract and gave up little for solid lefty reliever Sean Marshall. Now, with a deep pitching staff and a solid club all around, the Reds are legit contenders in a wide-open National League Central.
Josh Hamilton suffers another very public relapse
Jeff Passan, Yahoo Sports
The worst part about Josh Hamilton’s relapse is that he didn’t care. The most famous addict in sports does not go to a bar in the town where he is best known without full knowledge that his exploits will become public in a matter of hours. That it took three full days for Hamilton’s latest relapse to go viral – and that incriminating pictures have yet to surface – is something of a miracle.
..............That long-term contract Hamilton wanted from the Rangers? Gone. It has to be. Already the Rangers had shown little inclination to lock up long-term a player who two years ago won the American League MVP award despite missing the final month. Texas, like most other clubs, fears Hamilton’s body, brittle from his years of drug abuse, won’t hold up. Whatever leverage Hamilton held is kaput, and only the madness of free agency will land him a payday.
All it takes is one screw-up, one moment different than the millions of good ones, and an addict self-inflicts another scar. Like Hamilton said when acknowledging his wild night out three years ago, “Some people it just don’t mix with, and I’m one of those people.”
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Events for a cause
You Play and Kids Win!
Bowl for Kids' Sake is for everybody. BFKS is Big Brothers Big Sisters largest fundraising thank you party! After raising awareness and funds, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County, thanks our volunteers with Bowl for Kids' Sake “Thank You for Starting Something” events. Bowl for Kids' Sake is not about bowling, it's about having a ball while raising money to help children in Butler County. Throwing a gutter ball never felt so good!
Bring family. Bring friends. Bring neighbors.
All are welcome!
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