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<title>Through the Arch</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Award-winning columnist Tom Archdeacon &mdash; an old-school storyteller in a brand-new venue &mdash; writes about sports, the city, southwest Ohio and anything else that catches his fancy&#133; or yours.]]></description>
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<title>OSU vs. Michigan -- A Different Degree of Hate</title>

    

    


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<description>COLUMBUS &amp;#8212; A couple of days ago, Devin Barclay &amp;#8212; Ohio State&amp;#8217;s new and quite unlikely kicker, a guy who first had a career playing soccer for U.S., national teams and then five years as a pro &amp;#8212; made a...</description>
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COLUMBUS &amp;#8212;  A couple of days ago, Devin Barclay &amp;#8212; Ohio State&amp;#8217;s new and quite unlikely kicker, a guy who first had a career playing soccer for U.S., national teams and then five years as a pro &amp;#8212; made a great point about the fanatical OSU and Michigan football rivalry.

Barclay

The Bucks and Wolverines will go at it Saturday in Ann Arbor in, what all Buckeye players will tell you, is &amp;#8220;the greatest rivalry in college sports.&amp;#8221;

They say that distinction comes from longevity of the series, the storied tradition and grand success of both programs and, of course, the intense feelings the two neighboring teams have for each other.

&amp;#8220;I know Ohio State and Michigan hate each other, but I think it&amp;#8217;s more from a sense of competition,&amp;#8221; said Barclay, who may have gone to high school in Maryland, but he knows enough about this scrap to distinguish it from other forms of &amp;#8220;hate&amp;#8221; he&amp;#8217;s seen in his sports career.

&amp;#8220;I&amp;#8217;ve played qualifying matches in Mexico and I&amp;#8217;ve seen how American players get treated there,&amp;#8221; he said. &amp;#8220;I&amp;#8217;ve witnessed what they think of us and they REALLY don&amp;#8217;t like us. Fans are not afraid to say anything and some of it would be really offensive to people here.

Barclay as a soccer pro in Tampa

&amp;#8220;FIFA is trying to deal with that stuff, not just there, but in some other places in the world, too,  where you get the same kind of racism and racist comments. They really cross the line with some of the stuff they say. It just should never be said. But they say it and and believe it.

&amp;#8220;Here, I know the feelings are pretty intense between Ohio State and Michigan, but I watched that documentary about Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler and as much as they battled, at the end of the day you could see they really cared about each other. There was a respect.

&amp;#8220;That&amp;#8217;s the difference here.

&amp;#8220;This &amp;#8216;hate&amp;#8217; is based on competition, but that other is not. That other is pretty evil.&amp;#8221;

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<title>Chris Wright in SI; Charlie Coles on YouTube</title>

    

    


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Two of the area&amp;#8217;s best-known college basketball figures &amp;#8212; Dayton Flyers star Chris Wright and Miami University coach Charlie Coles &amp;#8212; have gotten some high-profile exposure this week:

&amp;#8212; The energetic Wright in a colorful, two-page photo spread in Sports Illustrated.

&amp;#8212; The irascible Coles on a classic YouTube video that is getting more popular by the hour.

The Sports Illustated centerpiece

While both of the visuals come from losing efforts, neither is anything to hang one&amp;#8217;s head about. 

Quite the opposite. 

The Wright photo came during UD&amp;#8217;s second round NCAA Tournament game with Kansas last March. 

The Coles video was shot during his press conference following his team&amp;#8217;s near upset of No. 5 Kentucky Monday night at Rupp Arena. The Wildcats ended up winning 72-70  on a last-second shot. 

The Wright photo &amp;#8212; which is the centerpiece of SI&amp;#8217;s College Basketball Preview Issue &amp;#8212; shows his shot getting altered by 6-foot-11 Kansas behemoth Cole Aldrich. SI calls the Jayhawk&amp;#8217;s 10-block effort that day &amp;#8220;the most dominant defensive performance in the 2009 NCAA Tournament.&amp;#8221;

The Coles&amp;#8217; comments came after his RedHawks nearly pulled off a monumental upset &amp;#8212; Miami led by 18 in the first half &amp;#8212;  only to be done in by a hurried jump shot by Kentucky freshman John Wall. The No. 1 recruit in the nation, Wall &amp;#8212; who sat out Kentucky&amp;#8217;s first game due to an NCAA infraction &amp;#8212; was making his college debut and hit his shot with just .5 of one second left.



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<title>Top 25 Hoops Rank No Tournament Guarantee</title>

    

    


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<description>An early November spot in the Associated Press&amp;#8217; Top 25 college basketball poll might fuel glittery euphoria for the recognized teams and their fans, but for some that turns out to be nothing but fool&amp;#8217;s gold. Over the past 20...</description>
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An early November  spot in the Associated Press&amp;#8217; Top 25 college basketball poll might fuel glittery euphoria for the recognized teams and their fans, but for some that turns out to be nothing but fool&amp;#8217;s gold.

Over the past 20 years an average of four teams ranked in the preseason Top 25 poll ended up missing the NCAA Tournament. That bit of hoops research came from the Wall Street Journal last week and the number of ranked teams whose preseason dreams have been dashed over the years surprised me.  

Eight teams ranked in the Top 25 in November of 2001 missed the Big Dance, most notably North Carolina , which started the preseason ranked No. 19 and finished the year 8-20. 

Six teams ranked in the preseason missed the 1993 tournament.

Five preseason Top 25 teams&amp;#8212;  in 1990, 1997, 1998 , 2006 , 2007 and 2009 &amp;#8212; failed to get NCAA Tournament berths. 

Last year the biggest plummet was by Notre Dame, ranked No. 9 at the beginning of the season,. Two years before that, No. 5 LSU took the biggest fall.  And in 2006 it was No. 7 Louisville. 

So what does that mean this season &amp;#8212; especially around here  where the Dayton Flyers ranked No. 21 in the preseason have moved up to No. 18?

Well, the spot they moved into was occupied by Mississippi State, whose fans were all giddy until the Bulldogs bombed in their opener, getting trounced by Rider, 88-74, and promptly falling from the polls. 

And how about No. 1 Kansas nearly getting knocked off by unranked Memphis Tuesday night?

And then there was No. 5 Kentucky needing a last-second basket to come from behind Monday night &amp;#8212; at Rupp Arena, no less &amp;#8212; to beat Charlie Coles&amp;#8217; Miami RedHawks team that got 16 points and five assists from Kenny Hayes, the senior guard from Northmont High.

A Top 25 ranking in early November guarantees you nothing &amp;#8212; except a bull&amp;#8217;s-eye on your back. 

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<title>Bengals, UD, OSU Wright State and Manny  -- The Awards</title>

    

    


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This is one of my favorite times of the sporting year.

College football is getting into its most meaningful games, NFL  teams are beginning to position themselves for the postseason, the college hoops season has begun &amp;#8212; not to mention the NBA and NHL &amp;#8212; and then, as a bonus, you get a big-time prizefight like the one Saturday night in Las Vegas featuring Manny Pacquiao, a once-in-a-lifetime fighter out of the Philippines.

Manny Pacquiao

So with that in mind here are a few &amp;#8212; strictly personal &amp;#8212; awards from a great weekend of sports.

MOST IMPRESSIVE KNOCK-OUT:

1 &amp;#8212; Cincinnati Bengals  &amp;#8212; Thumped the Pittsburgh Steelers for second time this season. In the 18-12 victory, the stripes defense &amp;#8212; a bunch of cast-offs who have forged themselves into the backbone of this team &amp;#8212; kept Ben Roethlisberger in the pocket,  sacked him four times, batted down a few of his passes, held the Steelers to just three third-down conversions in 15 attempts and didn&amp;#8217;t allow a touchdown. 

2 &amp;#8212; UD Women&amp;#8217;s Basketball  &amp;#8212; Dominated No. 10 Michigan State the entire game Friday night, winning 77-74 in a game that wasn&amp;#8217;t quite that close.

3 &amp;#8212; Manny Pacquiao  &amp;#8212; Showed why he&amp;#8217;s the best pound-for-pound fighter in boxing, throwing a whopping 780 punches and landing 336, nearly twice as many as his rugged opponen, two time world champt Miguel Cotto, who Pacquiao stopped in 12 rounds.

4 &amp;#8212; UD Men&amp;#8217;s Basketball &amp;#8212;Although its 90-80 victory over Creighton was impressive, UD didn&amp;#8217;t crack the top three only because the under-manned Blue Jays were missing their top rebounder and two key frontcourt back-ups and still managed to control the first half with a compact 2-3 zone defense. And here&amp;#8217;s a fact not brought up around here, Creighton has now lost 25 in a row when it&amp;#8217;s played ranked teams on the road.
    And because the Flyers are a nationally ranked team now &amp;#8212; and a very good one at that &amp;#8212; the bar is a little higher for them.

BEST INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE:

1 &amp;#8212; Bernard Scott &amp;#8212; Bengals back-up tailback and new kick returner, scored the games only TD with a 96-yard KO return in the first quarter and then filled in admirably for Cedric Benson, who left the game  in the second quarter with a hip flexor.

Devin Barclay

2 &amp;#8212; Devin Barclay &amp;#8212; Ohio State&amp;#8217;s 26-year-old kicker &amp;#8212; a former pro soccer player who is filling in for injured Buck Aaron Pettrey &amp;#8212; booted the pressure-packed, 39-yard field goal in overtime to give OSU the 27-24 victory over Iowa and send his team to the Rose Bowl.

3 &amp;#8212; Todd Brown &amp;#8212; Wright State&amp;#8217;s senior forward scored 57 points in three games  and showed he&amp;#8217;s ready to lead his team this season as the Raiders won two of three games in the Athletes in Action Tournament in Seattle. 

4 &amp;#8212; Chris Johnson &amp;#8212; UD sophomore forward came  off the bench to score 18 points and grab 15 rebounds against Creighton.

5 &amp;#8212; Tie &amp;#8212; UD&amp;#8217;s Chris Wright had 25 points and eight rebounds against Creighton AND Jonathan Fanene, the Bengals defensive lineman, who sacked Roethlisberger twice. harassed him in the backfield a lot more and batted down one of his passes.

BEST COACHING JOB:

Jim Jabir

1 &amp;#8212; Jim Jabir &amp;#8212; UD women&amp;#8217;s coach has rebuilt the Flyers women&amp;#8217;s hoops program, has a team with depth  and enough toughness that this weekend it showed  it can contend &amp;#8212; in back to back games, no less &amp;#8212; with some of the best teams in the nation, MSU Friday and Louisville ( a 2-point UD loss) Sunday.

2 &amp;#8212; Marvin Lewis &amp;#8212; Right now he&amp;#8217;s my pick for NFL Coach of the Year. He&amp;#8217;s taken a team populated by other teams&amp;#8217; rejects, he&amp;#8217;s turned some problem children like Bernard Scott (whose college rap sheet was as long as his stat sheet) into keeping-their-nose-clean, team-first guys and because of it, a Bengals bunch that won just 4 games last year is now 7-2 and has become the talk of the NFL.

MOST COLORFUL ENTERTAINER:

1 &amp;#8212; Manny Pacquiao  &amp;#8212; The Filipino superstar with the massive global following  is running for Congress back home,  just starred in a superhero movie called &amp;#8220;WaPakman&amp;#8221; in which he wore a tight red and yellow suit and, after Saturday night&amp;#8217;s victory  &amp;#8212; with his right ear bandaged, but partially hidden by a fedora &amp;#8212; he headed to the Mandalay Bay to join his band and sing eight songs on stage.

2 &amp;#8212; Chris Wright &amp;#8212; UD dunk machine

3 &amp;#8212; Chad Ochocinco &amp;#8212;  Gets a rankling on his body of work though Sunday&amp;#8217;s two catches didn&amp;#8217;t give him much of a stage.

BEST TEAM TO LOSE:

1 &amp;#8212; UD Women&amp;#8217;s Soccer  &amp;#8212; Fell for the first time in 22 games this season, a 3-1 loss to Virginia Tech in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.  Speaking of another great coaching job, the Flyers Mike Tucker is one of the best in the women&amp;#8217;s game.  

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<title>UD-WSU together again on the court...sort of.</title>

    

    


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It looks like Wright State and the University of Dayton will be on the basketball court together this season after all.

Vitaly Potapenko

Well, sort of.

It will happen in Fort Wayne&amp;#8230;and places like Erie, Sioux Falls, Austin and Albuquerque. 

The two schools, though, will be represented by well-known proxies and they&amp;#8217;ll be on the same team. 

The Fort Wayne Mad Ants &amp;#8212; a farm team of the Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers and Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA Developmental League &amp;#8212; has named Vitaly Potapenko as an assistant coach.

Potapenko

Wright State&amp;#8217;s highest profile basketball player ever, Potapenko was a first-round draft pick of the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1996, played 10 years in the NBA &amp;#8212; with the Cavs, Boston Celtics, Seattle and Sacramento &amp;#8212; one season in Spain and has been living in Miami, Florida.

Potapenko was recruited to WSU out of Kiev, Ukraine by then-coach Ralph Underhill. Playing just two seasons for the Raiders, the 6-foot-10 Ukraine Train scored 1,113 points in 56 games and was named first team all league each year.

Sandoval

In last week&amp;#8217;s draft, the Mad Ants picked former University of Dayton guard Andres Sandoval, who played for the Flyers from 2006-2008. He&amp;#8217;ll join, among others,  C. J. Anderson of Xavier, Frank Tolbert of Auburn, Michigan&amp;#8217;s Chris Hunter and A.J. Ratliff of Indiana in the Mad Ants preseason camp.

Former DePaul coach Joey Meyer is the Mad Ants head coach. The D League team &amp;#8212; along with 15 others spread out from Portand, Maine to Bakersfield, California &amp;#8212; begins play Nov. 27.

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<title>Miami, Dayton coaches forge New Orleans Saints&apos; perfection</title>

    

    


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While the bottom has dropped out of Miami University football  &amp;#8212; the team is 1-10 this season, has lost 15 of its last 16 games and has won just 11 times in four years &amp;#8212; that Cradle of Coaches tag has never proved more true than this season.

Sean Payton

For proof, look at the New Orleans Saints, who are a perfect 8-0 at  the midway point of the NFL season. 

Five of their coaches &amp;#8212; including head coach Sean Payton &amp;#8212; have strong ties to Miami University. Another Saints coach began his career at the University of Dayton.

Football fingerprints from this area are all over this remarkable New Orleans team, which already has scored 303 points &amp;#8212; the Browns have just 78 &amp;#8212; and is on course to shatter the NFL record of 539 points. Meanwhile, the Saints defense leads the league with 16 interceptions has has scored seven defensive touchdowns.

The Saints have had losing records in 27 of their previous 42 years as a franchise, but since Payton got there, things have turned  around. In 2006, he guided New Orleans to its first ever NFC title game and ended up being named the NFL Coach of the Year.

He&amp;#8217;s definitely one of the front runners for that honor again. As for the other contenders, I&amp;#8217;d say it&amp;#8217;s between Minnesota&amp;#8217;s Brad Childress. the Colts Jim Caldwell and Marvin Lewis of the Bengals.

An assistant coach at Miami in 1994 and 1995, Payton coached the RedHawks quarterbacks and was the co-offensive coordinator.

The other Saints coaches from Miami&amp;#8217;s Cradle include:

&amp;#8212; Aaron Kromer &amp;#8212; The offensive line and running game coach &amp;#8212; whose digital video library of nearly every play run in the NFL each season is praised around the league and credited for much of the Saints success &amp;#8212; was an offensive tackle for Miami in the late 1980s and twice was named team captain. He then coached at his alma matter &amp;#8212; tight ends, H backs, offensive line &amp;#8212; from 1990 to 1998.  By the way, the guy he credits for much of his successful is Jon Gruden &amp;#8212; the former University of Dayton quarterback &amp;#8212;  who made Kromer an integral part of his staff when he was the head coach of  the Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay.

&amp;#8212; Bret Ingalls &amp;#8212;  The Saints running backs coach mentored tackles and tight ends at Miami in 2005.

&amp;#8212; Dan Dalrymple &amp;#8212;  The Saints strength and conditioning coach was a two-time, first team All MAC offensive lineman for Miami, was the team captain and has been enshrined in the school&amp;#8217;s Athletic Hall of Fame. After graduation, he spent 17 seasons at Miami where he built the conditioning program for all of the school&amp;#8217;s athletes. In 2003 he also was named one of Miami&amp;#8217;s assistant athletic directors.

&amp;#8212; Mike Mallory &amp;#8212;  An assistant special teams coach with the Saints, he is the son of former Miami head coach Bill Mallory, one of the most trumpeted guys  in the Cradle fraternity.

As for the Dayton Flyers connection to the Saints: 

&amp;#8212; Joe Lombardi &amp;#8212; The  grandson of the legendary Vince Lombardi is the Saints quarterbacks coach. His prime pupil, Drew Brees, has thrown for 17 touchdowns and orchestrates an offense that is averaging 37.9 points per game. Lombardi started his coaching career at UD, where he was he defensive line coach for Mike Kelly from 1996 to 1998.

Finally there a Cincinnati Bengals connection, too: 

&amp;#8212; Adam Zimmer &amp;#8212; A defensive assistant working with Saints linebackers, he&amp;#8217;s the son of Mike Zimmer, the defensive coordinator of the Cincinnati Bengals.

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<title>Flyers&apos; next star -- Chris Johnson?</title>

    

    


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If I had to pick one player on the Dayton Flyers team this season who I think is going to really blossom &amp;#8212;  one guy who will step from the cast of talented support players  into the spotlight now shared by high-fliers Chris Wright and Marcus Johnson &amp;#8212; it would be Chris Johnson.

Although he&amp;#8217;s still evolving,  the 6-foot-6 sophomore forward from Columbus can soar like the other two and he&amp;#8217;s better than them &amp;#8212; coach Brian Gregory said &amp;#8212;  at pulling up on the break and hitting the three. He&amp;#8217;s also one of the team&amp;#8217;s  most savvy rebounders and he&amp;#8217;s handling the ball better than last season. 

With a cursory glance, his stat line in the Flyers 71-61 exhibition victory over Northern Kentucky at UD Arena Monday night would appear to be pretty ordinary &amp;#8212; 10 points, 4 rebounds, a blocked shot and a steal. But in the course of the game you also saw flashes of something greater from him.

When Northern Kentucky took the lead 25-24 with just over 7 minutes left in the first half, he instantly responded &amp;#8212; it took just three seconds &amp;#8212; and hit a three pointer from the wing to put the Flyers back in front. Soon after, that he hit another three to give UD a small cushion that it would maintain the rest of the game.

&amp;#8220;Not only are we just seeing the tip of the iceberg with him, but he&amp;#8217;s just realizing how great he can he, too,&amp;#8221; Gregory said  &amp;#8220;He wants to be a great player . A lot of guys talk about that, but aren&amp;#8217;t willing to put in the time. 

&amp;#8220;He&amp;#8217;s a guy you can get on and you can tell him he needs to work on something  and he is gonna work on it. That&amp;#8217;s a great trait.&amp;#8221;

After the game, Gregory talked about the back-to-back break-away dunks that  Wright and Marcus Johnson had in the second half &amp;#8212; the two plays folks will remember most from Monday night&amp;#8217;s  victory over a very good Division II team &amp;#8212; and  right away he included Chris Johnson in the conversation:

&amp;#8220;If you look at it, with one guy flying on the right wing, and the other flying on the left wing, they&amp;#8217;re maybe the two best in the country combination-wise&amp;#8230;And then when you add Chris Johnson in the mix &amp;#8212; and you&amp;#8217;ve got all three of those guys who can run like that &amp;#8212; it&amp;#8217;s pretty good.&amp;#8221;

Johnson &amp;#8212; who averaged 6.3 points and 5.2 rebounds a game last season &amp;#8212;likely will be named the fifth starter for Saturday&amp;#8217;s opener against  Creighton.

Speaking of Creighton &amp;#8212; a team that blew Dayton out last season, a team that has had 11 straight years with 20 wins and  11 straight postseason appearance &amp;#8212; Gregory gave a candid response  that drew some chuckles from Monday&amp;#8217;s post-game press conference crowd, when asked: &amp;#8220;Do you like the fact you&amp;#8217;re going to be challenged right away the first game of the season?&amp;#8221;

Standing at the podium, Gregory kind of sputtered for a second. then smiled and simply said:  &amp;#8220;No&amp;#8230;I mean&amp;#8230;no&amp;#8230;. If you think I&amp;#8217;m excited about playing the game on Saturday, you&amp;#8217;ve lost your mind.&amp;#8221;

Soon after, he&amp;#8217;d say he had been speaking tongue-in-cheek. He said it should be a great opener. One fans will love seeing.

In the process, they just may see the further emergence of UD&amp;#8217;s next star.

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CINCINNATI &amp;#8212; A greased palm sometimes works wonders. It might get you a table in a crowded restaurant or help you slip around the velvet rope at a trendy club.

But as Chad Ochocino found out Sunday, it won&amp;#8217;t help you get a call from an NFL official.

&amp;#8230;.Now, if it were former NBA ref Tim Donaghy.

But hey that&amp;#8217;s another story. And that was serious stuff that got Donaghy exchanging his referee&amp;#8217;s shirt for another set of stripes.

What happened Sunday was all tongue-in-cheek fun, though the Cincinnati Bengals receiver likely will end up cutting another check to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who has been padding the league coffers with Ochocinco fines

The Bengals  had a 17-0 lead on the Baltimore Ravens in the third quarter of their game at Paul Brown Stadium when Ochocinco made a leaping catch of  a 15-yard pass from Carson Palmer right near the sideline. 

The side judge ruled it a catch, but the Ravens challenged the call.   

As the officials checked instant replay, Ochocinco &amp;#8212; having borrowed a dollar bill from a guy on the sideline &amp;#8212; playfully sidled up to the refs with the folded bill in his hand, which hung down at his side.

It didn&amp;#8217;t work. 

The call was overturned. Ochocinco was ruled not to have gotten both feet down in bounds on the catch. With a grin and a shrug, he  handed the bill back to the guy on the sidelines and went back to helping the Bengals finish off their 17-7 victory. 

In his post game press conference afterward, head coach Marvin Lewis was asked by a reporter:  &amp;#8220;When you&amp;#8217;re talking about a veteran like Ochocinco&amp;#8230;&amp;#8221;

Lewis started to chuckle: &amp;#8220;You throw that term around loosely when you&amp;#8217;re talking about 85. I wouldn&amp;#8217;t say &amp;#8216;veteran.&amp;#8217; I think you can start over every day with him.&amp;#8221;

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CINCINNATI &amp;#8212; Although the Cincinnati Bengals toppled the Baltimore Ravens, 17-7, Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium, the team received a big blow when receiver Chris Henry suffered a compound fracture of his left forearm.

Henry: compound fracture

Less than a minute into the second quarter &amp;#8212; with the Bengals already leading 14-0 &amp;#8212; Henry came across the middle, gathered in a 20-yard Carson Palmer pass and was tackled by Ravens cornerback Fabian Washington, who also was shaken up on the play.

The rolling Henry landed on the arm and when he tried lifting it up, you saw it flop sickeningly. Reports say the bone popped out through his skin near his wrist.  His teammates &amp;#8212; especially Palmer, fellow receiver Chad Ochocinco and guard Bobby Williams &amp;#8212; gathered around him as he lay on the field.

When medical personnel came onto the field, Henry&amp;#8217;s arm  eventually was encased in an inflatable cast and he was taken off the field  on a motorized cart.

On the season, the under-used Henry had 12 catches for 236 yards and two touchdowns.

The injury to the fifth-year receiver was one of the few negatives for the Bengals Sunday as they man-handled the Ravens, the former bullies of the AFC North. It was the second time this season the Bengals have beaten Baltimore.

The Bengals are unbeaten in the AFC North. They are 4-0 in divisional play and are 6-2 on the season. 

The Bengals points &amp;#8212; all which were tallied in the first half &amp;#8212; came on a six-yard TD catch by Andre Caldwell, a one yard TD run by Benson and a Shayne Grahan 23-yard field goal.

Benson rushed for 117 yards, his second 100 yard game aainst the vaunted Ravens defense this season.

Bengals cornerbacks Johnathon Joseph and Leon Hall both intercepted Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco. 

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<description>FAIRBORN &amp;#8212; While it was nice to see Wright State show itself so well Thursday night &amp;#8212; romping over Central State, 83-55, in the Raiders exhibition opener at the Nutter Center &amp;#8212; I&amp;#8217;d rather have seen the game be close....</description>
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FAIRBORN &amp;#8212; While it was nice to see Wright State show itself so well Thursday night &amp;#8212; romping over Central State, 83-55, in the Raiders exhibition opener at the Nutter Center &amp;#8212; I&amp;#8217;d rather have seen the game be close.

Not a lot to cheer for CSU

That way the sizeable contingent of CSU fans who showed up at the game would have had something to cheer about. Instead the plug was pulled on the party before it ever got started. 

Some five minutes into the game, WSU was up 15-4 and it only got worse from there. The Raiders led by 29 at the intermission and by as many as 38 midway through the second half.

Although CSU did show up with all its cheerleaders in tow and some fans in the stands occasionally held up three big signs that read SHAKE THAT THANG, there really wasn&amp;#8217;t much to shake about. 

It would have been great to see the two cheering sections go back and forth. No school around here has more animated and vocal backers than the Marauders, Anybody who&amp;#8217;s been to Beacom Lewis Gym when CSU hosts its across-the-road rival Wilberforce will attest to that.

Thanks to CSU, Wright State had a crowd that was bigger than most it drew to last season&amp;#8217;s games.  The official count was 5,137 &amp;#8212; which seems a little stretched, but not that bad.

Regardless, this was a good event to help build a bridge between the two Greene County schools. And in the end that&amp;#8217;s good for the community.

Of course, so would be a  Wright State -Dayton game again &amp;#8212; especially in a town that can use all the good-time events it can get now &amp;#8212; but you know all the tired, old arguments impeding that one.

Too bad because it would be like CSU vs. Wilberforce &amp;#8212; only times 10.

And this would be a good year to see it.

Todd Brown

The Dayton Flyers appear to have the best team they&amp;#8217;ve had in decades. And from what you could see Thursday night, Wright State &amp;#8212; even with seniors Vaughn Duggins (suspended) and John David Gardner (injured) not in uniform &amp;#8212; has a very good team that should make some real noise this season.

Senior forward Todd Brown &amp;#8212; who had 17 points, Thursday &amp;#8212; looks like he&amp;#8217;s ready to wear the mantle of the team leader. The Raiders can shoot the ball &amp;#8212; they were 10 for 21 from three-point range &amp;#8212; and, as is a coach Brad Brownell trademark, they can play some tight defense.

They have a deep bench and while all three newcomers had their moments against the Marauders, I was especially impressed by guard Darian Cartharn, a 6-foot freshman from Canal Winchester. He&amp;#8217;s a catch-&amp;#8216;em-napping passer, can shoot and has a little bit of swagger to him. 

With the way this WSU team appears capable of playing, I think it will draw plenty more crowds this size and bigger during the season. Thing is, I don&amp;#8217;t know if opposing fans will get much more of a chance to SHAKE THAT THANG than did the Marauders mostly-silent masses. 

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Phil Lumpkin

The greatest backcourt in Ohio high school basketball history is now gone.

At least I think they were the best pair of guards ever to play side by side for a prep team in this state. 

Back in the late 1960s and into the first few months of 1970, Phil Lumpkin was the point guard and Donald Smith the shooting guard for Roth High School. Both averaged over 20 points a game and then Lumpkin went to Miami University and Smith to the University of Dayton.

When they played Chaminade &amp;#8212; which starred Dan Gerhardt, had a stronger inside game and would later win state &amp;#8212; the game sold out UD Arena. 

Donald Smith

In college both ended up in their school&amp;#8217;s Hall of Fame. Smith averaged 20.4 p.p.g. for his college career, Lumpkin 16.1. 

Both were picked in the second round of the NBA draft &amp;#8212; Lumpkin by Portland, Smith by Philadelphia. 

Lumpkin, a successful high school coach in Seattle, was found dead in his apartment Monday.  He was 57.  Smith died five years ago at age 53.

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<title>High praise for Tamika -- but is she Dayton&apos;s best?</title>

    

    


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I just got a copy of &amp;#8220;GENO: In Pursuit of Perfection,&amp;#8221; the book University of Connecticut women&amp;#8217;s basketball coach Geno Auriemma has done with Jackie MacMullen..

In it he makes several mentions of Tamika Williams, the Chaminade Julienne High School All American, who was one of the fixtures on two of the six national titles UConn has won with him.

Tamika

Auriemma tells about getting her out of Dayton to be part of one of the most celebrated recruiting classes in women&amp;#8217;s basketball history. He recounts various games she played and the way she often was the glue that held the various personalities of the team together.

He talks especially glowingly of the impact she made at UConn before heading off to her pro career and then &amp;#8212; after marrying former college athlete Ben Raymond &amp;#8212; becoming an assistant hoops coach at the University  of Kansas.

Here&amp;#8217;s Auriemma on Tamika:

&amp;#8220;Tamika Williams was &amp;#8212; and still is today &amp;#8212; maybe the most popular player among the coaches of anybody that came here. I just think her personality is so terrific. Her father was a Vietnam vet and he came back and was a DJ, among other things, and he is absolutely the most outgoing guy. He is funny and embracing and Tamika takes after him. She&amp;#8217;s a lot of fun and very nurturing, always bringing people together.

&amp;#8220;If you talk to Tamika and you&amp;#8217;re not laughing, you don&amp;#8217;t have a sense of humor Tamika and Meghan Pattyson, to me, epitomize the spirit of UConn basketball.&amp;#8221;

That got me thinking. Tamika had a great prep and college career &amp;#8212; she remains UConn&amp;#8217;s all-time leader in field goal percentage &amp;#8212; and then played several years in the WNBA. 

Is she the most celebrated woman&amp;#8217;s athlete ever to come out of the Greater Dayton area prep scene?

I&amp;#8217;m not sure. Here are five other women I&amp;#8217;d put in the mix:

LaVonna in Sports Illustrated photo

LaVonna Martin (Floreal) &amp;#8212;  The Trotwood Madison High track star became a University of Tennessee All American and then ran the 100 meter hurdles at two Olympics, Seoul in 1988 and Barcelona in 1992, where she won a silver medal. Her husband Edrick Floreal is the Stanford track coach.

Tonja

Tonja Buford (Bailey) &amp;#8212; The Meadowdale High sensation went on to star at Illinois, where today &amp;#8212; married to former pro football player Victor Bailey &amp;#8212;  she&amp;#8217;s the head women&amp;#8217;s track coach. She competed in three Olympics, Barcelona, then Atlanta in 1996, where she won a bronze medal in the 400 meter hurdles and finally the Sydney Games in 2000. She also won a silver medal at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg

Megan

Megan Duffy &amp;#8212; After starring in hoops at Chaminade Julienne and then Notre Dame &amp;#8212; where she was an Academic All American and won the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award from the Women&amp;#8217;s Basketball Coaches Association as the best senior player under 5-foot-8 &amp;#8212; she played for Minnesota and New York in the WNBA, played overseas in Wales, Italy Slovakia and Romania and now is an assistant women&amp;#8217;s basketball coach at St. John&amp;#8217;s University.

Alison

Alison Bales &amp;#8212; A high school All American at Beavercreek High, she starred at Duke University &amp;#8212; where, at 6-feet-7, she became the third all-time shot blocker in women&amp;#8217;s college basketball history &amp;#8212; then played for three WNBA teams as well as playing pro in Moscow and Turkey.

Brandi

Brandi Hoskins &amp;#8212; Another CJ hoops star, she became a cornerstone player for Ohio State &amp;#8212; where she was the MVP of the Big Ten Tournament in 2005 &amp;#8212; then went on to the WNBA and plays overseas.

I&amp;#8217;m not sure who I&amp;#8217;d rate as the best of that group and likely I&amp;#8217;ve forgotten someone who is deserving, but I do agree with Auriemma on his assessment of Tamika.

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COLUMBUS &amp;#8212; Ohio State&amp;#8217;s annual Scarlet and Gray spring game is more riveting than was the Buckeyes 45-0 rout of New Mexico State, Saturday, at Ohio Stadium.

The athletes are better on both sides of the ball in the practice game, you&amp;#8217;re bound to get a surprise or two and anything a player does, you know likely was hard-earned.

Saturday&amp;#8217;s game was like shooting fish in a barrel. 

New Mexico State took this game strictly for the money.  The Aggies &amp;#8212; now 3-6 &amp;#8212;  are the equivalent of a fight game palooka, a boxing opponent. They got $850,000 to let OSU hammer on them.

At least the Aggies are used to it.  They haven&amp;#8217;t had a winning season since 2002, haven&amp;#8217;t been to a bowl game in 49 years and came into Saturday&amp;#8217;s game &amp;#8212; where they were 44-point underdogs &amp;#8212;  with the worst offense (statistically) of the 120 teams playing major college football this season. Their defense was No. 75.

Saturday, the over-matched Aggies had just 62 total offensive yards for the day. OSU had 559 and played back-ups a substantial part of the second half..

That said, here are a few observations:  

&amp;#8212; Receiver DeVier Posey&amp;#8217;s tight-spiralled 39-yard touchdown pass to Dane Sanzenbacher in the second quarter was more impressive than any pass OSU quarterback Terrelle Pryor threw in his one half of action Saturday. 

Pryor over threw several receivers and two of his passes hit New Mexico State defenders in the hands and could have been intercepted.

He didn&amp;#8217;t play in the second half, finishing the game with 11 for 23 passing with 135 yards and a 19 yard TD pass to Sanzenbacher. He was more impressive on the ground, running nine times for 89 yards and another score, an eight-yard run.

&amp;#8212; Back-up quarterback Joe Bauserman, played the entire second half and was even less impressive throwing the ball, completing 2 of 9 passes for 75 yards.

&amp;#8212; If you&amp;#8217;re looking for an OSU star  from the Miami Valley in this one, how about the special teams play of Donnie Evege, the sophomore from Wayne High, who is a one-man wrecking ball on the kick team. He put jarring hits on three Aggie kick returners Saturday. 

&amp;#8212; Brandon Saine&amp;#8217;s 3-yard touchdown run later in the second quarter was the Piqua High product&amp;#8217;s first rushing score of the season. That&amp;#8217;s a telling stat about  your team&amp;#8217;s rushing attack when your starting tailback doesn&amp;#8217;t get his first TD until the ninth game of the season

&amp;#8212; When OSU kicker Aaron Pettrey suffered a sprained knee in the second quarter &amp;#8212; an injury that could prove to be quite troublesome going into next Saturday&amp;#8217;s game at Penn State &amp;#8212; he was replaced by Devin Barclay, who is not your typical college player.

He&amp;#8217;s 26 years old and was a pro soccer player &amp;#8212; playing for four teams including the Columbus Crew &amp;#8212; before joining the Buckeyes as a walk-on.

Barclay had his own struggles, missing two field goal attempts &amp;#8212; from 47 and 36 yards &amp;#8212; while making one from 29 yards.

&amp;#8212; This was likely a deja vu moment for New Mexico State coach DeWayne Walker. He had been to Ohio State once before. He was a junior defensive back for the 1980 Minnesota team that lost to the Bucks, 47-0, at the Shoe.

&amp;#8220;We got killed,&amp;#8221; was the way he recollected that game a few days ago.

It was the same Saturday.

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One game into the World Series, they are the two most talked about pitchers linked to the Philadelphia Phillies:

Susan Finkelstein and Cliff Lee.

One you can hit on &amp;#8212; one you can&amp;#8217;t.

Lee put on a one-man show Wednesday night, handcuffing the New York Yankees in a 6-1 Phillies win. The left hander threw a complete game, striking out 10, walking none, the run he gave up was unearned and, for good measure, he even caught a ball behind his back.

Susan Finkelstein: Phillie fever

Finkelstein&amp;#8217;s cuffs came Tuesday night after her pitch &amp;#8212; an ad for World Series tickets &amp;#8212; came out on Craigslist.

&amp;#8220;DESPERATE BLONDE NEEDS WS TIX &amp;#8212; Diehard Phillies fan&amp;#8212;gorgeous tall buxom blonde &amp;#8212; in desperate need of two World Series Tickets. Price negotiable&amp;#8212; I&amp;#8217;m the creative type! Maybe we can help each other!&amp;#8221;


An undercover cop met with the 43-year-old married University of Pennsylvania grad student in a suburban Philadelphia bar, allegedly, stating that he and his brother had World Series tickets for sale.

According to the cop, Finkelstein offered to perform sex acts on both of them, saying &amp;#8220;Well, I&amp;#8217;d rather have two tickets and I could take care of both of you.&amp;#8221;

That got her busted on a prostitution charge.

Finkelstein claimed Wednesday she was just flirting with the undercover cop.

&amp;#8220;I was hoping maybe I could get a cheaper price flirting with him,&amp;#8221; she said on the satellite &amp;#8220;Opie and Anthony&amp;#8221; radio show. &amp;#8220;You know, batting my eyes. It&amp;#8217;s not unheard of&amp;#8230;.It was him who brought the whole thing up anyway.&amp;#8221;

As she told Inside Edition: &amp;#8220;If I can flirt with someone and maybe get cheap tickets, more power to me.&amp;#8221;

Finkelstein: Looking for two

Finkelstein claims she was a bit smitten by the cop, who was &amp;#8220;kind of cute,&amp;#8221; she said: &amp;#8220;They sent out the good-looking, blonde, kind of Marine guy.&amp;#8221;

Finkelstein may be in luck after all. A Philadelphia radio station and a car dealership have both offered her free tickets to Sunday&amp;#8217;s game.

As for the charge &amp;#8212; which sounds a little like looking-for-some-pub police work here &amp;#8212; her lawyer hopes to get the charges reduced, if not dropped altogether.  

Throwing a bit of a curve ball himself, lawyer William J. Brennan said Finkelstein is just  &amp;#8220;a nice lady overcome with Phillies fever.&amp;#8221;

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They recruited Marcus Jordan because they hoped he would be following in his famous dad&amp;#8217;s footsteps . Now he is and the University of Central Florida wishes he was not.

Marcus Jordan

UCF has a problem stuck to the bottom of it&amp;#8217;s basketball sole &amp;#8212; maybe its soul, too &amp;#8212; and right now the school can&amp;#8217;t figure out a way to scrape it off.

As the son of NBA legend Michael Jordan, Marcus is the Golden Knights most famous basketball player. 

But as one Chicago sports columnist puts it, the 18-year-old Heir Jordan is about to become Err Jordan.

I like the line &amp;#8212; I&amp;#8217;m not so sure of the logic.

The problem is over the brand of shoes the kid will wear when UCF tips off its hoops season with an exhibition game next Wednesday, Nov. 4

For decades Michael Jordan&amp;#8217;s name has been synonymous with Nike &amp;#8212; sometimes to a fault.

UCF has an exclusive  $1.9 million contract with Nike rival Adidas that requires all its athletes and coaches to wear adidas footwear and apparel. 

When he was being recruited, Marcus brought up the issue &amp;#8212; saying he only wanted to wear his dad&amp;#8217;s Air Jordan brand Nikes on the court &amp;#8212; and he, and some UCF officials, have said  he was told that wouldn&amp;#8217;t be a problem. 

Adidas though &amp;#8212; which is in the midst of negotiating a new six-year, $ 3 million contract with UCF &amp;#8212; has said no to that proposal. It wants EVERYBODY in Adidas gear.

Marcus though has balked. He said he&amp;#8217;ll wear the Adidas apparel, but he plans to wear Nike Air Jordans, just  as he was assured he could.

&amp;#8220;When I was being recruited, we talked about it,&amp;#8221; Marcus told the Orlando Sentinel. &amp;#8220;They said they had talked to the Adidas people, and it wasn&amp;#8217;t going to be a problem. I think everybody understands how big of a deal it is for my family.

&amp;#8220;I have a high level of respect for Adidas, but I&amp;#8217;m going to be wearing Jordan shoes. I&amp;#8217;m wearing the Adidas uniform, and all my other UCF gear is Adidas, but the shoes are going to be Jordan brand.&amp;#8221;

Now supposedly UCF&amp;#8217;s new deal with Adidas is in some jeopardy because of the flap. And for the cash-strapped Golden Knights&amp;#8217; athletic department, $3 million is significant. It&amp;#8217;s at least 5 percent of the entire athletics budget. 

The school is the one that screwed this thing up. It never should have made the arrangement with Marcus. While some have tried to dismiss it as just another over-inflated ploy used on the recruiting trail, the bottom line is that a  promise is a promise.

So what are the choices here?  

Besides Adidas relenting or Nike &amp;#8212; which already has the the state&amp;#8217;s three most prominent programs under contract, Miami Florida and Florida State &amp;#8212; stepping in and offering a more lucrative deal or UCF releasing Jordan&amp;#8217;s son from his scholarship, there is one other possibility. 

Marcus could show himself to be a true team player and agree to wear Adidas and end up standing taller than anyone in this mess.

Although I&amp;#8217;d like to see that, I&amp;#8217;m not sure that will happen &amp;#8212; especially not if Marcus  truly is following in Dad&amp;#8217;s footsteps.

Michael Jordan&amp;#8217;s ploy at Barcelona Olympics

I remember this same kind of flap at the Barcelona Olympics. The gold medal-winning US basketball team was outfitted by Reebok, but Jordan and a few other players were adamant about their Nike contracts.

And so on the medal stand, Jordan draped an American flags over his warm-up jacket. Not a display of patriotism, this was all about profiteering. He wanted to make sure he hid the Reebok logo.

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