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Fun and games
Published: 12/8/2006 2:58 PM
Last Modified: 12/8/2006 2:58 PM


Look kids, Big Ben. Parliament.
AP


You can tell that Sean Sutton is his father's son (he inherited Eddie's scowl) and OSU's first-year head basketball coach also has a bit of Clark Griswold in him.
When Sean Sutton takes a team on a road trip, he doesn't lock players in their hotel rooms. He thinks road trips should be enjoyed.
"I think they understand why we are there," he said. "We are there to win games. Any time we (go somewhere) we try to get them out and educate them and show them different places within the city. Like New York, we took a two-hour bus trip and went to Ground Zero and went to the Statue of Liberty and went by the Empire State Building and Wall Street and Little Italy and Chinatown and the ABC and NBC studios. We went where John Lennon got shot. All the famous places in Manhattan, they got to see and they were really appreciative and really excited.
"Our staff, it's part of our responsibility to take them places and they get to see some of these places that they have heard about or read about, historical places."
Hat's off to the coach for making trips fun. Sports, taken way too seriously by many, are all about games. Games should be fun. So should life. If you're not having fun, you're doing life wrong.
OSU is in San Diego for a Saturday game against Ball State. The Cowboys got to go to the beach when they went to South Padre Island for a tournament earlier this season. Maybe they will go to the beach again in San Diego. Who says you can't mix business and pleasure?
"Ultimately you are there to win a basketball game," Sutton said. "And they will be doing a lot of studying."
Final exams are next week. That won't be fun, regardless of how you slice it.





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