getting worse.

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.

frightening.

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.

need a map.

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.

the skinny.

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.