Sports Illustrated tells us what we already know: Ohlendorf '05 is the man

When Ross Ohlendorf '05 isn't pitching for the Pittsburgh Pirates, he's raising longhorn cattle at his family's ranch. And when Ross Ohlendorf '05 isn't raising longhorn cattle at his family's ranch, he's interning at the U.S. Department of Agriculture or giving interviews to Sports Illustrated. Ross Ohlendorf '05 does not mess around. Clearly.

Ohlendorf's duties (after his morning workout) range from branding to feeding to measuring horns to naming the calves to photographing animals for the ranch's website. It's not always pretty, he says while searching for Big Chief: "My arms were covered in manure this morning."

The Pirates' ace spent the first two months of his off-season in a very different job, one that smelled a lot better and required him to wear a shirt and tie. He was an intern for the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington.

An ORFE major who rocked the SATs (shoutout to my College Confidential homies) and apparently served up a blistering thesis, Ohlendorf put his skills to the test "doing cost analysis of regulatory programs that identify and trace diseased animals and plants." What now, A-Rod?One of the cattle in his herd is named Big Chief. Ross Ohlendorf, you are our Big Chief. Keep juggling your absurd achievements -- keep making us proud.The many faces of Ross Ohlendorf:(image sources: http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/11/28/alg_ohlendorf.jpg, http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/03/12/sports/12yankees.span.jpg, and http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/200909/20090906wp_ohlendorf_500.jpg.)