IMHO, just another reason to bring back the U!! I just think that the OHIO has not been all that good at being OUr brand. Seriously, what 10 years in and established sports people still can't get it right or confuse it. I got the same thing when I tried a google search on 1968 OHIO football helmet. Got all kinds of Ohio State stuff and high school stuff but nothing for OHIO (as in bobcats). Either we aren't communicating effectively enough OR it's a lost cause.

Sorry folks...

when you click on the link below the Ohio State articles that says "more" it goes to a page dedicated to the Bobcats. The Buckeye headlines on our home page have zero to do with our name being OHIO and everything to do with an idiot at Fox not doing his job correctly.

I think it's simply a matter of the page being new, and not a deliberate error that can't be fixed. I think there are problems with a lot of teams' pages, not just the Ohio page. As I said, hopefully they will get it fixed by the time the season starts. Realistically, though, I recall that it took ESPN 2-3 years before the Ohio Bobcat page had only Ohio news.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/team/_/id/195/ohio-bo...

The Fox news page is an extension of Scout.com, not an extension of "Fox News", which is how I stumbled onto it. I don't see any reason to get into a general discussion of the pros and cons of Fox here.

By the way, I have discovered that if I want Ohio news, when I do a google or whatever search, I always add "Bobcats" and "-State" to the search string, and that helps a lot to filter out things I don't want to see.

Casper, you can't be more wrong about this. We are wining this battle more and more every day. Why you can't see that and keep taking the now exceptions to the rule to try to prove this defeatist point is beyond me. ESPN is very consistent in using proper terminology for our "U." I watched the baseball game against Wrong State yesterday and they never once said "Ohio U." They did say University of Ohio once, but that's not nearly as bad to me. In fact, in a bizarre way it actual shows progress because the schools that are the "University of [State Name]" are usually the big Morrill Act land grant schools. I had an interesting conversation with my new dentist earlier this week. He is from Canal Winchester and has his dental degree and I think undergraduate degree from OSU. His receptionist had an OSU mouse pad. I said he need to get an Ohio one now that he had a practice in Athens. This started conversation in which the dentist said he was a big OSU fan and he hated Michigan. He then said how happy he was when "Ohio beat Michigan in basketball" a few years ago. He then went on to say, without any prompting from me, that he thought it neat that we shoved it in their faces when their coaches were calling Ohio State "Ohio." In similar vein I have a close friend in Columbus who used to always call us "Ohio U." He knows says just "Ohio" most of the time. This friend is not just some casual OSU fan either. Woody's son Steve was the best man at his wedding. He lives and breathes OSU football. When I'm away from Athens I find more and more folks who know what school I'm talking about when I say just "Ohio." It is a little frustrating that an exception seems to be in the Cleveland area. I'm not sure why that is, but that's not a reason to give up the good fight when we are wining it.

A previous poster took a shot at FoxNews, which was inappropriate. FNC gets a lot of things right. They haven't had any news person recently who imagined he had landed under enemy fire in a war zone. They also haven't had a newsperson who gave big gifts to a prominent politician's foundation and then tried to act like they were doing an impartial analysis of that person's association with the foundation and whether or not gifts to that foundation had influenced the politician's decisions. In analyzing FNC you have to be careful to distinguish the commentators like O'Reilly, Hannity, Kelly, Van Susteren, etc from their straight news folks like Chris Wallace, Bret Hume, Shepard Smith, etc. The commentators tend to range from hard right (Hannity) to idiosyncratic libertarian (O'Reilly). Their straight news folks are as good as any on CNN or the major networks. At least that's my opinion, and I think it's a reasonable one.

In a recent independent survey of cable news services, the most opinionated news service, by a very, very wide margin, was MSNBC, with Fox in the middle, and CNN lowest. MSNBC was 85% opinion/15% news, while Fox was 55% opinion/45% news, and CNN was 46% opinion/54% news.
http://tinyurl.com/bqrj73a

I personally listen to a variety of news, and the days of non-slanted news are long gone...if they ever existed. My personal opinion is that the news that has the least objectivity comes from NPR, precisely because it makes no effort to be comprehensive, but instead merely presents snippets that support their perspective. My preference for actual news is for CNN, ABC, CBS, or Fox since they all provide a comprehensive look at the news.

Then there are services that are primarily opinion, such as the Huffington Post on the left and the Drudge Report on the right. I have no use for either extreme, but some people love one or the other.

Sadly, most people simply listen to whatever news and opinion fits the preexisting opinions, rather than listening to a variety of news. As a result none of the services actually have much ability to affect thinking, since those listening already share their opinion.

In any case, this thread isn't about the news. It's a thread about a sports page, and Fox's Ohio Bobcat page should be judged for it's ability to display pertinent sports information in a timely manner that actually is about Ohio. Right now I would have to give them a failing grade, but they will no doubt improve.

Sorry, I don't chew on silliness. In the referenced comment "Choir" is the subject and "Ohio University" is the used to describe the subject. Which choir is it? It's the Ohio University Choir. The use of just "Ohio" as an adjective would have been insufficient and confusing.

When we're talking about the use of "Ohio" vs "Ohio U" in a sports context we're talking about those words being used as proper nouns, its different. Besides, the media guide states that the use of either "Ohio" or "Ohio University" is acceptable.

At the Armstrong airport in N'Awlins last week, I got a "go Bobcats" walking into the rental car area from someone walking out. Had my black Ohio polo on.

To be honest, I'm just excited that Mick Jagger said the phrase "Ohio University"-I honestly never thought that would even be a remote possibility! Ohio University in the house!!

Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming......

uh - The OHIO football team.............

uh- context.

Sorta related: I always try to take note when I am out in Columbus of the number of people wearing their respective school colors (for example, a month or so ago when I took my kids to the zoo). osu is always the leader, but Ohio is usually #2. It is always well ahead of any other MAC school (you might get a random Fiami or Kent shirt/hat, but that's it), and really the only other school that I would say matches or passes us every now and then is Michigan.

Take that for what it's worth in this discussion.

Mark, on the single letter thing I agree. That's why I used Oregon and Alabama as my first two examples. As for that block M around Cincy, since I live here I see it all the time. I am amazed that Michigan hasn't gotten on Moeller. Their colors are the same as Michigan and I think the block M matches it. I guess Michigan has trademarked the whole name with the block M and NOT just the M. It goes back to my point about simply making whatever the brand is effective. I think we all know the Duck's O or 'Bamas script A.

And since we are talking about this subject...again what about that silly University of Oklahoma using OU? Why do we let them get away with that and nobody blinks? I guess we let them trademark our initials and not their own?