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Sky Is Falling

The sky is falling and the world is ending according to one writer. Now for you that might be true....especially if you are one of the recent millions that have lost their job, home, business. But for one writer it is falling for an entirely different reason....Coach Tressel held Terrelle Pryor out of the Fiesta Bowl Media Day. Yep, you got it right. Coach T sent 30 players (from a team with 28 seniors) to the media day....but for that writer the story was the 31st that he didn't send, and it was scathing.

What silliness. I work with some good people in a small office of a sister organization who found out on New years Eve that their budget was cut more than 50% starting Jan 1st. Real people, real lives, real fear, real suffering. That folks is a falling sky.

It's kinda funny. I actually read two different writers report the same event. One was an Ohio guy, Doug Lesmerises of the Plain Dealer, who in part owes his living to the fact that the Buckeyes are there to report. The other was, you guessed it, an ESPN writer Adam Rittenberg, from that National Institution with no love for the Buckeyes. The viewpoints were so different you wonder if they were at the same event.

Which one reported it objectively and which one skewered Tressel? I bet you can guess. Then again,I bet you can't. Read em both and judge for yourself:

Doug Lesmerises, Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ohio State football: Tressel holds Pryor out of interviews

Adam Rittenberg
Tressel keeps Pryor, Brewster under wraps