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The Heisman Hype
- By ScriptOhio
- College Football
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Ducks' Gabriel is Heisman fave in rare July shift
Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel moved past Georgia quarterback Carson Beck and Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers at ESPN BET and is now the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy at +750 odds.
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.
Top Heisman Trophy Odds
| PLAYER, SCHOOL | ODDS |
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| Dillon Gabriel, Oregon | +750 |
| Carson Beck, Georgia | +800 |
| Quinn Ewers, Texas | +900 |
| Jaxson Dart, Ole Miss | +1500 |
| Will Howard, Ohio State | +1600 |
| Nico Iamaleava, Tennessee | +1600 |
| Jalen Milroe, Alabama | +1600 |
| Garrett Nussmeier, LSU | +2200 |
| Cameron Ward, Miami | +2200 |
| Conner Weigman, Texas A&M | +2200 |
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.
ESPN's Mount Rushmore of sports.
- By ScriptOhio
- Open Discussion (Work-safe)
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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?
OHIO STATE
Jesse Owens
Archie Griffin
Jack Nicklaus
Jerry Lucas
Question: What does the backside of Mt. Rushmore actually look like?
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Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest (Official Thread)
- By ScriptOhio
- Other OSU and Professional Sports
- 41 Replies
Nick Wehry, husband of women’s Nathan’s hot dog contest winner Miki Sudo, accused of cheating to join ‘elite’ class of competitive eaters
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.
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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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SG Musa Jallow (transfer to Charlotte)
- By ScriptOhio
- Buckeye Alumni
- 239 Replies
Skull Session: Ohio State Lands Five-Star Linebacker Riley Pettijohn, Jake Diebler and His Wife Welcome Their Fourth Child and Musa Jallow Returns to Columbus
Ohio State lands five-star linebacker Riley Pettijohn, Jake Diebler and his wife welcome their fourth child and Musa Jallow returns to Columbus.
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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QB Joe Burrow (transfer to LSU, 2019 Heisman Winner, National Champion, Cincinnati Bengals)
- By ScriptOhio
- Buckeye Alumni
- 1127 Replies
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
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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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Utah State Aggies
- By ScriptOhio
- College Football
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Just sayin': I'll go out on a limb here and say.....I'll bet he can't.........
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2026 FL OL Grant Wise (Verbal Offer)
- By pnuts34
- Football Recruiting
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Class: 2026
Position: IOL
School: Milton(FL) Pace
Height: 6-foot-4
Weight: 310lbs
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Orlando Magic (official thread)
- By ScriptOhio
- Professional Basketball
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Sources: Magic, Wagner reach $224M extension
Magic forward Franz Wagner has agreed on a five-year, $224 million rookie contract extension -- a deal that could become worth as much as $269 million, sources told ESPN.
Sources: Magic, Franz Wagner agree on $224M rookie extension
Orlando Magic forward Franz Wagner has agreed on a five-year, $224 million rookie contract extension -- a deal that could become worth as much as $269 million, sources told ESPN on Friday.Just sayin': I never like to see scUM players do well in "the pros".........
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Antoine Winfield Jr. (DB Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
- By ScriptOhio
- Professional Football
- 61 Replies
Agent's Take: How a safety became the NFL's highest-paid DB for the first time in the salary cap era
The Buccaneers' Antoine Winfield Jr. holds that title
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Agent's Take: How a safety became the NFL's highest-paid DB for the first time in the salary cap era
The Buccaneers' Antoine Winfield Jr. holds that title
In the NFL salary hierarchy, cornerbacks traditionally rank ahead of safeties. That isn't the case anymore, at least temporarily with the top of these respective markets. A safety is the NFL's highest-paid defensive back for the first time during the salary cap era, which began in 1994.
The NFL's highest-paid defensive back is Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Antoine Winfield Jr. The Buccaneers signed Winfield, who was designated as a franchise player for $17.123 million, to a four-year, $84.1 million contract averaging $21.025 million per year in May. Winfield replaced cornerback Jaire Alexander, who received a four-year, $84 million contract extension averaging $21 million per year from the Green Bay Packers in 2022, at the top of the defensive back salary totem pole.
Cornerback market stagnation and steady growth in the safety market are responsible for this unprecedented development. The top of the cornerback market has only increased by 5% since Jalen Ramsey became the NFL's first $20 million-per-year defensive back right before the 2020 regular season started. Ramsey signed a five-year, $100 million extension worth up to $105 million through salary escalators with the Los Angeles Rams.
The $15 million-per-year safety didn't exist at that time. Since the 2020 regular season ended, the top of the safety market has increased by 42.54%.
There is still a discrepancy in the guarantees with high-end cornerback and safeties contracts. Ramsey set records for cornerbacks with $43.703 million fully guaranteed at signing and $71.203 million in total guarantees. Denzel Ward was the first cornerback to eclipse both of Ramsey's marks in 2022. He signed a five-year, $100.5 million extension averaging $20.1 million per year containing $71.25 million in guarantees, of which $44.5 million was fully guaranteed at signing, with the Cleveland Browns. Winfield's $45 million in guarantees and fully guaranteed at signing are the most ever for a safety. Alexander and Ward both slightly moved the needle for cornerbacks two years ago. Ward's $20.1 million per year was a 0.5% increase over Ramsey's deal. Alexander bettered Ward by 4.48%.
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2011: A Strange Season
- By Bestbuck36
- Buckeye Football
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Only one season had me crying at the end and that was Jim Tressels 2002 team. 30 years of Fandom finally broke through at that time 
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Toronto Raptors (2019 NBA Champions)
- By ScriptOhio
- Professional Basketball
- 16 Replies
NBA bans Jontay Porter for life after investigation reveals Raptors forward violated league gambling rules
The NBA found that, among other violations, Porter limited his own participation in games for betting purposesNBA bans Jontay Porter for life after investigation reveals Raptors forward violated league gambling rules
The NBA found that, among other violations, Porter limited his own participation in games for betting purposes
The NBA issued a lifetime ban to Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter on Wednesday for violating league gambling rules. After an investigation, the league found Porter guilty of "disclosing confidential information to sports bettors, limiting his own participation in one or more games for betting purposes, and betting on NBA games."
The 24-year-old Porter, who is the younger brother of Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr., went undrafted in 2019 and made his NBA debut with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2021. After spending time with multiple G League teams, he inked a two-way deal with the Raptors in December 2023 and made 26 appearances with the team this season. He last played on March 22, and was inactive for the remainder of the season after ESPN reported on March 25 that the league was looking into gambling irregularities.
"There is nothing more important than protecting the integrity of NBA competition for our fans, our teams and everyone associated with our sport, which is why Jontay Porter's blatant violations of our gaming rules are being met with the most severe punishment," NBA commissioner Adam Silver stated in a press release.
"While legal sports betting creates transparency that helps identify suspicious or abnormal activity, this matter also raises important issues about the sufficiency of the regulatory framework currently in place, including the types of bets offered on our games and players. Working closely with all relevant stakeholders across the industry, we will continue to work diligently to safeguard our league and game."
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Porter to face federal charge in betting scandal
Court papers indicate former Raptors player Jontay Porter will be charged with a federal felony connected to the betting scandal that spurred the NBA to ban him.
Banned NBA player Jontay Porter to face federal felony charge
Former Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter will be charged with a federal felony connected to the sports betting scandal that spurred the NBA to ban him, court papers indicate.Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn filed what's known as a criminal information sheet Tuesday. The document doesn't specify a court date or the charge or charges, but it does show the case is related to an existing prosecution of four men charged with scheming to cash in on tips from a player about his plans to exit two games early.
Porter's lawyer, Jeff Jensen, said last month that Porter had been "in over his head due to a gambling addiction" but was getting treatment and cooperating with law enforcement.
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