{"id":130953,"date":"2020-05-05T03:49:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T08:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=130953"},"modified":"2020-05-05T03:49:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T08:49:59","slug":"random-thoughts-lincolnview-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/05\/05\/random-thoughts-lincolnview-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: Lincolnview & more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week\u2019s Random Thoughts center around this fall, WOSN television, 1996-97 Lincolnview Lancers, Major League Baseball and former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fall, 2020<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With spring sports having gone by the wayside due to COVID-19 and summer baseball and various camps in limbo, many people are wondering what\u2019s in store for fall, 2020 high school sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a memo sent to member schools last week, Ohio High School Athletic Association Executive Director Jerry Snodgrass addressed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCertainly, there are many unknowns,\u201d Snodgrass wrote. \u201cIt is premature to release any of the many plans we have and are currently working on. However, every potential scenario is being discussed just in case so we can be prepared.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhether fall sports are delayed, played without fans, shortened (hopefully NONE of those) . . . but all scenarios are being worked on just to be prepared.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, the OHSAA is making plans and hoping for the best. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WOSN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To our friends at WOSN television \u2013 the West Ohio Sports Network in Lima \u2013 well done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like any sports outlet, WOSN has had to find alternate programming to fill the airwaves during this time of no other sports and in my book, they hit a homerun over the weekend by showing Lincolnview\u2019s 1997 basketball state championship run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I enjoyed watching it and I\u2019m sure it brought back plenty of good memories for Lincolnview fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincolnview<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironically, I saw the 1996-97 Lincolnview Lancers basketball team in the Division IV state semifinals, but I was on the other end of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was broadcasting the game for WLKR radio in Norwalk, which meant I was covering it for Norwalk St. Paul. We knew Lincolnview was good and we knew St. Paul was good too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

What we didn\u2019t know was Lincolnview was so good that on that particular day, they could have beaten anyone in Division IV, Division III and maybe even Division II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I\u2019m not mistaken, the 88-49 final score still stands as a record for margin of victory in a Division IV state tournament game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MLB<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could be very wrong here, but I\u2019m getting the feeling that if there\u2019s Major League Baseball this year, it really won\u2019t start until July 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There have been proposals to play all games in Arizona or Arizona, Texas and Florida, but those ideas don\u2019t seem to have much traction, especially among the players. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It just feels like we\u2019re moving toward an all or nothing situation \u2013 games played in each team\u2019s home stadium, with a shortened schedule (perhaps 80 games), or no season at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andy Dalton<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of all the NFL teams that Andy Dalton could have signed with, Dallas seemed like one of the least likely ones, but good for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though I\u2019m a Browns fan, I wish things had gone better for him in Cincinnati. He\u2019s probably not what you\u2019d consider an elite quarterback, but he\u2019s certainly a decent or better one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who knows how things would have turned out in Cincinnati if he had a slightly better supporting cast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have thoughts on any of the above subjects, feel free to email me at sports@thevwindependent.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor This week\u2019s Random Thoughts center around this fall, WOSN television, 1996-97 Lincolnview Lancers, Major League Baseball and former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton. Fall, 2020 With spring sports having gone by the wayside due to COVID-19 and summer baseball and various camps in limbo, many people are wondering what\u2019s in store […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 13:57:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}