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Coming to a theater near you: Sylvester
Ex-Ohio State player cast as an extra in Will Ferrell movie
Monday, March 05, 2007
Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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Two years ago this week, he authored a Hollywood ending to Ohio State?s first Big Ten season under coach Thad Matta. Now, Matt Sylvester is living it.
"Hollywood never sleeps," he text-messaged one night last week from his new address on the West Coast. "HAHAHAHAHAHA. I?ll call you tomorrow." Sylvester, whose Ohio State career ended last season, has been working the past two months as an extra on the set of Will Ferrell?s latest movie, Semi-Pro. The comedy, also starring Woody Harrelson (White Men Can?t Jump), is set in the final year of the American Basketball Association and follows Jackie Moon (Ferrell), the owner-coach-player of the fictional Flint Michigan Tropics, in his attempt to lead his team to the NBA.

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Chicago Sun

Ex-Buckeye rubs elbows with stars

March 6, 2007
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Former Ohio State player Matt Sylvester is working as an extra in a Will Ferrell movie in Hollywood. Sylvester was supposed to be Ferrell's stunt double for the 1970s-set movie comedy ''Semi-Pro,'' but at 6-7, he is 4 inches taller than Ferrell. Now Sylvester hopes to get a scene in the movie.
Sylvester, whose last season with the Buckeyes was last year, can thank his mother for the role. She found the casting call on the Internet. The only requirements were basketball experience, no tattoos and no earrings because players in the 1970s didn't have those.
''I figured I'd take a three-day vacation, check out a Lakers game and come back home,'' said Sylvester, who had been working out in Cincinnati while recovering from his latest back surgery. ''And here I am.''
Sylvester said he has had fun making the movie.


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Is Matt Sylvester in Semi-Pro?

I remember reading something during the early production of Semi-Pro about Matt trying out for a nonspeaking role as a player on an opposing team, just wondering if anything ever came of that?
 
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Hallo Matt(hew) Sylvester

Hi , im Francesco Ferrari , i write from Bologna , Italy , i was with matt sylvester at elementary school when we r child and when his father play for virtus knorr Bologna.
today i know that matt play basketball and i see one video on youtube when he score a 3 points shoot at the end of the game. i only wanna congratulate him and know if he remember me.we were great friends.
sorry for my bad english:(
 
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Ex-OSU Basketball Player Arrested Outside Arena
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? A former Ohio State University basketball player faces charges after police said he nearly ran over an officer with his car, 10TV News reported on Wednesday.

Matt Sylvester was arrested Friday night after leaving a basketball game at the Schottenstein Center. According to police, Sylvester, 26, made an illegal u-turn on Woody Hayes Drive and ignored an officer's order to stop, 10TV News reported.

Police said Sylvester also ran a red light and drove recklessly on a sidewalk before stopping.

Charges against Sylvester include failure to comply and reckless operation, according to court records.
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WBNS 10TV : Ex-OSU Basketball Player Arrested Outside Arena - WBNS-10TV, Central Ohio's News Leader
 
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Matt was one of my students at Moeller. Nice kid, funny, smarter than he let on, - a bit full of himself - but that often goes with being a teen ager and a better than average athlete. As a frosh he played an important role in winning the state title.
 
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cincibuck;2113574; said:
Matt was one of my students at Moeller. Nice kid, funny, smarter than he let on, - a bit full of himself - but that often goes with being a teen ager and a better than average athlete. As a frosh he played an important role in winning the state title.
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My brother went to school with him in grade school at Loveland, and he has oh so fond memories of Sylvester. :lol:
 
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