Last night the ESPY awards aired, and i was in attendance. I have to shout out my boy David Shottenstein for hooking me up with my suit, and my boy Kenny for cutting my hair, so i was looking good. That red carpet was so hot that i was sweating all through my shirt, so i had to keep my jacket on the whole entire time. Other than that i had an outstanding time. I actually had a performance skit with Justin Timberlake, he is cool. I was playing the piano in a extra small tuxedo, tie and some Elton John Glasses with tube socks. No one knew i could play the piano. I also had a couple of one liners but my favorite is when Will Ferrell said 'I want to be tucked in by Greg Oden and have him tell us stories about the old days.' The ESPYs also gave all the athletes free gifts and i got some really good things. I had a great time being in Los Angeles this past week. The ESPYs allowed me to bring out my brother and cousin to enjoy everything with me. We went to alot of different places all through Los Angeles and i got to take my brother and cousin to places they have never been. We didn't make it to the beach though. So i got to come back sometime soon to do that. I met some good people while i was out there and we had some fun.

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So far summer has been good to me. I've been in school and working out in Columbus. It feels good to be back here. Im taking biology 101. It has a 2 hour lecture and a 3 hour lab 3 days a week! Im also still working out 4 days a week. Last weekend I went to Chicago for the taste of Chicago and I had a really good time. For those of you who dont know what that is its basically a huge festival in Chicago that has music and food from like 60 different restaurants that you can try. I only gained like 3 pounds even though I couldnt get a lot of food from the taste cause there was too many people. But my weekend was good and now I'm back in Columbus. Gonna get ready to go to class.

Here I am training in Indy for my ESPN Sweat Spot video. Tiger better watch out.

Two days ago I went to the Kanye West, Rihanna concert. N.E.R.D. and Lupe Fiasco were there also. It was a very good concert. There were alot of people and great energy, it was held at the Rose Garden in Portland. I heard and knew almost every song that was performed, so i was jammin all night. I also had the chance to meet Rihanna and Kanye. I have been a fan of theirs since they both came out, but I have had a crush on Rihanna since I first saw her on TV. When I met her i froze up. I had all this great stuff in my head about what i was gonna say to her, but none of it came out. I ended up saying the cheeziest thing ever: "umm, who are you," I could of punched myself. Her beauty did that to me though. She is nice and when i get that picture i will blow it up and put it in my room. Hopefully i could meet her again and not freeze up. When i went back to our suite i watched her with binoculars and didn't look at nothing else. After coming down from cloud 9 from seeing her perform and meeting her, Kanye West had a unbelievable performance, so that ended the best concert i ever been to.

This past weekend I had the chance to go to the Indianapolis 500, it was a lot of fun. My brother, cousin, and I went and had a blast. We sat in the suites at turn 2. The front seats were like 10 feet away from the wall. There was some Indianapolis Colts players in the suite too. While i was at the race i went into the infield, where everybody was getting a little crazy. It was a lot of fun though, except things got really weird when people recognized me while i was in the rest room, people where yelling my name, thats when i knew it was time to leave. While I was driving in the golf cart heading back I would see people I know and so I would get out to say hi and then I was swarmed in like 5 seconds. So I had to stay on the move. All in all we had a great time and thanks John for the tickets.

The playoff are still going on and I've been watching bits and pieces. The teams are looking really good and I think that it will be Boston and Lakers in the championship. If that happens I think that would be really good on the league just to have that old rivalry back. With two good teams with so much history. I have no predictions on who will win it all, but I'll say the team who scores the most points has a really good chance.

So i'm sure you all have seen the news lately and what's been happening in China. I just wanted to take a minute to send my condolences to everyone in China. Something like this should never happen so when it does it takes the power of everyone coming together to help make things better. This just makes me appreciate everything i have that much more and makes me realize how truly lucky we all are. My thoughts go out to all of the families and everyone that was affected by the earthquake. Stay strong.

I just got back from Hawaii this afternoon. It was a great time. I got a lot of work done in those 10 days. I worked out everyday but 1, my workouts were split between riding the bike for 13 miles and having a basketball workout for an hour. I also got to go enjoy the island of Kona. I went on a helicopter ride of the island. I never been snorkeling before but by the time i left I went 5 times and felt like i've been doing it for years. I also went to some really good restaurants. "Tommy Bahamas" became my favorite spot. I just thank our owner Mr. Allen, my coaches, and everyone who helped set that up. It is a beautiful island and the wind is crazy, and so are the hills and mountains.

I just got into Hawaii today, and it is different out here but it's beautiful. The people are really nice. While driving to the hotel i got to see some of the land and here in Kona, a lot of the land is freshly made from lava... it kind of freaks me out. They said that the island is always getting bigger because there is an active volcano. The Villa i have has 3 bedrooms, a kitchen and like 4 living rooms. It's pretty big and it has a pool and a spa that's heated. The only thing is that there is no food in the refrigerator. I got to go grocery shopping tonight.

I've made it through the first weekend of my break. We didn't make the Playoffs so our season ended Thursday after our exit meetings. I have been traveling since my exit meeting and I've got a couple more places to go. This summer i have big plans to do a lot of rehab with my knee so i can be ready for next year. This is the start of my season with all i have planned but I'm looking forward to it. I also will be going back to The Ohio State University to take some summer classes.

This past week has been pretty lazy for me. I have been sick. I haven't worked out or ran. I've done nothing except sleep. I think its a cold that I got. It's def not the flu or strep throat. I heard that answer like 100 times for people who think they are doctors. This week was not a good one to be sick. My brother was here for his spring break, and my mom and my dad came and visited me to help me decided on this new place that I want to buy. I somehow managed to get a lot done even with the sickness. I also managed to sleep a whole lot. I even missed a game I was so sick. Today was the first time I was really with the team. I went to the game and we lost and Joel got hurt. The injury is going to end his season. I hope everything goes alright with his hand.

Happy Easter to everybody. sorry i haven't posted in a while but there is nothing special really going on with me. The team is on a two game road trip and its our last long road trip of more than one game. We went to Los Angeles and beat the Clippers and tomorrow we play Seattle, hopefully we can get another win. We kind of had an off day in Seattle so we went to our owners Paul Allen's house and got some shots up. Yes he has a full basketball court and tennis court in his house, with an indoor 20 ft deep pool and a locker room thats bigger than ours at the arena (this is in his house). You know the difference between millionaires and billionaires after being at his house. I had fun with my teammates and people in the organization on this Easter but i do miss my family and i know they are doing good i love them and cant wait to see them, the road gets lonely when you cant play.

I've had so many requests to talk to news and radio stations about selection sunday, i feel like im still in school. I dont even know if i'm going to watch it, cause if my Buckeyes dont make it i will be really sad and disappointed. I hope we do get in and from what i was watching, out of the bubble teams we are one of the top ones that should get in. Maybe they can give us sympathy cause we got 4 starters from the team that made it to the National Championship with Mark Titus and Danny Jo Peters on the bench from last years team. So i have my fingers crossed that we make it to the tournament and hopefully upset some people.

I spoke at the Helping America's Youth regional conference about two weeks ago. It was held at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts and I got to introduce Laura Bush. Check out the video.

So earlier this week i announced the organization that i am gonna be working with. It is Oregon Mentors, which is an organization that gets mentors for kids all around Oregon. It is a really good company its just that there is not alot of people signing up to be mentors. Hopefully with me and the little influence i have we can get more to sign up. We will be starting this slogan called Team Oden. Its a slogan for us to reach the goals of 40,000 mentors by 2010. Lots of things will happen with the partnership i will host events during the summer and through out this year for kids and their mentors, it should be a fun time for all! I want to thank the Commissioner for stopping by my press conference when i had it.

I was on Jim Rome's TV show yesterday. Here is the video from the show if you missed it.