Ohio State football comes out on losing end in video games for cancer benefit
Thursday, July 31, 2008 Doug Lesmerises
Columbus- Fourth down, final play of the game, near the goal line, needing a touchdown, and Ohio State doesn't pound the ball with Beanie Wells?
The decisionmaker facing the heat in the defeat after that questionable call was - Beanie Wells.
"I was trying to get the ball to Robo [Brian Robiskie], and he didn't get open," Wells shouted, smiling through his disgust.
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Across the room, safety Kurt Coleman, the vice president of the OSU chapter of Uplifting Athletes, provided game updates on a wireless microphone. As he watched, Laurinaitis, playing as Florida, threw an overtime interception in the end zone, that was picked off by video Coleman, as played by center Jim Cordle, and returned 105 yards for the game-winning score.
"You can't stop Tim Tebow," said Cordle before that Laurinaitis matchup, fearing the Gator quarterback. "Hopefully, he isn't as unbelievable in real life as he is in the game."
In another corner, when receiver Ray Small, playing with USC, nailed video Ray on a crossing route, he mumbled, "I didn't mean to hit myself that hard."
Later, when Washington, playing two tables away, scored a touchdown with Small and shouted "Small" in celebration, the real Small turned and said, "What?"
The players may as well have been in Jim Tressel's rumpus room. An original fund-raising idea was a Lift-a-thon, which Penn State has done, but so close to Monday's start of camp, "We said let's do something a little less taxing on their knees and maybe a little more taxing on their thumbs," said former Buckeye Matt Daniels.
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