In 2007, students at the Ohio State University voted in favor of erecting an on-campus statue to salute legendary Buckeyes football coach Woody Hayes. A year later, it appears that idea has been sacked.
(Woody enjoying spring practice in Columbus)
THE WIZARD OF ODDS punches up news that no further progress has been made in honoring Hayes. No artisan contracted, no location determined, not even the type of material for the statue has been decided.
Pryor & his Jeannette High School teammates scuffled with players from North Catholic after the Jayhawks’ playoff victory on Saturday. Catholic coach Dave Long said the Jeannette players went after his squad outside the locker rooms. But Pryor claims the Catholic kids started it with verbal attacks of their own: Read more…
With the presidential race in full swing, THE WIZARD OF ODDS digs up this little political gem from Woody Hayes, as the ex-Ohio State coach endorses one of his former Buckeyes running for Columbus City Council:
Even though Hayes was a staunch Republican, he apparently had no trouble doing an ad for Democrat Ben Espy. Good to see that for Woody, party lines don’t matter when punching up political support for ex-players.
TRESSEL NOT BUCKEYEING CLEVELAND FOR FUTURE VISITS: It’s not bee a good year for the fine folks of Cleveland. First, the Cavs fail to win the NBA championship, let alone one game in the Finals. Then Browns fans had to endure a Brady Quinn holdout.
Now, Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel will no longer be making yearly stops to their fair city.The CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER reports that the Ohio State Alumni Club of Greater Cleveland was told by Tressel and the OSU Alumni Association that this would be the last year the Buckeyes leader would make a guaranteed appearance.
The turn of events will end a continuous streak of head coach visits to the Cleveland club that began back in 1952, starting in the second season of Buckeye legend and unsuccessful boxerWoody Hayes.
The Alumni Association says they want to offer more groups better chances of getting Tressel to speak at their locales, claiming there are about 80 OSU alumni clubs in Ohio and another 117 outside the Buckeye borders.So, it wouldn’t be fair to deprive the good folks of Zanesville, Ashtabula and East Liverpool their Tressel trips. And it’s not like Cleveland’s a big city with thousands of Buckeyes fans or anything.
The LOS ANGELES TIMES reports the rock band Dead Schembechlers will headline tomorrow’s “Hate Michigan” pep rally in Columbus, Ohio.
Some of the band’s setlist includes: “Bomb Ann Arbor Now,” “I Don’t Wanna Be A Wolverine,” “Schembechler Kicked My Crippled Dog” and “Bo for 24,” a reference to former Michigan coach Bo Schembechler’s “failing to win a national championship in his 24 years” as UM head coach.
