Work hard, play smart, play tough, keep your mouth shut, and let things fall into place. There aren’t too many young athletes who heed this advice, but that’s exactly what Ohio State’s Junior leader Evan Turner did. Amazingly, Turner arrived at Ohio State somewhat under the radar.

In 2007-08 Evan Turner came onto the scene in Columbus as a freshman in the shadows of fellow freshman and highly touted recruits Greg Oden, Mike Conley Jr., and Dequan Cook. Those three highly touted recruits ended up leaving after one season at Ohio State to become first round draft picks in the NBA, with Oden being the first pick overall.
The talented but less hyped Turner became the leader of a fairly inexperienced Buckeyes team as a sophomore and has not only taken the wheel, but has floored the gas in that role ever since.

Here is what Congressman Kucinich said today and the text of what was posted on his official website:

Each generation has had to take up the question of how to provide for the health of the people of our nation. And each generation has grappled with difficult questions of how to meet the needs of our people. I believe health care is a civil right. Each time as a nation we have reached to expand our basic rights, we have witnessed a slow and painful unfolding of a democratic pageant of striving, of resistance, of breakthroughs, of opposition, of unrelenting efforts and of eventual triumph.

If you are of Irish Catholic descent in the Cleveland area odds are that you have heard about the legendary festivities that go on on Saint Patrick's Day at St Colman's church. The West Side Irish Club descends upon the church which was built by Irish immigrants nearly one hundred years ago before heading downtown to the largest annual parade in Ohio. If you are disappointed that you couldn't make it for the mass today, we have you covered. Here are the sights and sounds of today's festivities:

SETTING THE SCENE: Cleveland State will play in the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship for the second time in the last three seasons when the 15th-seeded Vikings travel to second-seeded Notre Dame for an opening round game on Sunday, March 21, beginning at approximately 2:50 p.m. in Purcell Pavillion at the Joyce Center. The game, part of the Kansas City Regional, will follow Sunday's first game between No. 7 Wisconsin and No. 10 Vermont with the two winners playing for a spot in the regional semifinals on Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m. at Notre Dame. The Vikings enter the tournament playing their best basketball of the season, winning seven of their last eight contests, including three games last week to claim their second Horizon League Championship in the last three seasons. CSU enters the NCAA Championship at 19-13 overall, marking the third straight year that the Vikings have won 19 games, tied for the second most in a single season in school history. This will be the sixth meeting between CSU and Notre Dame with the Fighting Irish winning the previous five match-ups. UND is 27-5 overall and placed fourth in the Big East with a 12-4 mark.

(On the players on offense and how he is going to mesh with them)- “I will be honest with you, I am still learning people’s names. March 17, I got here Sunday night, I am just learning different guy’s names. I know there are a lot of young guys. (Mohamed) Massaquoi, (Brian) Robiskie, I do not know Ben Watson. I’ve met some of the other players. It’s still early in the process. I can leave it at that. To say this is going to happen, I don’t know. We’re still very early in the process.”

Derek Anderson is now a member of the Arizona Cardinals. Darren Urban, who writes for the Cardinals official website, tweeted an hour ago on the account Cardschatter:

QB Derek Anderson reportedly agrees with Cards.

With Kurt Warner retiring this off-season, Anderson will likely compete for a starting job with Matt Leinart. Leinart is a former first round draft pick out Southern Cal but has yet to fulfill expectations so far in the NFL. The Browns and Cards will not face each other in the 2010 season.

The Cleveland Gladiators of the AF-1 Arena Football League have signed former Cleveland Browns receiver Steve Sanders to a deal that will allow him to earn a roster spot for the upcoming season.

Signed as an undrafted rookie free agent by the Browns in 2006, Sanders was an East High and Bowling Green standout. In his tenure with the BG Falcons, Sanders registered 156 receptions, 2,324 receiving yards and 25 total touchdowns.

What kind of a society do we live in? No, really, I want to know. We allow politicians to cut budgets at the very agencies that do the difficult work of providing a safety net for the most vulnerable among us — children — and then, when the all too predictable happens and the now-porous net frays, we want to point media fingers of blame at the dedicated professionals we’ve charged with the impossible task of being perfect … of being 100 percent right, 100 percent of the time in their decision-making processes regarding children of the fragile families who are in their system.

It’s not only grossly wrong for us to demand such accurate (and humanly impossible) foresight… it actually borders on the incredulous, and here’s why: As long as we focus the conversation on fixing a somewhat antiquated, under-funded system whenever it breaks down (a system that by its very nature was only designed to apply tourniquets to the worst hemorrhaging cases of child endangerment), we’ll continue to fail to implement a program that has proven it can and does work: The Harlem Children’s Zone.

When looking through individual achievements in Cleveland State Vikings basketball history, one name that you see over and over is J'Nathan Bullock. J-Bull is first in all time starts, games played, and minutes played. He ranks 4th in career points, 5th in field goals made, 6th in career rebounds, and 2nd in free throws made. Beyond all that personal glory, the one thing that makes "Number 35" the proudest is the fact that he helped change the culture of the CSU Basketball program from a losing one to a constant contender. Bullock is currently playing professional basketball in Australia and scored the game winning basket in his second game last week. I recently caught up with Cleveland State basketball legend an email interview. Here is what the Flint, Michigan, native had to say:

Q: You are now playing ball professionally with the St. Laurence Geelong Supercats. Is the playing style a lot different from the American game, and how does that translate to your playing style?