A purported Michigan football fan was sentenced to one year and a day of prison by Federal Judge Algenon Marbley on Tuesday, for a threat of violence made towards Ohio State University in 2018. Daniel Rippy, of Livermore, Ca., a Michigan native and University of Michigan fan, used Facebook Messenger as a means to threaten a shooting at Ohio State University during its annual rivalry game against the Michigan Wolverines, vowing to specifically hurt players on the Buckeyes football team and then-head coach Urban Meyer, authorities report. Tuesday’s sentencing was conducted via video conference due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The 29-year-old Rippy, while being held in jail in Columbus, Oh., apologized several times, claiming he’d been having “a bad day” when he initially made the threats. “I really didn’t mean for any of this. I feel really bad about it. I would never, ever do any act like this,”…
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