From: ESPN.com news services -- Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor said a routine surgery to strengthen a partially torn posterior cruciate ligament three weeks ago turned into a more extensive procedure once the doctor found unexpected issues. Pryor, who revealed before the Rose Bowl he had been dealing with a slight PCL injury, said Sunday at a team charity event in Columbus, Ohio, that the arthroscopy was performed on his left knee, not the right as the school announced in early February. "We just ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor hasn't yet returned to working out with his teammates since having arthroscopic surgery on his left knee 20 days ago and he's disappointed at missing out. "You lose a type of leadership," Pryor said Sunday at a team charity event. "I laid at home for about five days and then I went in and started to do upper body [workouts]. My upper body got real weak because I was ... Read More

By: AP via WashingtonPost.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor has undergone arthroscopic surgery on his right knee. Team spokeswoman Shelly Poe confirms that Pryor had what she calls routine surgery. She says it will require only minimal rehabilitation and if the Buckeyes had a game next week, Pryor would be available to play. Read More

Form: TheBigLead.com -- In September, when Jim Tressel’s Buckeyes lost at home to USC, Ohio State fell to a troubling 0-6 in recent years against Top 5 opponents. Tressel’s conservative play-calling and the regression of star quarterback Terrelle Pryor roiled Buckeyes fans. Some of the fears were assuaged with a Rose Bowl victory over Oregon, but it didn’t take a month before a new problem enveloped Columbus: Not only is Ohio State’s recruiting class this year down a bit – 18th ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- Terrelle Pryor believes the Ohio State offense in 2010 will look more like the Ohio State offense in the Rose Bowl. But he doesn't blame Jim Tressel for taking it slow with the passing game. Ohio State's Terrelle Pryor on opening up the offense Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor served as the honorary captain for the Ohio State wrestling team as the Buckeyes beat Penn State today. In his first interview since the Buckeyes's Rose Bowl win over ... Read More

By: Daniel Wolf (BleacherReport.com) -- When the announcement was made that USC Trojans' long-time head coach Pete Carroll was leaving the college ranks to go and coach in the NFL for the Seattle Seahawks, every single Buckeyes fan could be heard screaming. Carroll and the Trojans were one of the most decorated and dominant college football programs in the nine years he was head coach. The Trojans always seemed to get the best high school football recruits in the nation and they always beat ... 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: Rob Moseley (The Register-Guard) -- LOS ANGELES — On Monday, the Oregon football team will reunite for a meeting in Eugene. It will be the first day of the winter quarter at the university, and three days since the Ducks dropped a crushing, 26-17 decision to Ohio State in the Rose Bowl. Based on the team’s mood in the locker room Friday, that won’t be nearly enough time for the disappointment of defeat to pass. “Not getting our seniors a win,” junior linebacker Spencer Paysinger ... Read More

By: Gerry Ahern (Yahoo Sports) -- PASADENA, Calif. – Terrelle Pryor took a knee, then flipped the football to a wide-open official. What a fitting way for the mercurial Ohio State quarterback to cap the biggest victory of his young career. What a fitting day for his passing to be at its pinnacle, his decision making at its apex. Pryor threw for a career-best 266 yards and two touchdowns, accounting for 338 yards of total offense in the eighth-ranked Buckeyes’ 26-17 Rose Bowl win over ... Read More

By: John Cupps (BuckeyeCountry.net) -- PASADENA, CA -- Terrelle Pryor lead an impressive game passing for a season-high 266 yards and two touchdowns, rushed for 72 more and threw a 17-yard scoring pass to DeVier Posey with just over seven minutes left in regulation.  The toss to Posey capped off a 13-play, 81-yard scoring drive ending the No. 8 Buckeyes' three-game BCS skid with a dominating  26-17 victory over No. 7 Oregon in the Rose Bowl. "I just wanted to lead the team ... Read More

From: ClevelandLeader.com -- Here is what a number of the Oregon Ducks players and head coach Chip Kelly had to say about the Rose Bowl against the Ohio State Buckeyes on New Year's Day. Head Coach Chip Kelly About Ohio State: We have a lot of respect for them. They have impressive balance on both sides of the ball with no holes anywhere. Their offense is very athletic and can run the ball since they have two talented backs and a great offensive line. ... Read More

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