It was the same old story last night as Penn State lost to the Buckeyes by 12 points. We're at the point now where we have to give up on thinking we can win games like this. We need to look for small victories, and last night there were plenty of them. We came out strong and jumped to a 9-2 lead. We were tied at halftime and had a four point lead with 14:00 to go. But then like this young team does every game they started having doubts and didn't know how to play with the lead. They took bad shots and turned the ball over. Ohio State went on a 16-0 run over a span of 10 minutes, so when Stanley Pringle finally sank a three to end the scoring drought with 4:00 to play it was too little to too late.

Also related to the game and a topic of much debate in this space yesterday was the Target Ten campaign to raise money for THON. Well, despite the Big Ten Netork buying 1000 tickets to the game to help reach that goal the still fell way short.

But don't worry. The kids with cancer won't go away empty handed.

You know, several commenters yesterday pointed out and I tend to agree that this is a total ripoff for THON. The University sold 6000 student tickets to the game last night trying to reach the almost impossible number of 10,000. Now just a portion of the proceeds from student ticket sales to the Feb. 2 game with Michigan State will go toward THON. How many students will show up for that game? Maybe 3000? And only a portion of those proceeds will go to the kids with cancer? That just doesn't pass the smell test and BSD thinks the University needs to do more.

But it wasn't all bad news yesterday as Penn State confirmed a player from Villanova has transferred to the program.

This is a great pickup for Penn State. Ott was a highly recruited player that had offers from North Carolina and Wake Forest. We are in desperate need a big man to play some defense and pull down rebounds and Ott looks like he can fill that void. He will be able to practice with the team this spring and summer so he can hit the ground running next January.

I guess we were Even Steven yesterday as the women's volleyball team lost a player to transfer.

Yanz was highly recruited coming out of Illinois. She split time in the early going of her career with Alisa Glass, but as time went on Glass elevated her game and became the more conistent player. BSD wishes Jessica well in her future endeavors.

And speaking of tranfers, reporters tracked down Chris Baker yesterday and asked him a few questions. It sounds like Baker may be considering leaving Penn State and starting over somewhere.

You know, what bothers me about this whole thing is Baker still refuses to admit he did anything wrong. Here is what he has to say.

Multiple witnesses have testified they saw him stomping two different people in two different instances. Now, I know the police have done some pretty shoddy investigative work like putting a football program in front of the victims and asking them to point to their attacker, but come on. I can't believe this is all about whitey trying to bring down the big black man. Grow up, Chris, and take some responsibility.