Harmon chooses to stay close to home

Categories: BUCKEYE COUNTRY

By SEAN GOLDEN (LancasterEagleGazette.com) - PICKERINGTON - Give Emilee Harmon credit for having some flair to go along with her basketball prowess. After the Pickerington Central junior set up a meeting with Ohio State women's basketball coach Jim Foster and his staff on Monday, she and her father, Larry, created a T-shirt that sported three words important to her and Ohio State's basketball future. When Harmon removed her jacket at the meeting, she revealed the shirt that brought to an end her recruiting ... Read More

Manson Masterful in 3-2 Illini Win Over Buckeyes

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(From CSTV.com) - ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Kevin Manson was nearly unhittable against fifth-seeded Ohio State, tossing a four-hit complete game, and second baseman Joe Bonadonna hit the game-winning home run, the first of his career, to lift fourth-seeded Illinois to a 3-2 win in the opening game of the 2008 Big Ten Tournament at the Wilpon Baseball Complex. Both runs OSU scored were unearned as Manson struck out four and faced just four batters more than the minimum in the Illini's ... Read More

Carroll, Tressel helped define first 10 years of BCS era

Categories: FOOTBALL

By Mark Schlabach (ESPN.com) - The first 10 years of college football's BCS era were defined by great plays and great players. Texas quarterback Vince Young's burst into the end zone against USC. Boise State's hook-and-lateral and Statue of Liberty. Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett's stripping the football from Miami's Sean Taylor. But players come and go annually. The men who stand on college football's sidelines are the ones who usually stand the test of time (unless your school hired Bobby ... Read More

2008 Ohio State Football Preview: Third Time the Charm for Buckeyes?

Categories: FOOTBALL

By: Scott Miles (BleacherReport.com) - Looking to erase the stigma of two national title game failures is first and foremost on the minds of the Buckeyes this season. Even with a combined record of 33-5 the past three years, Ohio State has faced national ridicule. Coming off of an 11-2 season and a surprising BCS title game appearance - no OSU fan in their right mind expected a young and inexperienced squad to get that far, so thanks to every other program ... Read More

Buckeyes smother Cornell into submission

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By Brian Delaney (theithacajournal.com) - ITHACA — Rarely, in a postseason meeting of two teams deemed to be relatively even in strength and skill, does the combination of near-flawless execution and near-self-destruction clash as prominently as it did on Saturday. Left nursing wounds both mentally and physically was Cornell, the bearers of a 15-7 whipping by Ohio State in front of 3,159 stunned fans — and a nationally televised audience — at somber Schoellkopf Field in an NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Tournament first-round ... Read More

Ohio State president sure could use a reality check

Categories: FOOTBALL

“We will not cross that line and get onto the slippery slope …”
- E. Gordon Gee

By: Bob Wolfley (jsonline.com) - There are times you are convinced some people are viewing a world so different from the one you see that they must inhabit some alternate universe. One of those times came this week. E. Gordon Gee, the president of Ohio State University, told the Columbus Dispatch why he is against the plus-one playoff proposal made by Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive. "We will not cross that line and get onto the slippery slope: the professional-ization of college football and a ... Read More

Baseball Falls Short To Ohio State, 8-1

Categories: BUCKEYE COUNTRY

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Marshall University's Ben Jurevicius collected his second triple of the year but five doubles and two home runs paced Ohio State to an Buy Levitra Online Without Prescription 8-1 victory over the Thundering Herd in Wednesday evening's non-conference baseball game at Bill Davis Stadium. With the loss, Marshall falls to 24-25-1 overall, while Ohio State improves to 25-21 on the year. Following Marshall's at-bat in the top of the sixth inning, the game was called due to inclement ... Read More

Semesters . . . at Ohio State?

Categories: BUCKEYE COUNTRY

By: Doug Lesmerises(Cleveland Plain Dealer) - Columbus- Ohio State could be prepared to switch from the quarter system medicine without prescription to a semester-based academic calendar in the next few years, and the change could save a few basketball scholarships. Dr. E. Gordon Gee has been in favor of the change since his first tenure at Ohio State and reiterated the stance when he returned last fall. The athletic department would seem to favor that move, aware that the current ... Read More

Ohio State Announces Additions

Categories: MEN's BASKETBALL

COLUMBUS, Ohio--Jeremie Simmons, a 6-foot-2-inch sophomore guard from Mott Community College in Flint, Mich., and Nikola Kecman, a 6-9 freshman forward from Eastern Arizona College, signed NCAA National Letters of Intent to play for the Buckeyes starting with the 2008-09 season, Thad Matta, head coach of the Buckeyes, announced Wednesday. “We are excited with the addition of another frontcourt and backcourt player,” Matta said. “Nikola gives us size with the ability to step out on the perimeter and shoot the ball. Jeremie ... Read More

10 Reasons not to Hate the 90s

Categories: BUCKEYE COUNTRY, FOOTBALL

By Michael Amman (uweekly.com) - John Cooper was recently accepted into the College Football Hall of Fame, which is probably likely to raise a few eyebrows from Buckeye fans who feel that his was a period of shame for the Scarlet and Gray. The John Cooper era was marked with great success on the macro scale, but featured what a lot of fans consider an unforgivable 2-10-1 record against Michigan, as well as a disappointing 3-7 record in bowls (3-8 counting the ... Read More