The big news yesterday — other than a code snafu costing me 1,000 Skull Session comments — was a goatee-less Urban Meyer's birthday appearance at Ted Ginn Sr.'s fundraising extravaganza. (Video here.)
Also, he might be Nikola Tesla, as first reported by me on Twitter.com:
Folks... Urban Meyer and Nikola Tesla share a birthday and have never been seen in the same room. #makesyouthink pic.twitter.com/cStsp8mf8V
— D.J. Byrnes (@marion_ohio) July 10, 2015
Did I just embed my own tweet in my own story? *drops shades* You're damn right I did.
JONATHON COOPER GETS BLOCKED, STILL GETS A W. At the final day of The Opening, Jonathon Cooper, the unstoppable force, went against Michigan's Michael Onwenu, an immovable object.
This is the first L I've ever seen Cooper take:
It says a lot about Cooper's domination that Onwenu's fellow offensive linemen reacted with the same gusto of brutalized subjects free of a sadistic dictator.
Unfortunately for them, they didn't check Cooper's pulse:
Note: It's a bad idea to piss on a dragon you think is dead but is actually just sleeping.
BEER WE GO... LUNAR BEASTS? The Lunar Beasts, a 7 on 7 team at The Opening feature OSU commits DeMario McCall, Austin Mack, and Jake Hausmann, won the "national championship" yesterday.
Here's Austin Mack — who did the damn thing — being put on the spot after winning the title:
No. 1 vs. No. 2. D'Angelo Russell said he's wearing No. 1 in the pros because he should've been the No. 1 overall pick in the 2015 NBA Draft. Last night was his chance to prove that, as the Los Angeles Lakers played the Minnesota Timberwolves (and No. 1 pick Karl-Anthony Towns) in the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. I
It started well for the former OSU star:
Summer League MVP chants for D'Angelo Russell.
— Silver Screen & Roll (@LakersSBN) July 11, 2015
That was after D'Angelo Russell broke scoring with a free throw.
Number 2 @NBADraft pick @Dloading is already a vocal leader in the @lakers #NBASummerLeague huddle pic.twitter.com/3W6We4w9T2
— NBA (@NBA) July 11, 2015
Capsule of D'Angelo Russell's first half: He's moving at the controlled speed he wants, but the game is moving faster.
— KEVIN DING (@KevinDing) July 11, 2015
D'Angelo Russell's vision and sense of timing on his passes are even more impressive in person
— Mike Prada (@MikePradaSBN) July 11, 2015
D'Angelo Russell 8 pts 3/8 FG 1/3 3pt 1/2 FT 5 reb 6 ast 3 stl 5 TO 26 min
— Lakers Facts (@LakerFacts) July 11, 2015
Not a terrible night in the office, but not a world-beating one. About what you'd expect for a guy making his professional debut.
For the record, Karl-Anthony Towns was about the same:
#NBA Karl Towns 12pts, 4ast, 3reb y 9 faltas en su debut. Sus Wolves le ganaron a los Lakers 81-68. Jordan Clarkson 23pts por LAL
— Luis Modestti (@LModestti) July 11, 2015
Faltas = fouls.
WE MAY NOT HAVE THE FOOTBALL TEAM WITH US... But the fishing team is out here carrying the flag:
Good luck to THE Ohio State University bass fishing team at their FLW event at Indian Lake tomorrow! Knock em dead! pic.twitter.com/fr4pyl7es5
— Jig & Tonic (@jigandtonic) July 10, 2015
COLLIER ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY. This is why the only #teens I don't discriminate against play for Ohio State. They clearly have their heads on straight.
Superman would wax Batman this is science.
— Stephen Collier (@S13Collier) July 10, 2015
I didn't even know there was a "Well, actually..." side to this debate until one day I met some goofball blabbering about "If Batman had time to prepare..." Prepare for what? The Guy of Steel torpedoing him into a billion pieces?
Batman is just some rich dude who knows karate. His nemesis is literally a clown, and Batman can't even keep him under wraps. Superman would destroy Batman. Case closed.
THOSE WMDs. I was an invisible girlfriend for a month... McDonald's Minions toys can't stop swearing... Two pairs of identical twins mismatched at birth... The Cognitive Benefits of Doodling... The Quiet War Squirrels Are Waging on U.S. Stock Exchanges.