OHIO STATE RUMORS & GOSSIP

Ohio State Player Profile – Adam Griffin

Griffin will be in the mix in the 2013 secondary. Let me start out by simply stating the obvious: Adam Griffin is the son of the greatest living Ohio State football player, Archie Griffin. That being said, Adam is an excellent athlete in his own right. You have to be a great athlete to get a scholarship to play in Columbus Ohio. Adam is a 5’8, 183 cornerback who played his high...
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Four-Star LB Dante Booker Jr. Commits To “THE Ohio State University”

There’s some good news for Buckeyes fans today, as Ohio State is getting a big linebacker recruit in the Class of 2014. Ohio State has been all over Dante Booker Jr., who is Ohio home-grown talent from Akron. Today he announced on Twitter that he’d be heading to Columbus for college: Officially commited to THE Ohio State University #BuckeyeNation — Dante Booker Jr. (@D_Book47...
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Mark May Trolls Ohio State Again, Buckeyes Fans Let Him Have It On Twitter

Mark May, ESPN college football analyst and professional Ohio State troll, is back at it again hating on the Buckeyes. Today, May let his Twitter followers know why he didn’t put OSU in his preseason top 10. He posted the below on Facebook, which auto-feeds into his Twitter account. (It’s surprising that he actually figured out how to do that.) Here we have two completely different...
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Ohio State Player Profile – Armani Reeves

A 4 Star recruit out of Catholic Memorial (West Roxbury, MA), Sophomore Cornerback Armani Reeves was a late 2012 commitment to the Buckeyes after decommitting from Penn State following the Sandusky scandal. Reeves joined best friend and high school teammate Camren Williams as commits from what is not normally an Ohio State pipeline out of Massachusetts. The scandal, as well as Urban...
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One of the Many Reason the Michigan/Ohio State Rivalry is Awesome

If you like college football--not just your team, but the game as a whole--then you are more than familiar with one of the most historic and one of the longest rivalries in college football between the Michigan Wolverines and Ohio State Buckeyes. Like most rivals, they don't like each other. Again like most rivals, they don't hold back in making sure the other knows how...
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Ohio State Coach Profile: Kerry Coombs

The true measure of a position coach doesn’t come in his first season on the job. A first-year coach spends his time teaching a new system to new players that he didn’t recruit. What takes place in that first season will likely end up being entirely different than what a unit will look like in that coach’s second or third season. Still, in his first year on the job Ohio State...
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Charlotte man claiming to be Ohio State All-American just a fraud?

Giovanni Strassini has gone to incredible lengths to prove that he played tight end for Ohio State. However, his playing career is more like a giant hoax than anything else.
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The Curious Case of Buckeye Corners

The Buckeye Empire Summer Series continues with a look back at the 2012 season and the cornerback position, Bradley Roby and Travis Howard in particular. In 2012, the Ohio State defense struggled mightily at times on the defensive end and many of those struggles centered around the defensive backfield. At a school sometimes referred to as DBU or CBU-Defensive Back University or Corner...
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Hoax Alert: Some Guy Named Giovanni Strassini Has Been Posing As An Ohio State Football Alum For Years

Charlotte Buckeyes If you weren’t a big-time college athlete, chances are that you probably wish you were. But one guy have may have gone a bit too far in attempting to make that dream a reality. Someone named Giovanni Strassini has been posing as a former Ohio State football player in the Charlotte Buckeyes fan club, claiming he played tight end for the school from 1973-1977,...
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5 days ago  |  Discuss

Ohio State forward Deshaun Thomas says Greg Oden ‘looks unbelievable’ training for an NBA comeback

Ohio State forward Deshaun Thomas told The Oregonian that free agent Greg Oden “looks unbelievable” and everything indicates the gimpy center will attempt a comeback for the 2013-14 campaign. Last undergoing the knife in February 2012, the 25-year-old Oden played a mere 82 games as a member of the Portland Trail Blazers over the course of five injury-plagued seasons. “Man,...
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7 days ago  |  Discuss

Ohio State Football Now Has Its Full 2014 Schedule

College Spun/Antonio Venegas Ohio State football’s entire 2014 schedule is now complete. The Big Ten released its 2014 schedule this morning. The 2014 season will be the first that includes the two newcomers of the Big Ten: Maryland and Rutgers. Because the conference will now have 14 teams, Ohio State will have eight conferences games (six divisional games and two cross-divisional...
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9 days ago  |  Discuss

Buckeyes a tennis powerhouse in a Northern climate

Those who follow college men's tennis closely know that Ohio State has a powerhouse program. Almost no one else does, however - even on the Buckeyes' own campus. ''The college tennis public knows we're a good, solid squad,'' said hard-nosed coach Ty Tucker, a former player for the Buckeyes. ''But I think to be considered the real deal, you'...
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10 days ago  |  Discuss

Ohio State Basketball Offers High School Freshman V.J. King

Since it’s the offseason, the Ohio State basketball coaching staff is working hard on the recruiting trail. Today, the Buckeyes offered (unofficially) a kid who is not only drawing comparisons to LeBron James, but also attends his alma mater: St. Vincent – St. Mary’s in Akron, Ohio. The player is freshman phenom V.J. King.  St. Vincent-St. Mary’s VJ King nabs #OhioState...
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10 days ago  |  Discuss

Ohio State won't beat an SEC team for the next National Championship

Despite the fact that the SEC has won seven straight college football championships, it's becoming trendy to pick other teams to win the next national championship, even if it means a twist in logic. For example, some people seem to think that Ohio State's relatively weak schedule (compared to SEC teams) gives them the advantage and makes them the favorite to win the title...
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15 days ago  |  Discuss

Tressel and Meyer speak at NFF Banquet

WESTLAKE, Ohio - The new Ohio State coach picked up an award from the old Ohio State coach on Tuesday night. Though Urban Meyer accepting the Lee Tressel Award from Lee's son, Jim, grabs attention, theirs was a quick transaction made between smiling parties at the Northeastern Ohio Chapter of the National Football Foundation's Scholar-Athlete Awards banquet. Afterwards, Jim...
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17 days ago  |  Discuss
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