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Emmanuel Ogbah is Oklahoma State’s most important player.I guess that should have been obvious coming into the season, but sometimes these things can be overthought. No. 38 will be the best college football player on the field in pretty much every game OSU plays this season, and he doesn’t need any preseason awards anymore to prove it.Kyle Boone wrote a nice post on how immense the defensive line has been so far this season and Ogbah is its anchor. Its stalwart. He is all over the field. He’s in the backfield chasing QBs. He’s downfield chasing RBs. He’s everywhere.Ogbah had six tackles, two and a half tackles for loss and two sacks against Texas. That led to Big 12 Player of the Week honors for him on the defensive side. He now has 19 tackles, seven TFLs and five and a half sacks in four games. Both his TFL and sack per game averages are in the top six for Big 12 linemen.Ogbah has now had at least one sack in every game this season and at least one sack in 10 of the last 12 games. But it goes beyond the sacks. Watch how much attention Texas has to pay attention to him here.Watch how he gets doubled here and frees Ryan Simmons and Miketavius Jones to chase Jerrod Heard 20 yards in the wrong direction (and Ogbah nearly gets in on the action at the end!)This is a gift for Glenn Spencer.The craziest part is that it seems like everyone has just grown to expect this. I looked for a quote or two from Spencer or Mike Gundy to throw in here about how good Ogbah was on Saturday. Maybe there’s something out there, but I couldn’t find it.No. 38 has done this for so long, it’s become commonplace (which it isn’t). If the Pokes even remotely contend for the Big 12 crown this year, it will be on the broad shoulders of their best NFL prospect in years. I think he’s probably capable of handling it.If you’re looking for the comments section, it has moved to our forum, The Chamber. You can go there to comment and holler about these articles, specifically in these threads. You can register for a free account right here and will need one to comment.If you’re wondering why we decided to do this, we wrote about that here. Thank you and cheers! read more

Premiership Share on Twitter Support The Guardian Read more Share on WhatsApp Rugby Football Union Robert Kitson Topics Since you’re here… … we have a small favour to ask. More people, like you, are reading and supporting the Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism than ever before. And unlike many news organisations, we made the choice to keep our reporting open for all, regardless of where they live or what they can afford to pay. Whether we are up close or further away, the Guardian brings our readers a global perspective on the most critical issues of our lifetimes – from the escalating climate catastrophe to widespread inequality to the influence of big tech on our lives. We believe complex stories need context in order for us to truly understand them. At a time when factual information is a necessity, we believe that each of us, around the world, deserves access to accurate reporting with integrity at its heart.Our editorial independence means we set our own agenda and voice our own opinions. Guardian journalism is free from commercial and political bias and not influenced by billionaire owners or shareholders. This means we can give a voice to those less heard, explore where others turn away, and rigorously challenge those in power.We hope you will consider supporting us today. We need your support to keep delivering quality journalism that’s open and independent. Every reader contribution, however big or small, is so valuable. Support The Guardian from as little as $1 – and it only takes a minute. Thank you. Taking rugby into Star Trek territory needs core base to back the mission Rugby union news Share on Facebook The owners of Premiership clubs are seeking talks with the Rugby Football Union over ending promotion and relegation in England’s top flight.Fears had been raised about England’s top clubs forcing a breakaway but the league’s governing body, Premiership Rugby, has pledged to thrash out a way forward with the RFU. Share on LinkedIn Share on Messenger The RFU’s interim chief executive, Nigel Melville, in December branded the idea of ring-fencing the Premiership this season as “wishful thinking”.But England’s top-flight clubs agreed at Tuesday’s monthly Premiership Rugby board meeting to seek out a summit meeting with the RFU.“Our key objective is to deliver long-term financial sustainability for professional rugby in England,” said a Premiership Rugby spokesperson.“Now is the right time to sit down with the RFU, who are our partners within the Professional Game Agreement. We will be coming back to the next Premiership Rugby Board meeting on 9 April with an update.“These crucial discussions are about deciding the most effective structure for the top end of the game in England. They have to be structured, balanced and create the best long-term solution for English rugby.” PA Share on Pinterest Share via Email Reuse this content read more

Urban Meyer didn’t necessarily stare into the souls of his players, but it was close. “I watched — I don’t know, out of the blue — I started watching guys’ faces and how easy it is to be average,” the first-year Ohio State football coach said. “It’s just so easy. I mean it is. I mean, think about it, for all of us. It’s so easy to be an average whatever. It’s so easy to just be an average guy.” Not that he quite knows why, Meyer says he was just watching his players’ faces, just thinking of them. “I was just looking in their helmets and I saw the guys,” he says. Meyer’s says his gaze then turned to junior safety C.J. Barnett. In that moment, he says, he realized something. “C.J. Barnett is a guy that just does not accept to be average,” Meyer says. “And then I looked at a couple guys next to him and they do accept it.” He says it’s his job, his duty as a coach and motivator, to break average and instill a yearning for greatness in its place. Great teams, Meyer says, play through the whistle. They take two extra steps, run two extra yards. At the message’s core, great teams, do more than that’s expected of them. It’s an in-house philosophy Meyer has brought to Columbus. “Our whole thing is that if we ask you to go 10, go 12. If we ask you to go six, go eight,” he says. “You hear the whistle blow, you don’t anticipate (it)-a lot of times you see teams play slow because they anticipate a whistle.” Meyer says he wants his players to run through that whistle-even it’s for two steps. “It’s all two steps,” Meyer says. “Keep going two steps.” The former Florida coach says he “had some teams play like that.” The OSU squad he inherited in November, though, is another story, Meyer says. “This team right now doesn’t play like that,” says Meyer, who won two national titles in five years in Gainesville. The remedy? Meyer says it’s a combination of the two-step and relentless effort of going from “Point A to Point B.” “There’s a kid named Jamal Marcus. He doesn’t know which way up is right now,” Meyer says. “But he knows from Point A to Point B and he’ll run over anything in his way to get Point B.” The Marcus, of course, that Meyer is referring to is a freshman linebacker who was an All-State defensive end in North Carolina before arriving at OSU. Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Luke Fickell said going from Point A to Point B “very, very, very” fast is one of the team’s core values. The trick, the former Buckeyes interim head coach says, is getting guys to go that hard under control. Fickell says he’ll take that, though. “I can assure you I’d rather teach a guy how to control himself than try to teach him how to go very hard.” Sophomore linebacker Ryan Shazier is one of those players who Fickell expects to run from Point A to Point B as fast as he can. Shazier says Meyer anticipates that sort of effort, too. But not just from him. “He looks for it in me, he looks it in everybody, he just wants everybody to get to the ball. From Point A to Point B, four to six seconds, you want everybody as hard as they can,” says Shazier, who amassed 57 tackles last season-the most by any true freshman in the last 15 years. Ask any OSU football player or coach, and the phrases “Point A to be Point B” or “four to six  seconds” seem to roll off the tongue. Arguably, it’s symptomatic of a first-year coach changing the culture of a program in line with what he sees fit. And it would seem that breaking any sort of contentment with “average” is one of those alterations. Though, Meyer says he won’t limit what exactly defines it per se. “Greatness (means) we’re going to try to push you to maximize who you are,” he says. “If you’re a 2.0 student — that’s what you are,” he says. “We’re going to push you to be a 2.0 student. If you’re a 2.0 student but you really should be a 3.0 student, we’re going to grind you.” It’s the same thing on the football field, he says. And while Meyer says he wouldn’t mind the greatness in terms of having top-shelf, elite talent at OSU, that’s not what it’s necessarily all about. “Greatness isn’t exactly a first-rounder.” read more

Hands-On: ‘Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled’ Is Another Lavish Crash B…The Biggest Trailers From the 2018 Game Awards Upon its release in late June, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy was compared to Dark Souls by some gaming outlets. Crash Bandicoot games were always challenging, but many reviewers and consumers found the remastered title exceptionally difficult. It turns out that these complaints aren’t entirely unfounded.In an Activision blog post, Vicarious Visions’ Kevin Kelly explained how Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is different from the original games. The studio wanted a more “cohesive experience across all three games.” In order to achieve that, each title has the physics of Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. Since that is the third game in the trilogy, it has the most updated controls. While the logic behind making all the games play the same is sound, it does make the original Crash Bandicoot harder than it used to be.“We went through rounds of internal testing, user testing, and iterations to get each game’s handling to just the right place,” said Kelly. “In the end, we ended up tuning jump differently for each game, so that the jump metrics are the same as the originals. However, there are a few subtle differences in Crash Bandicoot, chief among these being the fact that you fall more quickly upon release of the X button than you did in the original first game.”Kelly went on to say: “An increased precision is now required in the first game, which makes the gameplay experience different. Particularly if you are a new player, you may want to start with the second and third games first, and then come back to try Crash Bandicoot after you’ve had more practice. For those of you who played the originals and acquired a fair amount of muscle memory, re-learning the handling in our game may present an additional challenge you weren’t expecting. But we’re sure you up to the task.”I’ve played a little bit of the first game in this collection and can vouch for how tough it can be. But like any title, users just need to acclimate to its controls. Despite being more challenging than expected, the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is still a solid and fun experience. I highly recommend it to any PlayStation 4 user. Just… be patient with it.Let us know what you like about Geek by taking our survey. Stay on target read more