By: WALLY HALL (NWANews.com) -- Just for fun, here's one man's view of the top 10 college football programs of today, three that have slipped, and 10 more that look ready to be a weekly regular in the Top 25. Some of these are longtime greats, others have worked hard to have a program that is consistent and don't seem to know the term "rebuilding," instead just saying, "next." 1. FLORIDA Winning two of the past three BCS national championships is proof enough, but the ... Read More

By: Tim Bielik (BleacherReport.com) -- 2007 started with Appalachian State stunning Michigan and ended with LSU beating Ohio State in the buy prescription drugs online Allstate BCS Championship Game. 2007 also saw the freefall of Notre Dame and the emergence of Missouri and Kansas in the Big XII and Illinois in the Big Ten. But for the Buckeyes, 2007 was supposed to be a reloading year. Good, but not elite. As in, potentially looking for a BCS berth. No one would've guessed that Todd ... Read More

By: Tim Bielik (BleacherReport.com) -- With the great senior class departing to the NFL, one might be quick to say that the Buckeyes don't have enough to replace their holes. Another look plus considering past history shows that they will be just fine in 2009. Gone are the Brians: Robiskie and Hartline, along with James Laurinaitis and Marcus Freeman among other talented players. Conventional wisdom tells us that Ohio State will reload as they always have in the Tressel era. Buckeye fans might not also be used ... Read More

By: Nate Wagner (BleacherReport.com) --The haters are out in force this year, Buckeye fans! The hate is in the air and the fingers are on the keyboards as the college football blogospheres light up with disdain for the Scarlet and Gray. I can't help but wonder what it is that really fuels the hatred for this team. I've heard things like, "They are given opportunities." And, "They never earn anything." I'm not even here to debate whether that is the truth or not. I ... Read More

By: Bill Kurelic (ESPN.com) -- The recruiting race is on in the Big Ten. Will Jim Tressel and Ohio State again land the top class in the conference? Will Joe Paterno and Pen State re-establish recruiting dominance in Pennsylvania and also land great prospects from outside the Keystone State? Or will Rich Rodriguez and Michigan take over now that Rodriguez has a full year under his belt? At this time a year ago Tressel had 14 verbal commitments and by the end of last ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- You stick around in college, you get to do some cool things. Ohio State's Evan Turner, who passed up a spot in the first round of the NBA draft to return for his junior year with the Buckeyes, is one of 15 players invited to the 2009 USA Basketball Men's World University Games team training camp in Colorado Springs from June 16 to 24. Only players in college are eligible. From that group, 12 players will be picked ... Read More

By: MICHAEL GRECO (NorwalkReflector.com) -- “I like the idea that people can take a positive message from my situation. The focus from the beginning has been to do something positive from something negative.’’ Those were words Tyson Gentry conveyed to both Norwalk and St. Paul student-athletes during Monday’s Rotary Club awards assembly at the NHS Performing Arts Center. Two athletes from each school — Andrew Woods and Katie May from the Truckers and Adam Pugh and Miranda Allen from the Flyers — were seniors ... Read More

From: BigTenNetwork.com --COLUMBUS, Ohio – On the night before the start of the 2009 Big Ten Baseball Tournament, the Big Ten Conference announced the season's All-Big Ten teams and individual honors, recognizing Ohio State catcher Dan Burkhart as the conference Player of the Year, Indiana's Eric Arnett and OSU's Alex Wimmers as Co-Pitchers of the Year, IU's Alex Dickerson as Freshman of the Year and Buckeye mentor Bob Todd as Coach of the Year. Burkhart becomes the fifth Buckeye to be named ... Read More

By LYNN GROLL (Crescent-News.com) -- COLUMBUS -- Former Defiance High School softball standout Dee Dee Hillman spent four years of her prep career setting the table for the Bulldogs at the top of the lineup and now has taken her show nationally for The Ohio State University softballers. Hillman will be part of history when the Buckeyes take the diamond later in the week at the University of Georgia for a Super Regional showdown with the Bulldogs. "It just shows that hard work pays off," ... Read More

From: BigTenNetwork.com -- COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Down 3-1, the No. 3-seed Ohio State men's tennis team won three-consecutive singles matches to down No. 7-seed UCLA, 4-3, in the national semifinals Monday at the 2009 NCAA Championships. The Buckeyes will now move on to their first national championship final appearance against No. 8-seed USC at 3 p.m. ET Tuesday. The match will be televised live on ESPNU. The semifinal match-point belonged to junior Justin Kronauge at No. 3 singles. The 25th-ranked Kronauge, a 2008 ... Read More