Other Ohio Sports

Somewhere, Woody Hayes has a smile you couldn't pry off his face with a crowbar.

Luke Fickell's Buckeyes beat Illinois on the road while throwing only four passes, completing just one. That throw from Braxton Miller to Jake Stoneburner was a backbreaking touchdown in the fourth quarter.

Woody's proud folks.

What the freshman quarterback managed to accomplish was, for the second straight week, providing a spark to his offense with his feet and continuing to ...

Late in Saturday night's contest between Nebraska and Ohio State, with the Buckeyes leading and moving the ball better than they had all season, disaster struck.

Braxton Miller went down with an ankle injury, Joe Bauserman warmed up, and Luke Fickell didn't stand up and say "waaaiiiittt a minute here."

You know the rest of the story, the Buckeyes went on to blow it and lost 34-27. On the plus side, they covered the spread. On the downside, ...

So the Tribe loses ten in a row, in the midst of which, they trade their ace and most popular player...and two days later start a four game sweep of the team with the best record in baseball knocking them from first place...go figure.

'Tis the way it goes as an Ohio sports fan.

-RD

Or at least it seems that way today...

I've watched for the past two days as my fellow Blue Jackets fans on a major hockey board ran the gamut of emotions from jumping off a cliff to head over heels excited...in the course of 5 hours...

Roughly 4 p.m., Nikolai Zherdev was dealt to the Rangers with Dan Fritsche for a pair of defensemen, and the board...went...off...the...deep...end...

Five hours later...the Jackets ink Kristian Huselius to a 4 year deal, ...

Got my hopes up (stupid me) of a potential deal to make the Cavs better. Instead, I got a power forward who needs a bit of developin'.

Oh well, one of the guys over at RCF says he's exactly what we were looking for, and Chad Ford of Four Letter Company I Dare Not Name likes him so...good enough for me I guess.

I still think we end up seeing someone by the name of Redd in a Cavaliers uni by the trading deadline...at least I keep praying and hoping. I also think we could ...