Have more comments, questions? Reach out to me at bwhite1@dispatch.com. Letters are lightly edited for clarity.
On Ohio State basketball
To the editor: I have such an empty feeling. It feels like I lost someone. The best few weeks in sports. I sit on the sidelines left out of the dance. I watched Michigan yesterday, a team that won only eight games last year. Their bigs dominated. What a turnaround. BIG BUCKS bring BIG BUCKS, I hope.
Marty Osmond
To the editor: SHAME ON YOU! What a terrible title for the hard playing, very successful OSU women’s basketball team. They played their hearts out but did not win the Tennessee game. But they did amass a tremendous record of 26-7 against many great teams. With that record they were given a No. 4 seed in their bracket. And they won their first game. Give them credit. Find a better title that doesn't suggest they were losers.
Maybe ... Came up a little short ... OSU women put together a great season.
Next time do a little more thinking about how readers will react to the title of an article.
Pete Kienle, Powell
To Pete: I thought the headlines on Mike Arace's column were fair for a team that was upset at home for the second year in a row. In print, it was "Diminishing returns: OSU runs out of gas, again falls in second round in tournament." On Dispatch.com, the headline was "Buckeyes can't find their way from Columbus to Sweet 16." It was a fine season by the Buckeyes, but a disappointing ending.
On Michigan
To Brian: What do Voldemort, MacBeth and Michigan have in common?
Harry Potter’s nemesis was Lord Voldemort, an evil wizard so powerful and frightening that it was dangerous to even say the name out loud. Instead, everyone referred to him as “He Who Must Not Be Named.”
In the theatre world, "Macbeth" is considered a play so powerful and strange that it is thought to be unlucky to say the name out loud and is therefore called only “The Scottish Play.”
Here in Buckeye Nation, and especially, I imagine, even more so within in the football program, Michigan is referred to as “That Team Up North (TTUN).” Is this because Michigan is a team so powerful and frightful that it is unlucky or dangerous to say the name out loud? Maybe not ...
