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DT/OL Evan Blankenship (Official Thread)

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TheStoicPaisano;1986103; said:
Can we switch the thread title to 'OL/DL' now that Evan pulled a Denlinger and played on both lines in the same contest?
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Did you read The Lighter Side in this week's game preview?

Playing LG, he had a very effective down block on the last TD against Akron.
 
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Found this link at 11W today.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxSVJHwY7vE&feature=channel_video_title"]David Nail - Red Light (Evan B. Cover) - YouTube[/ame]
 
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A song in his heart
Having played his last game for Ohio State, defensive lineman Evan Blankenship hopes to turn his lifelong love of music into a career
By Tim May
The Columbus Dispatch Thursday December 22, 2011

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Country singers love to draw on personal hardship, disappointment and/or unrequited love for inspiration, so don?t be surprised if the aspiring, guitar-strumming Evan Blankenship is crooning this tune a few years from now.

?Wish I Cudda Gone To The Gator.?

A fifth-year defensive tackle for Ohio State, he won?t be making the trip with the Buckeyes next week to Jacksonville, Fla., for the Jan.2 Gator Bowl against Florida because of a personal snafu. Having graduated last spring, he thought he was taking classes just for the fun of it this past fall quarter, so he slacked off, only to find out he still needed to earn credit hours to maintain eligibility through the bowl.

?Yeah, I really messed up,? Blankenship said. ?That?s all my fault.?

Yet it could serve as inspiration down the road.

?David Nail has a song where he sings about giving up on baseball, because he was a big-time prospect coming out of high school, and he had a bunch of offers to keep playing,? Blankenship said. ?But he ended up going the music route because that?s what was really in his heart.?

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http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2011/12/23/gameday/cover-blankenship.html
 
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Center football star plays on radio
Saturday, November 10, 2012

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Evan Blankenship, a 2007 Center Area High School graduate, is an aspiring country artist living in Nashville.

Some of you remember Evan Blankenship as a 2007 Center Area High School graduate whose talent as an offensive lineman earned him a full football scholarship to Ohio State University.

Well, how do you like him now, as an aspiring country artist?

Hunkered down in Nashville, Blankenship has cut a three-song promotional CD that includes a single, ?Let Me Be The First,? which WDSY-FM (?Y-108?) debuted Wednesday night.

?I?d say the audience response has been significant and very positive,? said Y108 operations manager Mark Anderson.

It?s the kind of song that country radio loves, on which a rugged-voiced man shows his sensitive side. The chorus: ?Let me be the first/ to open up your heart/and show you how beautiful you are.?

Blankenship tows a riskier line on ?Dangerous,? on which he confesses it?s taken all his strength to keep his hands off a potential romantic partner. We can assume at least one of them hasn?t cut free from a previous relationship, as he sings ?So far we haven?t crossed that line,? with a good mix of emotion.

Naturally, Blankenship also recorded a honky-tonking song, ?Not Bad for a Night?s Work,? on which he and a buddy blow off steam at the local saloon, taking body shots off tight, tan tummies, passing ?shine in the parking lot and getting in a scuffle after somebody flirts with another guy?s girlfriend. Heeding the country music trend of name-checking musicians who aren?t country, the chorus includes a line about pumping the jukebox with Waylon and DIDDY songs, rather than the once customary Waylon and Willie.

That song also would sound good on radio, although Blankenship?s local supporters have been focusing on texting and phoning Y108 for repeat plays of ?Let Me Be The First.?
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http://www.timesonline.com/columnis...cle_782912f1-4ab8-5fda-85be-29c8e03e843d.html
 
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