By: Debbie Henthorn (AssociatedContent.com) — COMMENTARY: Just as Ohio State University celebrated its athletic programs earning high marks on the NCAA’s Academic Progress Report, some more disturbing news about football coach Jim Tressel has arrived.

The Columbus Dispatch reported the football team scored a 971 APR in the 2009-2010 school year with a four-year average of 985. This figure is higher than the national four-year average of 946. The NCAA annually assesses Division I schools in areas such as grades, retention and graduation rates.

The academic achievement won’t be enough to soften the next expected blow to Tressel’s reputation as the next edition of Sports Illustrated hits the stands Tuesday, May 31.

During the second hour of Tuesday’s “Common Man and The Torg” on Columbus radio station 97.1 The Fan, the hosts reported that “the Sports Illustrated editors are salivating” about the article written by George Dohrmann. The weight of the article hinges on Dohrmann’s reputation as an investigative journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. That article exposed the gamut of academic fraud at the University of Minnesota when he was with the St. Paul Pioneer Press…….

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