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Ohio Stadium’s 100 years include my own memories of game days, as both a student and sportswriter: Justice B. Hill
CLEVELAND, Ohio — I survived on Skippy peanut butter by way of most of my years at The Ohio State College. Once I had an additional greenback or two, I splurged on big jars of Smucker’s jam, however that was concerning the restrict of my extravagance.
Although I lived for six quarters within the silhouette of red-bricked Ohio Stadium, I couldn’t afford to attend soccer video games there. However I did know individuals with dorm rooms contained in the stadium, they usually’d sneak me into “the Horseshoe.”
They didn’t do it as typically as I’d have appreciated.
Even at the moment, nobody wants to inform me I stood on a few of the holiest grass anyplace. The Buckeyes of the Woody Hayes period had been powerhouses. They rolled over opponents within the Fifties, ‘60s and ‘70s. Now, I wasn’t an OSU scholar again when Woody was piling up nationwide championships, but how do I remorse it?
I can’t; I gained’t. For I take contentment within the reality I used to be in a position to get pleasure from what Ohio Stadium, which turned 100 this soccer season, meant to the Buckeye devoted.
I’m one in every of ‘em.
I do know, I do know … all people who’s attended a university with an elite soccer historical past appears at their stadium as a monument to greatness — locations stuffed with manic successes and maddening disappointments.
Ask Wolverine fanatics about Michigan Stadium, they usually’ll launch right into a monologue that gained’t stop till Christmas — or till they win one other nationwide title.
Alabama followers trumpet the grandeurs of Bryant-Denny Stadium, and soccer followers of the Oregon Geese drone on and on about tiny Autzen Stadium, the sphere Nike founder Phil Knight constructed along with his billions.
Jordan-Hare, Ben Hill Griffin, Tiger Stadium, Beaver Stadium, Folsom Subject … all these soccer venues maintain an attract to individuals who step on their alma mater’s homefield.
Ohio Stadium is mine.
For many of my life and for many of its historical past, Ohio Stadium spoke to me, and its voice gave the impression of James Earl Jones, whose deep, wealthy baritone rang in my ear.
Every time I consider the stadium, I have a tendency to recollect extra of it from my time as a sportswriter than I do from my time as a university scholar.
I really feel blessed to have coated the Buckeyes. I sat within the gigantic press field contained in the Horseshoe for scores of video games, rooting nervously inside for them to win. These video games spin about my thoughts as in the event that they had been in a Vitamix, churning and oftentimes mismatching a few of what I noticed.
I recall vividly tailgating within the parking heaps that encompass Ohio Stadium. I recall, too, the Buds I guzzled on the close by Vacation Inn, which served as a bookend to dorms that towered over the open finish of the ‘Shoe.
What I keep in mind most about Ohio Stadium had been the intramural video games I performed there as soon as sod gave strategy to synthetic turf. I might nearly hear my identify echoing from above, as I imitated the celebrities who ran their strategy to gridiron glory.
I’m positive even lesser stadiums, pedestrian locations with not one of the soccer traditions of Ohio Stadium, will draw tears from their alumni — women and men with reminiscences that mirror mine.
Recollections of Woody, of Warfield, of Kern, of Griffin, of the Bosa brothers, of Bentley, of Jones, of Fields …
100 years? Wow, the place have they gone?
Justice B. Hill grew up and nonetheless lives on the town’s East Aspect. He practiced journalism for greater than 25 years earlier than settling into educating at Ohio College. He stop Could 15, 2019, to jot down and globetrot. He’s doing each.
Justice Hill, columnist for cleveland.com and The Plain Supplier. January 14, 2022. – Justice Hill, columnist for cleveland.com and The Plain Supplier David Petkiewcz, cleveland.comDavid Petkiewcz, cleveland.com
Zaxby’s, a popular fried chicken chain, is getting its first Ohio location in Liberty Township.
A 56-seat Zaxby’s restaurant and drive-thru is planned to open at Freedom Pointe, next to Costco. The development, which was initially planned to be a hotel, will also house three other eateries: E+O Kitchen, which has locations at The Banks, Hyde Park and Loveland; Bismarck Donut and Coffee Shop and El Rancho Grande, said Christy Gloyd, Liberty Township’s marketing and events manager.
Costco opened near Interstate 75 on Cox Road in 2022. Construction on the new restaurants starts this summer, Gloyd said.
“We’re just really excited to be growing over there at Freedom Pointe,” she told The Enquirer. “Having Costco as the anchor is huge. Just to have another family-friendly restaurant and have the variety – to have the Zaxby’s and E+O and El Rancho Grande – I think it’s really going to be a nice offering for our residents.”
Atlanta-headquartered Zaxby’s has over 900 locations in 17 states, mostly in the South and Midwest. The chain is known for its chicken fingers and wings, sandwiches and salads. The closest Zaxby’s locations currently open are over an hour away, in Shelbyville, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky.
Sales for license plates featuring Dolly Parton’s face began Monday for $25. All proceeds will go to fund her Imagination Library
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Fans of country music legend Dolly Parton can show off their pride for the singer with a new Ohio license plate.
Ohio drivers can now purchase license plates featuring Parton for $25. The money from each plate will go to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio, a charity that gives children ages 5 and younger a free book each month. The state began selling the plates Monday.
Specifically, the funds will go to the purchaser’s local county program of the library, which it says will pay for mailing a child 12 books, enough for an entire year. Ohio is the second state to offer a license plate supporting the library after Parton’s home state of Tennessee.
First lady Fran DeWine has focused on expanding the Imagination Library in Ohio since her husband Gov. Mike DeWine took office in 2019. She was inspired when she saw her grandchildren receive books through the program and by 2020, it had expanded to all of Ohio’s 88 counties.
“I’m excited to see Ohio as the second state to offer a specialty Dolly Parton license plate to support her program, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, in Ohio,” Fran DeWine said in a press release. “With each purchase, $25 will go back to supporting the local program, helping to ensure the program remains available to all families in Ohio.”
The plates are available to purchase online at OPlates.com or in-person at a local deputy registrar license agency.
Gov. DeWine signed House Bill 315 which included the Parton Plates on Jan. 2. The original bill, sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio, D-Lakewood, received unanimous yes votes in both chambers before the license plate language was put into the larger HB 315.
Donovan Hunt is a fellow in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism’s Statehouse News Bureau.
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Jeremiah Smith has taken his first season at Ohio State by storm, putting the star freshman on pace to be one of the Buckeyes’ top wide receivers of all time — and potentially the No. 1 overall pick of the NFL draft by the time he is done in Columbus.
In order to ensure that, Smith’s family has taken out permanent total disability insurance (PTD) ahead of the College Football Playoff, according to a report from CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd.
Smith is not eligible to declare for the draft until after his junior year at Ohio State, which would make the 2027 NFL draft the earliest he could leave. His insurance lasts until Aug. 1, 2027 or when he signs an NFL contract — whichever comes first — per Dodd.
Per Dodd, Smith’s insurance policy protects him from a career-ending injury both on and off the field, and is with Leverage Disability and Life Insurance, a Southern California-based athlete insurance firm. He does not have loss of draft value (LOV) coverage as part of his policy, per Dodd.
“If this kid steps off the curb and gets hit by a car, he’s covered,” Greenspoon Marder law firm’s head of insurance recovery Richard Giller told CBS Sports.
Dodd, citing sources, reported it is rare for freshmen to receive permanent total disability insurance. In addition, Dodd reported Smith’s premiums cost is $7,500-$8,000 per million of coverage, citing additional sources.
A player receiving insurance has become more common for players over the years, especially in bowl games. A most recent example is Colorado taking out full insurance for its players, including Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders in the Alamo Bowl on Dec. 28.
Outside of a quiet CFP Cotton Bowl semifinal against Texas, against whom he finished with just one catch for 3 yards on three targets, Smith has impressed during the Buckeyes’ CFP championship run.
In the Buckeyes’ first two CFP games against Tennessee and Oregon, Smith combined for 290 receiving yards and four touchdowns on 13 catches. Smith enters Monday’s CFP championship vs. No. 7 Notre Dame with 1,227 receiving yards and 14 receiving touchdowns on 71 catches on the season.
Shortly after Ohio State’s win over Oregon, ESPN football analyst Dan Orlovsky said if Smith were eligible for April’s NFL draft, he would be the No. 1 pick and “it wouldn’t even be close.”
“He would easily be the No. 1 pick in this year’s draft,” Orlovsky said on Jan. 2. “You will have teams in two years, for that ’27 draft, tanking for him.”
No. 8 Ohio State will play No. 7 Notre Dame in the CFP championship on Jan. 20. The Buckeyes opened up as a -9.5 point early favorite on BetMGM.
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