Friday's Buckeye Bits

Good Friday morning, everybody! It's been a heck of a first week with Buckeye Bits, and the first week of the off-season comes to a close today as well. Football may be over, but there is still plenty of Ohio State sports to watch.

Sunday, the men's basketball team tips at 4:30 against the Hoosiers at the corner of Lane and Olentangy. Vengeance shall be the word of the day, as the Buckeyes lost in Bloomington, as well as earlier this week in Champaign. Of course, last night the Hoosiers were shocked by Minnesota, 77-74. If you aren't going to the game, watch it on CBS.

If you like your Buckeye sports a bit colder and bloodier, the Puckeyes will face off against Michigan at 7:30 Friday at the Schott, and again Sunday at 5:05. The Sunday matchup is in Cleveland, in the Frozen Diamond Faceoff in the Indians' Progressive Field. Friday's game will be shown on the Big Ten Network, and the big game Sunday will be on Fox Sports Ohio. Jeff Svoboda has an excellent writeup on Buckeye Sports Bulletin. No word if Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn will be in attendance.

A Little Bit of Everything

They're winning, duh

Ed. Note: This post was written by Brady

Before I get to my weekly bitching and moaning about Buckeye football, I wanted to bring up the building excitement for the ongoing baseball season.  I know that anyone who stumbles upon this corner of the blogosphere isn’t looking for MLB updates but this is my one public forum on the internet and I’ll be damned if I don’t give a shout out to the Wahoo warriors at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario.

It was my 30^th birthday this past weekend (please direct all cash gifts to the Jim Tressel legal fund) and my wife organized a surprise weekend of baseball and debauchery in the great city of Cleveland for me.  The Indians managed to sweep their cross state rivals (sorry Ian) and the once unimaginable run at the AL central crown continues.  Not only do the Indians have a 7 game lead on their closest divisional foe but also sport the best record in all of baseball! Ed. Note: We'll be the one's apologizing come this post-season.

Watching this magical first two months has been a great reprieve from the endless bad news trickling out of Columbus this spring and I encourage any baseball fan to hop on that bandwagon before it fills up.  I am a huge MLB supporter and the Indians have continually punched me in the gut over the years with their near championship runs and mind numbing trades.  Finally, those player swaps are paying off this season and I can only pray that the Tribe is this year’s Cinderella.  Time will tell but almost 50 games have past us on the calendar and the Indians continue their dominance.  OK, enough baseball.  Let’s get to the Bucks.