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TheeOSU: A Look Into The Two Year Terrelle Pryor Window
Much has been made about tOSU and their chances of making it back to the BCS championship game after a brief hiatus. The talk centers around two things, their Germans marching in the shade trees of the French countryside schedule, where their only real road test is taking on Wisconsin at Camp...
Deconstructing Dohrmann, Or When A Narrative Crumbles
~The lie consists only in the exaggerations, linguistic affectations and half-truths that try to pass themselves off as whole truths.~ José Saramago Narratives are funny things. The backbone of fiction, narratives provide a path for the reader, connecting events and characters, themes and...
The Capone Syndrome: How An Avoidable Mistake May Bring Down Tressel's Reign at Ohio State
Looking back on one of the most ferocious criminals in United States history, it's almost comical how he was taken down. For years, Al Capone had beaten back every attempt by the FBI, the Chicago Police, and all manner of state and federal law enforcement to pin him to the series of crimes he...
Jim Tressel Is Safe and Bruce Feldman Is Wrong, an Examination of Where the Case Stands
Immediately after the Columbus Dispatch released the "notice of allegations" presented to Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee by the NCAA on Friday, media prognosticators, including the very boisterous Kirk Herbstreit, began loudly proclaiming the end of the Jim Tressel era in Columbus. Bruce...
If Reggie Bush Didn't Exist, Does Penn State Win The 2005 National Championship?
You may have heard something about this: The university was put on four years' probation, while the football program was hit with a two-year postseason ban and the men's basketball team was banned for one year from the postseason, which had already been self-imposed by the school. ... The...
The Aughts in Review: A Few Words About Poisonous Nuts From Ohio
Continuing our look back at the decade that was in Iowa football, celebrating the highs and the lows -- and, hopefully, distracting us from the ongoing disaster that is Iowa basketball. This series looks back at Iowa's results across the entire decade against every Big Ten foe, as well as Iowa...
Summation: Ohio State in the Aughts
This continues our series recapping the last ten seasons in the Big Ten. 1. Overview "Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks." When Ovid penned these simple, and infamous words in Remedia Amoris, he could have had a distinctive decade in Ohio State football in mind. A...
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