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WR Anthony Gonzalez (2005 All B1G, US Congressman)

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crazybuckfan40;623562; said:
I wonder how many people are going to start buying them tents after the special they did on them about Gonzo...:tongue2:
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If this actually works maybe Ohio State should have a "high altitude dorm" for the whole team. Apparently Gilbert Arenas is converting his house:

Arenas sorry for Team USA vent; thins air in house

Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Take a deep breath, and get ready for the latest in Gilbertology: Washington Wizards point guard Gilbert Arenas is thinning the air in his house.
"I had my house converted to the Colorado altitude, so I am always above sea level," Arenas said Monday at the Wizards annual pre-training camp media day.
Say what? He's going to live at high altitude in the nation's capital?
"You know, that's kind of weird," Arenas said.
He'll get plenty of nods with that statement, but, yep, he's really doing it. Instead of going to the mountains to train -- as some endurance athletes do -- Arenas has hired a company to simulate those conditions in a home environment.
"I had to put a tent in one room, and then they are going to come during training camp and fix the whole house," Arenas said. "Then I have a portable tent I'm taking on the road."
Arenas hopes the living arrangement will give him more energy in the fourth quarter of NBA games, when everyone else is getting tired from breathing the same old heavy air.
"How I start the game is how I finish the game," he said.
There's always something up with Arenas, whether it was his revelation last year that he played online poker during halftimes, or the multitude of ways he finds to keep chips on his shoulders. No wonder coach Eddie Jordan said last week that he hadn't spoken much to Arenas this summer because he could stand only so much "Gilbertology."
Despite the extra-curriculars -- or maybe because of them -- Arenas is one of the best in the game. He was fourth in league in scoring last season, averaging 29.3 points, and made his second consecutive All-Star team.
Even so, there's a feeling he's never really been given his due. That's why he wears the No. 0 -- he was supposed to get zero minutes at the University of Arizona. Yes, he was an All-Star last season, but only as a late replacement for an injured player.
Fuel was added to the fire this summer, when Arenas was among the final cuts for the U.S. world championship team. The convenient excuse was that he had a strained groin, but Arenas said he essentially withdrew after learning that he probably wasn't going to make the team anyway.
Shortly afterward, Arenas vented his frustration, telling The Washington Post that he was going to exact revenge on Team USA assistant coaches Nate McMillan and Mike D'Antoni by scoring 100 points each on their respective teams, Portland and Phoenix.
On Monday, Arenas apologized -- not a bad idea if he wants to make the Olympic team in two years.
"I said some things, and I vented out against Phoenix and Portland, but those teams actually had nothing to do with anything," Arenas said. "That was wrong of me. I really want to say sorry for it and I want to say sorry to Mike D'Antoni. That was the immature Gilbert two months ago. I'm growing as a person, and I'm ready to be a leader for the Washington Wizards."
Even so, Arenas said the snub means he will be more motivated this year.
"There always someone out there who keeps me going," he said, "and I like it."
Washington teammate Antawn Jamison, who made the U.S. team, was disappointed that Arenas went public after getting cut. Then again, Jamison admitted, the snub will probably help the Wizards.
"Once again, he found a way to have a chip on his shoulder, and its going to be exciting to see what he pulls out of the hat this year," Jamison said.
That wasn't all of the Arenas news Monday. He's on huge new downtown billboard -- "Every kid, every NBA player dreams of having their own billboard up," he said -- and he said he got himself in shape for training camp with a week of boot camp with "a military dude in San Francisco."
The regimen included running up and down the city's steep hills, sometimes on soft sand with 40-pound medicine balls.
"I wanted to cry a couple of times," Arenas said. "While you're doing it, you're like, 'This is murder. This guy is killing me.' As soon as you're down, I was like 'Wow, I feel energized.'"
Just wait until he tries the same workout in his high-altitude house.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2610922
 
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TENT DWELLER:@ Much has been made of WR Tony Gonzalez sleeping in an oxygen-rich plastic tent which allows him to breathe easier at Ohio's altitude.
Now comes word that Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas is modifying his house to put the oxygen-rich mixture in every room.
"That's interesting," said Gonzalez, who joked that he should have marketed the idea at the risk of losing his NCAA eligibility. "It's a testament to the technology. It certainly works. I know that people said it might not but if it didn't I don't think people would be worried about converting entire houses to an altitude environment."
Told that Arenas is also considering taking a tent on the road with him, Gonzalez said, "Oh, is he? Now that might be excessive. They're on the road too much."
 
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OhioState49;625131; said:
How does these tents even work?
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Kinda complicated but I'll water it down.

Inside the tent, machines recirculating the air remove about 5% of the oxygen - simulating high altitudes. The higher the altitude, the lower the atmospheric pressure, the less oxygen there is for you to breathe. One of the neat tricks your body does in high altitude is reconfigure the way your hemoglobin works so that it becomes more efficient and/or more hemoglobin is produced. There are quite a few hormonal changes that go on when your body detects that there is less oxygen in the air, but I won't go into that. Regardless, at high altitude, your body becomes acclimated. Oxygen binds to hemoglobin more efficiently, so you can breathe normally and not feel light-headed. The tent does the same thing. Spend enough time in the tent, and your body becomes acclimated to the lower oxygen levels. When you step out of the tent, your body is used to less oxygen, so when you take a breath of normal air, you are able to take up more oxygen than you would have been able to otherwise. More oxygen per breath = better respiration, which leads to less fatigue/cramping/burning muscles, which leads to Gonzo's 30 yard TD run.

The article says Gonzo lives in an oxygen-rich environment. Now, if you think about that for a second, you can understand why that wouldn't help you at all. Theoretically, you would get used to more oxygen, so when you step out of the tent and take a breath, you get light-headed cause there isn't enough oxygen in normal air than what you're used to. Now, I think there's a maximum of how much oxygen can bind to your hemoglobin, so I don't think you can become acclimated to a high oxygen environment, but that's another story altogether.

So yeah....science is fun.
 
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Gonzo: Music on the field.

I'm watching the Iowa game again now. I'm so amazed by Gonzo's plays, as always. To me, it's like MUSIC ON THE FIELD. He is just so smooth and enjoyable.

It's great to be a buckeye!!
 
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restless;626170; said:
I'm watching the Iowa game again now. I'm so amazed by Gonzo's plays, as always. To me, it's like MUSIC ON THE FIELD. He is just so smooth and enjoyable.

It's great to be a buckeye!!
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I love it when Musberger says" Are you kidding me!"
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Bleed S & G;626406; said:
will the NCAA outlaw the use of these tents if the popularity grows, essentially isn;t it natural blood dopping?
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MililaniBuckeye;626419; said:
Well then they should outlaw weight training since it's natural muscle enhancement...
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As has been suggested before, to be consistent they would have to make much of the Mtn West move their football teams to WAY off campus locations if they out-lawed a tent that reproduced the same environment.
 
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OHIO STATE NOTEBOOK
Gonzalez making it his goal to treat all opponents equally

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Tim May and Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH




It remains to be seen whether top-ranked Ohio State will be guilty of looking past 35-point underdog Bowling Green this afternoon, but receiver Anthony Gonzalez said it?s game day on his calendar, just like a week ago at Iowa.
"My thing is I have always tried to ignore records, stats, everything that people make a big deal out of," Gonzalez said. "It really doesn?t mean that much come Saturday. What means the most is who is prepared the most, who is going to make the most plays and that sort of thing.
"In that regard I have a schedule that is written out at my house that tells me when I am going to watch film, when I am going to study, when I am going to go to class, when I am going to eat, all of that stuff. That schedule does not change, no matter who we are playing."
But he knows this is a redletter Saturday on Bowling Green?s calendar. The Falcons (3-2) have had an up-anddown season.
"If I were Bowling Green, and hadn?t had a season to this point that maybe they had hoped for, I would be saying to myself, what better way to right this wrong, so to speak, than to come out and beat the No. 1 team in the nation?" Gonzalez said.
Possible Zwick sighting ?

If things go for the Buckeyes the way the oddsmakers think they will, plenty of players could see action, including backup quarterback Justin Zwick. Coach Jim Tressel has been impressed by the former starter?s work ethic this season.
"Let?s face it, when you?re a fifth-year guy, and there?s only one ball and you?re not getting it, you could go any direction," Tressel said. "And he?s gone the direction of training extra ? making sure that he?s ready."
Just get better

The Buckeyes have been repeating Tressel?s mantra this week of "keep getting better" as they prepare to face a string of unranked opponents.
Tight end Rory Nicol put it this way:
"I don?t know that there?s a guy on this team that has played a game this year and walked off the field and said, ?Man, I don?t think I could?ve done anything better.? And if you do play a perfect game, then God bless your heart, because you?re really special.
"That hasn?t happened, and until it does, I think guys are going to want to come back in here and get better."
Streaking in and out ?

There are some Ohio State streaks to keep in mind this afternoon, not the least of which is the nation?s top major college winning streak of 12. Running back Antonio Pittman has scored at least one TD in 10 straight games; Ted Ginn Jr. has caught at least one pass in 24 straight; linebacker James Laurinaitis has grabbed an interception in the past four; quarterback Troy Smith has thrown at least one TD pass in the past seven.

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Good article.

Updated: Oct. 12, 2006, 12:16 PM ET


Gonzalez makes Cuban good eats


By Wayne Drehs
ESPN.com





COLUMBUS, Ohio -- He heard it in high school. He hears it now in college. But Ohio State wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez isn't any more accepting of it.

The scene usually goes like this: Gonzalez is walking down the street or eating dinner in a restaurant or roaming through a sporting goods store, when somebody he's walking with, somebody who has no clue he's half Cuban, makes a remark about Hispanics.

The comment is usually a stereotype about appearance or intelligence. As Gonzalez's fair-skinned face transforms to Buckeye scarlet, he will turn to the offender and tell them he's Cuban.
And watch their jaw drop.

"I guess I look more white than Hispanic, so people automatically relate to me from that perspective and don't even think there's another side," Gonzalez said. "It's unfortunate that in the society we live in, stereotypes are based on how you look and not necessarily who you are.

"This has always been a part of me and always will be. It's something I want everyone to know. And something I never want to take for granted."

On the field, Gonzalez is an emerging offensive weapon for No. 1 Ohio State. He has caught 27 passes for more than 400 yards and four touchdowns, including a pair of touchdowns in Ohio State's nationally televised Big Ten showdown against Iowa last month. He has thrived as a compliment to Ted Ginn Jr., even though, as Gonzalez puts it, "I really don't think I'm that good."

Off the field, there's something more, something that only the people close to Gonzalez know much about. An Ohio State junior, Gonzalez is the son of a Cuban immigrant and the grandson of a man who, Gonzalez said, went to school with Fidel Castro and helped overthrow Fulgencio Batista.

Gonzalez grew up in suburban Cleveland immersed in Cuban culture. He referred to his grandmother as "Wella" and his grandfather as "Papi." When relatives came over, Spanish was the language of the house. After his grandfather filled a photo album with Cuban baseball cards, Gonzalez chose countryman Jose Canseco as his favorite professional athlete.
"Even when the ball bounced off his head, I loved the guy," Gonzalez said. "And that was a direct result of my grandfather and what Cuba and baseball meant to him."

Gonzalez's grandfather moved from Spain to Cuba in the 1930s, Gonzalez said, and attended the same school as Castro and eventually became a university professor. As a professor, he taught the wife of Raul Castro, Fidel's brother who now is acting president of Cuba. Gonzalez said his grandfather was later part of a group that stormed the presidential palace and helped overthrow Batista, as highlighted in the 2005 Andy Garcia film, "The Lost City."

"I'm sitting there watching that movie and my father tells me, 'That's the one that Papi was involved in. That's Papi's group,'" Gonzalez said. "It's surreal."

Shortly after Castro took over in 1959, Gonzalez's grandparents, like so many other Cubans, fled to the U.S. They stayed in Miami before eventually moving to Cincinnati, where Anthony's parents met. From there, they settled in suburban Cleveland and held fast to their Cuban roots.

"It's something that just sort of happened," said Jenna Gonzalez, Anthony's mother. "A lot of the traditions we kept because my husband's parents lived close by, we visited them often and they were just different. They had very heavy accents, broken English. A lot of our relatives didn't speak English at all. We had different food, different music, we celebrated holidays differently. It's just the way things were for our family."
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Anthony Gonzalez has cooked up some strong numbers for Ohio State so far this season -- 27 passes for more than 400 yards and four touchdowns.



Though Jenna Gonzalez was of German descent, she loved Cuban food and learned from her mother-in-law and sister-in-law how to cook the meals for her family. Little Tony, as the family called him, would sit in the kitchen and watch. Today, Anthony, the name his grandmother requested he use since, she said, "there's already a Tony Gonzalez in football," uses a Cuban cookbook to recreate some of those same dishes in his college apartment.

"If somebody said, 'You're on death row, what's the last meal you want to eat?'" Gonzalez said, "that'd be easy. Something Cuban that my mom would cook. It's just the taste. I can't describe what it is. It just tastes better to me."
Gonzalez said he keeps a close eye on relations between the U.S. and Cuba, and his family is hopeful that the Castro regime ends soon so his grandmother can visit her homeland before she dies. He also plans to move to a Spanish-speaking country eventually so he can learn the language.

It's all part of balancing life as a starting receiver for the No. 1 team in the country and a proud Cuban-American.
"People look at me on the street or on television and they don't see a Hispanic. They don't see a Cuban," Gonzalez said. "But I want people to know this side of my life. I don't want what my grandparents went through to go away. I want that always to be a part of me. And I want people to learn -- looks can be deceiving."
 
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