No reason to hide the truth: I was startled when I read about the alleged romantic link between Kenny Chesney and Miss West Virginia.

No, not that there may be something to it all, but that the estimable author and whoever writes the headlines — by the way, reporters don’t write headlines; you’d be amazed how many and what type of people can’t get that straight — missed what I suspected was an irresistible one-liner. Perhaps she thinks his tractor’s sexy?

It’s almost an unforgivable omission and I intended to fire off an e-mail to express my pseudo-disappointment, but I was completely sidetracked by something in my inbox:

NEWSFLASH: Product Rodriguez recalled due to risk of choking.

And the floodgates swung open. What I find to be most delightful is not that product is generally associated with improving and styling one’s hair — ahem — but that The Ohio State’s fans have plenty of time to work with this. Maybe you can help.

The Sitemeter Web site allows me to track not only who visits the blog and for how long, but from where on the Web they came. I can tell you there’s a strong contingent of Buckeyes fans and message board visitors as well as people in Columbus and the surrounding area that make it here from time to time, presumably to check on P-Rod.

Make it worth their while.