From: LAXMagazine.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio - In front of an NCAA men's lacrosse regular-season record crowd of 30,192 watched as the Ohio State men's lacrosse team lost to No. 3 Notre Dame, 14-8, in sunny, warm Ohio Stadium Saturday. Buckeye junior goalie Brandon Freeman made a career-best 18 saves in the defeat, while senior Jeff Ryan had four goals and an assist for his second-consecutive five-point game. Senior Joel Dalgarno's goal in the first quarter was the 123rd of his career, as he ... Read More

From: NBC-2.com -- NAPLES: Ohio State head football coach Jim Tressel is coming to Southwest Florida. The five-time National Championship winning coach will be the keynote speaker at the 2nd Annual Fundraising Banquet for the Southwest Florida Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA). The event takes place on Monday, April 27th from 6:00pm to 9:00pm at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Points in Bonita Springs. Tressel, who won a National Title in only his 2nd season as Ohio State’s head coach, also won Alli Online four ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- Ohio State should have eight or nine players drafted over the next two days. A final look at the draft possibilities of OSU players today and Sunday: * Malcolm Jenkins, CB/S: The most likely Buckeye off the board first, he could go as high as No. 9 to Green Bay and doesn't look like he'll get past New Orleans at No. 14 or Houston at No. 15. Guess: No. 14 to New Orleans * Beanie Wells, ... Read More

By: Tim Rogers (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- Considerable talent. Not many fans. Maybe all the basketball fans were home watching the Cavs because there weren't many on hand Friday at Akron's Rhodes Arena when one of the best-assembled summer teams of high school players in the country - the All-Ohio Red - opened the massive King James Shooting Stars Classic. Fewer than 100 people watched All-Ohio Red, a collection of Division I college prospects based in Columbus, dismantle a team from Wisconsin, 73-54, in ... Read More

BY: JIM VARSALLONE (MiamiHerald.com) -- John Laurinaitis, the senior vice president of talent relations for World Wrestling Entertainment, won't be watching the NFL Draft on Saturday to scout wrestling talent. He's got other reasons -- mainly one reason. His nephew, James, is a top NFL prospect, starting three years at middle linebacker for the Ohio State Buckeyes. An accomplished football player, James was awarded the 2006 Nagurski Trophy and the 2007 Butkus Award as the top college linebacker. The 6-4, 244-pounder is also ... Read More

By: MATT MARKEY (Toledo Blade) -- COLUMBUS - When the Ohio State receivers got together for their first spring meeting with position coach Darrell Hazell, they instinctively lined up by seniority, with the youngest players in the back of the group. It was at that moment Dane Sanzenbacher realized that if the group had a couple of gray beards, one of them was him. After just two seasons with Ohio State on his resume, the former City League star was now one of ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- COLUMBUS -- So you're tired of James Laurinaitis. "I kind of feel like I've become old news in college football," the three-time All-American linebacker and recent Ohio State grad said Thursday. "Sometimes I think if I had been an All-American for just two years instead of three, I'd be better off." Potential isn't a word you hear associated much with the two-time Ohio State captain and three-time leading tackler, because every opponent, fan, coach, scout and ... Read More

From: LAXPower.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio State men's lacrosse team (7-6, 3-1 GWLL) closes out its regular season in the "Showdown in the Shoe" Saturday vs. Notre Dame. The Buckeyes and No. 3-ranked Irish (12-0, 4-0 GWLL) will meet at 11:00 a.m. in Ohio Stadium in Columbus, prior to the Ohio State football spring game. The lacrosse game will be televised live around the state of Ohio on The Ohio News Network. Dan Fronczak and former Buckeye captain Anthony Kelly will ... Read More

By: JASON WILDE (Madison.com) -- GREEN BAY — Here’s what we know about the defensive backs in the 2009 NFL draft: Ohio State’s Malcolm Jenkins is the best of the bunch. Here’s what we don’t know: The position Jenkins will play in the pros. In fact, even Jenkins himself doesn’t know the answer to that. Then again, the Thorpe Award winner (for the nation’s top defensive back) is still trying to figure out how this whole thing has become such an issue, since he played ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- Some quick thoughts on Ohio State and one on the draft: * Terrelle Pryor has thrown the ball very well the last two practices we saw him. Tuesday he hit some nice deep throws. Thursday, he was zipping passes to the sideline and over the middle. Call it progress. * Teams get 15 practices in the spring and Ohio State is using its 14th today to host a clinic for about 900 high school coaches. The offense ... Read More