Friday Linkage

With gas, food and other commodities shooting through the roof, you most likely cannot afford to do anything more than sit on your couch and stare at your laptop (on low brightness, of course, to save power). Don’t fret, Buckeye Commentary is here to help and provide you with some headlines from around Buckeye Nation. You may know some of this stuff already, but a second reading never hurt anybody.

Stay classy Detroit: The Detroit Free Press could not resist taking one more shot at Coach Cooper. Look for Ken Gordon to pen this headline upon Lloyd’s HOF induction: “Perpetually old curmudgeon receives honor despite splitting a championship and not winning a meaningful game in his last five seasons.” Kenny, you can borrow that one when the time comes.

Helmet to helmet: Troy Smith continues to haunt Michigan and its former players. Bill Belichick let the Patriot, Shawn Crable, know that his on-field discipline was an issue.

Tell Me Something I Don’t Know: Ohio State and USC will kickoff at 5:00pm PT. Didn’t we know this 6 weeks ago.

Tell Me Something I Don’t Know, pt. 2: We are not going to have a college football playoff anytime soon. Duh.

It feels like the first time: The site of Ohio State’s first football game was commemorated this weekend. This link has some pictures of the … um, field. How many tackles do you think that tree had in the game?

Border War: Earle Bruce is scheduled to regale hundreds at a fundraiser in Toledo today. His talk will focus on his first significant victory against Michigan … in recruiting. Ohio State coaches and players will be on hand to sign autographs.

Wind sprints: Apparently, Michigan will be less tired this season after chasing Beanie Wells all day. No word on if they plan to tackle him.

Addition by subtraction: Ohio State grabbed two junior college players after Kosta Koufos and Eric Wallace fled campus.

We’re still here: The Minneapolis Star Tribune covers the Big Ten, but basically ignores about the Gophers.

New starters: Rivals did a little post-spring breakdown of the Big Ten. According to them, Tyler Moeller is a pass rusher now and Jamario O’Neal has been a starter for a while. In other news, I can dunk with both hands.

Pattern developing: Anyone else noticing a theme here? Maybe Thad can find a free scholarship just to keep up with Tressel.