buckeyemania11 said:

That last "shot" he took in regulation definitely should trigger an investigation. Looked like he was trying to toss up an ally oop to nobody

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No one wants to be the guy screaming conspiracy yet when you look at it, from star treatment to crooked refs to load management and tanking the NBA has long been the most suspect of all the major pro sports (no comparative data to back that up, just my .02)

Tim Donaghy outright confirmed league pressure to officiate in certain ways under oath
Jontay Porter got busted point shaving
There is a prop market investigation going on in NBA just like they nailed that idiot Cleveland pitcher for
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Not rigged but "influenced" more than any other sport. Regular season NBA is un-betable (if you bet to make money) and shit like last night is so outlandishly hard to believe you have to wonder.

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I’m sure Kirby will get him up to speed soon.

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I see what you did there.

Queue up more of the "WE'VE NEVER SEEN A QB LIKE THIS!" type crap.

Guy didn't improve at all as the season progressed last year and in the spring game he looked exactly the same that he did last year. SURE "just getting his feet wet"

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Lettuce introduce you to the live frog found in this grocery store salad bag

An Australian farmer has found a live frog in a bag of lettuce. Laura Jones said on Tuesday one of her house mates in Esperance in Western Australia state found the frog inside a sealed plastic bag he’d bought from a supermarket.

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When Australian farmer Rhys Smoker announced he’d found a live frog in a bag of lettuce, his housemates didn’t believe him.

Smoker had been preparing a steak and salad dinner on Saturday for the three people who share his house in Esperance in Western Australia state when he spotted the frog among the leaves inside the sealed plastic bag he’d bought from a supermarket, housemate Laura Jones said on Tuesday.

“He’s like, ‘Oh Bro, there’s a frog in the lettuce.’ And we’re like, ‘No, you’re taking the mick, like that’s not real,’” Jones told AP. Taking the mick is a slang term for attempting to fool someone.

Smoker brought the bag into the lounge room to show Jones and her partner Billy Le Pine.

“Obviously there’s a little frog hiding out and, yeah, we all had a little laugh about it,” Jones said.

Le Pine said they named the frog Greg before releasing it at a pond near the house.

“We thought we’d give him a wee send off tune as we played Crazy Frog for him,” Le Pine told Australian Broadcasting Corp. Crazy Frog is a Swedish CGI-animated character and Eurodance musician.

Smoker and his partner Lilli Ashby had bought the lettuce at a Woolworths supermarket in Esperance the same day Greg was discovered.

Five years ago, a shopper confronted a 3-meter-long (10-foot-long) nonvenomous diamond python on a shelf of a Woolworths supermarket in Sydney. Also in 2021, a shopper discovered a venomous pale-headed snake wrapped in plastic with lettuce in an ALDI Sydney supermarket.

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Better hope it’s native to OZ.
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Herrenbruck 4-0 with a 1.67 ERA in his final 4 starts of the season (Including 7 innings of 1 run ball against a upper level Nebraska team). He's not really in the mold of a guy who goes pro after his JR year, always a chance someone tries to poach him from us but hopefully they can retain him as he would be a nice piece for next year.

Ryan Day Says 24-Team CFP Would Be Great for College Football But “Debatable Whether It’s Best for Ohio State”​

Ryan Day knows a 24-team College Football Playoff would be great for the 137 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision. But there’s a 138th team that may not stand to gain much, if anything.

“It’s debatable whether it’s best for Ohio State — you can go back and forth on that — but it’s certainly best for the conference and great for college football in general,” Day told ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg on Monday. “It engages more fan bases late in the season.”

If a 24-team CFP had existed since the start of the BCS era in 1998, Ohio State would have made the playoff in 26 of 28 seasons. The only other program in the same ballpark was Georgia, which would have made 23 appearances. Alabama, Oklahoma and LSU each would have made 21 appearances, while Florida (20), Penn State (19), Oregon (19), Michigan (19), Clemson (18), Texas (18) and Wisconsin (17) also would have been frequent participants.

Dan Lanning, who has led Oregon to back-to-back CFP appearances (including one as the No. 1 overall seed in 2024), agreed with Day that the Ducks don’t necessarily benefit from a larger postseason field. Still, he compared the 24-team format to March Madness and said it would be “good for our sport.”

“Ryan’s in the same similar situation, (Indiana coach) Curt (Cignetti) as well, similar situation,” Lanning told Rittenberg. “Is it necessarily best for the programs that have been in to say, ‘Hey, let’s invite more?’ No, but is it better? What happened because of the College Football Playoff is every bowl game has been devalued, the end of the season looks completely different. You’re a failure as a coach if you don’t make it to the College Football Playoff. … It’s going to create more opportunity. Just like March Madness is great in the spring for basketball, it’ll be good for our sport.”

As Day continues to chew on the proposed format, he wonders how much more difficult it could become for Ohio State to win its 10th national championship somewhere down the road.

“When there was four (teams), you just had to win two games,” Day said. “Now there’s more games to be played, there’s a bigger pool, a bigger field. But when you take a step away from it, you’re always going to be late in the season, playing for an opportunity to be the highest seed that you can be.”
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Big Ten’s 18 Schools, Commissioner Tony Petitti Unanimously Support 24-Team CFP: “We Feel Strongly About It”​

The Big Ten has made its stance clear: Bigger is better when it comes to the College Football Playoff.

During an hour-long meeting with reporters at the Big Ten meetings in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, commissioner Tony Petitti said all 18 conference schools unanimously support expanding the CFP to 24 teams — a format that would dramatically reshape the postseason and further cement the Big Ten’s influence over the future of college football.

“That’s having been incredibly successful in the 12-team format,” Petitti said, per The Athletic’s Scott Dochterman. “The willingness to make a change and consider giving up our championship game to get to the right postseason, I think our coaches and our administrators understand that tradeoff.”

The ACC and Big 12 also support a larger CFP; however, the SEC has yet to take an official stance, creating a roadblock to the Big Ten’s plans. The two conferences will need to agree on a new structure, or the CFP will remain at its current 12-team format.

“We feel strongly about it, and we’re working really hard with our colleagues and the other conferences,” Petitti said. “Obviously, the way this is structured, we understand that the SEC and the Big Ten have to come to an agreement, and we’re working hard to figure out ways to get to a solution. But inside our league, there is a deep commitment to 24 and the access.”
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Season ended with an 8-5 vs the only team in conference to beat them this season. so tied for 1st in their conference, and ended 13-4 overall. Son caught the first 4 innings, 2 AB's and didn't see a strike. stole 2 bases and scored 2 runs.

Summer swim starts in just under 2 weeks, son went to the pool after school today already

Who's winning?

SIGHS HEAVILY... Well, at least one “football” knows how to punish its teams for cheating.



Southampton cheats and the English Premier League levies a postseason ban and a four-point reduction in the Championship. Michigan cheats and it gets a slap on the wrist.

I will never forgive the NCAA for what it has become.

All bark, no bite.

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Fucking Habs. Come on, Carolina — end this nightmare.

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“I LIKE WHEN YOU’RE THE VILLAIN.” Jakub Dobeš loves being the villain.

The former Ohio State goaltender delivered a bounce-back performance for the lifetime on Monday for the Montreal Canadiens, who defeated the Buffalo Sabres 3-2 on the road in overtime in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Dobeš, who allowed six goals and was pulled from Game 6 on Saturday, recorded 37 saves, including a huge stop on Tage Thompson in overtime, to secure a matchup with the Carolina Hurricanes in the NHL playoffs.

His efforts were fueled by Sabres fans, who trash talked him all evening, especially when the Canadiens surrendered a 2-0 lead in the second and third periods.

The 24-year-old Dobeš never wavered. In fact, he welcomed their chirps.

“I like that,” he said. “I like when you’re the villain.”

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Canadiens forward Zachary Bolduc said he had no doubt Dobeš would bounce forward — a term often used by head coach Martin St. Louis — after his poor performance in Game 6.

“He’s been our best player since the first game of the playoffs,” Bolduc said. “We had all our confidence in him. … We’re not surprised the way he bounced forward.”

Forward Josh Anderson agreed.

“He’s been great the whole playoffs, honestly,” he said. “We have the utmost confidence in him back there. He’s made some huge saves in both series. You just knew he was going to have a big night.”

Looking ahead, Dobeš faces a tremendous challenge against the Hurricanes, who swept the Ottawa Senators and the Philadelphia Flyers in Rounds 1 and 2 while outscoring both teams 24-10 across eight games. The series kicks off Thursday at 8 p.m. in Raleigh, North Carolina. The game will be broadcast on TNT and truTV.

Filin, Carpico to Compete for US Open Entry​

Top American collegiate tennis players will compete for a wild card spot in the 2026 US Open during a playoff June 16-18 in Orlando, the USTA announced Monday.

The Ohio State doubles team of Nikita Filin and Brandon Carpico, finalists at the 2025 NCAA Doubles Championship, will represent the Buckeyes at the event.

The full player fields will be selected May 27. Player selections will be determined by a committee made up of USTA staff, college tennis coaches and an ITA representative. American NCAA singles and doubles champions this season along with the finalists earned automatic entry.

All matches will be played at the USTA National Campus' Collegiate Center.

The second-year playoff is part of an expanded NCAA-linked wild card pilot program that guarantees at least six US Open wild cards to American collegiate players each year, coinciding with the NCAA DI Individual Championships shifting to the fall.

Filin and Carpico were ranked as high as No. 1 in the ITA weekly rankings this season. The pair finished with an overall record of 37-6 with a 22-3 record in duals. Playing primarily at the No. 1 doubles spot, they put together a 15-2 record at the top of Ohio State's doubles lineup. Overall, the pair was 17-3 against nationally-ranked opponents in 2025-26.

Ohio State finished 32-5 this season. The team earned its 20th-consecutive Big Ten regular-season title and advanced to the program's 18th appearance in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals.

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NCAA is trying to do what's right. TT and their booster are the ones taking it to court.

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I guess even a blind squirl finds an acorn now and then.

Jaxbuck said:

Forget the weight, There are no 6-4 tackles any more at elite levels.

6-4 240 is LB size man, there is no way that guy can physically play tackle at OSU levels. The measurements have to be wrong.

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I read on another site that his brother, Spencer was the same size at the same age. Spencer was a freshman at Utah weighing 270lbs. So it seems like he's a similar size as his big brother

One of my favorite things from Coach Pat has been the fluidity between fronts and changing spacing while using the same personnel.

That said, I am worried about our flexibility to execute these types of looks in 2026 because of the loss of Kmac, Styles, Reese & Downs.

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@BUCKDUBBS007 are you able to reseed your 2025 game torrents? I lost those files from my HD.

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DubCoffman62 said:

A year ago I was a split second away from jumping off of a container four feet off of the ground as if I was still 18. Luckily I suddenly remembered that I'm no longer 18.

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retaining wall around our patio is about 3.5' tall, i use the steps or go to the open end. this year behind the wall, i have some temp fencing up trying to grow grass, stepped up and went into to water. getting down, lets say was not so graceful, LOL

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Michigan Stadium snow stunt, explained by the student behind it​

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jeffrey Moody watched as Michigan Stadium turned into a late-November snow globe, noticing as those walking on the turf left footprints behind.


That’s when Moody turned to his coach, Ray Sharp.


“Hey, can I go cross out the ‘M’ in the end zone?” he asked, sneaking in words through his role as Ohio State mascot Brutus Buckeye.


Sharp — who, Moody later learned, had thought he was simply being asked if Brutus could go on the field — answered in the affirmative.


Moody jumped on the opportunity, dragging Brutus Buckeye’s feet in diagonal lines through the snow and amplifying a tradition Ohio Statebrought from Columbus to The Big House for the 2025 edition of the storied football rivalry.


He crossed out the “M” in Michigan, before using the same technique to draw script Ohio, expecting jeers to fill the snowy air or tall boys to be thrown his way.


Instead, he didn’t see or hear much reaction.


“I just thought no one saw that I did it,” Moody told cleveland.com last week after graduating and publicly revealing his identity as a Brutus.

A later visit from Fox studio host Rob Stone, who showed a clip of his network airing what Brutus did, debunked Moody’s theory.


Everyone had seen his antics, from the camera crew displaying it on national airwaves to the avalanche of reporters in the press box reaching for their phones. It instantly became a viral moment.


Moody, as someone with access to Brutus Buckeye’s Instagram account, saw the flood of notifications when he got onto OSU’s bus after the win. The buzz extended to his personal life, where those who knew he was behind the mascot head filled his phone with messages and calls.


“Are you going to get expelled from Ohio State?” his grandmother asked.


As he sifted through the mayhem, he saw a screengrab of the moment already being sold on T-shirts — a glimpse into the magnitude of what he had just done.


The Ohio State–Michigan rivalry is about iconic moments from legendary figures. It produces snapshots that hang on walls overlooking dining room tables. It etches names into history, from Woody Hayes to Jeremiah Smith and Bo Schembechler to Aidan Hutchinson.

But the newest photo plastered on shirts, social media posts and basement walls didn’t come from a former five-star prospect or an immortalized coach. It came from a Fredericktown, Ohio, native who lived out a dream while unknowingly, and secretly, cementing himself in The Game’s lore.

Life as Ohio State’s Spider-Man​

Moody was intrigued by the secret life of Brutus, but he never envisioned becoming the student with an iconic mascot head hiding under the bed in his dorm.



He is a fourth-generation Buckeye, one born into passionate fandom, who started his time as a student at Ohio State’s Mansfield campus.



“I wanted to stay close to home, go to a small school,” Moody said.



It wasn’t until he saw an Instagram ad for Brutus Buckeye tryouts that his move to Columbus started to come together.


Moody remembers sitting in elementary school, wondering to himself, “That’d be so cool to be Brutus.” However, a sixth-grade teacher once mentioned that Ohio State recruited people into the Brutus role, looking particularly at students who had worked as mascots in high school.

When he saw open tryouts, his interest resurfaced. Moody drove from Mansfield to Columbus for tryouts during his freshman year, sometimes asking his professors to let him leave class early. He made the team April 24, 2023, spent the summer working various Brutus events and moved to Columbus for his new double life.



“I feel like I’m basically Spider-Man, right?” Moody said with a laugh, his tone portraying the bewilderment that still comes with getting the role. “You have this whole secret identity. I’m struggling with school. I’m just, on the outside, this broke, struggling college student, but on the inside I’m like this celebrity that everyone knows.”



Moody once made an on-campus appearance as Brutus and, while in costume, spotted a classmate. Thirty minutes later, they worked together on a group project.



He’s taken photos with longtime friends, including a peer from his hometown who he’d known since they were 6. Under the mascot head, he’s smiling, knowing how funny the picture will be when the unveiling happens.



Some people around him started to catch on, referring to Moody as Brutus when he’d walk into church. But Moody would stand tall, telling them he’s on the cheer team. They just didn’t see him because he was working through a back injury.



“I did have a little tweak,” Moody said. “I just may have let them think it was more extensive than it was.”

The Reds are like your high school team where you have 1 good pitcher in Burns and then it's you gotta battle