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Basketball, eh?
Some of you may read one but not the other, so I wanted to make you aware of Bob Hunter's "rumbling" this morning about Ohio State planning a trip to Canada in August for some games against Canadian competition and, more important, 10 extra days of practice before the official start of preseason drills in October.

Hunter mentioned that Ohio State?s last such excursion was in 2001 to Italy, France and the Netherlands. What wasn't mentioned was that assistant coach Dave Spiller had his pocket picked during the trip and that someone elicited the wrath of then-coach Jim O'Brien when he tried to do the same to the fiesty O'Brien.

Originally conceived by the NCAA as a cultural experience for student-athletes _ besides Europe, the Buckeyes visited South Africa in 1996 _ such tours in recent years have devolved into little more than excuses to play more basketball.

Basketball, eh? (Hoops & Scoops: an OSU basketball blog)