On December 5, 2012 Ohio State’s President, Gordon ‘Gaffer’ Gee decided to amuse the University’s Athletics Council[1] with war stories while the tape rolled. Six months later, thanks…
How differently we experience of professional sports than our grandparents’ and great-grandparents’ did. A delightful exhibit at the Boston Public Library on Boston Sports Temples (BPL Main Branch in…
Let’s talk about breaking up institutions, maybe even Evil Empires. ‘Break up the Yankees!’ How many times I heard that in my first 14 years. Two years…
‘I’m excited about being a Zip.’ So said disgraced former Ohio State football coach, Jim Tressel when, last February, he became an administrator at the University of Akron. …
Like spectators at a Vatican conclave, only those devoted to fashion in uniforms stuck around for the end of Boston College vs. Notre Dame. The God (Awful) Bowl…
What does it mean when 78.9 percent of today’s Louisianans were born there? Nothing good, infers Richard Florida, Senior Editor at The Atlantic and Director of the Martin Prosperity…
Saturday afternoon, Ohio State blanked the University of Akron Zips, 42-0, in their opening game. With almost a full 11 suspended for three games or departed, it’s fortunate their next…
Adam Smith was not known for his fondness for the performing arts. By contrast, John Maynard Keynes was the de facto arts minister in Britain during World War II. He…
Since early childhood, I’ve loved government buildings. I spent a few minutes today in the sunshine outside the Massachusetts Statehouse. *** In 1971, I began working for the…
E. Gordon Gee , a serial university president, now speaks for Ohio State. Just before Thanksgiving, he told Associated Press why Boise State and Texas Christian don’t deserve consideration for…