Please accept my humblest apologies for not making it perfectly clear that “the last time” Celtic and Man U played meant the last time before July’s game. It should be obvious to all the readers of this site (which are all the readers of our e-mails, in which it was also made perfectly clear that you believed that Celtic and Man U played only that one time in Seattle).
What can I do to make it up to you, Lee?

I’ll leave to Chas to report on just how obnoxious TOSU fans really are, since he is forced to live among them.

But the notion that TOSU is just as bit an urban school as Pitt is a little absurd. Columbus is a giant sprawling suburb with a small neighborhood of openly gay artistic types in the middle. Not a city in the real sense – not enough population density. Besides, TOSU is a mammoth school, drawing the sons and daughters of insurance salesmen, small factory owners and Rotary, Lions, Kiwanas and Eagles club members from all over suburban and rural Ohio. Not exactly Temple – or even Pitt, for that matter. Pitt and Temple are true uban schools, in that they draw (tradtionally and even today) mainly from their metro area. TOSU is a lot more like PSU than you are willing to admit.

As for pioneering the black student athelete, I didn’t realize Jesse Owens played football. No wonder Hilter’s ubermenchen were no match for him. Not that I agree with them, but didn’t the black athletes in Mexico 1968 consider him a Tom, and not black enough? Just the kind of black man that White America loves? Especially Buckeyes?

This would be a great time for stats, but just what are the minority enrollment rates at Big11 universities [which are in the Big11 not for sports, but for the research money – yeah, right]?

{By the way, Pitt’s John Woodruff also won gold in 1936, in the 800 meter run.}