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Back in the good, old days – way before Al Gore invented the Internets and you could use the Google to look up anything you wanted – members of the media covering Big Ten football were members of an elite group known as the Skywriters.
Each fall, this group of about 20 or so writers would [...]
A whirlwind trip late last week to Chicago for the annual Big Ten Media Day and Kickoff Luncheon put a severe crimp in the blog. And trying to squeeze a vacation in before football season gears up in earnest will limit the number of entries over the next couple of weeks.
But while I’m still [...]
Most Ohio State football fans believe legendary coach Woody Hayes was an astute evaluator of talent. You don’t win 205 games (238 overall) and a handful of national championships without knowing a good prospect when you see him.
Still, Hayes was always the first to admit that he didn’t bat 1.000 when it came to plugging [...]
In honor of Troy Smith, who celebrated his 24th birthday yesterday, here is an excerpt of my book, “When Legends Were Made: Ohio State Buckeyes.”
While all other 19 chapters are devoted to one player or coach and the one game that transformed him into a Buckeye legend, Troy’s chapter deals with his performances in the [...]
If you really want to get an argument going among Ohio State fans, try coming up with a list of the best receivers in school history and then start ranking them.
In trying to pare the list down to a personal top 10, I started with a list of nearly two dozen, each of whom [...]
Since there is now less than 50 days before the kickoff of the Big Ten season, here are some things about each of the conference football teams that maybe you didn’t know.
ILLINOIS
Ron Zook’s squad reeled off nine victories last year, ended Ohio State’s record conference winning streak in the process, and earned a trip [...]
Every couple of weeks so far this summer, someone has foisted the idea that if the Ohio State football team loses even one game this fall, the Buckeyes will be passed over when it comes time to hand out invitations for the BCS National Championship Game.
I can envision such a scenario, especially if there a [...]
The fraternity of head coaches in the Big Ten features a cross-section of men, most of whom have Midwestern upbringings. Four of the 11 coaches were born in Ohio while four others were raised in states with Big Ten schools.
That’s where the similarities end, however. There are widely divergent philosophies among the Big Ten coaches, [...]
Hoopeston sounds like the perfect place to spawn anyone aspiring to a basketball career. Trouble is, the Illinois community’s name is a bit of a misnomer.
The tiny town on the border with Indiana was named for Thomas Hoopes, one of the men who donated land for a railroad crossing that helped Hoopeston farmers get their [...]
Sweeping 10 of the top 15 players in Ohio, four top players from Pennsylvania and a couple more from Florida made Jim Tressel a happy man on national signing day in 2004. In all, the Buckeyes signed 23 prospects to letters of intent and earned a seventh-place ranking as far as the national recruiting experts [...]
