Sports Column: Graduating sports writer reflects on 4 years of covering the Bobcats
College is usually quantified as a period of four years, but what if it could be quantified in different ways?
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College is usually quantified as a period of four years, but what if it could be quantified in different ways?
Title IX was signed into law in June 1972 with the goal of improving gender equity at public schools, including in their athletics programs. Forty years later, its effects, both positive and negative, are still being felt at Ohio University.
As a two-year captain at Ohio, former Bobcat linebacker Noah Keller could be heard calling out audibles at the line of scrimmage in a dialect only his teammates could understand. Now in the NFL, Keller’s biggest challenge is not the level of competition but the new language yet to be learned.
The conclusion of NFL rookie mini-camps across the league yielded different results for the six former Bobcats who participated in them during the past week.
Travis Wilkins is not the typical Ohio basketball recruit.
Texas Tech point guard Javarez Willis announced his plans to transfer to Ohio via Twitter on Friday.
As a few of his former teammates attempt to make the jump from college football to the NFL, former Ohio quarterback Boo Jackson is also hoping to take a step up the football ladder.
Leading up to the NFL Draft, former Ohio receiver LaVon Brazill was considered one of the top sleeper picks by many experts. Maybe Brazill took the term too literally.
At Ohio, receiver LaVon Brazill and linebacker Noah Keller worked to stand apart. This weekend, they hope to join about 250 other players who will have their names called during the NFL Draft.
What a difference a week makes.
There’s nothing quite like it. The intensity and passion shown by 16 teams in the NHL playoffs fighting for sports’ most famous prize is unmatched in any other game.
During the first quarter of a 10-7 game against Marshall last fall, Ohio safety Xavier Hughes read the quarterback’s eyes the whole way, stepped in front of a 25-yard pass attempt at the last moment, and took the ball 24 yards in the opposite direction.
Unprepared for a snap during spring practice last week, Derrius Vick fumbled the ball as it hit his hands. But before anyone could react, Vick had scooped the ball off the turf and scampered 20 yards down the field before a coach’s whistle blew the play dead.
Ohio may have lost its leading rusher from a year ago, but offensive coordinator Tim Albin believes that those returning might be the most talented group of running backs the coaching staff has ever seen.
It has been more than three months since Ohio went full speed on the gridiron.
Heading into the season last year, “talented, but young,” was the way Ohio’s secondary was often described.
Jim Christian grimaced as his then-fiancée, an Ohio University alumna, led the “winning team, losing team” chant during the final moments of an Ohio win against his Kent State squad in the 2005 Mid-American Conference men’s basketball tournament.
Sunday’s report that Texas Christian coach Jim Christian would be named Ohio’s next men’s basketball coach became clearer Monday when TCU announced Christian would be leaving the school.
After keeping his players wondering about the future of their coach for the entire week, John Groce met the team this morning to tell them of his plans to accept the head coaching position at Illinois.