OSU football team tramples cheerleader during title game intro (PHOTOS)

When all was said and done, the Ohio State football team had a way better finish than entrance at the National Championship Game against Oregon on Monday night — especially for one OSU cheerleader.

Usually, the Buckeyes race onto the field from the tunnel led by four students carrying large flags that spell out O-H-I-O. Before last night's, however, one of the flags got snagged on the ground, tripping a cheerleader and sending several players sprawling.  While the players did their best to avoid trampling the helpless rah-rah to death, the Spirit Squad was left missing an "O."

We spelled #OHIO wrong. Not a good start. Cmon Bucks!! #BucksNotDucks #UOvsOSU

A photo posted by Jason Zone Fisher (@jzfish) on Jan 12, 2015 at 5:26pm PST

Getty Images photographer Tom Pennington got three images of the pompom carnage and the heroic attempts of a male cheerleader who tried to help.

The horror... the horror.

Things ended up OK for everyone involved. Yay team!

Our Cheerleader is ok. Just a miscommunication with the team runout and the producers but everyone is ready for the second half !
— OSU Spirit Squad (@OSU_SpiritSquad) January 13, 2015

Oregon player's easy fast-break dunk ends in epic fail (VIDEO)

Oregon's Elgin Cook looked like he was ready to make someone's highlight reel during a fast break Tuesday against VCU, but ended up making a blooper headline instead.

After coming up with a great steal around half court with his team down by five in the Legends Classic game, Cook looked like he was going to throw it down hard before deciding that maybe a layup was the better option.

Unfortunately, his body wasn't as quick as his mind and Cook missed the bunny too.

VCU went on to a 77-63 victory anyway.