Since Michigan won on Saturday will Gus Johnson refer to Michigan as "World Famous" during The Big Ten Championship Game?

+1... Wish it could be more.

Look, Johnson annoys me like a lot of folks, but once you know the story about that label he's put on OSU, I've learned to tolerate it a lot more.

I hope I never see a post about this topic again on this blog.

Jesse Owens' rival -- and good friend -- in Big Ten track meets was Sam Stoller of Michigan. They generally finished 1-2. (Stoller used to joke that he saw more of Owens' back than anyone on earth.) Stoller was also on the US Olympics team that year.

In what was widely regarded as an outrageous decision, he and fellow Jewish sprinter Marty Glickman were yanked from the 4x100 relay team the morning of the finals by Avery Brundage, head of the US Olympic Committee. Stoller, Glickman and many others believed it was because Brundage didn't want to embarrass Hitler with two Jewish gold medalists. If it weren't for Brundage, I suppose Michigan would also be world famous.

Jesse Owens is world famous.  Not Ohio State.  And Jesse Owens did not go to Berlin in an OSU uniform, he went to Berlin in a USA uniform.  

Nobody internationally knows what college Usain Bolt went to, or if he even went to college at all.

The school insists on their ignorant, pretentious "the."

So it would be "The THE Ohio State track star."

You're right! The posts have gotten a bit crazy. It must be the explosion of feeling after the exhilaration of the win.

He doesn't even do that. I swear, it's like people here don't understand the concept of "bias." That is, when we hear announcers praising Ohio State it seems unreasonable and unjustified, and when we hear them praising Michigan it just seems like "fact" -- and therefore unmemorable. 

Gus Johnson is absolutely enthusiastic about Michigan, but he's doing his job, and trying to sell the game. If you expect him -- or any national TV announcer -- to rip on Ohio State during a game, you don't understand how broadcasting works.

(Sorry -- not meaning to rip on you. I just roll my eyes each time I hear people complain about how a given announcer favors the other team (or, in your case, suggest that Gus Johnson "goes a bit too far one way"). They don't (and he doesn't). We just hear their compliments for the other team more than we hear the ones about our own. That's the way "bias" works).

Hearing Gus talk without his show voice is wild. 

I have to admit I love Gus. He's got great energy and just knowing that deep down he bleeds blue makes everything work for me.

And, he gave us O Ja BO! (which will live forever in my memories)

And I kind of like "The Don" for D. Edwards.

Gus and Klatt are easily my favorite pair.

I think a certain section of the board still expects Keith Jackson to be calling the action every Saturday. 
 

is he still with us by the way?