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LB Chris Spielman (2x All-American, 4x Pro Bowl, 3x All-Pro, CFB HOF)

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Lets see Michigan has given up 31 to ND, 24 to Iowa, 28 to MSU,and 24 to NW...They have an improved defense but its still not great. Against teams with a pulse they are giving up 27+ PPG. I would like to add the game versus WMU was cut short or they might have given up 20+ there and Marquise Gray did not play when they took on Minny.

I disagree. IMO Michigan is 7-8 points better on defense but not better on offense. Special teams is still a joke.
 
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHZal1pdNTw"]Spielman on Sports with Adam Neft on 97.1 The Fan - YouTube[/ame]

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Chris Spielman, who played for the Buckeyes when Meyer coached at OSU in 1986 and ?87 ? and shared an ESPN TV booth with him this season ? said Meyer found a football/life balance in the booth that he believes will continue.

?I would expect him to have people in place to hold him accountable to what he says,? Spielman said.
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http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2011/11/29/wife-convinced-meyer-is-ready.html

Spielman Says Ohio State 'Perfect Situation' For Meyer
By Tony Gerdeman

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? In the back of the capacity-breached room, watching intently as his friend Urban Meyer was introduced as Ohio State's 24th head football coach, stood former Buckeye great Chris Spielman. The College Football Hall of Famer was witnessing the next stage in Ohio State football history, and it just happened to be his friend and colleague who was going to be leading the Buckeyes through it.

The former All-American linebacker couldn't have been happier. Spielman, having dedicated the rest of his life to helping his university raise funds for breast cancer research, had no doubts that Ohio State had landed the right man, and not only had they had landed the right man, but they had also kept the right man as well.

?In my eyes it's a homerun,? Spielman said moments after Monday's press conference.
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http://www.the-ozone.net/football/2011/MeyerHire/spielmanonmeyer.htm
 
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http://614columbus.com/article/the-next-chapter-4613/

The Next Chapter
Chris Spielman on his wife's legacy and life beyond the field
By V.R. Bryant

Though it’s been more than two years since Stefanie Spielman passed away after a 12-year bout with breast cancer, her memory and her impact on the lives of people in Columbus and across the country remain strong – due in part, at least, to the crusade still being carried on by her husband and family.

Next month marks the release of Chris Spielman’s book That’s Why I’m Here: The Chris and Stefanie Spielman Story. I was fortunate enough to sit with Chris recently and discuss the book, his life since Stefanie’s passing, and where he plans to go from here.
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After losing his wife, Stefanie, to cancer, Chris Spielman shares their story in new book
By Ken Gordon
The Columbus Dispatch Tuesday April 17, 2012

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Maddie Spielman shares a laugh with brother Noah, left, and father Chris after her dad started reading her lines during the annual Stefanie?s Champions luncheon at the Ohio Union on the Ohio State University campus.

Chris Spielman has tackled single fatherhood with the same intensity he once displayed on the football field.

More than two years after the death of his wife, Stefanie, of breast cancer at age 42, the former Ohio State and NFL linebacker juggles parenting; work as an ESPN college-football analyst; and numerous appearances to benefit the Stefanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research, established in 1999.

Recently, he added author to his resume with That?s Why I?m Here: The Chris & Stefanie Spielman Story ? co-written with Bruce Hooley. (Some proceeds from sales will support the fund.)

His most important duty, however, involves raising his children: Maddie, 18; Noah, 16; Macy, 11; and Audrey, 9.

And, although he has always been devoted, the stakes rose after Stefanie died in November 2009.

?I?m an extreme person,? Spielman said. ?When I get into something, I?m all in. That?s the way I was as a player, and that?s the way

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http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2012/04/17/the-latest-chapter.html
 
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Chris Spielman readies for campus book signing, Ohio State football spring game
By Pat Brennan
[email protected]
Published: Friday, April 20, 2012

Former Ohio State football linebacker Chris Spielman has two great loves in his life: his passion for football and his love for his late wife, Stefanie, who died from breast cancer Nov. 29, 2009.

As Chris Spielman writes in his book, his love for his wife trumps his love for football, and you?ll read as much in the decorated former Buckeye, NFL player and ESPN analyst?s debut as an author in ?That?s Why I?m Here: The Chris and Stefanie Spielman Story.?

Chris Spielman?s easily digested 224 page book, which is co-authored by ESPN colleague and friend Bruce Hooley and includes a foreword by daughter Madison Spielman, is equal parts reflection on his football career as well as his journey through cancer treatment with Stefanie Spielman.

During a Thursday interview, Chris Spielman told The Lantern he hatched the idea for the book with Hooley six months before Stefanie Spielman?s death.

?When I found out she was terminal, you start reflecting on not only the cancer journey, but also your life and how you got to this point,? Chris Spielman said. ?I sat with my good friend (Hooley), who I was doing a radio show with at the time, and we would meet (daily), probably, six months out before Stef died and we? just put thoughts down. And we put it together and that?s how the book was born.?

Chris Spielman?s fans in Buckeye Nation and across NFL cities can rest assured knowing they?ll get the football anecdotes they seek from the College Football Hall of Fame inductee and four-time NFL Pro Bowler.

?Football is a big part of my life, so the football part of the book is there,? Chris Spielman said, ?because (the book) is the first time I ever really sat out and looked back and analyzed my career from high school to Little League to the NFL. And then (the book) got to the point when cancer came, how do we react? So, it all kind of intertwined.?

Amongst the great peaks and low valleys that come with being both the devoted husband of a terminally ill cancer patient ? Chris Spielman took a year off from professional ball to be with his ailing wife ? and a professional athlete, he also speaks of the faith that carried him through it all in the book.

Chris Spielman said that, at points in his life, football was his sole focus. When tough times came, faith in God pulled him through. The Spielman family?s reliance on faith is also reflected in the book.

?It?s apparent that I?ve never hidden what I believe, but I also ? and Stef never ? imposed our belief on anyone,? Chris Spielman said. ?But we certainly exposed it to everyone, and it was key in our process of dealing with cancer and key in our process of Stef and key in the process of continuing to live and prosper.?

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http://www.thelantern.com/sports/ch...ing-ohio-state-football-spring-game-1.2855646
 
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Jim Naveau: Spielman wants to offer hope in book
April 21, 2012
Jim Naveau

Twenty-five years after his last football game at Ohio State, Chris Spielman is still one of the most beloved legends Buckeyes fans have.

Maybe the reason is that no one in scarlet and gray ever played with more intensity or looked like they cared more than the former OSU linebacker.

?When he does something, you don?t get half of Chris Spielman,? says William White, who was Spielman?s teammate at OSU and with the Detroit Lions and has been his friend for almost 30 years.

So, it should be no surprise that you get all of Chris Spielman in his book, ?That?s Why I?m Here: The Chris and Stefanie Spielman Story,? which tells the story of his wife Stefanie?s 12-year battle with cancer.

Spielman doesn?t hold back in talking about Stefanie?s struggle with breast cancer, his grief, being a single parent for their four children or his faith, which he says sustained him during the ordeal and continues to be his foundation.

It is a very personal story with a woman of incredible strength, courage and selflessness at its center.

Stefanie Spielman, Chris? high school sweetheart, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998. During the next 12 years, there were times when it appeared the disease was in remission or there was hope it was under control. But after it spread to her brain in 2009, her battle ended when she died at age 42 in November 2009.

During Stefanie?s lifetime, she and Chris established the Stefanie Spielman Fund for cancer research and it has raised $10 million so far. He has continued that mission since her death, applying the full Spielman treatment to it.

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http://varsity.limaohio.com/articles/spielman-8661-one-cared.html
 
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Marla Ridenour: Chris Spielman bears all in new book about wife?s cancer battle
By Marla Ridenour
Beacon Journal sports columnist
Published: April 22, 2012

Chris Spielman?s menacing persona, football?s version of a fire-breathing dragon, was an act, an alter ego summoned to get the linebacker through an All-America career at Ohio State and 11 seasons in the NFL.

The man behind that image is stripped bare in That?s Why I?m Here: The Chris and Stefanie Spielman Story, released today by Zondervan Books.

As Spielman, an ESPN analyst and father of four, chronicles his wife?s 11-year fight with Stage IV breast cancer, which claimed her life in November 2009, he reveals some of the journey?s most emotional moments with scenes that are sometimes haunting, sometimes uplifting.

I raced through the 224-page book in a week and was unable to put it down for the last 90 minutes, despite the tears it summoned, and nothing struck me more than the day in early 2001 when the Spielmans learned that Stefanie?s cancer had returned and had spread to her lung.

On his way to pick up their oldest children, Maddie and Noah, from school, Spielman parked behind a restaurant on Lane Avenue, climbed into the back seat of his car and curled up, sobbing. He screamed, ?God, no more deals. I?m done,? distraught that the pact he?d made after Stefanie?s initial diagnosis in 1998 had disintegrated.

Before that moment, instead of submitting to whatever God had in store for them, Spielman had talked to God as he watched late-night infomercials. He told him if Stefanie could be healed, he wouldn?t sweat the small stuff again.

?I was devastated,? Spielman said of those minutes in the back seat during a telephone interview last week. ?I couldn?t believe this was happening. I was almost in shock; I thought everything was OK.

?I thought I had a good deal cut with God and it didn?t go the way I wanted it to go. I was humbled to the core and scared. ?How am I going to do this?? ?

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http://www.ohio.com/news/top-storie...-new-book-about-wife-s-cancer-battle-1.302238

Chris Spielman: More from my interview on his new book "That's Why I'm Here"
By Marla Ridenour Published: April 23, 2012

More from my recent interview with Chris Spielman on his new book, "That's Why I'm Here: The Chris and Stefanie Spielman Story," which chronicles his wife Stefanie's 11-year battle with breast cancer. Stephanie died in November, 2009.

Q: The notes you included that you received, did those show you the impact Stefanie had on people you didn?t know?
A: ?For us they were comforting. It?s always nice to get conformation.?


Q: Your foundations recently reached a big milestone?
A: ?$10 million. That was announced at the annual Caregivers Luncheon we have, which are nominated by cancer survivors.

?That?s a credit to the people at The James (Cancer Center at Ohio State), me living to the promises I made to be the best dad I can be and to carry this legacy forward.
We hold people accountable for that fund. If I?m going to ask people for money, I want their money to go to research, all of it. We evaluate what they?re doing in the labs. If they?re not showing promising results, we?ll take the money and put it somewhere else, into new research. That makes our fund unique. There?s a lot of fine organizations, but not a lot of them can say 100 percent goes to research because they have overhead. We have the luxury of not having overhead.?

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http://www.ohio.com/blogs/marla/mar...-on-his-new-book-that-s-why-i-m-here-1.302303
 
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Posted: April 24, 2012
Q&A with Chris Spielman: His very personal new book
By Bruce Feldman | Senior College Football Columnist

I feel very fortunate to have gotten to know Chris Spielman over the years. I was a fan of his as a player before I began working in the media, and have learned he's even a better man than he was a linebacker, which considering how special he was on the football field is really saying something. He is direct, honest and as genuine as anyone I've worked with in two decades in the business. This week, Chris released a book detailing wife Stefanie's 11-year battle with cancer that took her life in November 2009. The title: That's Why I'm Here: The Stefanie and Chris Spielman Story. The book is getting rave reviews, and knowing Chris, I'm not surprised. Monday, I caught up with him to discuss the book, his wife's impact and how his perspective on things has changed.

Q: What was the toughest thing to reveal in writing this book?

Spielman: Nobody likes to talk about their weakness or being broken and getting humbled. It was a little tough to write but I knew that I wanted people to relate to it, so I had to be completely honest. That's why I chose to write the book when I found out Stefanie was terminal.

Q: You wrote about the time in 2001, after hearing more devastating news, that the cancer had returned and at that moment, you moved into the back seat of the car, curled up sobbing and screamed, "God, no more deals. I'm done." How did your perspective on life change then?

Spielman: That I can't control everything. That I can't out-prepare, out-work, out-lift, out-run. And that's hard for a competitive guy, whose basically thought that success was based solely on effort and toughness and strength and endurance. It's not. There are some things that you cannot control. So you have to humble yourself and realize that there is meaning and purpose that you are not going to get to dictate. Now, it's your job to recognize to seize on that opportunity, which I essential I did--and we did, but it is humbling to learn that.

Q: The Stefanie Spielman Fund has already raised over $10 million, which is 100 times your goal. What would you like people who aren't familiar with your family's story to know?

Spielman: I think the whole premise is, and this is the motto that I try to live by now: I want folks to be on their guard, understanding that good things and bad things happen every single day. Challenges and triumphs happen every day in our lives. Just be on your guard. Be men and women of faith. Be men and women of courage. Be men and women of strength. Be men and women of passion. And, with those words, you can probably handle anything that goes your way.

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http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...ith-chris-spielman-his-very-personal-new-book
 
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*Apologies if this is the incorrect forum to post this ? but we would like to have a strong fan base to support this event.*

Chris will be visiting Books & Co in Beavercreek, OH for a book signing on May 15th at 7pm (line numbers begin at 6pm). Our store holds events for authors and celebrities that have drawn crowds of over 500 fans, and we?re looking forward to Chris joining us for the evening. Typically our guests speak for a short time before doing a short Q&A before they begin the autograph portion of the event.
This is great opportunity for people to come out, have a good time and show support. As with all signings, you?ll have to show your Books & Co receipt for the book in order to get a line number.

:oh::io:

Books&Co
4453 Walnut St.
Beavercreek, OH 45440
937-429-2169
 
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Spielman's book shines light on wife's struggle
May 1 | By Jane McManus

Madison Spielman learned a lot from her father Chris' new book.

Now 18, she learned that on a family road trip, when she thought the RV was making a routine stop because her mom didn't feel well, they were in a hospital parking lot. And her father was trying to keep up a calm front while worrying about his wife's cancer.

She had been watching Michael Jackson videos with her three siblings. They had been laughing.

"That shows what a good job my mom and dad did of shielding us from that," Maddie said.
[+] EnlargeSpielmanAP Photo/Mark DuncanChris and Stefanie Spielman were careful to shield their three children from Stefanie's long battle with cancer.

Chris and Stefanie may have shielded their children from the scariest moments, but they shared their struggles publicly for a decade. Stefanie's breast cancer diagnosis in 1998, when she was just 30 years old, changed their lives. It also thrust them into the spotlight when Chris made the revolutionary decision to take a hiatus from his NFL career to care for his family. He still isn't sure why it caused such a commotion, but he is glad it did.

"That gave us a platform to raise awareness of breast cancer," Chris said.

They could shield their kids only so much once the cancer spread to Stephanie's brain and spinal fluid. Chris tells the rest of the story in "That's Why I'm Here," written with Bruce Hooley.

For Maddie, who was 4 years old when her mom was diagnosed and 15 when she died, the book was a revelation. As much as her mother fought cancer, she also fought for her children to be free of the constant fears that can come with recurrence and treatment. Her father, an All-Pro linebacker, also chose to document some genuinely sweet moments, like the morning he decided to propose.

"I really got to see my parents' love story from my dad's perspective and not just mine," Maddie said.

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