Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame: Former Ohio State coach loves his sport Enlarge Image Randy Ayers coached Ohio State from 1989 to ?97, going 124-108. By Bill Rabinowitz The Columbus Dispatch Friday May 17, 2013 Randy Ayers was a budding star in Springfield, playing for Roosevelt Junior High as an eighth-grader, when he got a harsh lesson in handling adversity. ?I reacted to a call and got a technical,? Ayers said. ?It ended up being a 5-point play, so it went from a 5-point deficit to 10.? The next day in practice, coach Tom Wilson dressed him down. ?He told me in front of the team the next day that it was inexcusable,? Ayers said. ?You look back, and I think that had a big impact on me.? Ayers became a standout at Springfield North High School and then at Miami University before embarking on a coaching career. There have been lows as well as highs ? he had both as Ohio State?s coach ? but Ayers has carved out a successful career doing what he still loves. On Saturday, he will be one of 12 inductees into the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame at a banquet at the Columbus Convention Center. ?The flattering thing is that I?m going in as a coach, which to me is because of the coaches I had on me growing up had a big influence on my life,? Ayers said. ?To be able to go in as coach is really something special.? Ayers, 57, is an assistant for the New Orleans Pelicans (formerly Hornets) in the NBA, where he has coached since his firing from OSU in 1997. He had a brief stint as coach of the Philadelphia 76ers in 2003. With the Buckeyes, he coached a team led by Jimmy Jackson, Chris Jent and Mark Baker that fell just short of the Final Four. In 1991, Ayers was named the national Coach of the Year. ?We had a nice three-year run with that group,? Ayers said. ?That group was such an unselfish group.? cont...

Willie Jackson is next in line at Garfield Heights Posted on February 19, 2013 by Rodger Bohn Garfield Heights has established itself as one of the basketball factories of the state of Ohio, pumping out a D-1 player every single year dating back to 2007. Head coach Sonny Johnson has done an outstanding job of developing young talent. Guys like Carl Jones, Robert Wilson, and Daitwan Eppinger helped build a brand of basketball at the east side suburb that will not stop growing, and freshman Willie Jackson appears to be next in line. Standing 6’5, Jackson already has great size for a wing at the college level. He is an incredibly strong slasher (especially going right), is a monster in transition, and can knock down open three pointers. Additionally, Willie has exhibited the potential to be an outstanding defender on the ball. There’s still plenty of room for development in his ability to create off the bounce and mid-range game, but the explosive athlete owns all of the physical tools that you’d hope for out of a potential high-major wing. Still an infant in the recruitment process, Willie has yet to receive his first D-1 offer yet. However, he has interest from Ohio State, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Iowa, Dayton, Xavier, Depaul, and Michigan, and will be closely evaluated on the AAU circuit.

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MILAN (AP) Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, according to the first public sworn testimony by the Moroccan woman at the center of the scandal.

El-Mahroug said Minetti, one of the defendants, had dressed up like a nun at that Feb. 14 party and lifted her costume to show off her legs as she danced in Berlusconi's in-house disco. El-Mahroug demonstrated from her seat how Minetti had raised her hemline. She said Minetti eventually took off her costume and was in just her lingerie. She said another young woman dressed up alternately as Obama or a Milan magistrate who is leading the prosecution against Berlusconi in the sex scandal, donning a red wig and the black robes worn by magistrates in Italy.

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