I saved Ohio State Football yesterday. Well at least it's Coach.

I was at the Todd Bell Lecture Luncheon Ethics in American Sports yesterday. A good time was had by more than 500, as Master of Ceremonies Coach Tressel displayed his wit and cracked the crowd up, while Clark Kellogg gave a most inspirational keynote address. It was a wonderful event for an important cause.

Afterwords, Coach and Clark were on the floor up front in the usual mob of people seeking to press the flesh for a photo or handshake. I was standing there with my friend Bill Myles, and noticed a Blackberry lying at the place at the table where Coach had been sitting. Gosh, is that Coach's Blackberry I thought? (Forget my book, now there would be some real interesting reading!) He wasn't very far from it and in a friendly crowd, but as I stood there waiting, I did kind of keep one eye on it lest someone try to walk off with it.

Later on, as things wound down,I was standing with Bill in a small group of OSU people near the doors and Coach Tressel came walking down the aisle and was heading out the door. He stopped right next to me to chat and as he did, I noticed that same Blackberry was still lying back up at that same table. Tugging on his sleeve, I nodded to it and asked,"Is that your Blackberry?"

Well, he was back up the aisle after it like a rocket. "Whew," he quipped when he came back, "You just saved my life!"

Giving as good as I got, I joked to the laughter of everyone, including Coach, "Well I probably could have sold it."

Of course that wouldn't have been in keeping with the theme of day, Ethics in Sports, would it? As I said, give me a Buckeye Leaf.