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https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/03/ohio-ag-dave-yost-state-has-little-power-to-claw-back-600m-from-intel.html Incredible

https://apnews.com/article/student-loans-education-department-outage-layoffs-5afb5a0a1b51bbe50e5961a63b419041 What could go wrong? Federal student loan site down Wednesday, a day after layoffs gutted Education Department

As I've said, this will go down as one of JobsOhio's biggest blunders.

When you can't discuss a point, resort to ad hominem. This is, I think, crossing into Current Events territory, so I'll refrain from any further replies here so as to comply with forum rules.

Hochul’s move here is profoundly racist and dehumanizing. Defining Palestinian studies as fundamentally antisemitic means defining Palestinians as something to be erased. It is genocidal. This is also an unacceptable attack on academic freedom. The governor should have no say in faculty hiring.

Ohio...just racist enough to maybe not elect a Silicon Valley dildo with no political experience.

No one knows if Tressel is running. He's 72. You think he wants to *start* being governor at age 74?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-2026-bid-ohio-governor/index.html Ramaswamy officially announces his bid for governor, with full Trump backing.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-chips-act-may-be-dead-thats-another-big-hurdle-for-semiconductor-stocks-e37e818f Uh oh

I thought Trump was bringing down the price of eggs?

https://www.platformer.news/meta-new-trans-guidelines-hate-speech/

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

Yeah, I could sort of see 16 making sense. Maybe they can kick out Buttgers and drop down to 17.

By virtue of being in a mega conference now, Penn State avoided both Oregon and IU. And then to lost to Ohio State. Whereas Ohio State had to play the other three teams that make up the top 4 of the conference. It's just a weird scheduling quirk with the mega conferences now. Penn State is not good. Best Minnesota by a point, needed OT against USC, and only beat BGSU by a touchdown. But they avoided most of the top half of the conference so their record looks better.

Not really. Everyone understood they were in the playoffs, just the path is harder and also they aren't as good as previously thought.

https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-football/film-study/2024/12/151400/film-study-ohio-states-offense-failed-to-show-up-for-the-game Here's a lengthy look at Ohio State's woes on offense last week. -Patchwork offensive line executed their blocking scheme quite poorly. -Will Howard did not see the field well (injury related?) and executed terribly on a good 3-4 throws, if not more. -Kelly/Day ran some very basic passing routes. Michigan was in a lot of Tampa 2 or quarter-quarter-half. They essentially did not run any routes to the middle of the defense, which was open on a lot of plays. -Not as many interior runs as memory serves. A lot of the runs were designed to get outside or off tackle, but the O Line blocked poorly. Still not sure about the play calling, but there was definitely some poor execution, especially from Howard. The O Line is in shambles and it finally showed. Not sure why we didn't see some more screens - the positive mismatch for Ohio State was the WRs against their secondary while the obvious negative mismatch was the O Line vs their D Line. When your O Line can't run or pass block well, you still need to find ways to get the ball to your playmakers on the perimeter. Also curious why they didn't go to Brown for a series. It should have become obvious to the coaches that Howard a) wasn't making the right reads and b) was executing poorly (his two picks were off by about 3-4 yards each and he throw a couple into triple coverage that could have been turnovers).

Ohio State sits 6th (but 8th in the bracket) in the penultimate CFP Rankings. The Chair also made clear that the teams that aren't playing (like Ohio State) are not going to move around vs other teams not playing (like Tennessee). If the playoffs were today, Ohio State would host Tennessee, but there are still implications from Conference Championship Games (Texas vs Georgia, Oregon vs Penn State). Gotta say, I don't love this new format. Ohio State beat Penn State head to head, but is essentially being penalized for having a tougher schedule (one point loss at Oregon, who Penn State did not play). A lot could happen, but if it goes as expected and Oregon wins, does Penn State - currently #3 - drop below Ohio State or not? It seems highly unlikely Georgia will stay at #5 - beat Texas and they'll move up into the top 4, or lose and perhaps drop to 10 or beyond. I am guessing the committee will avoid first round rematches, so I wouldn't expect OSU to host Indiana or Penn State. It'll be interesting if PSU loses...Ohio State could slide up into that #6 spot and host Alabama/Miami and then possibly face SMU in the quarterfinals.

Anything other than "I'm a big dumb moron trying to re-litigate my 2021 loss to Michigan every year."

DePodesta facilitated perhaps the worst trade in NFL history, maybe second only to the Herschel Walker trade.

Maybe hiring the Moneyball guy was a mistake.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2024/10/30/when-will-intels-28b-ohio-plant-open-construction-hiring-stalls/75895422007/ "Completion of Intel's $28 billion project in Licking County, already pushed back once, may be delayed again, and with just days to go before the presidential election, the latest holdup has become political with some Republicans putting the blame on the Biden administration."

"Best bullpen in baseball" has been a no show this series.