[Eric in the Ozarks]

Only because they didn't play the Hawkeyes this year.
Go Hawks !

[TheCause]

It is simple arithmetic. If a team is undefeated they have a zero (0) in the loss column. Example Ohio State is undefeated therefore they have a ......you guessed it, a zero
(0) in their loss column! Now Iowa has a loss, therefore Iowa has a one (1) in the loss column.

You can only wish to be in the title game, Ohio State completed the job and have EARNED the right to be in the game.

Iowa, well....they could not get the job done. Maybe the Ohio State v. Iowa game would have gone the way the series has gone......Ohio State dominating.

GO BUCKS!

[Deadeye Division]

Cleveland Plain Dealer

'Herky' gets $25,000 for banana attack

01/01/03

Associated Press

A lawyer says Ohio State University has agreed to pay $25,000 to a former University of Iowa mascot for injuries she suffered when she was struck by an Ohio State band member.

Angela Anderson, formerly of Council Bluffs and now of the District of Columbia, was performing as Herky the Hawk at Ohio State when she was hit from behind in October 1999 by a 3-foot foam banana wielded by a member of the Buckeye band sitting on the shoulders of another band member.

She suffered a fracture of a spinous process, the middle of the three bumps on the back of each vertebra.

Anderson sued Ohio State in November 2001.

Her attorney, Tom Riley of Cedar Rapids, said an Ohio court approved the settlement and that Ohio State also must pay court costs.

Riley said Anderson still suffers occasional pain in the back of her neck from the injury.

"Opposing football team mascots usually engage in playful touching but discuss what they are going to do in advance of the game," Riley said. "They never sneak up from behind and catch a mascot unaware. And the playful activities involve only the mascots and not members of the band or spectators."