Josh Benner

Tag: anniversary

  • Ohio State – Miami: 10 years later

    It’s probably the best BCS bowl game ever played. It might be the best game of the last decade. For football fans, it should even rank among the best games of all time. For me, it is THE greatest game ever. And it will always be the greatest. No game will ever compare. No game…

  • Resignation of Jim Tressel: 1 year later

    One year ago today, as I woke up in the late morning, I learned that Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel had resigned. A couple of months before, when the news that Tressel had lied about rules violations became public knowledge, in a press conference, a reporter asked if Tressel was going to be dismissed.…

  • Titanic: why it still fascinates us 100 years later

    As most people know, on this night, exactly a century ago, the Titanic sank. Over the past few weeks, as the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s maiden voyage and subsequent sinking have approached, there have been countless articles, documentaries, and news stories. James Cameron’s epic film “Titanic” was re-released in 3D. After a century, the…

  • Facebook 2004 and Facebook 2011. Seven year anniversary of joining the Social Network

    I can still vividly remember it. Talking to a friend from high school on AIM, him sending me the link to some obscure site that he had mentioned to me called thefacebook. “BG has it now,” he said, telling me to register. I was skeptical. thefacebook? What does that even mean, but I followed his…