By: Kurt Mews (BleacherReport.com) -- When one thinks about Ohio State and National Titles, they usually assume football! BUT, this year's Ohio State men's basketball squad CAN win it all, and that's not being unrealistic or a product of just wishful thinking.  Here' why; 1. EVAN TURNER: Arguably the best if not one of the top 5 players in the nation, he leads the surging Buckeyes. He can dribble, pass, drive, shoot and has the athletics to dominate the floor. In tight games he can be a ... Read More

From: Vindy.com -- Maurice Clarett is again seeking early release from prison after withdrawing his first request last summer. Clarett, who scored the winning touchdown for the Ohio State Buckeyes in the 2002 national title game, has filed a motion asking a judge to release him. No court date has been set. Clarett, a Youngstown native who graduated from Warren Harding High, still hopes to pursue a football career. Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said on Tuesday he’ll wait for a prison report on Clarett’s conduct ... Read More

From: AP via InsideBayArea.com -- Ohio State's fans showered a half-century of cheers on the 1960 Buckeyes. Then the 2010 edition went out and gave a performance worthy of the school's only national champion, shooting 63 percent from the field Sunday in an 85-63 rout of Minnesota in the Big Ten. Led by stars Jerry Lucas and John Havlicek — along with substitute Bob Knight, who would become the winningest college coach ever — the school's only national championship basketball team received a warm ... Read More

PORTLAND, OR -- Full nude pictures have surfaced on the internet of Portland Trailblazers' star and former Ohio State player Greg Oden.  HuffingtonPost.com first posted on Tuesday that the images have surfaced on WorldStarHipHop.com and that the face in images resemble Oden's, but could not be confirmed at the time. Now HuffingtonPost.com says: Greg Oden, the Blazers center and first overall pick of the 2007 NBA Draft, is sorry about the naked pictures of him that appeared online Tuesday. Oden told the media Tuesday ... Read More

From: BrownsvilleHerald.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — By and large, they were an odd mix, a grab bag of smart small-town and savvy city kids who liked each other as much as they liked punishing opponents. The 1959-60 Ohio State Buckeyes were built around a group of "Super Sophs" featuring the nation’s No. 1 recruit, Jerry Lucas, along with a perpetual-motion machine named John Havlicek. One of the top players off the bench — brash and sure of himself even then — made a name ... Read More

By: Aaron Green (TheLantern.com) -- High School McDonald’s All-American, Big Ten Champion, NCAA Basketball Runner-Up and Ohio State Alumnus are all titles held by former Buckeye Ivan Harris. NBA player is one he hopes to soon add to the list. “Playing in the NBA is my dream,” Harris said. “Hopefully I’ll get the shot at a 10-day contract to see what it’s like.” Harris is currently playing in the NBA Developmental League with the Erie Bayhawks. The NBA D-League is a lower-level league for basketball ... Read More

From: AP via SI.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Mark Titus seldom even gets into a game for No. 21 Ohio State. Incredibly, that hasn't kept him from becoming one of the most popular and famous college basketball players in the nation. How many stars have a blog that has had more than 2.1 million visits? How many guys scoring 20 points a game have produced a video called "The Rainmaker'' for NBA scouts that has gotten more than 115,000 hits on YouTube.com in ... Read More

By: Adam Heasley (BleacherReport.com) -- We have all heard it for the last year and a half. Ohio State's Terrelle Pryor is not a pro style quarterback, he's overrated and some have said he's just not that good. If the 2009 Rose Bowl game against Oregon wasn't enough to silence the critics then I don't know what is. Yes, he's struggled with turning the ball over, not being efficient in the passing game, and not being the leader he should be. Try telling that to ... Read More

From: BleacherReport.com -- With the 2009 season The Ohio State Buckeyes are looking to continue their success into 2010. The key to a potential National Championship run lies in the hands of the most controversial Buckeye to date. The controversy doesn't lie in his abilities, or in off field behavior, but rather with each fan's personal opinion. Pryor has, in my opinion, the most pressure of any recruit in the modern era. He is compared in every way to Vince Young. Every pass, every ... Read More

COLUMBUS - Joe Montgomery, a former New York Giants running back who played for Ohio State (1994-99), has sued the Buckeyes, claiming an 11-year-old falsely-reported medical report was used by the NFL to deny him workers' compension last year. The report said Montgomery suffered from high blood pressure and hay fever. In other Ohio State news: In ESPN.com's Way-Too-Early College Football Top 25, writer Mark Schlabach puts the Buckeyes at No. 2 entering the 2010 season, just behind National Champions Alabama. The Buckeyes might finally ... Read More

By: Jim Naveau (RecoredPub.com)-- COLUMBUS — The standards have been set so high in Ohio State football that it seems like there are only two kinds of off-seasons anymore. There are the off-seasons where people talk about winning a national championship. And then there are off-seasons where people really, seriously talk about winning a national championship. Call them a Category One off-season and a Category Two off-season. With the possibility of as many as 16 starters returning from the OSU team that beat Oregon 26-17 in ... Read More

By: Toledo Blade staff -- LOS ANGELES - It did not take long for the oft-repeated question to come up. For the Ohio State Buckeyes, it is their version of Groundhog Day or dj vu all over again. One of the first inquiries sent Kurt Coleman's way after the Buckeyes faced the media in Southern California sought an explanation from the OSU senior safety as to why the Buckeyes have been unsuccessful in the last three bowl games - two National Championship ... Read More

By: PETE THAMEL (NYTimes.com) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — As a second-grader, when the Ohio State basketball player Mark Titus wrote a poem for Mother’s Day, he decided to needle his mom with a precocious show of sarcasm. “My mother needs NordicTrack, she wears XXL, she needs to call 1-800-94-JENNY,” he wrote, mortifying his teacher. But when the teacher called home to Laura Titus about her son’s “inappropriate behavior,” Mom just laughed. “I just thought, that’s Mark,” she said. Titus is smart enough to be ... Read More