So we are crazy good at martial skills such as fencing and pistol shooting.


Lt Gov Jim Tressel has the ability to declare war on other states.


Maybe we duel them instead? I can think of one in serious need of a glove slap across the face to kick things off.

2030 World Cup: CONMEBOL proposes expanded 64-team tournament​

Alejandro Domínguez, the president of South American soccer's ruling body CONMEBOL, made an official proposal on Thursday to expand the men's 2030 World Cup from 32 teams to 64.

FIFA is aware of the proposal that was first introduced in March by a delegate from Uruguay during an online meeting of the ruling council of world soccer's governing body.

"We are convinced that the centennial celebration will be unique because 100 years are celebrated only once," Domínguez said during his opening speech at CONMEBOL's 80th Ordinary Congress.

The 2030 World Cup is already set to be the most sprawling edition with six host nations spread across three continents.

Uruguay was the original World Cup host in 1930 and is scheduled to stage one game. Paraguay, Argentina, Spain, Portugal and Morocco are also co-hosts.
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If FIFA approves the move, it would create a tournament of 128 matches, double the number of the 64-game format that was played from 1998 through 2022.

However, UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin has called a 64-team World Cup "a bad idea."

Critics of the 64-team proposal have argued it will weaken the quality of play and devalue the qualifying program in most continents.

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Buckeye legend Eddie George welcomes a Harbaugh to Bowling Green

The rivalry between Michigan and Ohio State runs so deep that it almost feels unnatural to see a Wolverine and a Buckeye exchanging pleasantries. But that was t

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The rivalry between Michigan and Ohio State runs so deep that it almost feels unnatural to see a Wolverine and a Buckeye exchanging pleasantries. But that was the case last week as Ohio State legend Eddie George (now the head coach at Bowling Green) welcomed Jack Harbaugh to take in a Falcons practice. Although many of the Maize and Blue faithful recognize Jack as a Michigan Man, his college playing and coaching career has plenty of roots in the state of Ohio.

As a player, Jack was a halfback at Bowling Green from 1957-60. Following his playing days, he became an assistant coach at various high schools throughout Ohio before joining the staff at Bowling Green as an assistant in 1968. Given that history, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that George recently welcomed Harbaugh to campus with open arms.

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Eddie better be careful, I'm pretty sure new NCAA bylaws are being written that state if you come within 60 feet of a Harbrau it's LOIC.

CleveBucks said:

What if, instead of crowning a national champion every year, we determine the current champion of college football by a title that is passed on from team to team. When you beat the current title holder, you become the title holder.

The first champion was the winner of the first game ever, Rutgers over Princeton, 6-4.

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Assuming this is accurate, I'll take it from here:

9/8/2018 Penn State
9/29/2018 Ohio State
10/20/2018 Purdue
10/27/2018 Sparty
11/10/2018 Ohio State
12/28/2019 Clemson
1/13/2020 LSU
9/26/2020 Mississippi State
10/3/2020 Arkansas
10/10/2020 Auburn
10/17/2020 South Carolina
10/24/2020 LSU
10/31/2020 Auburn
11/28/2020 Alabama
10/9/2021 Texas A&M
11/13/2021 Ole Miss
1/1/2022 Baylor
9/10/2022 BYU
9/17/2022 Oregon
11/12/2022 Washington
1/8/2024 Cheaters
9/7/2024 Texas
10/19/2024 Georgia
11/9/2024 Ole Miss
11/23/2024 Florida

And it appears Florida hasn't lost the title, yet.

IU was probably the most disappointing team in the B1G, considering the rumors they paid out over $10 million for that team last year, going over the top to get everyone they wanted in the transfer portal. Paying all that money, getting the cream of the crop in the portal, being expected to be a contender in the B1G and still missing the big dance is a disaster. That shouldn't overshadow the poor job Steve Pikiell did at Rutgers. If you look at the latest mock drafts, two of the top-3 players in some of them are Rutgers freshmen Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey. How bad of a coach are you if you have two of the top-3 talents in college basketball, a preseason top-25 type team, and you're 11th in the B1G? You have to say Steve Pikiell is inept at building a roster, to have two excellent players and a complete inability to mold a competent cast around them, and he's been at Rutgers since 2016, so he's had plenty of time to learn about the B1G and the level of players you need in order to win.

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RB07OSU said:

All-name team right there, a big DL with the last name Bacon.

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New nickname please: Tyson "Bring Home The" Bacon

A Rowdy Raider transfer, I love it! Also share some skepticism as others in here, but seems like he could be a very good contributor. Having gone to WSU for a short stint before OSU, can't help but root for him even more.

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Hi Everybody, Probably the worst person to perform this task, so I'm just going to get into it. As you may or may not have noticed, and if you're around, you probably did. But, Jake hasn't posted in a while. Of course part of the fun a place like this (and being online in general) is there's...

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Sorry about Jake. I don't read all the forums here - I know, shame on me.

A program-record 95 Ohio State football players were named Ohio State Scholar-Athletes for having a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or better. 805 total athletes across the Ohio State athletic department earned Scholar-Athlete honors for the 2024-25 academic year.

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Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork believes the Buckeyes’ athletic and academic success go hand in hand.

“If you're doing one thing in your life at the highest level, you're going to do everything else at the highest level,” Bjork told Eleven Warriors. “No one's going to take a day off. No one's going to take a shortcut. So if you just look at our football team, look at our women's hockey team; women's hockey has led the department in cumulative team GPA, and we've been in six out of the last seven Frozen Fours, won two out of the last four national championships. Football had the highest GPA (in program history) last spring, last fall, they're on track this spring to have a really great GPA, and we just won the national championship. So again, correlation between excellence in one category – academic, social life, whatever – is going to bleed over into the athletic realm.”

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DZ83CK said:

Lendeborg, the #1 ranked player in the On3 transfer portal, committed to UM. Dusty May knows how to make a splash in the portal.

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Woulda been nice if we actually pursued him.

See an awful lot about Battle as a player, but not as much as a coach. Did leaving hurt the Buckeyes? Seriously don't know what the composition is among the coaches, not as well defined as football. Would guess he spent most of his time with the guards, but really zero clue how these guys divide up the positions. Anyway, wish him well, except the two times a year we tee it up against PSU.

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Ohio State Defensive Tackle Eric Mensah Sheds Black Stripe in Second Spring with the Buckeyes

Second-year defensive tackle Eric Mensah becomes the fourth scholarship Buckeye to shed his black stripe this spring, joining Miles Lockhart, Max Klare and Dominic Kirks.

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Ohio State Defensive Tackle Eric Mensah Sheds Black Stripe in Second Spring with the Buckeyes​

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Great news!