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Football warm-up act? No, way more
Sunday, April 20, 2008 3:25 AM
By Michael Arace
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
 Renee Sauer | Dispatch
Ohio State's lacrosse team sports green shoelaces at Ohio Stadium. Sales of the laces for $10 a pair benefit HEADstrong, a lacrosse-related charity that supports blood-cancer research.
The Ohio State men's lacrosse team will play bigger games, but never will it play on a bigger stage than it did yesterday in Ohio Stadium. These Buckeyes tied up their lime-green shoelaces, grabbed their sticks and shined in a deflected spotlight. They were the warm-up act for the annual spring football scrimmage, and they beat the University of Denver 20-13 in a game that counted.
Then, the headliners took the field. The Scarlet team came out of one tunnel, the Gray out of another, and the lacrosse players stood there, beaming, as a crowd announced at 76,000 rose to its feet and got ready for some football practice. With that, the lacrosse players exited and went off to raise money for cancer research.
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