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ERIC SEGER Sports editor seger.25@osu.edu
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Road trips to Purdue have been less than kind to the Ohio State football team in recent years — losses to the Boilermakers in both 2011 and 2009 led junior tight end Jeff Heuerman to call West Lafayette, Ind., a “gray city.” “It’s not quite Ohio State,” Heuerman said Oct. 28. “It’s kind of a gray city. It’s not the most beautiful city in the country.” Saturday, though, Ross-Ade Stadium looked just fine for the Buckeyes (9-0, 5-0), as they steamrolled the Boilermakers, 56-0, to extend the nation’s longest winning streak to 21 games. Heuerman played a big role in the win, snagging five passes from junior quarterback Braxton Miller for a team-leading and career-high 116 yards and a 40-yard touchdown — the longest catch of his career — and quite literally attempting to leap over the opposition at one point. Heuerman became the first Buckeye tight end to record at least 100 yards receiving in a game since Rickey Dudley tallied 106 against Tennessee in the 1996 Citrus Bowl. His success, Heuerman said, was
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Junior tight end Jeff Heuerman (86) attempts to jump over Purdue players. OSU won against Purdue, 56-0, Nov. 2 at RossAde Stadium. because of the things his teammates brought to the table. “I’ve said before, having a running back like (senior) Carlos Hyde and a quarterback like Braxton Miller and some of our offensive weapons — (freshman running back) Dontre Wilson, (junior wide receivers) Devin (Smith) and Evan (Spencer), (senior
wide receiver Corey) ‘Philly’ Brown — the defenses, they’ve gotta respect all of them,” Heuerman said after the win. “It puts them in a bind sometimes and our offensive coaches do a great job of getting great play calls. Having all those guys being so productive, it puts me in a position where I can make my
block easier sometimes. It makes my route easier.” OSU coach Urban Meyer and tight ends and fullbacks coach Tim Hinton have said they would like to see Heuerman and redshirt-sophomore Nick Vannett get more involved in the
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Uncertainty leading up to OSU’s $50M investment KAYLA BYLER Managing editor of design byler.18@osu.edu
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Concerns from top university officials didn’t stop Ohio State from investing tens of millions of dollars into a fledgling venture capital fund, records show, but some OSU students are pleased the university made the deal. OSU recently invested $50 million into Drive Capital, which was launched by Mark Kvamme earlier this year. Drive Capital was co-founded by Kvamme and Chris Olsen. Both were previously partners at Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm based in California that has backed companies such as Apple, Instagram and Google. Olsen is also a native of Cincinnati. Venture capital firms invest money into early stage startup companies. These types of investments are typically seen as high-risk, high-reward. OSU released more than 100 pages of emails between university officials Friday, fulfilling a public records request filed by The Lantern Oct. 24. Multiple segments of the provided public records were redacted including key partnership terms, fees and target fund size.
What is the justification for a $50 million investment rather than one in the $20-30 million range that you described as more typical? Joseph Alutto
Then-executive vice president and provost of OSU said in an email to Geoff Chatas, OSU chief financial officer Redacting was done in concordance with Ohio law including employees’ personal email addresses and trade secret information, OSU spokesman Gary Lewis said in an email. The emails showed an extensive back-and-forth between university officials, Kvamme and Olsen, beginning in October 2012 and showed a variety of doubts from top officials. A March memo prepared by officials was first to reveal concerns raised by officials about the investment. “While Drive Capital may offer a persuasive story of applying Silicon Valley methods of investing to Midwest companies, it is still very much unproven
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at this stage,” the memo said. “It does not meet our traditional underwriting standards.” Several university officials expressed concern at the size of the commitment. “Is there an opportunity to revisit Drive Capital and the size of the commitment…or is that a done deal?” Jonathan Hook, OSU vice president and chief investment officer, said in an email June 6 to Geoff Chatas, OSU chief financial officer and senior vice president of Business and Finance. At the end of the 2013 fiscal year, the university’s long-term investment pool totaled more than $3.1 billion, and its operating funds were at nearly $2.9 billion, according to OSU Board of Trustees’ minutes. Then-OSU Provost and Executive Vice President Joseph Alutto told Chatas in a June 13 email that his worries came from the amount of money that was proposed to be invested. “The only issue I see is the initial size of the investment. What is the justification for a $50 million investment rather than one in the $20-30 million range that you described as more typical?” the email read. Alutto stepped into the role of interim president following then-President E. Gordon Gee’s retirement July 1.
Emily Marsh-Fleming sits on the side of the pool while her husband, Scott Fleming, swims at the ‘Sync Cancer’ event, a swim-a-thon to benefit Pelotonia’s Team Buckeye Nov. 2 at McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion.
Breast cancer had no effect on Emily Marsh-Fleming’s breaststroke. Regardless of her diagnosis, the 38-year-old kept on swimming along with about 50 other participants at the first “Sync Cancer” swim-a-thon Saturday, hosted and sponsored by Ohio State’s synchronized swimming team at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. More than $5,000 was raised through swimmer registration and donations, head coach Holly Vargo-Brown said, and the proceeds benefited Pelotonia’s Team Buckeye in honor of Marsh-Fleming, a Buckeye alumna who swam on OSU’s synchronized swimming team from 1994 to 1997 and was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer in 2009 when she was six months pregnant. The idea for the event, MarshFleming explained, stemmed from
her involvement and passion for Pelotonia, an annual three-day cycling event that raises millions of dollars for cancer research at the Wexner Medical Center James Comprehensive Cancer Center. In 2012, she completed the 100-mile leg of the race and aspired to get OSU’s synchronized swimming team involved. “The reality is, (cancer) is something that, especially for the girls on the team, is entering their lives now if it hasn’t already,” MarshFleming said. “This is the age where Grandma Sue is diagnosed or a roommate’s father. The word ‘cancer’ is really starting to mean something for people, I think, especially when they are in college.” Instead of the team participating in the bike race, Vargo-Brown said, “Why don’t we just do what we know how to do and swim?” With the help of Team Buckeye, the official OSU Pelotonia team, “Sync Cancer” came into fruition and was the first Pelotonia event to raise funds in water rather
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