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Columbus, Ohio
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Columbus is the capital and largest city of the U. S. state of Ohio. It is the 15th-largest city in the United States, with a population of 850,106 as of 2015 estimates and this makes Columbus the fourth-most populous state capital in the United States, and the third-largest city in the Midwestern United States. It is the city of the Columbus, Ohio, Metropolitan Statistical Area. With a population of 2,021,632, it is Ohios third-largest metropolitan area, Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County. The city proper has also expanded and annexed portions of adjoining Delaware County, named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. As of 2013, the city has the headquarters of five corporations in the U. S, fortune 500, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, American Electric Power, L Brands, Big Lots, and Cardinal Health. In 2012, Columbus was ranked in BusinessWeeks 50 best cities in America. In 2013, Forbes gave Columbus an A rating as one of the top cities for business in the U. S. and later that included the city on its list of Best Places for Business. Columbus was also ranked as the No.1 up-and-coming tech city in the nation by Forbes in 2008, and the city was ranked a top-ten city by Relocate America in 2010. In 2007, fDi Magazine ranked the city no.3 in the U. S. for cities of the future, and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium was rated no.1 in 2009 by USA Travel Guide. The area including modern-day Columbus once comprised the Ohio Country, under the control of the French colonial empire through the Viceroyalty of New France from 1663 until 1763. In the 18th century, European traders flocked to the area, the area found itself frequently caught between warring factions, including American Indian and European interests. In the 1740s, Pennsylvania traders overran the territory until the French forcibly evicted them, in the early 1750s, the Ohio Company sent George Washington to the Ohio Country to survey. Fighting for control of the territory in the French and Indian War became part of the international Seven Years War, during this period, the region routinely suffered turmoil, massacres, and battles. The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded the Ohio Country to the British Empire, after the American Revolution, the Ohio Country became part of the Virginia Military District, under the control of the United States. Colonists from the East Coast moved in, but rather finding a empty frontier, they encountered people of the Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Shawnee. The tribes resisted expansion by the fledgling United States, leading to years of bitter conflict, the decisive Battle of Fallen Timbers resulted in the Treaty of Greenville, which finally opened the way for new settlements. By 1797, a surveyor from Virginia named Lucas Sullivant had founded a permanent settlement on the west bank of the forks of the Scioto River
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Otterbein University
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Otterbein University is a small, highly residential, private, four-year liberal arts college in Westerville, Ohio, United States. It offers 74 majors and 44 minors as well as eight graduate programs, featured programs include engineering, business management, education, and music, as well as programs and pre-professional advising that prepare students for study in law and medicine. The university was founded in 1847 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, as a result of a division and two mergers involving the church, the university has since 1968 been associated with the United Methodist Church. The university is named for United Brethren founder the Rev. Philip William Otterbein, in 2010, its name reverted from Otterbein College to Otterbein University to reflect the increasing array of graduate and undergraduate programs offered. It is primarily an undergraduate institution with approximately 2,300 undergraduate and 450 graduate students on the campus, Otterbein has over 100 student organizations and a popular Greek presence. The schools mascot is Cardy the Cardinal and the school is a member of the Ohio Athletic Conference in Division III athletics, Otterbein University was founded in 1847 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. As a result of a division and two mergers involving the Church, the university has since 1968 been associated with the United Methodist Church, the University is named for United Brethren founder the Rev. Philip William Otterbein. The Otterbein campus is located in Westerville, Ohio and it sits between Alum Creek on the west and State Street on the east. West Home Street, which runs through the center of campus, is the address of most of the homes and student residence halls. The north end of the campus is home to most underclassman housing, overall, the Campus occupies 140 acres Towers Hall is the oldest building on campus and is designated as a national landmark. Towers Hall is a 55,619 square foot structure that was opened in 1871, a gallery of portraits of former Otterbein presidents is located on the second floor. Towers Hall houses the Departments of English, History and Political Science, Religion and Philosophy, Foreign Language, Sociology, the Frank Museum of Art houses Otterbeins collection of art from Africa, Japan and New Guinea. The museum is located in the former Church House of Lillian Frank, upon her death, the structure was given for the purpose of creating a museum for the Universitys collection. The building was built in 1877, opened as a museum in the winter 2004. The Rike Recreation Center is a complex containing a varsity basketball court, an in-door track and practice courts, a weight room. The complex also includes outdoor softball, baseball and soccer fields, the complex was completed in 1975 and has 72,500 square feet. The domed roof encloses an intercollegiate hardwood basketball floor with seating for 3,100, memorial Stadium is Otterbeins football stadium. The stadium contains state-of-the-art locker rooms, a room and an equipment room
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2011 NFL Draft
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The 2011 NFL Draft was the 76th installment of the annual NFL Draft, where the franchises of the National Football League select newly eligible football players. The Carolina Panthers, who had the worst record for the 2010 NFL season at 2–14, had the right to the first selection in each round of the draft, with the first pick the Panthers selected Auburn University quarterback Cam Newton, who was the 2010 Heisman Trophy winner. A second Heisman Trophy winner, running back Mark Ingram Jr. from Alabama was selected by New Orleans late in the first round and this was the eleventh draft which included multiple Heisman winners, and the first time ever that it has occurred in consecutive drafts. Five of the first six picks played college football in the Southeastern Conference, for the second consecutive year—and the third time in NFL history—the top two selections of the draft won Offensive and Defensive Rookie of the Year awards, respectively. The top two picks in the draft, Cam Newton and Denver linebacker Von Miller, played against each other in Super Bowl 50 on the teams that drafted them. This marked the first time that the top two picks in a single draft faced each other in the Super Bowl, the Broncos won, 24-10, with Miller winning Super Bowl MVP. Teams were allowed ten minutes to make each selection in the first round, seven minutes per selection in the second round and five minutes in each of the subsequent rounds. The time allotment ran out for the Baltimore Ravens on their first round pick, allowing the Kansas City Chiefs to move up to the 26th pick and dropping the Ravens to the 27th pick. Fans in attendance at the draft expressed their displeasure with the lockout by booing NFL commissioner Roger Goodell during the event and chanting We want football. Because of the lockout, the Panthers could not sign or even negotiate with their first draft pick before the draft began and this warning did not dissuade several teams from making trades involving future selections. A record 56 underclassmen announced their intention to forgo their remaining NCAA eligibility, of the 56 eligible underclassmen,43 were drafted. The selection of Newton, a junior, marked the third straight draft where the first overall selection was an underclassman, since non-seniors were first eligible to be drafted in 1990, fourteen first overall picks have been players who have entered the draft early. Eight of the first ten players chosen in this draft were non-seniors, jake Locker and Von Miller were the only two seniors among the first ten draftees. The draft order is based generally on each teams record from the previous season, a supplemental draft was held on August 22,2011. For each player selected in the draft, the team forfeits its pick in that round in the draft of the following season. Six players were available in the draft, but only one was selected. In the explanations below, denotes trades that took place during the draft, irrelevant – last overall National Football League draft picks Notes General references 2011 NFL Draft Tracker. Archived from the original on May 2,2011, archived from the original on October 31,2011
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Cleveland Gladiators
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The Cleveland Gladiators are an arena football team based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, who play in the Arena Football League as part of the AFL National Conference. The franchise was based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Gladiators have qualified for the eight times in their history. The New Jersey Red Dogs entered the Arena Football League in 1997, along with the Nashville Kats and the New York CityHawks. Their ownership group, which was led by New Jersey radio entrepreneur E. Burke Ross, also included several players, such as Joe Morris, Carl Banks. The name Red Dogs reflected the sponsorship of the Miller Brewing Company, the Red Dogs played at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The AFLs intention was to add only New Jersey and Nashville for 1997, however, well after the awarding of the Red Dogs and Kats franchises, the owners of Madison Square Garden in New York City requested a franchise of their own, and the league granted this request. And so the CityHawks also began play in 1997 and this affected the Red Dogs, in that the league then prevented the Red Dogs from advertising in New York. While North Jersey itself is very populous in its own right, despite this setback, the Red Dogs management built a good team, which opened its history in memorable fashion. The Red Dogs were led by head coach John Hufnagel, who had been a quarterback, after his time with the Red Dogs, Hufnagel went on to be an offensive coach for several National Football League teams, including the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. He then became the coach of the CFLs Stampeders for the 2008 season. Hufnagel brought in players with CFL experience to the Red Dogs, including QB Rickey Foggie. The teams other main receiver was Alvin Ashley, a player whose small size made him unlikely to play in the NFL but suited the more compact Arena game. The Red Dogs slumped late in their first season, losing 4 of their final 5 games to finish 9–5, the Red Dogs finished 8–6 in 1998, their second season, and won their first playoff game in Albany against the Firebirds. Hufnagel left the Red Dogs after the 1998 season for a job with the NFLs Cleveland Browns, and he was replaced by Frank Mattiace, a former defensive lineman for the New Jersey Generals of the USFL. Star Larry Ray Willis was traded to the Milwaukee Mustangs Following those losses, the Red Dogs made a significant trade following the 1999 season, a trade they never got to benefit from. New Jersey sent Alvin Ashley to the Orlando Predators for wide receiver/defensive back Barry Wagner, however, soon after the trade, the league and its players agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement that resulted in several veteran players—including Wagner—gaining free agency. Wagner then signed with the San Jose SaberCats, in 2000, the Red Dogs, without Wagner, Ashley, and offensive mainstay Chad Lindsey, fell to 4–10
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Orlando Predators
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The Orlando Predators were a professional arena football team based in Orlando, Florida and member of the Arena Football League. The team was most recently owned by Orlando Predators LLC, a company owned by David A. Siegel, the team was founded in 1991 as an expansion team of the AFL. The team advanced to the playoffs 19 consecutive seasons between 1992 and 2011, becoming the ArenaBowl champions in 1998 and 2000 during that span, the team suspended operations after the 2016 season. In just their second season however, they advanced to ArenaBowl VI, only to fall to the Detroit Drive, annually among the league-leaders in attendance, they qualified for the playoffs in 18 consecutive seasons, the longest streak in the original AFL. One noted administrator for the Predators was Pro Football Hall of Fame lineman, Jack Youngblood and he was with the team through the 1999 season. For much of their existence in the original AFL their head coach was Jay Gruden, Jay was the first quarterback in the AFL Hall of Fame. Orlando won the ArenaBowl in 1998 and 2000 under Grudens coaching and he then attempted a comeback as a player, but subsequently returned to coaching following the death of his head coach replacement, Fran Papasedero, in a car accident. The Predators are undoubtedly one of the franchises in the history of the original AFL, and have a legendary rivalry with Tampa Bay. They have met twice in the ArenaBowl, with Tampa Bay winning in 1995, the rivalry, nicknamed the War on I-4 after the interstate that connects the two cities, intensified when Gruden took over as Orlandos head coach. Orlando and Tampa Bay have each lasted longer in their markets than any other AFL franchise, the Predators are unique in that they had played in their previous venue, Amway Arena, for 18 seasons in the AFL, longer than any other team. They shared Amway Arena with the Orlando Magic of the NBA, the 2010 season was the Predators 19th and final season at Amway Arena. The team will move to Amway Center, the new arena in Orlando, a Predators game was the final sporting event ever performed at Amway Arena. The Tampa Bay Storm can surpass that record of 19 seasons in one if they stay at the Tampa Bay Times Forum until 2018. The teams current mascot is a human named Klaw who looks much like the alien from the Predator films. The Predators have played in the ArenaBowl a total of seven times, if you include the Pittsburgh Gladiators two ArenaBowl games before they moved to Tampa Bay, the Storm is the only team that has more. During the 2007 season, the Predators inaugurated the Predator Fan Hall Of Fame, the inaugural inductees are Nancy Morris & Richard Grabe. Morris, who has been a superfan for over 20 years, is known to most of the team and the front office as The PredMom, after moving to the new Amway Center, the majority of PredHeads sit in section 114, and tailgate under I-4 in lot 9. The Predators maintained their organization and web presence after the AFL suspended operations in August 2009
