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oh, i wasnt paying attention that he was standing. that answers my main question who that was. but i still feel he should have been in the picture.
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Well, Tyson IS a part of the team, but who cares whether or not he appears in some worthless team photo? Nobody on the team cares. JT knows what he's doing. And I'm sure he realizes that having Gentry in the team photo would be mawkish and inappropriate. And I think Tyson is a little busy w/ rehab.
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tibs, u just changed my opinion on it. i see how it could be inapropriate.
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That's a hell of a choice of a word Tibs,
Although I don't think it would be overly sentimental to include him in the picture if he was able. 
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OSU FOOTBALL
Gentry gets chance to say thank you
He?s grateful for support after neck injury
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
JEFF HINCKLEY DISPATCH Tyson Gentry, who broke a vertebra in April, and his father, Bob, watch the Ohio State-Northern Illinois game Sept. 2.
Sometime during the Ohio State-Penn State game on Saturday, Tyson Gentry will get a chance to acknowledge all the fans who have encouraged him during his recovery from a broken neck.
Alongside Gentry will be someone who four years ago had that same chance.
Former Penn State player Adam Taliaferro is coming to Columbus this weekend. He suffered a fractured vertebra playing against the Buckeyes in 2000.
He recovered to walk again and received a standing ovation from the Ohio Stadium crowd during the 2002 Penn State game.
In an April practice, Gentry, a junior punter-receiver for the Buckeyes, suffered an injury similar to Taliaferro?s. The two have spoken several times by phone but have not met.
"Just knowing that he?s gone through this and he has been there before is definitely something to look up to and know that big things are possible," Gentry said. "So we definitely need to meet him."
Taliaferro feels the same.
"I just wanted the opportunity to see Tyson and put a face to a name and see how he?s doing," he said.
The two first spoke just days after Gentry?s injury, while Gen- try was recovering from a second surgery in OSU Medical Center. Taliaferro had been taken there in 2000.
"I was nervous, I wasn?t sure how he would sound," Taliaferro said. "But he sounded remarkably well."
In the ensuing months, Gentry was visited several times by Taliaferro?s father, Andre, and spoke occasionally on the phone with Adam.
"I know it was uplifting for Tyson to get a chance to talk to him, and his dad has been up a couple different times to the hospital to visit us," said Tyson?s father, Bob Gentry.
"They?re very spiritual people, and it?s just nice to have someone who knows where you?ve been and they?re kind of doing it with you again, so it was very helpful."
Taliaferro walked out of a rehabilitation facility in January 2001, four months after his injury. Though his football career was over, he led Penn State onto the field for the 2001 opener.
Now 25, he suffers no longterm effects from the injury. He is in his second year of law school at Rutgers University.
Gentry?s recovery has been slower. He is in a wheelchair, with no lower-body movement and limited use of his arms. He fractured the C4 vertebra, one higher than the one Taliaferro broke.
"It?s going OK, getting a little better," Gentry said. "Nothing really that major with movement or anything. But strength is coming along a lot better, just tolerance; being able to sit upright better and everything like that."
In that regard, Taliaferro?s message to Gentry has been meaningful.
"I just tell him it?s going to be a marathon," Taliaferro said. "Anything he gets back is better than before. It?s a long process."
Gentry has been a spectator at as many OSU practices as possible, along with both home games so far. He remains in school, signed up for three classes this quarter.
He said he was touched by the OSU players wearing a "24" decal ? Gentry?s jersey number ? on their helmets.
He met with reporters in July for his first public appearance since the injury. But he?s really looking forward to his first chance to acknowledge the fans Saturday. He has received thousands of cards and e-mails since the injury.
"The amount of support and everything from the fans has been unbelievable," he said. "And (Saturday) is just as much for them as it is for me. They like to see that I?m here and everything, and I?m definitely happy to be out here, as well."
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OSU FOOTBALL
Gentry gets chance to say thank you
He?s grateful for support after neck injury
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Sometime during the Ohio State-Penn State game on Saturday, Tyson Gentry will get a chance to acknowledge all the fans who have encouraged him during his recovery from a broken neck.
Alongside Gentry will be someone who four years ago had that same chance.
Former Penn State player Adam Taliaferro is coming to Columbus this weekend. He suffered a fractured vertebra playing against the Buckeyes in 2000.
He recovered to walk again and received a standing ovation from the Ohio Stadium crowd during the 2002 Penn State game.
In an April practice, Gentry, a junior punter-receiver for the Buckeyes, suffered an injury similar to Taliaferro?s. The two have spoken several times by phone but have not met.
"Just knowing that he?s gone through this and he has been there before is definitely something to look up to and know that big things are possible," Gentry said. "So we definitely need to meet him."
Taliaferro feels the same.
"I just wanted the opportunity to see Tyson and put a face to a name and see how he?s doing," he said.
The two first spoke just days after Gentry?s injury, while Gen- try was recovering from a second surgery in OSU Medical Center. Taliaferro had been taken there in 2000.
"I was nervous, I wasn?t sure how he would sound," Taliaferro said. "But he sounded remarkably well."
In the ensuing months, Gentry was visited several times by Taliaferro?s father, Andre, and spoke occasionally on the phone with Adam.
"I know it was uplifting for Tyson to get a chance to talk to him, and his dad has been up a couple different times to the hospital to visit us," said Tyson?s father, Bob Gentry.
"They?re very spiritual people, and it?s just nice to have someone who knows where you?ve been and they?re kind of doing it with you again, so it was very helpful."
Taliaferro walked out of a rehabilitation facility in January 2001, four months after his injury. Though his football career was over, he led Penn State onto the field for the 2001 opener.
Now 25, he suffers no longterm effects from the injury. He is in his second year of law school at Rutgers University.
Gentry?s recovery has been slower. He is in a wheelchair, with no lower-body movement and limited use of his arms. He fractured the C4 vertebra, one higher than the one Taliaferro broke.
"It?s going OK, getting a little better," Gentry said. "Nothing really that major with movement or anything. But strength is coming along a lot better, just tolerance; being able to sit upright better and everything like that."
In that regard, Taliaferro?s message to Gentry has been meaningful.
"I just tell him it?s going to be a marathon," Taliaferro said. "Anything he gets back is better than before. It?s a long process."
Gentry has been a spectator at as many OSU practices as possible, along with both home games so far. He remains in school, signed up for three classes this quarter.
He said he was touched by the OSU players wearing a "24" decal ? Gentry?s jersey number ? on their helmets.
He met with reporters in July for his first public appearance since the injury. But he?s really looking forward to his first chance to acknowledge the fans Saturday. He has received thousands of cards and e-mails since the injury.
"The amount of support and everything from the fans has been unbelievable," he said. "And (Saturday) is just as much for them as it is for me. They like to see that I?m here and everything, and I?m definitely happy to be out here, as well."
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Gentry, Taliaferro to meet Saturday
JASON LLOYD, Morning Journal Writer
09/20/2006
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COLUMBUS -- Shortly after his paralysis, Tyson Gentry heard from Adam Taliaferro. Now he gets to meet him, too.
Gentry and Taliaferro will meet during a special halftime presentation at Saturday's game between Ohio State and Penn State in an effort to promote awareness about spinal cord injuries.
''I think it's going to be wonderful for Tyson Gentry to have that opportunity to learn from Adam,'' coach Jim Tressel said. ''And the other thing is to raise the awareness of spinal cord injury research. That's part of what we'd like to do, because it's real. Some of the great research is being done at places like this (Ohio State). And if we can help raise awareness, that's a good thing.''
Gentry, a Perkins graduate, was paralyzed during spring ball in April on a routine tackle. Taliaferro was paralyzed while playing cornerback for Penn State in a game in Ohio Stadium against the Buckeyes in 2000. He has since made a near-full recovery and now can walk again without aid. He was the first to call Gentry upon hearing he was injured.
Clarett reaction
Tressel was saddened to hear his former player, Maurice Clarett, will spend at least the next 3 1/2 years in prison for pleading guilty to robbery charges. But he hoped Clarett had a plan for life in prison and beyond.
''Knowing Maurice like I do ... I like to think that he'll have a plan for his growth while he's taking care of those consequences,'' Tressel said. ''My feelings don't change any for him. I would say this: Like any situation that arises, if you'll take it and use it to grow, it's amazing what it can do for you. So my prayer is that he takes that time and creates a plan for his life and that he'll have a wonderful life.''
Quarterback Troy Smith is one of the few remaining players with a connection to Clarett. The two were close at one time, but have since drifted apart.
''I'm praying for him all the time,'' Smith said. ''It's an unfortunate situation, but there's not much myself or my teammates can do. Every man chooses his path. It might not be a good one, but he has to live with that situation.''
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Steve Rehring has supplanted Tim Schafer as the starting left guard on the offensive line. Rehring and Schafer had been splitting the snaps, but Rehring will start this week while Schafer will back up at both left tackle and left guard.
''Both Schaf and Steve Rehring have to be ready to play tackle and they have to be ready to play guard,'' Tressel said.
Receiver Roy Hall, still recovering from a sprained ankle he suffered prior to the season, got in on a handful of plays against Cincinnati. Tressel estimated he was about 85 percent last week and he'll be about 95 percent by Saturday, but refused to say how much he'll play.
Freshmen Brian Robiskie and Brian Hartline have played well in Hall's absence.
''How many snaps he'll play,'' Tressel said. ''I wouldn't even venture to throw a number out, but I'm hoping it will be significant.''
The only player Ohio State will be without won't matter much in the game plan. Third-string quarterback Todd Boeckman rolled an ankle in mop-up duty against the Bearcats and is out.
Gentry, Taliaferro to meet Saturday
JASON LLOYD, Morning Journal Writer
09/20/2006
Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendlyCOLUMBUS -- Shortly after his paralysis, Tyson Gentry heard from Adam Taliaferro. Now he gets to meet him, too.
Gentry and Taliaferro will meet during a special halftime presentation at Saturday's game between Ohio State and Penn State in an effort to promote awareness about spinal cord injuries.
''I think it's going to be wonderful for Tyson Gentry to have that opportunity to learn from Adam,'' coach Jim Tressel said. ''And the other thing is to raise the awareness of spinal cord injury research. That's part of what we'd like to do, because it's real. Some of the great research is being done at places like this (Ohio State). And if we can help raise awareness, that's a good thing.''
Gentry, a Perkins graduate, was paralyzed during spring ball in April on a routine tackle. Taliaferro was paralyzed while playing cornerback for Penn State in a game in Ohio Stadium against the Buckeyes in 2000. He has since made a near-full recovery and now can walk again without aid. He was the first to call Gentry upon hearing he was injured.
Clarett reaction
Tressel was saddened to hear his former player, Maurice Clarett, will spend at least the next 3 1/2 years in prison for pleading guilty to robbery charges. But he hoped Clarett had a plan for life in prison and beyond.
''Knowing Maurice like I do ... I like to think that he'll have a plan for his growth while he's taking care of those consequences,'' Tressel said. ''My feelings don't change any for him. I would say this: Like any situation that arises, if you'll take it and use it to grow, it's amazing what it can do for you. So my prayer is that he takes that time and creates a plan for his life and that he'll have a wonderful life.''
Quarterback Troy Smith is one of the few remaining players with a connection to Clarett. The two were close at one time, but have since drifted apart.
''I'm praying for him all the time,'' Smith said. ''It's an unfortunate situation, but there's not much myself or my teammates can do. Every man chooses his path. It might not be a good one, but he has to live with that situation.''
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Steve Rehring has supplanted Tim Schafer as the starting left guard on the offensive line. Rehring and Schafer had been splitting the snaps, but Rehring will start this week while Schafer will back up at both left tackle and left guard.
''Both Schaf and Steve Rehring have to be ready to play tackle and they have to be ready to play guard,'' Tressel said.
Receiver Roy Hall, still recovering from a sprained ankle he suffered prior to the season, got in on a handful of plays against Cincinnati. Tressel estimated he was about 85 percent last week and he'll be about 95 percent by Saturday, but refused to say how much he'll play.
Freshmen Brian Robiskie and Brian Hartline have played well in Hall's absence.
''How many snaps he'll play,'' Tressel said. ''I wouldn't even venture to throw a number out, but I'm hoping it will be significant.''
The only player Ohio State will be without won't matter much in the game plan. Third-string quarterback Todd Boeckman rolled an ankle in mop-up duty against the Bearcats and is out.
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Taliaferro will meet injured Buckeye
By BERNARD FERNANDEZ
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Blood feud? Grudge match?
Hey, those are terms reserved for the Hatfields and McCoys or warring factions in the Middle East. But Penn State coach Joe Paterno and his Ohio State counterpart, Jim Tressel, understand better than most that football is a game, and that it's simply wrong for anyone to try to attach a life-and-death importance to two uniformed groups of young men squaring off in athletic competition.
Who wins or does not win a game, even one as important as Saturday afternoon's nationally televised matchup (3:30, Channel 6) of No. 1 Ohio State (3-0) and No. 24 Penn State (2-1) in Ohio Stadium, seems not to matter so much when one of those young men is lying crumpled on a football field facing possible paralysis.
There likely won't be a dry eye in the 102,329-seat "Horseshoe" when two players who suffered severe neck injuries, former Penn State cornerback Adam Taliaferro and former Ohio State walk-on punter/wide receiver Tyson Gentry, meet each other at halftime.
Figure Paterno and Tressel to be among those misting up.
"I think it's wonderful for Tyson Gentry to have that opportunity to learn from Adam, and the other thing is to raise the awareness of spinal cord injury research," Tressel said of what is sure to be an emotional moment.
The 6-2, 165-pound Gentry - well, he was 165 pounds before he lost nearly 30 pounds during his hospitalization - fell awkwardly during spring practice when he reached for a pass.
"It's definitely strange that it actually happened," Gentry, who is enrolled for classes at Ohio State but is confined to a motorized wheelchair, said of the seemingly innocuous play that changed his life. "I remember catching the ball and putting my feet down to turn upfield and the ball kind of slipped. I think I went down to grab it and I went right to the ground. It wasn't even a hit."
For Taliaferro, then an 18-year-old freshman from Voorhees, N.J., the moment of truth came in the fourth quarter of a game on Sept. 23, 2000, ironically at Ohio State, that the Nittany Lions would go on to lose, 45-6, the most lopsided defeat of the Paterno era. Taliaferro made a helmet-first tackle on 231-pound tailback Jerry Westbrooks. Westbrooks got up; Taliaferro, who had shattered his fifth cervical vertebrae, didn't.
For Paterno, who is in his 41st season as head coach and 57th overall at Penn State, Taliaferro's injury almost did something that a losing season never could: It caused him to contemplate retirement.
But then something happened that transformed a seeming tragedy into an uplifting tale of hope. Taliaferro underwent emergency surgery at Ohio State University Medical Center and, after his return to the Philadelphia area, was treated at Thomas Jefferson Hospital and Magee Rehabilitation Hospital. He recovered to a point where he was able to lead the Lions out of the tunnel at Beaver Stadium and onto the field for their 2001 opener against Miami.
"Adam is our miracle," Paterno said.
Doctors now say that Taliaferro is 90 to 95 percent recovered, although he walks with a slight limp. And the hope is that if Taliaferro could rise from his wheelchair to walk again, so, too, might Gentry.
Following the lead of their coaches, who respect and like one another, players for both teams are resisting any temptation to talk smack or reduce Saturday's showdown into some sort of gutter brawl.
Penn State rode its defense to a 17-10 victory over the visiting Buckeyes before 109,839 screaming spectators last Oct. 8. Both teams went on to share the Big Ten Conference championship.
"Not at all," Ohio State center Doug Datish said of the Lions when asked if the Buckeyes were seeking revenge. "They are a clean opponent. There's not a lot of jawing between us. They are well-coached and classy."
Bet won, game lost
Perhaps it is unwise to mention Art Schlichter and a wager, even one in which no money exchanged hands.
Paterno was recalling the 1978 matchup of Penn State and Ohio State, the third game of that season, which marked the first extended playing time for Schlichter, a heralded freshman quarterback whose addictive gambling shortened his NFL career and landed him in prison.
"We went over there to Columbus," Paterno said. "[The Buckeyes] had won the Cotton Bowl the year before. We had a thing going on in the office. Some of the guys on our staff thought they were going to start Schlichter, who was a true freshman. I said, 'Woody Hayes will start a true freshman over his dead body.' And when the game began, the kid who had taken them to the Cotton Bowl [Rod Gerald] started.
"I turned to the guy on the phone and said, 'You tell those guys upstairs that I know a little more about this than they do.' All of a sudden this roar went up. Here comes Schlichter. He played almost the whole game.
"I never heard the end of it. But we wound up beating them pretty good [19-0]."
Taliaferro will meet injured Buckeye
By BERNARD FERNANDEZ
[email protected]
Blood feud? Grudge match?
Hey, those are terms reserved for the Hatfields and McCoys or warring factions in the Middle East. But Penn State coach Joe Paterno and his Ohio State counterpart, Jim Tressel, understand better than most that football is a game, and that it's simply wrong for anyone to try to attach a life-and-death importance to two uniformed groups of young men squaring off in athletic competition.
Who wins or does not win a game, even one as important as Saturday afternoon's nationally televised matchup (3:30, Channel 6) of No. 1 Ohio State (3-0) and No. 24 Penn State (2-1) in Ohio Stadium, seems not to matter so much when one of those young men is lying crumpled on a football field facing possible paralysis.
There likely won't be a dry eye in the 102,329-seat "Horseshoe" when two players who suffered severe neck injuries, former Penn State cornerback Adam Taliaferro and former Ohio State walk-on punter/wide receiver Tyson Gentry, meet each other at halftime.
Figure Paterno and Tressel to be among those misting up.
"I think it's wonderful for Tyson Gentry to have that opportunity to learn from Adam, and the other thing is to raise the awareness of spinal cord injury research," Tressel said of what is sure to be an emotional moment.
The 6-2, 165-pound Gentry - well, he was 165 pounds before he lost nearly 30 pounds during his hospitalization - fell awkwardly during spring practice when he reached for a pass.
"It's definitely strange that it actually happened," Gentry, who is enrolled for classes at Ohio State but is confined to a motorized wheelchair, said of the seemingly innocuous play that changed his life. "I remember catching the ball and putting my feet down to turn upfield and the ball kind of slipped. I think I went down to grab it and I went right to the ground. It wasn't even a hit."
For Taliaferro, then an 18-year-old freshman from Voorhees, N.J., the moment of truth came in the fourth quarter of a game on Sept. 23, 2000, ironically at Ohio State, that the Nittany Lions would go on to lose, 45-6, the most lopsided defeat of the Paterno era. Taliaferro made a helmet-first tackle on 231-pound tailback Jerry Westbrooks. Westbrooks got up; Taliaferro, who had shattered his fifth cervical vertebrae, didn't.
For Paterno, who is in his 41st season as head coach and 57th overall at Penn State, Taliaferro's injury almost did something that a losing season never could: It caused him to contemplate retirement.
But then something happened that transformed a seeming tragedy into an uplifting tale of hope. Taliaferro underwent emergency surgery at Ohio State University Medical Center and, after his return to the Philadelphia area, was treated at Thomas Jefferson Hospital and Magee Rehabilitation Hospital. He recovered to a point where he was able to lead the Lions out of the tunnel at Beaver Stadium and onto the field for their 2001 opener against Miami.
"Adam is our miracle," Paterno said.
Doctors now say that Taliaferro is 90 to 95 percent recovered, although he walks with a slight limp. And the hope is that if Taliaferro could rise from his wheelchair to walk again, so, too, might Gentry.
Following the lead of their coaches, who respect and like one another, players for both teams are resisting any temptation to talk smack or reduce Saturday's showdown into some sort of gutter brawl.
Penn State rode its defense to a 17-10 victory over the visiting Buckeyes before 109,839 screaming spectators last Oct. 8. Both teams went on to share the Big Ten Conference championship.
"Not at all," Ohio State center Doug Datish said of the Lions when asked if the Buckeyes were seeking revenge. "They are a clean opponent. There's not a lot of jawing between us. They are well-coached and classy."
Bet won, game lost
Perhaps it is unwise to mention Art Schlichter and a wager, even one in which no money exchanged hands.
Paterno was recalling the 1978 matchup of Penn State and Ohio State, the third game of that season, which marked the first extended playing time for Schlichter, a heralded freshman quarterback whose addictive gambling shortened his NFL career and landed him in prison.
"We went over there to Columbus," Paterno said. "[The Buckeyes] had won the Cotton Bowl the year before. We had a thing going on in the office. Some of the guys on our staff thought they were going to start Schlichter, who was a true freshman. I said, 'Woody Hayes will start a true freshman over his dead body.' And when the game began, the kid who had taken them to the Cotton Bowl [Rod Gerald] started.
"I turned to the guy on the phone and said, 'You tell those guys upstairs that I know a little more about this than they do.' All of a sudden this roar went up. Here comes Schlichter. He played almost the whole game.
"I never heard the end of it. But we wound up beating them pretty good [19-0]."
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Seeing Gentry in the Shoe Saturday, front and center when the team sang Carmen Ohio at the end of the game, was very nice. It wasn't lost on my 12 year old as well as he immediately commented on it and commented that he is still part of the team.
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For the most part, I'm a grumpy guy who doesn't get touched by much. But, I challenge any true Buck fan to check out the O-Zone's photo gallery and check out the pictures of Tyson with JT (the fist bump), and the one with the team singing at the end of the game, and not feel a little something. Good stuff.
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That was awesome when he got to sing Carmen Ohio, and Coach Tressel hit him with his paper fooling around lol!
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