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Buckeyes lend a hand at LifeCare Alliance

COLUMBUS, Ohio - There was more than just football on the minds of the Ohio State football players on Wednesday morning. The entire team loaded up on four busses and travelled to two LifeCare Alliance of Columbus facilities to help the nonprofit as it prepares for a busy Thanksgiving weekend.

"You will be helping those who take care of people who don't have anyone to take care of them," LifeCare Alliance president and CEO Chuck Gehring told the team upon arrival.

LifeCare Alliance provides food, health and nutrition services to 15,000 individuals annually who are on a fixed income of typically less than $600 per month. Just one day before the Thanksgiving holiday, volunteers were busy preparing, boxing and delivering some of the 6,000 meals served each day through home delivery services, at congregated sites and through after school meal programs.

And the Buckeyes were right in the heat of the battle to help others, and in some cases the heat of the kitchen:

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Buckeyes flock to Cordle fundraiser
Foundation caps weekend with annual bowling event
Jul. 14, 2013

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Bowling with Buckeyes featured 19 past and present Buckeye football players Saturday at Tiki Lanes. The event is a fundraiser for the Special Olympics in Fairfield County and the Cordle Cares Scholarship Fund. / David Stith/Eagle-Gazette
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The 13 current players included Basil, senior lineman Darryl Baldwin and sophomores Camren Williams and Armani Reeves.

“Stuff like this is always fun,” Baldwin said. “There are fans everywhere. You feel like you’re making their day.”

Some knew Cordle well, others met him in passing. But the participants were all there for one reason: To support an Ohio State alumnus and the causes for which his foundation operates.
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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2015/07/16/ohio-state-skills-camp.html

Ohio State football | Goodwill-sponsored camp brings joy to participants, coaches

By Tim May
The Columbus Dispatch • FRIDAY JULY 17, 2015 5:51 AM

Jim Karsatos had an interesting experience early Thursday afternoon. After taking part in the third annual Special Skills Football Invitational with some current and former Ohio State football players, he was speaking with some enthusiastic participants as they headed to the gate.

One of them brought up former OSU quarterbacks of note, including Karsatos. He smiled broadly before letting on that it was him.

“He was standing right next to me telling me I was good, and he didn’t know he was standing next to me,” Karsatos said, laughing. “But they are well-read, they know their stuff, they’re football fans. And anytime an ‘O-H’ went up out here, they responded, every single one of them. It’s all genuine stuff.”

Several current OSU players, including safeties Vonn Bell and Tyvis Powell, long snapper Bryce Haynes and kicker Sean Nuernberger, were helping run the drills at the camp, held for "differently abled" athletes of all ages. At one point, former OSU defensive lineman Matt Finkes, Nuernberger and Haynes were putting the campers through running back drills, encouraging them to display TD celebrations at the end. Those ranged from simple spikes, to moonwalks, to one youngster clearly doing his rendition of Ickey Woods' famous “Ickey Shuffle.”

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