By: MATT MARKEY (ToledoBlade.com) -- Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel travels to a lot of places to find talented players, and to meet quality people who are interested in supporting the Buckeyes. Those endeavors keep bringing him back to northwest Ohio. Tressel, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith, and their wives were in Toledo Wednesday night for a fund-raising scholarship dinner, and Tressel said the passion for the Buckeyes he encountered at the even is part of ... Read More

By WALTER DOERSCHUK (The-Press-News.com) -- It's only the end of July, but the Ohio State Buckeyes can already hear "OH-IO" as they prepare for the upcoming college football season. Devon Torrence, a 2007 Canton South High School graduate, is entering his senior year on the Ohio State football team. He has thoroughly enjoyed his time as a Buckeye. “It's been a great opportunity for me,” Torrence said. “I am truly blessed to play at Ohio State.” “It's crazy it has gone ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- Former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett, who helped lead Ohio State to the 2002 national championship before spending more than three years in prison for aggravated robbery and carrying a concealed weapon, is taking classes again Ohio State. Clarett, 26, enrolled for the start of a summer session that began on Monday, with his major listed as Consumer and Family Financial Services. In a statement released through the university, Clarett said, ... Read More

BY: MATTHEW HORN (TheNews-Messenger.com) -- Good things come to those who wait. That doesn't mean something great can't come in the meantime. Woodmore graduate Ben St. John recently received a letter from Ohio State's football program illustrating this. St. John, an offensive lineman, anticipated he might not be called to work out with the Buckeyes until after the first game against Marshall but instead received the letter this month inviting him to report to camp Aug. 4. "I'm just ... Read More

By: TOM WILLIAMS (Vindy.com) -- Long-time Pittsburgh Pirates fans remember how the struggling baseball team once tried to cover up sparse attendance at Three Rivers Stadium by placing tarps over most of the outfield upper-deck seats. When state football championship games return to Ohio Stadium in 2014, the Ohio High School Athletic Association plans to utilize a similar concept in an effort to create intimacy in the 105,000-seat facility. That’s because some of the games might have fewer than ... Read More

By: Molly Gray (TheLantern.com) -- ESPN reporter Erin Andrews filed a lawsuit Thursday against Ohio State doing business as the Blackwell Inn for negligence, emotional distress and invasion of privacy as part of a larger suit against two additional hotels and the man that published nude footage of the television reporter last year. “The university disagrees with Ms. Andrews’ claims and we will defend the claims through the court process,” said Jim Lynch, director of Media Relations for ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — Imagine Ohio State vs. Nebraska at Cleveland Browns Stadium on Dec. 3, 2011, in the inaugural Big Ten Championship game. David Gilbert, president of the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission, can see it. We don't go after an event if we don't believe it belongs in Cleveland," Gilbert said this week. The Big Ten hasn't even officially announced that it definitely will create a football championship game, so the conference certainly hasn't ... Read More

From: LancasterEagleGazette.com -- LEXINGTON -- It didn't take long for Marcus Freeman to fall into character as a football coach. He got down at eye level with his players, counting off the pushups as they hit the antibiotics buy online ground at the end of each drill. "If I tell you to pick your nose, pick your nose," barked the former Ohio State linebacker as his troops -- a bunch of grade-schoolers -- hung on his every word. "OK, everybody clap!" This group wasn't ... Read More

By: Todd Jacobs (Suite101.com) -- With little over a month until the first kickoff of the 2010 NCAA College Football season, there are few surprises with the Las Vegas odds to win BCS title. The Las Vegas Hilton Superbook released the odds to win the 2011 BCS Championship Game in January of this year and the odds on a few teams have been bet down as of July 15th but most teams at the top, such as the ... Read More

From: BleacherReport.com -- The 2002 national championship game is controversial because Ohio State won by a referee’s bad call. Not a missed call, a bad call. It came four seconds after the game ended, while the Hurricanes were celebrating victory. If it were a blatant penalty in a big game, a flag would have been thrown immediately. Miami fans agree it was a bad call. Ohio State fans rationalize that the referees missed a call earlier in the ... Read More