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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- When Ohio State announced its seven captains, the names were familiar and fairly predictable. Air Force 1 Wholesale Cheap . Except for one: Joe Burger.Those who havent studied Ohio State games closely over the past three seasons probably havent heard of Burger, a senior backup linebacker who walked on and finally earned a scholarship this summer thanks to his work ethic, gritty determination in practice and relentless effort on special teams.Coach Urban Meyer loves guys like Burger. Great student, wonderful attitude, a charismatic natural motivator respected by everyone. Now Burgers teammates have recognized his effort by voting him a captain alongside the teams six returning starters from last season.As good a guy as there is, Meyer said.Burger is a Cincinnati product who had scholarship offers from other big schools -- including Saturdays opponent, Bowling Green -- but decided to walk on at Ohio State instead. Hes played in 34 games over the past three years and has a grand total of three tackles. His biggest play as a Buckeye was last year when he brought down Indiana punter Erich Toth for a 3-yard loss on a fake punt attempt. Ohio State was trailing by 7 at the time and eventually won the game 34-27.Burger said being elected captain was humbling.My name was on the sheet, but I had no idea how it was going to turn out, he said of the vote. When I heard coach Meyer call my name, it was just one of those feelings that you really cant describe. Im forever grateful to my teammates, and Im blessed to be around such a great group of people every single day.And you get the idea he means it.Middle linebacker Raekwon McMillan said Burger is a team leader, regardless of how often hes on the field. His role this year again will be special teams.Ive learned a lot from Joe Burger myself as a linebacker, just the leadership traits he has on and off the field, said McMillan, who is also a captain. He comes in day in and day out and always does what hes supposed to do. Some guys are physically more gifted than him, but he always finds a way to win.Burger said the selfless standard set by the teams best players enabled a guy whos not even on the depth chart to be elected a captain at one of the most elite programs in the country.Besides Burger and McMillan, the other captains are quarterback J.T. Barrett, offensive linemen Pat Elflein and Billy Price, defensive end Tyquan Lewis and cornerback Gareon Conley.I think they kind of set the standard and said hey, we respect the people who work hard, we respect the people who come in every day with a smile and make others around them better, Burger said. So I think those guys are instrumental in allowing this opportunity for my teammates to select me. I think it sets a great example that you dont have to be a superstar on the field in order to be a leader.---Follow Mitch Stacy at http://twitter.com/mitchstacyFor some of his other recent stories: http://bigstory.ap.org/content/mitch-stacy Nike Tanjun Ireland . A forerunning sled crashed into the worker Thursday at the Sanki Sliding Center. The unidentified worker broke both legs and was airlifted to a nearby hospital. Fake Air Force 1 For Sale . The Dutchmans tenure got off to a poor start when referee Guido Winkmann awarded a penalty within two minutes for Niklas Starks clumsy challenge on Alexandru Maxim. http://www.airforce1shoesireland.com/ . President of baseball operations Larry Beinfest was fired Friday after 12 years with the Marlins. The move came as the team neared the end of its third consecutive last-place season in the NL East. HOCKENHEIM, Germany -- Fernando Alonsos McLaren was running on fumes when it crossed the line to finish the German Grand Prix in 12th place.Alonso had been running in the points until the closing stages of the race when he lost positions to Sergio Perez and Esteban Gutierrez and dropped to 12th. After the race he explained that both fuel and tyres had been very marginal after 67 laps.In the final stages of the race the tyres were going off and I also had to save quite a bit of fuel, after all the battles we had had since the start, he said. I think we finished the race with 100g of fuel on board as we may have spent 99.9kg during the race!Alonso said the Honda is the worst enggine for fuel consumption in F1 and Hockenheim is one of the worst tracks for fuel usage. Air Force 1 Mens Ireland. It was tough and one of the worst races of the year. We knew before coming here and in the race it was no different. With no safety cars and no incidents we had too much consumption, we were too slow on the straights and we had a little bit more than the others.Obviously we have to do more fuel saving than any other car, so obviously that penalises us a little bit. In Spa we have some new updates coming and hopefully that will improve the situation. ' ' '