by Bob Hunter | Oct 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
After two brief stops in the ancient world dazzled me, a peculiar thought lodged in my mind. Rome and the remains of the ancient Greek (now Turkish) city of Ephesus have incredible ruins of massive stadiums/theaters that have survived in recognizable forms. In some...
by Bob Hunter | Jun 5, 2024 | Uncategorized, American history, Journalism, Literature
Mark Twain visited Bermuda on the wooden steamer SS Quaker City in 1867 with 73 other travelers. It was at the end of a five-month cruise to Europe and the Holy Land. A San Francisco newspaper furnished his ticket in return for a regular series of travel stories about...
by Bob Hunter | Nov 22, 2023 | Uncategorized, College football
I used to think that Woody Hayes was delusional when he saw Michigan spies in the windows of the Fawcett Center, which has a nice view across Olentangy River Road of the Ohio State football practice fields. Spies? Really? I know OSU had the fences surrounding the...
by Bob Hunter | Nov 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
For today’s discourse on Ohio State football perspective, I take you to the little Isle of Bute, a choppy, 30-minute ferry ride west from Scotland’s mainland in the Firth of Clyde. First, let’s take on the obvious questions: What was I doing on Bute, which...
by Bob Hunter | Nov 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
A lot has been written about Bob Knight since his death and it’s not surprising that many of them seem so widely different. Where you stood on him and with him mostly depends on whether you were a friend, a former teammate, one of his former players, a fan (of Indiana...
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