Six Keys For An Ohio State Title Run

So many things go into a championship season. The ball must bounce your way more often than not, you have to avoid major injuries to key personnel, and you have to have some help. Even if you take care of your own business, sometimes that’s not enough to get you into the national championship game [...]

Time For Ohio State To Prove It’s The Best

I’m not usually in the habit of posting my columns from Buckeye Sports Bulletin here on my blog. However, I have received several emails asking me to reprint the column I wrote for our Football Preview issue.

Evidently, people liked it and wanted me to share with those who may not have seen it. Here [...]

Happy Birthday, Archie!

In honor of Archie Griffin, who celebrates his 54th birthday today, here is another excerpt of my book, “When Legends Were Made: Ohio State Buckeyes.”

The book, which should be in bookstores next month, contains 20 chapters each devoted a player or coach and the one game that transformed him into a Buckeye legend. Archie’s chapter [...]

Snell Fondly Remembered By Two Fan Bases

Before he ran to fame as a member of the New York Jets in Super Bowl III, Matt Snell was a battering-ram of a fullback at Ohio State in the early 1960s.

Snell, who celebrates his 67th birthday today, was born Aug. 18, 1941, in Garfield, Ga., and spent most of the first part [...]

Ranking OSU’s All-Time Tight Ends

Everyone over at the Ohio State training camp is busy getting ready for the 2008 season opener, now only 15 days away. (Seems like we were in New Orleans only a couple of weeks ago, but I digress.)

The buzz of camp, of course, is the arrival of freshman quarterbacking whiz Terrelle Pryor, a 6-6, [...]

Woody’s Take On Recruiting

There is a school of thought these days that college football recruiting began in earnest just a few years ago. Some of those same people believe legendary head coach Woody Hayes had no sense of humor.

Both accepted principles are actually fiction.

While it is true that recruiting has experienced a huge explosion in popularity with the [...]

Top 10 College Football Coaches

While on vacation last week, I visited one of my favorite Southwest Florida establishments and overhead a discussion about college football coaches. Being in SEC country, most of the argument centered on coaches from the conference that has won the last two national championships.

One guy was absolutely convinced that Florida head coach Urban Meyer [...]

Superstar In Hoops, Baseball, Medicine

One of the finest scholar-athletes in Ohio State history celebrates his 76th birthday today and chances are most of you have never heard of Paul Ebert. That is probably because he long ago stepped away from a successful athletic career to become one of the world’s foremost cardiologists.

Born Aug. 11, 1932, in Columbus, Paul Allen [...]

My Preseason Top 25 College Football Teams

 
’Tis  the season for preseason prognostications and I guess I’m no different.  

 After some careful analysis – not to mention some serious soul-searching – I have come up with my preseason top 25 for college football.
 
The most popular picks du jour come from the Southeastern Conference, of course. That is because the SEC is working on [...]