From: Cleveland Plain Dealer -- Head Coach Jim Tressel On playing in the Rose Bowl Game…“I think they are anxious to play in the Rose Bowl. They have heard about the Rose Bowl their entire lives, or at least certainly their entire playing lives. Here at Ohio State is one of the goals that you have and now they are here and they have worked extremely hard. They know they have a very, very good opponent that they are being matched up with ... Read More

By: Mike Tokito (OregonLive.com) -- When Beanie Wells left Ohio State after his junior year last season, it seemed to open the door for his backup, Dan Herron, to slide into the featured runner role. But an ankle injury has kept Herron, a sophomore, from carrying the full online drugs without a prescription load. That, in turn, opened the door for junior Brandon Saine. Now Ohio State goes into its Rose Bowl matchup with both ready go against Oregon. "We love the fact ... Read More

By: Adam Rittenberg (ESPN.com) -- LOS ANGELES -- Nebraska's Ndamukong Suh put the defensive tackle position on the map this season, bull rushing his way to the Heisman Trophy presentation. Suh had the amazing ability to dominate games, namely the Big 12 championship against Texas, from a position that largely goes unnoticed. Anyone who watched Ohio State's matchups with Penn State and USC this fall saw the same type of dominance from Buckeyes defensive tackle Cameron Heyward. The 6-6, 287-pound Heyward often looked like ... Read More

By: John Hunt (OregonLive.com) -- Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor, who said his affinity for Nike gear was a factor in his interest in Oregon, was making another fashion statement Wednesday. Wearing a Cincinnati Reds cap after showing up in a Florida Marlins cap Monday, Pryor also sported some Jay-Z black glasses. “That’s how some of my cousins wear em, down in Pittsburgh and Cleveland,’’ said Pryor, who was also wearing some lowtop black Chuck Taylors. “It’s not because of any famous people, I ... Read More

By: LARRY PHILLIPS (MansfieldNewsJournal.com) -- Woody Hayes didn't make a favorable impression in his first Rose Bowl trip, but his team certainly did. The top-ranked Buckeyes completed a national championship season by thumping USC 20-7 amid a Pasadena, Calif., rainstorm. Ohio State offered a workmanlike performance in a quagmire. Hayes' reaction to the opponent and the muddy Rose Bowl surface was, well, smug. When asked to compare the Trojans to teams in his conference, he jumped to the bait. "There were four or five Big Ten ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- LOS ANGELES -- Casey Matthews is the third son of former Browns legend Clay buy antibiotics online Matthews to play college football. Well, at least he is when he's still his dad's son. Coached by his father in both Pop Warner football and at Oaks Christian High School in Southern California, Casey said on good football days his father claimed him and on other days, he called him his mother's son. "It was mostly after practices," Matthews ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- Mark Helfrich, the Oregon offensive coordinator, today offered a quick glimpse into the different offensive philosophies that will be on display in the Rose Bowl. I told Helfrich that a coach had once said the first job of the offense is to not put the defense in a bad position. I neglected to mention it was Ohio State's Jim Tressel that espoused this idea. What is the take of Oregon, and head coach Chip Kelly, on the ... Read More

By: Molly Gray (TheLantern.com) -- For the three Ohio State captains and defensive leaders, anticipation for Friday’s game is four years in the making. For Austin Spitler, Doug Worthington and Kurt Coleman, the Rose Bowl will be their last game as Buckeyes and they are ready to leave their legacy behind with a victory in one of the most historic and traditional games in all of football. “You wouldn’t want any other surroundings as your last game than the Rose Bowl and the tradition and ... Read More

By: Adam Rittenberg (ESPN.com) -- A glance at Oregon's rushing statistics this season should strike fear in any defensive coordinator facing the Ducks. Starting running back LaMichael James averages 6.9 yards a carry. Starting buy prozac quarterback Jeremiah Masoli averages 5.7 yards a carry. Backup running back Kenjon Barner averages 5.6 yards a carry. And then there's LeGarrette Blount, who in 2008 set a school record among 1,000-yard rushers by averaging 7.3 yards a carry. As a team, Oregon averages a whopping ... Read More

By: COURTNEY ALBON (Times-Gazette.com) -- The Wednesday before Ohio State University's first football game of the 2009 season, hundreds of would-be marching band members crammed into a music room awaiting their fate. It was the end of a two-day intensive tryout that was -- for the most dedicated of the group -- the culmination of a summer spent squeezing marching and music rehearsals into whatever time available. The director stood in the front of the room, reading the names of the 225 who made ... Read More