Nov 6, 2009
By: Adam Rittenberg (ESPN.com) -- Ohio State heads to Penn State on Saturday as the underdog, trying to avoid a loss that would end its run of four consecutive Big Ten titles (won or shared) and four consecutive BCS bowl games.
The Buckeyes are the younger team, the more banged-up team, the team with more question marks and the lower-ranked team. Plus, their Big Ten road win streak is over, snapped in shocking fashion Oct. 17 at Purdue.
But one factor still favors the ... Read More
Nov 6, 2009
By BOB FLOUNDERS (The Patriot-News via PennLive.com) -- Iowa? Fail.
Michigan? Pass. Big-time.
No. 15 Ohio State and quarterback Terrelle Pryor are the next test for Joe Paterno's 11th-ranked Penn State team at Beaver Stadium. And there is every reason to believe this year's game will be similar in style to last year's, a 13-6 rugby scrum that wasn't decided until the Nittany Lions' defense forced two Pryor turnovers in the fourth quarter.
Pryor, the Jeannette prep star who picked OSU over Michigan and Penn ... Read More
Nov 6, 2009
By: Joe Juliano (Philly.com) --
The question stopped Ohio State coach Jim Tressel in his tracks for a few seconds.
"Have you been asked more questions about Terrelle Pryor than anyone you've ever coached?" someone asked on this week's Big Ten coaches' conference call of Tressel, in his 24th season as a college head coach.
After acknowledging that interest in an offensive lineman isn't as great as with a quarterback, Tressel said Pryor, one of the nation's top high school QBs as a senior at ... Read More
Nov 6, 2009
From: USAToday.com --
When Terrelle Pryor passed on nearby Penn State to sign with Ohio State a little less than two years ago, the Buckeyes' first trip to State College was destined to be an emotional homecoming game for Cialis whithout prescription Pryor and for Nittany Lions fans.
The Penn State Marketing Association put together T-shirts to honor the occasion with a lion handing a player in a No. 2 jersey (Pryor's number) a tissue. The tagline "The Nutcracker: A Terrelle Cryer Story."
PSMA president ... Read More
Nov 6, 2009
By: Rusty Miller (AP via RecordPub.com) --
COLUMBUS — Ohio State is 40-8 over the past four seasons, a record that might have most fans of the 15th-ranked Buckeyes flush with confidence heading into Saturday’s game at No. 11 Penn State.
It shouldn’t.
The last six times the Buckeyes have played a team as good or better based on rankings, they’ve lost. No one has to tell the players, either.
“I haven’t led us to a big win yet,” said quarterback Terrelle Pryor, a central figure ... Read More
Nov 5, 2009
By: Genaro C. Armas (AP via Recordpub.com) --
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Lost in the hoopla over Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor’s trip home to Pennsylvania this weekend is the story of how Penn State found its own signal-caller in the Buckeyes’ backyard.
Cool in the pocket and confident in the locker room, Youngstown, Ohio-native Daryll Clark has turned into a star with the No. 11 Nittany Lions (8-1, 4-1 Big Ten).
Pryor’s visit Saturday to Beaver Stadium will be his first since signing ... Read More
Nov 5, 2009
By: AP via SI.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio -A visitor steps inside the door to the Ohio State women's basketball office and is immediately funneled along the left wall of the hallway.
There's not much room to get through. Stacked along the right wall are seven towering Big Ten championship trophies, their shorn nets neatly circling each base.
It might get even tighter in that hallway.
Ohio State, ranked No. 3 in the nation in the Associated Press preseason poll, is loaded with talent. Even though ... Read More
Nov 5, 2009
By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- If Ohio State loses to Michigan this season, blame the uniforms.
The Buckeyes will wear a throwback jersey "with cutting-edge fabrics and technology" against the Wolverines on Nov. 21 as part of a one-time Nike rivalry uniform program, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith announced in a statement Wednesday night.
The official word followed several days of rumors that included Cialis pill whithout prescription former Buckeye football player Brandon Smith posting a photo ... Read More
Nov 5, 2009
By: Doug Dilillo (TheLantern.com) --
When the Ohio State Buckeyes and Penn State Nittany Lions meet on Saturday in Beaver Stadium, there will be more on the line then just Big Ten title implications.
In a matchup that has recently become fierce, the winner will stay alive in the Big Ten race while the loser is left in the dust.
The Big Ten title is ultimately what’s most important, but this game between rivals has story lines that go deeper then trophies and championship rings.
Pryor ... Read More
Nov 4, 2009
By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- At their 25-year reunion, the current Ohio State Buckeyes don't want to be reminiscing about that crazy Wisconsin win -- remember how the offense barely had the ball? -- or the Navy scare or those poundings of Toledo, Illinois and New Mexico State. In 2034, the Penn State Nittany Lions will bore each other if the highlights of their glory days in 2009 center around Temple, Northwestern and Minnesota.
Ohio State is ... Read More