Eleven Warriors - A Buckeye Sports Blog

Greg Oden is headed to Portland. Luckily, he won’t have to play alongside former “Blazers” such as J.R. Rider and Reuben Patterson. The Trail Blazers won tonight’s NBA Lottery despite having just a 5.3% chance while odds favorites Memphis (25%) and Boston (20%) fell all the way to the 4th and 5th, respectively. A quick [...]

Ginny-Up!

Miami Dolphin coach Cam Cameron held a Q&A with the team’s official website and he spoke some more about why the team selected Ginn with their first round pick:

"[The selection] better be the right kind of guy. I was sold on his family. I was sold on the kid. I spoke to Jim Tressel, his [...]

Murder She Wrote is dope!

With the NBA draft right around the corner, you can probably already envision young sports reporters getting their assignments for a feature profile on either the Buckeye’s Greg Oden or Kevin Durant of Texas, the two most likely candidates for the #1 overall selection.

Seeing as how 90% of online mock drafts [...]

Little Animal: Q&A

Good God, when’s the NBA Draft? When does fall camp start? The Buckeye sports landscape is dry as dust right now unless you’re gonna feign excitement over the girls softball squad capturing the conference tournament crown. I’m not hatin’, I’m just saying. Thankfully, I was able to scrape together a few [...]

Final AP Ranking: 20

It’s mid-May and that can only mean one thing: the cavalcade of preview magazines are just around the corner. Athlon is already in gear, releasing one ranked team a day through June 1. Today, the Buckeyes were slotted 12th. Lil’ Animal and Malcom Jenkins were both picked as 1st [...]

Fetch me your sister, rook.

Reader John (who requested that I refer to him as “Dragon”) sent in the link to a picture gallery from former Buckeye A.J. Hawk’s wedding. Hawk, for those of you living under a rock, married Brady Quinn’s sister Laura on March 17. Based on the reaction from her half-Notre [...]

Being the head football coach at a major university can bring all kinds of perks and opportunities that you and I will never get to experience. For Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, that includes meeting Russell Crowe. Evidently the brawling Aussie had learned that Carr used Cinderalla Man (unsuccessfully) to motivate his players and [...]

Mark Gokavi’s article in today’s DDN quotes Cook’s old HS coach and advisor, Al Powell, as saying Cook is definitely gone:
“Even though it’s a harder road, he’s determined to stay in it,” said Powell, a family friend and Dunbar High School assistant coach who will accompany Cook to the workouts. “Daequan is going to [...]