By: AP via SpringfieldNewsSun.com -

COLUMBUS, Ohio — In many ways, the five-game NCAA suspensions handed to five of Ohio State’s top players and head coach Jim Tressel haven’t had much effect on the team’s spring workouts.

“We’ve stuck together,” linebacker Andrew Sweat said. “Adversity happens. We’re coming together to overcome it.”

All but quarterback Terrelle Pryor are practicing with the team this spring. Pryor is recuperating from foot surgery to repair ligament damage and will not play in the team’s annual intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday.

The other suspended players are leading rusher Dan Herron, top returning receiver DeVier Posey, starting offensive tackle Mike Adams and backup defensive lineman Solomon Thomas. All five will sit out the games against Akron, Toledo, at Miami (Fla.), Colorado and the Big Ten opener against Michigan State for accepting improper benefits from a Columbus tattoo-parlor owner. But they can practice every day with the team up to and after each of those games, including every workout in August.

Herron, nicknamed “Boom,” believes the five can

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