By: BILL WAGNER (HometownAnnapolis.com) -- This was the moment Devin Barclay dreamed about when he retired from professional soccer, enrolled at Ohio State University and joined the football team as an invited walk-on. As darkness descended on Ohio Stadium and 105,455 scarlet and gray-clad fans looked on with nervous anticipation, Barclay trotted onto the field with an opportunity to beat Iowa by making a 39-yard field goal in overtime. In just his second game as the team's starting placekicker, the Annapolis native was being ... Read More

By: LARRY LAGE (Forbes.com) -- ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The Game has lost a lot of luster. Ohio State has beaten Michigan five straight times, its best winning streak and the longest in the series since the 1920s. The ninth-ranked Buckeyes (9-2, 6-2 Big Ten) have already clinched at least a share of their fifth straight conference title and a spot in the Rose Bowl. Michigan (5-6, 1-6) is mired in another miserable year - coming off a school-record nine-loss season - and is nearly a ... Read More

By: Kelly Whiteside (USAToday.com) -- Chad Marshall, a defender with the Columbus Crew and the U.S. soccer team, was a world away from the Horseshoe when he saw his friend Devin Barclay celebrate a very different kind of Goooooooal! A field goal. Marshall was in Bratislava, Slovakia, last Saturday with the U.S. soccer team when he watched online as Barclay, a former pro soccer player, kicked a 39-yard field goal in overtime against Iowa to send Ohio State to the Rose Bowl for the ... Read More

BY: DON HOHLER (NorwalkReflector.com) -- MONROEVILLE – The oldest of Monroeville’s Fab 4 — Logan Stieber — and the No. 1-rated wrestler in the country in all weight classes is heading off to college. Although he still has his senior wrestling season left, Stieber put the seal of approval on a letter of intent Thursday afternoon at Monroeville High School. He will attend The Ohio State University in the fall of 2010, the only school of higher education he even considered. “I grew up rooting ... Read More

By: Adam Rittenberg (ESPN.com) -- As they do every season, Ohio State fans had plenty of burning questions about a Buckeyes running back this fall. Jaamal Berry. They wondered when Berry would see the field, how his injured hamstring was progressing and whether head coach Jim Tressel would end up redshirting the highly touted freshman from Miami. These questions peppered Tressel at his weekly news conference and filled up my inbox. As the wait for Berry continued, it was clear that many Buckeye fans had ... Read More

By: Todd Porter (CantonRep.com) -- COLUMBUS — As a young quarterback develops, there are subtle, often unseen, Buy Cialis Online Without Prescription signs of progress. Little that Terrelle Pryor does goes without being noticed. Few, however, recognized what Ohio State’s sophomore quarterback did late in last week’s win against Iowa. Ohio State senior offensive lineman Jim Cordle did. “He saved my butt,” Cordle said. Early in the fourth quarter of a 10-10 game, the Buckeyes faced a third-and-10 from the Iowa 30. If they didn’t convert, ... Read More

By: JIM O'CONNELL (AP via IdahoStatesman.com) -- NEW YORK — There was so much to talk about after No. 6 North Carolina held on for 77-73 victory over No. 15 Ohio State in the 2K Sports Classic semifinals Thursday night. There was the Tar Heels' big early lead that dwindled to two points in the final minute, something that can happen even to a sixth-ranked team early in the season. There was the exceptional defensive job by Marcus Ginyard on Ohio State's Evan Turner, ... Read More

By: Sean Jackson (Examiner.com) -- Has this rivalry lost its edge? In the 90’s Michigan dominated the Buckeyes. This decade has been owned by the Buckeyes. Coach Jim Tressel is 7-1 against the team up north. For Michigan this game is their season. If they win they’re bowl eligible. It also legitimizes their season and puts head coach Rich Rod in Michigan’s good graces. A team that has nothing to lose is the most dangerous so the Buckeyes will have to be prepared ... Read More

By: Rece Davis (ESPN.com) -- What if a buy rx drugs without prescription tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it? Does it make a noise? In a related story, what if Ohio State and Michigan played Saturday and no one realized it? OK, so maybe people realize they're playing -- at least people in Michigan and Ohio do -- but I can't remember a season in which this game has generated less buzz. Everybody believes their rivalry ... Read More

By: Tim Bielik (BleacherReport.com) -- Saturday in Ann Arbor, the latest installment of The Game is between Ohio State and Michigan. Earlier in the decade, The Game was something special, when both teams were among the elites Viagra Without Prescription in college football, and when the Big Ten title was usually on the line. But lately, the decline of Michigan football has taken some of the luster away from one of the greatest rivalries in all of sports. While the rivalry to the outside world ... Read More

By: MATT MARKEY (ToledoBlade.com) -- COLUMBUS — The Ohio State-Michigan week is a time of orchestrated civility. It is a time when the players and coaches from both sides slobber with compliments about the opposition. No jawing, no trash talking, and no calling anyone out. But former coaches are not bound by these Marquess of Queensberry rules. They have tenure, and a healthy pension, so they are more prone to exercise free speech on hot button topics. Around the halls and locker rooms ... Read More

By: Peter Schrager (FoxSports.com) -- In light of Jay Leno's ratings struggles in his new 10 o'clock timeslot, Newsweek.com posted one of those pithy Internet lists, highlighting 12 "Comics Who Aren't Funny" last week. Tops on the list was comedian Dane Cook. Though I understand where Cook could rub some people in the wrong way, the caffeinated stand-up comedian did just sell out Madison Square Garden, once had over 2.6 million fans on his MySpace page, and has been cast in the leading role ... Read More