Watching incredible endings in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament Final Four over the weekend — I hear there also was a pretty good finish between Gonzaga and UCLA’s men? — my mind naturally drifted to “Dr. Strangelove.” Not Dr. Strange, kids. Dr. StrangeLOVE. Marvel doesn’t own the entire cinematic universe just yet. Anyway, for my money Stanley Kubrick’s classic dark comedy features Hollywood’s most memorable fictional military characters, including George C. Scott’s General “Buck” Turgidson and Slim Pickens’ Major “King” Kong. As Stanford survived not one but two last-second misses — first by South Carolina then by Arizona — to win its first national championship since 1992, I wondered why Ohio State is not among the nation’s elite programs and what it would take for the Buckeyes to reach that level. That’s when Turgidson and Kong entered my thinking, followed immediately by Ohio State coach Kevin McGuff. The climax of…
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