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Urban Meyer endorses Ohio Gov. John Kasich for president

Ohio governor and presidential candidate John Kasich is a distant fourth in the competition to gain the Republican nomination, but he picked up a big endorsement Thursday.

Ohio State coach Urban Meyer announced he's backing Kasich for president.

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Maybe one day Meyer will run for office. After all, he has the back-tracking part down — last month he told the Toledo Blade that he did not think it was "appropriate" to share his political beliefs as a football coach.