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The belief is that after Katrina makes landfall, it will move north to the Tennessee Valley and then northeast through the Ohio Valley and onto eastern Canada.

It's important in recruiting. A lot of these young people and their parents have a dream to play in the NFL. To some families, it's not that important, but I would say very few players who go to Texas or Ohio State don't have that dream.

It's definitely different when you move to a place where your family is a 10-hour drive from home, ... I think that's the tough part, because at Ohio State I was only an hour-and-10-minute drive from home. I just wished my parents lived closer.

It's been interpreted as one of (Bush) coming to Ohio to try and pressure me to support 550 (billion-dollar tax cut) when he knows that I'm locked in at 350 (billion dollars), ... I think the timing of it made it look bad, in terms of his trying to put some pressure on me. I don't believe that's what he had in mind, but it certainly has been interpreted that way in our state.

It's amazing the stuff you have in Ohio that you didn't know about.

It's interesting that someone the people of Ohio had looked to oversee the financial institutions in the state did this.

It's important to recognize the memory of Connor and to endow his scholarship. There are things in life that are bigger than sports and this is one of those things. We are pleased that our organization is able to honor his memory, Ohio State and soccer.

It was a bit disappointing, we typically have a great rivalry and battle with Ohio State -- we beat them twice last year so we knew they'd be out to get us.

I've gone to a university where ordinary persons go, Ohio State, and now they're allowing me to pursue my dreams. These people work hard and they gave me an idea of how to live my life. They inspire me.

Ohio was the focus of the world in 2004. It is my objective to see that 'values voters' in the state become engaged in the process.

Ohio State University Extension is excited about the opportunity to host Extension agents from around the country for a week, and show off our state, our university and our outstanding Extension and research programs.

Ohio State's quarterback kept things alive. Troy Smith was elusive and physically strong.

Ohio State is obviously one of the best teams in the country. They just have all-around great athletes, great defenders. They're gonna try to get up and down the floor as much as they can. They're gonna pressure us as much as they can. They're gonna look to take us out of our game.

Ohio State is five points away from being undefeated and a top?five team.

Ohio State is a little down right now. We match up well with them.

Ohio State is a hard team to play catch-up with. We let them set the tone from the beginning.

Ohio State has the nod on everybody else. They're tournament-savvy, having been there before. They have earned the No. 1 seed with their play. But our conference has been known to have people come in and dethrone the champion. Yes, it's wide open, but I would have to give my nod to Ohio State.

Ohio State has a strong agricultural program and the other schools didn't have what I wanted. I'll miss (basketball) but education is the most important thing at this point.

Ohio State has a great defense and I've always been an Ohio State fan. I'm going to take the Buckeyes.

Ohio State did an excellent job defensively, excellent job on the boards. I really feel Debbie Merrill might be the 'X' factor for that team. ... She is very hard to guard.

Ohio Stadium is where our statewide community comes together every fall, and this effort allows our faculty, staff, students and fans to come together and make a significant difference for people in need,

Ohio Northern came highly recommended to me. My mom and I talked to people, we checked it out. When I visited there I really liked the campus and the people. It's not a huge university and I liked that.

Ohio is going to become a major player here in ethanol very soon.

Ohio has some of the highest campaign contribution limits in the country.

Ohio had a really strong senior class this year, and we're fortunate to sign a lot of the best players. I feel really good about these kids. I feel like I know them, know their character. I'm very excited to add these young men to our program.

Ohio did us a favor by beating Illinois twice, now we have to take care of business. I could try to describe to somebody what it feels like to be in these kind of games, but until they're out there -- you just have to experience it. I don't want them too fired up, but I don't want them scared either.

Ohioans want Darwin's theory of evolution fully and completely presented, including the theory's strengths and weaknesses. The public is solidly behind the approach to teaching evolution that the Ohio state board of education has already adopted. Those attacking the school board for supporting teaching both the evidence for and against evolution don't represent the views of the majority of Ohioans.

It's vitally important to the Republican Party as a whole, so I think that's why you see the president coming to Ohio to support Mike DeWine." ()

They could do any project dealing with a scientific process as long as it goes by Ohio standards. We want them to do their project to the best of their ability, whatever their ability is. Students can keep their projects and add on to it each year. Then they have the opportunity to move on to the state level and win scholarships.

They could be the greatest class ever in Ohio State history, which makes me mad because I came in with them.

They can't continue to falter, but those wins are so strong over Illinois, Ohio State -- even Michigan. Those are strong, strong wins, but obviously they can't continue to lose at the rate they've been losing.

They can hear a lot of hits. They can hear a lot of my hits -- my current album is hits from the 70s, my favorite stuff. So they'll hear Chaka Kahn, the Ohio Players, and they'll also hear the ones they know and love,

They are going to numerous chambers of commerce in Ohio and Indiana, among others. We even have a request from Detroit Metro Airport. The Michigan Department of Transportation, the next time they make a pickup here, will bring them to all the welcome centers across the state.

It was just a matter of time for Ohio State to step up with the level of experience they have.

It was a fun week and a great game. The difference in that and our last game with Michigan was we could enjoy that one for six months. Now we've got to go back to work this week, and look forward to Rice coming in, and stop talking about Ohio State.

It was a fun week and a great game. Now we've got to go back to work this week, and look forward to Rice coming in, and stop talking about Ohio State.

This is just how ridiculous and overreaching Democrats in Ohio have become." ()

I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories.

Not only would it not be right to require the same things of all students when they learn at different paces, but there is no way financially that Ohio schools can afford to implement such a program.

After watching them play so well against Ohio State, we're not any more excited (to play a lower seed). Whether we're playing a No. 8 seed or a No. 1, it doesn't make a difference.

The knock on Ohio State and coach Cooper is that we couldn't win the big game. But I think we showed that would could by beating the No. 5 team, and doing it in their stadium. It might be bragging, but I think we have the best offensive line and the best defense in the country.

The mild temperatures of early January have made eagle viewing excellent this year. Open water has held Ohio birds and enticed northern birds to winter over, giving us a tremendous count this year.

Their quarterback is a good runner. He is fast as lightning, and I am real concerned about him. (Smith) is committed to Ohio State, and I watched him mash people on the two (game films). They are not devoid of talent in any place.

The feeling is almost identical to the one I had after the series against Ohio Valley (to advance to the playoffs). It feels good, but at the same time, there's still work to be done.

I learned from my days at the Ohio Legislature that it's much easier to be close to where you work, especially if you are expected at the Capitol for a 3 a.m. vote,

In looking at Ohio State and Maryland, it was very, very close. Maryland was one of the teams the committee looked at very carefully in terms of consideration for a No. 1 seed. In our final judgment, two of the things that worked against Maryland were the four losses and it did not bring quite the strength of schedule as the other teams.

In all honesty, it's still in our hands. We still control our own destiny. We have to go to Ohio State prepared and ready to play.

I'm not a big believer in that. The one time it really hurt was when Ohio State won the thing (in 2002) and got shipped west. That was awful. In that respect it would be an advantage losing, but for the most part winning is more of an advantage.

I knew it was between us and Ohio State once I saw Tennessee was in, but it just didn't go our way.

I know A.J. and he wanted to play (at Ohio State) this year. He didn't think anything about it. We just have a great time playing together. That's what your senior year's all about: being with your teammates, being with your brothers, going on the field and having fun.

I'm excited about it. I'm hoping our girls can do well. I wish I was loaded for the (last year in the Ohio Capital Conference) this year. I know I'll have some champions, but as a team it's hard to say. We can't ever put all the pieces together. But I've got a lot of good young girls.

I have not talked to Ohio State ? we've been missing each other.

I'm not sure Ohio State will be able to shut down Vince Young, and not just running the ball. In watching him, he is an improved thrower of the football. Some of the wide receivers will have to step up and give him a target. The people in Austin are spoiled because of players like Roy Williams, but there is a lot of talent there.

Illinois is a good team. They are one of the toughest competitors in the Big Ten and nation. The Ohio State team has improved over the past two weeks. If we have an incredible improvement on pommel horse we will win this dual meet.

I'll tell you there have been so many through. Even teams that aren't on his radar anymore are still calling. Ohio State, Nebraska, Florida, Maryland, Michigan are the ones I have had the most interaction with lately.

I know of no one that's representing the rest of the coaches in Ohio that thinks there should be reduced opportunities for kids. Most of those guys want to see as many opportunities as possible.

I hope it gets cold pretty quick. I'm getting calls from people in Ohio and Indiana who usually come up to Saginaw Bay to fish this time of year, but I'm telling them to wait a couple of weeks. It looks pretty warm for the next 10 days, but by the end of January it should get a lot colder.

In the national struggle between Democrats and Republicans, Ohio is ground zero.

If you want to beat Ohio State, meet me here every night at 7 p.m.

In 2004 when we came to Ohio State, we had a vision for this program. This vision is to get Ohio State back and build it into one of the greatest programs in college basketball.

In 1906 the Pennsylvania began to dispose of the bulk of its holdings in competing properties, the most notable transactions being the sale of its entire interest in the Chesapeake and Ohio to independent interests and a substantial part of its Baltimore and Ohio holdings to the Union Pacific Railroad.

It helped us understand that all of the hype around the game is totally unimportant unless you enjoy it. Don't fight it and don't get nervous about it: enjoy it. I had a great time the week of the Ohio State game. I had never been to that stadium and I was like a kid walking in there like a fan. It was fun for our group to have all the odds against us because that doesn't happen very much for us. And that's where we are again. We've earned the right to be here but the odds are against us. And that's a good position for us to be in.

I think my longevity has a lot to do with where I come from - a blue-collar town in Ohio - and how I was raised: to work hard and respect other folks.

I think our chances are really good to beat Ohio State. They're really big girls, and we're a smaller team, but we have a lot of speed and agility, so we should be able to outrun them on the field. As long as we stay consistent on defense, our chances are good.

I plan on playing the season and then making my official visits. Right now, I am pretty open and I like Florida State, Auburn, Tennessee, Ohio State, Syracuse and Florida.

Clearly, the election is going to be won in the Midwest and the Rust Belt, places where President Bush has been campaigning -- Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio -- places very similar to Iowa.

Before we responded to the request for troops, we made sure we could do this and still take care of our own needs, ... We have ample guard left here in Ohio should we need them.

Hosting this conference will help us attract further Japanese investment and raise Cincinnati USA's global recognition, ... We have collaborated extensively with the State of Ohio and many leading Cincinnati USA and Japanese firms to set a conference agenda spotlighting high-caliber business figures. This elite group's participation will set the tone for a very informative and successful event.

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.

By almost any measure, minimum wage increases are flawed policy. Ohio should expand economic opportunities, not erect artificial barriers to job growth. A state Earned Income Tax Credit, based on the successful Federal program, would effectively give a raise to the low-income employees who need it most without putting their jobs in jeopardy.

Hopefully it's humbling for us. If Ohio State can beat us, we should know that whoever we play in the second round of the NCAA tournament can beat us.

Honestly, I'm so beaten down by this thing, it only makes sense it would come around here (now). But I just honestly want to know when and what it is and finally from that point we can, for the first time at Ohio State, say, this is where we are. And move forward from there.

Honestly, I believe personally that Ohio basketball has suffered because these events have been held traditionally in Texas and Nevada.

He's very fast, very strong and he opened some eyes at Ohio State's camp.

He told me that he scouted me at Ohio University, which surprised me. Pat's a fine guy. He called me a couple of times and really rolled out the red carpet.

For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

For everyone here in Ohio and across America who's been ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up -- this one is for you.

I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.

Licking Falls, Ohio, had its own set of standards. They were archaic at best.

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.

Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.

[Donald] Trump has made this a big issue. He's leading in Ohio. He's leading, right up there in Pennsylvania, 1-point difference, and people are responding because the people's instincts are correct. This is what I believe.

Living in Ohio, I grew up an Oakland Raiders fan.

If he can't manage to know what's in his checkbook, why would the people of Ohio want to trust this man with the state's checkbook?

If I had to pick one thing about Ted Ginn, it's that he cares about Ohio State, ... And that to me is a great start.

I don't think that's fair. I look at Ohio as playing very well against them. I wouldn't want to diminish their efforts.

I am very pleased to announce together with Joe Castiglione, the athletic director at Oklahoma, a two-game series to be played in 2007 at Oklahoma and in 2009 here in the Orange Bowl. Each of us has won a national title since 2000. This will be a great series played by two of college football's legendary teams. I'm pleased that the new 12-game schedule has allowed the playing of this game and several others which we have scheduled with Texas A&M and Ohio State.

I don't think we'd ever treat any school like we were treated at Ohio State. Commissioner Jim Delany has instituted a new rule that if you're going to have something like that, you must notify people beforehand, and that's a thing you'd expect as a general courtesy.

I don't think we'd ever treat any school like we were treated at Ohio State,'' Carr said.

How exciting for our kids it will be to open the year at Ohio State and play at Iowa. Those are tremendous opportunities for our program.

I can never practice. I'm terrified of losing my skills after going months without playing ... before I came (to Ohio State), drums and music were my life.

(I believe) southwest Ohio is more along the lines of what Toyota is looking for rather than other parts of the state.

I believe Paul Hackett is one such individual who, should he decide to run, would serve Ohio well in the U.S. Senate,

He and I were able to convince the trustee in Ohio that the claim was without merit.

President Bush went out touting his economic record in Ohio last week. Now this is a state that lost 225,000 jobs since Bush took office. You know, if Bush wants to tout his record, he should do it somewhere where the Bush economy has actually created jobs, like India, or Thailand, or China.

Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he heard that, President Bush agreed and announced plans to bomb Ohio.

Honestly, in the beginning, it was really tough. Coming from Cincinnati, Ohio, I was just a girl who had a dream, which was to go to Los Angeles, have a career and to be able to support my family. To have a dream like that and, you know, you're not ready.

And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off . . . “ (50)

There's no typical person [addicted to heroin]. It just has permeated every segment of society in Ohio.