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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
BOOM! Ohio State football lands highly sought after defensive back
The Ohio State football team continues to add to one of the best 2026 recruiting classes in the country. The latest verbal commitment comes from four-star defensive back Jordan Thomas, who announced his pledge to the Buckeyes on Monday afternoon. Out of Bergen Catholic High School in Oradell, New Jersey, Thomas is ranked as the No. 17 cornerback and 176th overall prospect in the 2026 recruiting cycle according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. He chose the Buckeyes over finalists Auburn, Michigan, Notre Dame, and Texas A&M. When reacting to the commitment on a live stream hosted by On3, he said that Ohio State "checked off all the boxes." Advertisement 'When it comes to development in all aspects of life,' Thomas said, 'in the faith part, field part, academically, in my character, there's no place better than Ohio State.' The commitment now gives OSU a total of 13 pledges in the 2026 class, a crop that is currently ranked as No. 3 in the country according to the 247Sports Team Composite rankings. Thomas is the fourth defensive back committed to the class, joining safeties Blaine Bradford and Simeon Caldwell, and cornerback Jakob Weatherspoon. We'll continue to stay on top of Ohio State recruiting news as it happens throughout the offseason and on into the 2025 season. Advertisement Contact/Follow us @BuckeyesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Ohio State news, notes and opinion. Follow Phil Harrison on X. This article originally appeared on Buckeyes Wire: Ohio State football lands highly sought-after 2026 defensive back
New York Times
6 days ago
- General
- New York Times
He Went to Fight Megafires, and Ended Up Respecting Them
WHEN IT ALL BURNS: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World, by Jordan Thomas As viewed in shaky social media posts, the new megafires that plague the Western United States are monstrous in their magnitude: Walls of orange flame melt homes and turn dense green woods into spent matchsticks beneath explosive black mushroom clouds. But in 'When It All Burns,' Jordan Thomas's account of a season fighting fires with the so-called 'Los Padres Hotshots' — a U.S. Forest Service firefighting unit that he describes as one of 'the special forces of wildland firefighters' — conflagration is terrifyingly intimate. In the first pages, his crew scrambles down rocks to face a football-field-sized, ember-spitting fire in oxygen-burning surround sound. 'I realized that the silence was becoming a roar, and the roar came from the megafire,' he writes. 'It was close. The dark understory of the forest began to glow, a vibration emanating from its depths, rising to the sound of a jet engine.' That was in the fall of 2021, in Sequoia National Forest, in an about-to-burn grove of gargantuan trees that, for millenniums, had thrived amid fires, albeit a less vicious kind. And that feels like a lifetime before the Los Angeles fires of 2025, in which the combination of Santa Ana winds and heat served to reset California's understanding of where cities end and wild lands begin. 'When It All Burns' is a report on the state of firefighting, crossed with a tale of what might be called exploratory adventure: Thomas, raised in the Midwest, signed on to his firefighting team while in the midst of an anthropology degree at the University of California, 'skeptical,' he wrote, 'of the idea that humans are inherently destructive to our environments.' What follows is part memoir, part exegesis on man's relationship to fire — and inspired by a trip to a Maya community in southern Mexico that gave Thomas insight into the ways forests have traditionally been managed with fire. 'Nearly every terrestrial area, I learned, has evolved with different kinds of fire — flames catered to each ecological niche and shaped by the people who inhabit the land,' he writes. Interspersed between accounts of his training exercises and deployment, Thomas gives us crisp histories of national and global fire policies, beginning with Spanish settlements in North America, where Indigenous Californians were enslaved and tortured, their traditional fires scorned, since they ruined grazing fields colonizers wanted for Spanish horses — 'burnt off by the heathens,' wrote a disciple of Junípero Serra, an 18th-century priest (now canonized) whose missionary system was notorious for its treatment of Indigenous populations. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Forbes
16-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Hydro Flask's Memorial Day Sale Just Started—Shop Editor Favorites At 25% Off
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USA Today
12-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
BOOM! Ohio State football lands highly sought after defensive back
The Ohio State football team continues to add to one of the best 2026 recruiting classes in the country. The latest verbal commitment comes from four-star defensive back Jordan Thomas, who announced his pledge to the Buckeyes on Monday afternoon. Out of Bergen Catholic High School in Oradell, New Jersey, Thomas is ranked as the No. 17 cornerback and 176th overall prospect in the 2026 recruiting cycle according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. He chose the Buckeyes over finalists Auburn, Michigan, Notre Dame, and Texas A&M. When reacting to the commitment on a live stream hosted by On3, he said that Ohio State "checked off all the boxes." 'When it comes to development in all aspects of life,' Thomas said, 'in the faith part, field part, academically, in my character, there's no place better than Ohio State.' The commitment now gives OSU a total of 13 pledges in the 2026 class, a crop that is currently ranked as No. 3 in the country according to the 247Sports Team Composite rankings. Thomas is the fourth defensive back committed to the class, joining safeties Blaine Bradford and Simeon Caldwell, and cornerback Jakob Weatherspoon. We'll continue to stay on top of Ohio State recruiting news as it happens throughout the offseason and on into the 2025 season. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle Contact/Follow us @BuckeyesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Ohio State news, notes and opinion. Follow Phil Harrison on X.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
2026 four-star cornerback Jordan Thomas commits to Ohio State
Class of 2026 four-star cornerback Jordan Thomas has made his commitment decision. Thomas pledged to Ohio State on Monday at a ceremony at Bergen Catholic High School in Oradell, New Jersey. Thomas garnered more than 40 scholarship offers throughout his recruitment. He choose the Buckeyes over fellow finalists Auburn, Michigan, Notre Dame and Texas A&M. Advertisement He took unofficial visits to each of his finalists. He was most recently at Ohio State on April 6. He also took a visit to Columbus in March. The only official visit Thomas will take is to Ohio State, according to his agent Latish Kinsler. At Ohio State, Thomas will reunite with his former teammate at Bergen Catholic, Quincy Porter, a four-star signee for the Buckeyes in the 2025 class. Thomas currently ranks as the No. 3 prospect in the state of New Jersey and the No. 24 cornerback in the 2026 cycle. The 6-foot-1, 185-pound has the ideal frame for the cornerback position and likely projects as outside corner, but with the versatility to play on the inside as a nickel back or safety as well. Thomas is physical, possesses impressive ball skills, has sound technique in pass coverage, is a willing tackler in run support and delivers strong hits. He also plays wide receiver for the Crusaders. Advertisement He is a Navy All-American Bowl selection. Thomas has won three state championships with Bergen Catholic, including most recently in 2024, as he helped lead the Crusaders to the program's fourth consecutive championship with a win over Don Bosco Prep in the Non-Public A state title game. In addition to his finalists, Thomas received scholarship offers from Alabama, Boston College, Cincinnati, Duke, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Illinois, Maryland, Miami (FL.), Michigan State, Minnesota, North Carolina, Northwestern, Oregon, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, South Carolina, Stanford, Syracuse, Tennessee, Texas, USC, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin and others. Thomas is represented by Kinsler, who is the president of football for LifeStyle Sports Agency. With Thomas now in the fold, Ohio State's 2026 recruiting class now includes 13 total commitments. The Buckeyes currently rank as the third team team nationally.
