Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of columns regarding the rivalry between Ohio and Miami preceding the men's and women's basketball games with the RedHawks on Thursday and Saturday respectively.
There are many ways to compare one school to another.
You can look at enrollment, scholarship winners, athletic success or fund-raising. But perhaps the best way to judge a university is to look at the people who used to attend it.
It is clear Ohio's graduates have had more success in their respective fields.
Entertainment - Nancy Cartwright vs. Art Clokey
Cartwright graduated from Ohio in 1978 and is best known for being the voice of Bart Simpson on the long-running Fox series The Simpsons. She helped coin such phrases as Eat my shorts and Don't have a cow
man. Cartwright has won an Emmy and a Daytime Emmy.
Clokey graduated from Miami in 1948 and is famous for creating a green clay figure named Gumby and his horse sidekick, Pokey.
Analysis: Bart Simpson has been in a movie and helped sell millions of Butterfingers. Gumby looks like a green tongue with arms.
Advantage: Ohio
Athletics - Mike Schmidt vs. Ben Roethlisberger
Schmidt, a 1972 Ohio grad, won the National League Most Valuable Player award three times and was a 12-time All Star.
He was on Major League Baseball's All-Century team in 1999 and was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995.
Roethlisberger, a 2004 Miami grad, is the current quarterback of the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers. He has won two Super Bowls and was the youngest quarterback ever to win a Super Bowl in 2006.
Analysis: Schmidt is generally considered to be one of the best third baseman (and to have had one of the greatest mustaches) in MLB history.
Advantage: Ohio
Politics - Marvin Pierce and Benjamin Harrison vs. George Voinovich and David Wilhelm
Harrison - an 1852 Miami graduate - was the 23rd president of the United States. Pierce - a 1916 Miami grad - may belong in the Business category as former president of the McCall Publishing Company, but gets switched over to politics as the grandfather of George W. Bush and father of Barbara Bush.
Voinovich is a 1958 Ohio graduate and is the senior U.S. senator from Ohio and former governor.
Wilhelm is a 1977 Ohio graduate and was the youngest ever chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Analysis: President of the United States bumps U.S. Senator in this tag-team match. But if Pierce would have had a boy, I might have had a shot at a job when I graduate.
Advantage: Miami
Dropped out Celebrities - Paul Newman vs. Nick Lachey
It has never been proven Newman ever attended classes at Ohio University, but it is rumored that he was expelled for rolling a keg down Jeff Hill. His Wikipedia page says he was rejected from the Ohio University pilot program because he was color-blind, and that's good enough to grab the Bobcats' nomination for this category.
Newman won an Oscar and was nominated for eight more. He also has a popular line of salad dressing called Newman's Own.
Lachey transferred from the University of Southern California to Miami to be closer to home and study sports medicine.
While on summer break, he got a call from an old high school friend to join 98 degrees.
Analysis: Not only is 98 degrees the epitome of terrible music, he also blew it with Jessica Simpson. Newman would run away with this category based on his salad dressing alone.
Advantage: Ohio
- Matt O'Donnell is the sports editor at The Post and is a senior studying journalism. If you think
you have a better mustache than Mike Schmidt, send him an e-mail at mo134405@ohiou.edu 2
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