Daily Segs

A lot of journalists and members of the media have been doing pieces on ESPN and all over the Internet about what they see to be Joe Paterno's legacy. Frankly, it has been the majority of what has been covered over the past 48 hours aside from two extremely close and exciting NFL Conference Championship games. In my opinion, it should be. Paterno, who released news of his lung cancer to the world on November 18 and fell and broke his pelvis on December 11, passed away in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Reports of his condition worsening came Saturday afternoon, launching an abnormally large chunk of the media world to believe he was already gone. Even though I felt personally that he was either going to go that night or Sunday sometime, I must admit I was not entirely prepared for it. As you all well know, I have been a sports fan for as long as I can remember-Packers, Buckeyes, Reds, you name it-and I can say without hesitation that I have never had more respect for an opposing c...

After about a three week hiatus that finished out my Christmas break and began the year 2012, I finally thought of something that I really want to write to you all about. The last week has been engulfed with classes and a new schedule signaling the beginning of a new quarter. I must say that I am looking forward to this quarter quite a bit due to a bit lighter of a course load as well as the simple fact that it is basketball season. Although classes are still classes, I think I'll be willing to deal with it all a bit better because I'll have basketball games both to attend and to watch on television, in addition to being able to play a bit of club and intramural ball. Life is good from that aspect. Aside from it making me a happier man because it is indeed my favorite sport, the game is causing a bit of a predicament for this upcoming Sunday. The Buckeye basketball team (I'm not going to get into the performance that the Buckeye football team pained us with-you all should k...