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Next Man Up?

Sources: Ohio State running back TC Caffey likely lost for season due to knee injury

Ohio State has arguably the best 1-2 punch at running back in college football in TreVeyon Henderson and Quinshon Judkins. However, the Buckeyes are somewhat short at depth at the position, and that situation just got worse with the news about TC Caffey.

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The 5-foot-10, 215-pound Caffey had a strong spring and was expected to battle true freshmen James Peoples and Sam Williams-Dixon for playing time behind Henderson and Judkins.

Without Caffey, it will be interesting to see what OSU does for depth at tailback. Is safety Caleb Downs a legit option (presumably in a small role)? Head coach Ryan Day said that he absolutely is.

Ohio State also has preferred walk-on RB Rashid Sesay from West Muskingum who was the runner-up for Ohio's Mr. Football Award in 2023.

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Definitely a bummer for TC, but luckily it looks like both People and SWD are ready to go. I was thoroughly impressed by both in the spring game.

They were probably impressed by seeing Horsetooth mountain and seeing more than one tooth.

I’m guessing he sells a lot of insurance in the Spring and not much in the Fall.

Dillon Gabriel passes Beck, Ewers as Heisman favorite​

Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel is now the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy with +750 odds at ESPN BET after moving past Georgia quarterback Carson Beck and Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers in an atypical July change for college football's highest honor.

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Beck and Ewers, who had been the favorites since February, are +800 and +900, respectively.

Gabriel began July with 10-1 odds at ESPN BET. He had been as long as 14-1 at other sportsbooks before an uptick of action showed up on the Ducks quarterback over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

The SuperBook in Las Vegas started receiving bets on Gabriel on Sunday, causing his odds to tighten from 14-1 to 9-1.

"I think there were some maybe influential people that hopped on it and said they liked it on some public spaces," Chase Michaelson, oddsmaker for the SuperBook, told ESPN. "It's people we respect that like Gabriel, and I think there are lots of reasons to like him."

Gabriel has put up gaudy numbers at Oklahoma and UCF. He passed for 3,660 yards with 30 touchdowns and six interceptions with the Sooners last season before transferring to Oregon, where he inherits what's expected to be an explosive Ducks offense.

More money has been bet on Gabriel to win the Heisman than any other player at ESPN BET. At BetMGM sportsbooks, the senior has attracted more than twice as much money as any other player offered in the Heisman odds since July 4.

Gabriel, at +750, would have the longest odds of any Heisman favorite entering the season in the past 15 years, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.

Mount Rushmore of Sports

OHIO STATE
Jesse Owens
Archie Griffin
Jack Nicklaus
Jerry Lucas

Question: What does the backside of Mt. Rushmore actually look like?

Nick Wehry, husband of women’s Nathan’s hot dog contest winner Miki Sudo, accused of cheating to join ‘elite’ class of competitive eaters​

This is the wurst.

The competitive eating world has been rocked by hard-to-swallow claims that a contender in this year’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest cheated to beef up his score.

Nick Wehry — husband of women’s division champion Miki Sudo — is being accused of using sleight of hand trickery during the July Fourth contest in order to inflate his tally of eaten hot dogs and falsely place himself among the sport’s elite contenders, according to two sources closely involved in the competition.

Nick Wehry is accused of padding his hot-dog total from July 4’s Nathan’s Hotdog Eating Contest.Andrew Schwartz / SplashNews.com
“100% he cheated,” one source told The Post Tuesday.

On the day of the competition, Wehry’s score was a respectable 46.75 hot dogs when they called it out at Coney Island, good enough for a fourth-place finish, according to footage and reports, including by The Post and ESPN.

But that figure later jumped to 51.75 on the official Major League Eating (MLE) results website, allegedly giving him credit for five full wieners more than he was actually served during the competition, the sources said.

Eaters’ scores are tabulated based on the number of empty plates stacked in front of their spot after the allotted time has concluded.

Any “debris” left uneaten on the top plate on the stack — bits of bun or stray chunks of beef — is subject to judges’ determination about whether it’s deducted from their total.

Every plate on the competition table starts out loaded with five hot dogs, so each plate left behind counts for five dogs eaten as the judges determine the participants’ scores.

Wehry has been accused of “stealing plates” from another competitor’s stack and putting them on his own place setting to raise his score above 50 — which is considered the threshold separating everyday competitors from the sport’s true top dogs.

Although the alleged score inflation didn’t improve Wehry’s standing, it did bump him above that magic 50 figure.

“There’s a number of people who have eaten 40 hot dogs in this competition before, there’s a lot fewer who have eaten more than 50, and even fewer who have eaten over 60,” another source said.

“For someone to have on the record that they ate more than 50, makes you part of a very small elite club of competitive eaters.”

Patrick Bertoletti, this year’s champ, wolfed down 58 hot dogs and buns in the 10-minute gorge-fest, defeating 13 competitors for the title and taking home a prize of $10,000 as mustard-belt holder.

Second- and third-place finishers Geoff Esper and James Webb put away 53 and 52, and took home prizes of $5,000 and $2,500, respectively. Wehry, in fourth place, would have gotten $1,500 – while the fifth place winner got $1,000.

Sudo herself hoovered 51 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes, setting a new world record for women during their competition before the mens’.

One source suggested that Wehry asked for a recount after the initial judge’s tallying took place, concerned his true total wouldn’t cut the mustard in the highly competitive field of contenders.

“I can only assume he demanded a recount after stealing the plate,” the source claimed.
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Just sayin':

Al Gore invented Easter.

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Ohio State’s release agreement with Chris Holtmann stipulated that it would have to pay its former coach nearly $15 million over the next four years, but his contract with DePaul will reduce that obligation to under $8.5 million.

My favorite memories of that game were Joe Germaine's absolute inner calm, a friend yelling "Don't swallow your sphincter again, Cooper!", and the way that Jake Plummer strode the sidelines and increasingly blended into the team and then the bleacher as the Buckeyes won.

I was hoping he would fall to the Cavs. He's not Wemby but there's a place for him and if used properly, he could dominate.

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MY BOY’S WICKED SMAHT! “How do you like them apples?” Ohio State men’s lacrosse alumnus Trent DiCicco said to all Big Ten athletes (apart from Michigan State’s Ashley Harlock) after winning the 2024 Wayne Duke Postgraduate Award.

(I can neither confirm nor deny if DiCicco said those words. However, I can confirm that Good Will Hunting is the greatest movie of all time).

Last week, DiCicco won the Wayne Duke Postgraduate Award and was awarded a $10,000 scholarship for his academic, athletic, extracurricular and leadership achievements as a member of Ohio State’s lacrosse program.

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"Trent has been a terrific representation of what it means to be a student-athlete at Ohio State," Kaitlin Davis, assistant director of athletic academic services, said in a statement. "He kept dedicated to his academic goals while being a leader for his teammates. He is a special person and I could not think of a better Buckeye to win this award for our program and this university."

DiCicco was a four-year letterwinner and captain of the Ohio State men's lacrosse team. In 47 appearances for the Buckeyes, the Guelph, Ontario, native collected 17 points on 10 goals and seven assists, 88 ground balls, and 10 forced turnovers. DiCicco was also a member of Team Canada’s youth program during his college career and won a silver medal at the U21 World Championships in Limerick, Ireland in 2022.

A two-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar, DiCicco majored in mechanical engineering with a minor in robotics and autonomous systems, posting a 3.94 overall grade-point average. DiCicco also participated in research projects focusing on human movement biomechanics applied to law enforcement and athletes and a multidisciplinary project related to optimizing human performance, injury prevention and rapid rehabilitation.
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WELCOME HOME, MUSA. Following the 2020-21 Ohio State men’s basketball season, Musa Jallow transferred to Charlotte. He averaged five points, 2.9 rebounds and 0.8 assists per game in 10 appearances before tearing his ACL.

Two years later, Jallow is back in Columbus, but it’s not because of basketball. Instead, it’s because of a career as an inpatient exercise psychologist at the Ohio State Ross Heart Hospital.

From Adam Jardy of The Columbus Dispatch:

“It’s funny, just being back,” he said. “Everything’s the same, but I feel like I’m in a completely different mindset, obviously not playing college basketball.”

Jallow took in a few men’s basketball games at Value City Arena and was on hand to watch the Buckeyes take down No. 2 Purdue in the first game with Jake Diebler as interim head coach. He finally received his senior jersey, which he said now hangs on his apartment wall, and was pleased to see that the doors were still open to him at the program even as those who personally knew him as a player had mostly moved on.

This winter, Jallow said he is looking to apply to medical school next year, so he’s finishing up prerequisite classes and studying for the MCAT. While he’s at the hospital, Jallow said he’s interacted with “a lot” of doctors who were season-ticket holders and watched him play for the Buckeyes.

“It’s been a warm welcome back,” he said.

The same went for his return to the Kingdom Summer League. Playing for team NWFG, Jallow was surprised to learn he was suiting up with two former teammates in Andre and Kaleb Wesson. Before the game started, the three embraced, sat on the bleachers and caught up as if no time had passed.

“I ain’t played with Musa in so long,” Kaleb Wesson, who played in Bulgaria and France last year, said. “That’s my dude, though. You know what you’re going to get out of Musa. He’s going to give you 100 (percent) on every play. He’s going to hit shots and do what any coach asks him to do. Musa’s a great dude.”

So far, the ankles have held up and Jallow has enjoyed dipping his toes back into the game alongside his friends. There is a general plan for what comes next, depending on health, schoolwork and job opportunities. After leaving Ohio State only to make his way back, nothing would surprise Jallow.

“I give the glory to God for bringing me back,” he said. “I wasn’t expecting (it), but it’s good to be back.”
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Bengals' Joe Burrow explains how learning to play an instrument helped him with his wrist rehab​

Music may contribute to the NFL's biggest comeback story in 2024​

In 2023, Joe Burrow endured a unique wrist injury that prematurely ended his season. It's ironic that Burrow found an equally unique way to help him rehab the injury this offseason.

"I'm learning the piano right now," Burrow told Complex. "Hopefully I can get pretty good at that by next offseason. I guess it'll be pretty tough during the season, but it's helped my rehab too for my wrist, so that's something I want to get good at."

Burrow elaborated on how playing piano has aided his recovery.

"I've always wanted to learn how to play, but this was an opportune time to work on my hand and wrist dexterity while also learning that," Burrow said. "So it was kind of the perfect storm."
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Ouch.

furk

Thump said:

Bagmen.

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All of them

TDunk said:

The best are the idiots that don't realize that when he misspells names or gets the title wrong, they try to correct him. COMPREHENSION; what happened?

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Just sayin': I'll go out on a limb here and say.....I'll bet he can't.........