The PG ran a story about bacn today, taking the time to identify the term and discuss some of its ramifications. The reporter spoke with two people — a PR guy and an author from New York, a woman who works for a software firm in Florida, a representative of Best Buy based in Minneapolis,… Read More homegrown.
About a week after Jim Delany, Big Ten commissioner, threw a hissy fit about comments he didn’t actually hear from a Comcast executive about the Big Ten Network, the cable channel — and its plans to steal Ohio State football from me — is now garnering the attention of Congress. The Dispatch — and others… Read More getting worse.
This, boys and girls, is not good. The Dispatch tells us today that the new Big Ten Network plans on airing three Ohio State football games this season — the two openers against Youngstown State Sept. 1 and Akron Sept. 8, and a yet-to-be-announced conference game later in the season. The non-conference games won’t bother… Read More frightening.
The geography lessons imparted by sports continue to amaze. You’ll recall a night during the NCAA basketball tournament a couple months back when I discovered that Pittsburgh was actually an ACC town. I found this out when a Duke game was broadcast here in favor of the Ohio State game I was hoping to watch.… Read More need a map.
Before we get to the absolute hilarity that is the Browns on draft day, we can’t possibly let this go by without comment. The Stillers announced a host of fun things yinzers everywhere can expect as the team celebrates its 75th anniversary. As you might expect, I have some thoughts: I’m not sure why the… Read More catch-up, vol. 2: football fun.
There were two remarkable things about watching Punxsutawney Phil’s 2007 prediction: 1) he didn’t see his shadow and therefore predicted spring’s early arrival, something he almost never does, and 2) he shrunk. For the past several years, we’ve seen a stately, majestic Phil — in other words, huge — hauled from his stump at Gobbler’s… Read More the skinny.
Uncle Crappy 