Carmen Ohio

Ah, the Buckeye. How we miss being rushed to the hospital time after time as a kid after we ate the poisonous fruit of the gorgeous tree at the end of our childhood driveway. Memories.

Those episodes cemented our loyalty to the Buckeyes of THE Ohio State University, let's officially go on the record with that. There are some fools in Northeast Ohio who align themselves with that other state up north, but we'd never stoop so low. We love our Buckeyes, and we cried after the BCS game in January.

Anyway, on a ridiculously slow sports day, cnnsi.com made the wise choice to run down the top-10 athletes in Ohio State history, which we took pleasure in examining closely. A couple of observations:

- The Bear is #9? That seems alarmingly low for the greatest golfer in history, who was dominant in college, too. 2 US Amateurs while in C-Bus? That's absurd.
- Sort of surprising that Greg Br-Oden made the list, though we're not criticizing much. He was good last year, but we feel as though Hondo (Lucas made the list), Jim Jackson or one of Chris Jent/Treg Lee/Mark Baker may have been a more deserving hoops alum.
- Katie Smith. Wow. Totally deserved to make the list, but we didn't think of her. She was ridiculous. And we'd never heard of Blaine Wilson, but sounds like he was pretty good if you're in to gymnastics and leotards on dudes. How pissed is Lucas that he came in behind Wilson, by the way?
- Hopalong Cassady never allowed a pass to be completed on him in 4 years? This guy didn't run for president? We heard Pacman Jones modeled his game after Hopalong...
- Total nitpick, but Jesse Owens should probably have been 1, with all due respect to Archie. They were obviously 1-2, but what Owens accomplished as a Buckeye was monumental in more respects than just sports.

Others receiving votes: Nick Swisher (great salad), baseball; Bucks (inside joke, sorry), lacrosse; Joe Pickens, football; Tim Cheatwood, football; Boban Savovic, hoops.