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ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

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MililaniBuckeye;2168426; said:
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I wonder if they got OSU's permission to use the trademarked/copyrighted Buckeye Leaf logo...
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That's the Alumni Association logo/leaf isn't it (somewhat)...

..."Sue Everybody" - Sal Rosenburg, Jerky Boys
 
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CentralMOBuck;2165193; said:
I was watching SportsCenter tonight after work to see today's sports highlights and because nothing else was on. During the top 10 one of the co-hosts praised the other for announcing some European soccer players names correctly. The names were Shevchenko and Ibrahimovic. If you can't look at read those names and not correctly pronounce them without someone telling you how to, you don't need to be co-hosting a TV show.
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99% of this forum can't pronounce my username correctly.
 
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No interest in the BuckeyeNation site. I don't even think they hired any Ohio State-biased writers like they did with Van Haaren on the Michigan site.

TVH has basically been acting as a quasi-recruiter for the skunkbears, attempting to strike up friendships with recruits while highlighting the positives (if any) of Michigan. I'm sure the ESPN BuckeyeNation guys will highlight the negatives of Ohio State in their questioning of recruits. Doesn't anyone doubt otherwise?

EDIT: Which brings up an interesting issue about fanboy recruiting reporters. TVH is probably the most successful fanboy recruiting reporter out there. But there are some aspiring fanboy reporters out there like UMTremendous, Sarah Hughes (UM), and a couple of Ohio State guys as well. How lame are these people?
 
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ESPN posts the story.


The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Ohio State University in an open records lawsuit filed by ESPN.

ESPN filed suit in July after Ohio State denied requests for additional documents about the 2011 investigation involving former football coach Jim Tressel, Terrelle Pryor and the former Buckeye quarterback's mentor, Ted Sarniak. That investigation ultimately led to the resignation of Tressel and NCAA sanctions.

The university cited federal privacy laws regarding student information in its response to ESPN, and while the court ruled Ohio State initially violated open record laws by deeming the requests too broad or failing to release information due to the ongoing investigation, on Tuesday it issued a unanimous ruling that the school had properly used the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

An ESPN spokesperson declined to comment.

"Ohio State appreciates the clarity given today by the Ohio Supreme Court affirming the university's interpretation of federal student privacy laws," a university statement said. "Our student athletes are treated the same way as all of our 64,000 students, and we take seriously our obligation to protect the confidentiality of all of our students' education records."

ESPN's argument centered on the premise that it wasn't seeking educational records from Ohio State, instead focusing on documents of contact between school officials and Sarniak. But the court sided with the public university and also rejected an argument from ESPN that the school improperly protected information on the basis of attorney-client privilege.

Ohio State receives more than $919 million, approximately 23 percent of its operating dollars, from federal funding, which the court cited in the ruling.

"Therefore, Ohio State, having agreed to the conditions and accepted the federal funds, was prohibited by FERPA from systematically releasing education records without parental consent," the court said.

Ohio State's refusal to release documents regarding the case while it was ongoing was deemed a violation by the court, but it did not impose an order on the school or award any damages because ESPN did not seek any.

"The university also takes seriously its obligation to provide public information in accordance with Ohio law," the university statement said. "The university provided ESPN with thousands of pages of records during the course of our NCAA investigation, and as now affirmed by a unanimous court, it acted responsibly to the many varied and broad public records requests it received."
 
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Deadspin reported "SportsCenter" spent a total of 45 seconds discussing the Jerry Sandusky case last week.

http://deadspin.com/5919783/bristol...seconds-on-the-jerry-sandusky-trial-last-week

The only lip service from ESPN was a 45-second mention that the trial was set to begin, and it came right before they went to commercial. Beyond that? No live reports. No daily recap of the events from the trial. Nothing.
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But they did spend 144 minutes discussing the Miami Heat.

I don't watch SportsCenter, so could care less.
 
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LovelandBuckeye;2169739; said:
Did Skip fucking Bayless just say he only uses facts on his show? With a straight face even!
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Oh, he uses facts alright. It just that the facts he uses are the ones he makes up in his head. You know, like the fact that he was an HS all-star basketball player.

Cuban hit the nail on the head. Most of these sports gossipists (I will not call them journalists anymore) don't know a fucking thing about what is going on and are talking to fill the dreaded "dead air" stations hate.
 
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