By: THOMAS ST. MYER (TheStarPress.com) - When Ohio State baseball coach Bob Todd announced last month his intention to resign at the end of the season, the name Greg Beals popped up on websites as a potential replacement. Friday, the Ball State baseball coach traveled to Columbus, Ohio to interview for the vacancy. "I can confirm that Ohio State invited me over and I spent the day (Friday) interviewing for the job," Beals told The Star Press on Saturday afternoon. "The players knew I ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) --  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Nebraska is prepared to join the Big Ten, according to multiple reports. Though the school issued a statement Wednesday night declaring that a decision had not already been made, the Nebraska Board of Regents has added a discussion of conference affiliation to Friday's scheduled meeting. It's then that the Big Ten could officially expand from 11 teams, maybe stopping at 12 teams for now, or maybe continuing with ... Read More

By: Tim Bielik (BleacherReport.com) -- Expansion fever seems to finally be finding its footing, as Nebraska will in all likelihood find a home in the Big Ten. With the Huskers being one of possibly a handful of teams about to join the Big Ten Conference, one thing that is being largely overlooked is the effect this process has on the rivalries in the conference. The most specific of these might be the greatest rivalry in college football if not sports: Ohio ... Read More

From: AP via LancasterEagleGazette.com -- COLUMBUS -- After losing $148,000 a year ago, Ohio State's athletic department will bank $23,400 for the 2009-10 fiscal year, according to numbers disclosed Thursday to The Associated Press by athletic director Gene Smith. Smith said the surplus came because of cost hold-downs and revenue increases in concessions and royalties. "We had a good year," Smith said. "There were some revenue increases in certain categories, but the expenditure controls by our unit managers ... Read More

From: BallStateSports.com -- Ball State steps out of Mid-American Conference play Wednesday evening as it travels to Big Ten foe Ohio State for a 6:35 p.m. first pitch at Jim Davis Stadium ... The Cardinals enter the contest with a 24-23 overall record and sit alone atop of the MAC standings with a 15-6 record ... BSU has won all seven of its MAC weekend series, including taking two out of three at Western Michigan in a ... Read More

From: Cleveland Plain Dealer -- Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany announced in December that the venerable conference would consider expanding to 12 or more teams, starting a buzz that continues to echo through the world of major college sports. Delany said it would probably take 12 to 18 months for the Big Ten to make a decision on such a move. The consideration of such an event is, of course, rooted in money. The conference has its own cable television Big Ten ... Read More

By: Damen Jackson (Examiner.com) -- Alex Wimmers pitched seven innings of one-run ball, and Ohio State used three home runs to bash their way to an 11-1 victory over the Northwestern Wildcats Friday at Rocky Miller Park. The 2010 home opener proved problematic from the start as Wildcats starter Francis Brooke (3-2) would give up four runs in the first inning off of a series of very hard hit balls by the Buckeyes (15-7, 1-0), including a Zach Hurley solo home run. Manager Paul Stevens ... Read More

From: BigTenNetwork.com -- JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Ohio State head coach Bob Todd picked up the 1,000th win of his career, a 20-9 victory over Richmond Sunday afternoon in Jacksonville, Fla. The ABCA Hall of Famer became just the 41st head coach in college baseball history to achieve the feat. "I have been in coaching for a long time and had some very talented players and assistant coaches," Todd said. "To win 1,000 is a great honor for me." ­­12 Buckeyes had an RBI in the ... Read More

From: OhioStateBuckeyes.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State student-athletes combined to serve the Columbus community with 6,496 hours of community service at 117 local organizations, schools and events during the 2008-09 season. Leading the way was the cheerleading team with an outstanding 1,671 hours, followed by the football team with 799 hours and the men's track and field team in third with 728. A total of eight teams clocked in with over 200 hours, including men's lacrosse (389), wrestling (328), rowing (276.5), women's hockey ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State's men's basketball team couldn't go to Italy. Otherwise, Ohio State's nearly $120 million athletic department has navigated the current economic climate while barely breaking stride. Forecasted to lose money during the 2008-09 fiscal year that ended on June 30, it turns out that the OSU athletic department did suffer a rare loss, but of only $148,026. That included a previously pledged $1 million donation to the school library. Stiff the library and ... Read More

By: Brian Lavrich (Sun News via Cleveland.com) -- Tim Wetzel is realizing his lifelong dream of becoming a Buckeye. The Mayfield center fielder has orally committed to playing for Ohio State University following his senior year. "I've wanted to go to Ohio State ever since I started playing ball," Wetzel said. "Especially coming from northeast Ohio. People are always telling me they (Ohio State) doesn't recruit up here, you have to go down south. I have to give a lot of credit to coach ... Read More

From: BizJournals.com -- Ohio State University’s athletics programs generated the second-highest revenue total of any college in the nation during the 2007-08 school year, according to a report released Monday in Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal. The sister publication to Columbus Business First, citing Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act forms, found that Buckeye sports brought in $118 million in the school year ended June 2008, second only to the University of Texas at $120.3 million. Ohio State was one of only three college athletics ... Read More

By: John Bombatch (MiddletownJournal.com) -- MIDDLETOWN — Thanks to the rewards of an endowment fund started six years ago, the Ohio State University Alumni Club of Butler County can reward five area high school seniors with a combined $4,300 in scholarships at its annual banquet on Thursday, June 11, at the Manchester Inn. “We started the fund in December of 2003 at Ohio State,” explained club president Al Kulick. “This is the second year where the endowment fund is paying back. Since we’re earning ... Read More