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BCS Spotlight: Buckeyes hope to bounce back better than Big Easy
Thursday, January 3, 2008
BY Todd Porter
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER
NEW ORLEANS
As the sun rose over the Bayou Wednesday morning, Georgia fans smiled through their hangover. Hawaii fans, bundled up all week, looked puzzled. What the hell planet were they on that transformed a tropical winter into a real one overnight?
The remnants of Hawaii packed up and began the journey home. At about the same time, Ohio State?s charter plane, carrying Head Coach Jim Tressel, coaches, their families and administrators, landed.
Brrrr. Baby, it?s cold out.
Tressel wished he?d brought one of the Christmas presents given to him ? a nice, warm winter coat.
?When I got off the plane, I thought I should have (brought it),? Tressel said.
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Ohio State football notes
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Curfew? What curfew?
In the shadows of Ohio State?s hotel stands Harrah?s Casino, massive mecca of mischief, dazzling lights, slot machines, gambling and bling. A few blocks away is Bourbon Street and the French Quarter.
So you might think Ohio State Head Coach Jim Tressel is keeping his players under lock and key between now and Monday night?s BCS Allstate Sugar Bowl National Championship Game, right?
Wrong.
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Tigers feeling at home an hour?s bus ride from campus
Jim Naveau | jnaveau@limanews.com - 01.03.2008
NEW ORLEANS ? It?s not often that Toledo is compared to New Orleans, but LSU coach Les Miles did it on Wednesday shortly after the Tigers arrived for Monday?s Bowl Championship Series title game against Ohio State.
When he was asked if the Buckeyes having to play his team just 80 miles away from its campus would be like LSU playing Ohio State in Columbus, he said, ?More like Toledo, not Columbus.?
There is no question LSU?s travel to New Orleans was easier than it was for some Ohio State players.
The Tigers practiced Wednesday morning in Baton Rouge and jumped on a bus. ?It took about an hour,? All-American safety Craig Steltz said.
Meanwhile, several of Ohio State?s players had their travel plans scrambled by cold, snowy weather in the Midwest. Some were still just getting to the team hotel on Wednesday night.
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OSU makes some changes from last year?s BCS itinerary
Jim Naveau | jnaveau@limanews.com - 01.03.2008
NEW ORLEANS ? Jim Tressel was on top of his game when he met the media for the first time the week of the Bowl Championship Series on Wednesday.
He saw every question coming a mile away. There were no unexpected inquiries, none of those questions where he stops and slowly repeats the exact words he has just been asked while he formulates his reply in his mind before answering.
Of course, he had been hearing most of the questions since last Jan. 8 when Florida rocked the Buckeyes 41-14 in the BCS title game. He has had plenty of practice answering countless variations on that theme.
So, what was learned about the state of the Buckeyes from Tressel on Wednesday?
Start with the facts they arrived later than last year, they?ll get to sleep earlier than last year, and, if things go as hoped, they?ll learn from their mistakes and play a whole lot better than they did last year against Florida.
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College football
Small-town giant
LSU's Dorsey, a big-time player, hasn't forgotten his roots
Thursday, January 3, 2008 3:22 AM
By Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
 Steve Kashishian | The (Baton Rouge, La.) Advocate
LSU defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey won four major awards this year after passing up a chance to enter the NFL draft last spring.
NEW ORLEANS -- Glenn Dorsey is proof that it can pay for a college football player to return for his senior season. And not only because the defensive tackle became the most decorated LSU defender ever in winning the Lombardi Award, Outland Trophy, Lott Trophy and Nagurski Award.
Those were just warm-ups for the main event: He was the grand marshal of the Christmas parade this year in his hometown of Gonzales, La., the self-proclaimed "jambalaya capital of the world."
That's right. He upstaged Santa Claus.
"I never thought the day would come where I would get to be in a parade, to get the key to the city in my hometown," Dorsey said. "It was a pretty big deal to me, a huge honor.
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