Bill Rabinowitz The Columbus Dispatch @brdispatch Sometimes, the outside world pops the bubble in which football teams try to immerse themselves. That was the case last week for Ohio State as they wrapped up training camp. Even while they plowed through the grind of practice and were holed up in their hotel, the tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia, was impossible to ignore. “Sure, we’ve had a couple conversations with what happened in Virginia,” OSU coach Urban Meyer said Monday. “It was everywhere. You know, we were kind of buried in training camp. But I went to each room. We talked about things.” With such programs as Real Life Wednesdays, Meyer has made sure that his players understand that there is life apart from and beyond football. He hopes the lessons from those apply to what happened Aug. 12 in Charlottesville, where protesters clashed with white nationalists who had gathered to protest the…
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