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Clark Kellogg: CBS Analyst To FACE OBAMA On Basketball Court With Harry Smith
The Huffington Post

President Barack Obama's bracket is busted, but the nation's first fan isn't done with March Madness.

The next chapter in Obama's basketball diary will unfold this week, when the president takes on CBS hoops analyst Clark Kellogg and newsman Harry Smith on the White House court.

Clips from the game and an interview with Smith will air on The Early Show on Friday, April 2. The rest of the game and an interview with Kellogg will air the following day, during CBS' coverage of the NCAA Final Four.

Earlier this season, Obama watched Duke play at Georgetown and provided some live commentary for CBS alongside Kellogg and play-by-play man Vern Lunquist. The president called Kellogg the "best color man in college basketball," and hinted that a game might be coming. "The question is whether Clark still plays at all, or whether his knees are a little too creaky!"
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College basketball Q&A: Clark Kellogg
Sunday, April 18, 2010
By Jeff Mills
Staff Writer

When he's not losing a game of P-O-T-U-S to President Barack Obama (by one letter), Clark Kellogg is the lead college basketball analyst for CBS.

The former Ohio State star -- Kellogg, not Obama -- will be the guest speaker next week at the Greensboro Sports Dinner.

Judging by a quick Q&A via telephone from his Columbus, Ohio, home Thursday, Kellogg has a lot to say.

JEFF MILLS: It looks as if the NCAA tournament will expand to 96 teams. Assuming that happens, is it a good idea?

CLARK KELLOGG: Initially I was adamantly opposed to expanding the field. It's a terrific tournament, and it's hard to envision something so good getting better, so why change it? But if you look at it from the NCAA's perspective -- managing two tournaments with the NIT, comparing the percentages of teams in NCAA championships in other sports, giving an opportunity for more student-athletes to participate -- I'd have to say I'm open to it now much more so than I was initially. I still don't know if I'm 100 percent for it, but I'm not 100 percent against it
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College basketball Q&A: Clark Kellogg : News-Record.com : Greensboro & the Triad's most trusted source for local news and analysis
 
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Friday, June 25, 2010
Kellogg, Battelle CEO named OSU trustees
Business First of Columbus

Former Buckeye basketball star and television sports personality Clark Kellogg and Battelle CEO Jeffrey Wadsworth were appointed to the Ohio State University Board of Trustees Friday.

The appointments, made by Gov. Ted Strickland, were for nine-year terms to the board, which approves policies and provides oversight of operations at the university.

Kellogg, who lives in Westerville, has served as the lead college basketball analyst for CBS Sports since 2009 and has been a basketball game and studio analyst at the network for the past 18 years. He previously served as an analyst for ESPN?s regular-season basketball coverage.

A Cleveland native, Kellogg played for Ohio State?s men?s basketball team from 1979-82 and earned All-Big Ten and Most Valuable Player honors in 1982. Kellogg was the No. 1 draft pick of the Indiana Pacers in 1982 and played five seasons in the National Basketball Association. He received a bachelor?s degree from OSU in 1986.
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Pacers name Kellogg player relations VP
Star Report
Posted: July 14, 2010

Clark Kellogg, a former player for the Indiana Pacers and highly-respected broadcaster for Pacers and CBS college basketball telecasts, was named today as the team's Vice President of Player Relations. Kellogg will continue his responsibilities with Pacers television and as the lead college basketball analyst for CBS.

"Everything Clark has done in his life, as a player, as an analyst and as a person, he has approached with hard work, class, dignity and has always given 100 percent," said Pacers President of Basketball Larry Bird. "We think he is a tremendous asset for our franchise. He has great respect and knowledge of the game, both on and off the court. He is someone our players, our franchise and our community can look to as a role model, and we couldn't be happier to have him assume this important role with our players."
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"I am very excited and pleased about having an expanded role with the Indiana Pacers in the area of Player Relations," said Kellogg, who is active with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Athletes in Action and United Way. "Considering my history with the franchise, and my basketball and life experiences, the timing seems right for me to accept and pursue this new challenge. The opportunity to serve the franchise, players, and community is a privilege, opportunity, and responsibility I'm very much looking forward to.

The 48-year-old Kellogg was the Pacers No. 1 draft pick (eighth overall) in 1982 and played five seasons, the last two abbreviated due to a knee injury that caused him to retire. He averaged 18.9 points and 9.5 rebounds including 20.1 and 10.6 his rookie year, one of just four players in the NBA that season to average above 20 and 10 in those two categories.

After retiring, Kellogg got into broadcasting with Pacers radio and Cleveland State University TV in 1987-88. He eventually moved to television with the Pacers as an analyst and has filled that role for the last 21 seasons. He worked on ESPN's college basketball coverage from 1990-'97 and worked for the Big East Network and Prime Sports before joining CBS in 1993. With CBS, Kellogg has been a studio co-host for NCAA tournament coverage and in 2009 became the lead college basketball analyst, only the second person to do so at CBS since 1982.
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http://www.indystar.com/article/20100714/LOCAL/7140423/Pacers-name-Kellogg-player-relations-VP
 
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Kellogg faces early challenges
Trouble hits just weeks into new job as Pacers VP of player relations
Sep 16, 2010
gannett.com
Written by
Mike Wells

Clark Kellogg's first crisis as the Indiana Pacers' vice president of player relations came just a few weeks after he was hired by the team. His second came just 12 days later.

Rookie Lance Stephenson (who is facing felony assault charges stemming from an altercation with his girlfriend) and Brandon Rush (suspended five games after testing positive for marijuana for the third time) gave Kellogg an unpleasant welcome to his new role. The incidents also brought back painful memories from several years ago.

"Those were significant gut shots right away on a number of levels," Kellogg said recently from his home in Columbus, Ohio.

Kellogg, 49, will keep his role as Pacers television analyst on the road and as the lead college basketball analyst for CBS while commuting between Ohio and Indianapolis.

The former Pacers first-round draftee shared a few thoughts on his new position.
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http://www.indystar.com/article/20100916/SPORTS04/9160418/Kellogg-faces-early-challenges

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxZSypmiVME"]YouTube - Capital One Cup Press Conference - Clark Kellogg Interview[/ame]
 
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Gentle giant keeps growing: Clark Kellogg continues to make impact on game of basketball
By James Oldham
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Published: Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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It happened before his second season in the NBA. The cartilage around Clark Kellogg's knee began to wear away, leading to the first of three surgeries in four years.

In August 1987, Kellogg announced he was retiring from the NBA. His career lasted five years, the last two shortened by knee injuries.

At the promising age of 26, his dream was ending, a career vanishing in the wind.

"I was disheartened and disappointed at the time that my basketball-playing days were over," Kellogg said in an interview with The Lantern.

Kellogg's wife Rosy had to witness her husband go through one knee surgery after another. Then she watched as her husband lost a career.

"It was difficult because it was something that he truly loved," Rosy said.
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Special K, as he was nicknamed in high school, was a highly touted recruit coming out of St. Joe's. During his final high school game in 1979, he dropped an Ohio high school tournament-record 51 points on Columbus East. The record still stands 31 years later.

With his high school career coming to a close, Kellogg had to make an important choice: Which college would he be playing for by the end of the year?

"I really wanted to stay fairly close to Cleveland. I wanted my parents to be able to come to my games," Kellogg said. "It came down to Ohio State and Michigan. And then Ohio - the whole state - kind of recruited me. People are really passionate and rabid about the Ohio State athletic teams in particular, so being recruited by the whole state was hard to turn down."

Kellogg played for three years at OSU, averaging a double-double with 14.9 points and 10.1 rebounds per game. Yet, his most significant moment in college happened away from the basketball court.

"We met at a concert when Clark was a freshman at Ohio State in 1979 and we've been married for 27 years this past July," Rosy said.

After what was considered a disappointing year for the team by the Buckeye faithful, Kellogg left after his junior year to pursue his dream of playing professional basketball.

He was selected eighth overall by the Indiana Pacers in the 1982 NBA Draft. In his rookie year, Kellogg again averaged a double-double, scoring 20.1 points and hauling in 10.6 rebounds per game. He was named to the All-Rookie team and finished second in the Rookie of the Year race.

After a knee operation and two more years of solid basketball, Kellogg had a second knee operation. He played in only 19 games in his fourth season and would play in only four more before his career came to an abrupt end.
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http://www.thelantern.com/sports/ge...o-make-impact-on-game-of-basketball-1.1652703
 
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Clark Kellogg rejects charge that he violated NCAA recruiting rules with high school prospect
Published: Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Bill Lubinger, The Plain Dealer

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"I've never tried to sway anyone to go to Ohio State," said Clark Kellogg on Wednesday. "For one, it's against the rules; and, two, it's not my nature to ever tell anyone where to go to school."

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Former NBA and Ohio State basketball star Clark Kellogg refutes an allegation in a new book that he violated NCAA rules by recruiting a promising high school player to play for the Buckeyes.

In "Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine," Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Dohrmann chronicles the rise and recruitment of several top young basketball players in Southern California.

Among them was Roberto Nelson, now a 6-3, 188-pound "redshirt" freshman at Oregon State.

Dohrmann wrote that Ohio State coach Thad Matta had offered Nelson a scholarship when the recruit visited Columbus for the Ohio State-Michigan football game; and that Kellogg violated an NCAA rule when he called Bruce Nelson, the player's father, and "lobbied on behalf of his alma mater." Former players are not allowed to contact recruits or their families.

Kellogg, now lead college basketball color analyst for CBS, said the conversation was mischaracterized.

"I do recall talking to Bruce in regards to his son, but it was more along the lines of fact-finding for him," Kellogg said Wednesday by phone. "I'm not quite sure how we got in contact with one another. I think there was a third-party person who reached out to me on his behalf."

Kellogg said the conversation wasn't unusual, that he's had parents seek his input about the recruiting process in general.

"But I've never tried to sway anyone to go to Ohio State," he said. "For one, it's against the rules; and, two, it's not my nature to ever tell anyone where to go to school."
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An Ohio State athletic compliance representative said the university looked into the allegations, concluding that Kellogg did nothing wrong.

"We've spoken with Clark and we've attempted to reach out to the [Nelson] family," said Doug Archie, associate athletic director for compliance at Ohio State. "On the facts that we have collected, we don't believe a violation occurred. Clark talked to [Nelson's] dad about the recruiting experience that his sons had."
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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2010/10/clark_kellogg_rejects_charge_t.html
 
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Clark Kellogg, a former Ohio State and Indiana Pacers star who now is a CBS Sports college basketball analyst, said it is tougher than ever to have an unbeaten season.

"I think it's highly unlikely," Kellogg said. "I'd make the odds at least 90 percent against it."

Kellogg lists several factors for that viewpoint, many of which are agreed upon by other analysts:

More good players now, spread out over multiple programs.

More off-court distractions, with 24/7 ESPN, Internet and media coverage and social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.

Top players leaving earlier for the NBA, hampering chances to build cohesive, consistently strong NCAA title contenders.

Conference tournaments and the expanded NCAA Tournament, with more games - and more chances to lose. Whereas elite teams in the 1970s played about 30 games, today's teams play closer to 40. Last year's champion, Duke, went 35-5.

"It would be great to get in a time machine and see how things were for that ('76) Indiana team, in terms of what kind of coverage they were getting," Kellogg said.
Close calls

Certainly it was different, with unbeaten teams not a novelty then. Indiana was the fourth NCAA champion in a 10-year span to go unbeaten, along with UCLA teams in 1966-67, 1971-72 and 1972-73.

Since '76? Nobody.

There have been near-misses.

Larry Bird's 1979 Indiana State team reached the NCAA final unbeaten, then lost to Magic Johnson and Michigan State.

In 1991, Larry Johnson's Nevada-Las Vegas team was considered unbeatable and was, until being upset by Duke in the NCAA semifinals.

This year, Ohio State is the last man standing.

"When you have an unbeaten team this late in the year, it becomes the lead story in college basketball," Kellogg said. "Even Ohio State, as good as they are, I'd probably group them with some of the other good teams - Pittsburgh, Kansas, Texas, Duke. Teams like that are very good, but there aren't any real dominant teams out there."
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Ridenour: OSU alum will take over broadcast if Buckeyes near victory
By Marla Ridenour
Beacon Journal sports columnist
POSTED: Mar 12, 2011

NEW YORK: If Ohio State wins the NCAA championship, the voice of CBS Sports is prepared to fall silent.

Jim Nantz has been the network's lead play-by-play man on college basketball since 1990. In the Final Four's waning moments, it is his job to capture the emotion, to attempt to coin a phrase as iconic as Al Michaels' ''Do you believe in miracles?''

But Nantz said last week he will let partner Clark Kellogg call the game's final seconds if Kellogg's alma mater claims the national title on April 4 in Houston.

Kellogg, 49, played for Ohio State and was the Buckeyes' Most Valuable Player in his final season in 1982. He earned a marketing degree from the university in December 1996, and is now a member of the school's board of trustees. With CBS for 18 years, he has been the lead analyst since July 2008.

''It just dawned on me,'' Nantz said Tuesday at an NCAA March Madness media day at Le Parker Meridien hotel in New York. ''If his alma mater is on the way to winning the championship and the guard is out at midcourt dribbling, waiting to hoist the ball up in the air and suddenly a celebration unfolds on the court, I'm going to step aside and say, 'Clark, take us to zero.' It would be wonderful for him to put the exclamation point on it. I think there's a really good chance that could happen.

''So April 4 around 11:18 Eastern time, you might hear Clark Kellogg exclaiming something like, 'THE Ohio State Buckeyes are the national champions!!' ''

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLvNyadnMLE"]YouTube - Clark Kellogg on Selection Sunday[/ame]
 
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