COLUMBUS — Dwayne Haskins is having a spectacular season as the Ohio State quarterback. The redshirt sophomore is a Heisman candidate and has yet to lose a game. His teammates? Well … Saturday’s 49-26 pounding of Indiana kept the third-ranked Buckeyes (6-0 overall, 3-0 in the Big Ten) unscathed, but exposed a multitude of warts. […]
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Meyer, the QB whisperer, has Ohio State at No. 3
So Ohio State beat Penn State on Saturday night, and the sun rose again this morning. One is nearly as consistent as the other with Urban Meyer in Columbus. The Buckeyes are now 6-1 against the Nittany Lions with Meyer on the sidelines, and have done it in a variety of ways, with a variety […]
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Buckeyes rip Tulane, take perfect record to Happy Valley
COLUMBUS — The band is back together again, and Ohio State will need it at full strength heading into next week’s Big Ten Game of the Year at Penn State. On Saturday the fourth-ranked Buckeyes welcomed back coach Urban Meyer from his three-game suspension just in time for a remote-control 49-6 rout of Tulane at […]
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Buckeyes’ defensive scores gouge TCU
Ohio State has long carried the Big Ten banner on the national scene, almost exclusively for the past 20 years. On Saturday it fell to the fourth-ranked Buckeyes again to salvage a bit of conference pride in an otherwise disastrous day. BYU shocked Wisconsin, Troy dumped Nebraska, Northwestern coughed up a huge lead and fell […]
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Buckeyes maul Rutgers, are they ready for TCU?
COLUMBUS — Oh, it was ugly all right. Predictably, utterly, and inevitably ugly, yet again. Ohio State’s 52-3 mugging of Rutgers on Saturday has become so thoroughly routine the Buckeyes’ reserves look like a solid favorite every year to also impale the Scarlet Knights. Remarkably, this was actually an improvement after 58-0 and 56-0 blowouts […]
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Haskins helps Buckeyes chew up Beavers
COLUMBUS — And, they’re off and running and passing and scoring with reckless abandon. The talented but troubled Ohio State football team shrugged off a preseason of turmoil and finally got to focus on the field. On Saturday, a 77-31 destruction of Oregon State showed the fifth-ranked Buckeyes have the firepower to be their dangerous […]
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Ontario’s late rally shocks Lexington
ONTARIO — Chris Miller’s first game as Ontario football coach created quite a memory. The Warriors’ alumnus and former athletics director saw his offense struggle all night, before erupting for 14 points in the final 4:10 to stun Lexington 14-7 in Friday night’s season opener at Copeland Field. “I couldn’t ask for better,” Miller said. […]
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What kind of Urban Meyer will return to Ohio State?
Are you curious about Urban Meyer’s mindset going forward? You’re not alone. After three weeks of relentless media pressure, a two-week investigation by a special independent panel, and a marathon day-into-night meeting of elite power brokers, Ohio State’s football coach was suspended for three games on Wednesday night. Predictably, it was a compromise made to […]
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Sellout crowd salutes Collier Landry’s courage after “A Murder in Mansfield”
MANSFIELD — Retired Mansfield Police Det. Dave Messmore knew he was on to something that chilly January day in 1990 when he approached the front door at 616 Hawthorne Lane in Mansfield. He was there on a missing person case, looking for Noreen Boyle. But he found something else instead. “There was a note taped […]
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Juror recounts life-altering aftermath of Boyle verdict
MANSFIELD — An Ontario man, now living out of state, won’t be able to return home for this weekend’s showing of A Murder in Mansfield at The Renaissance Theatre. Still, the Dr. John Boyle murder trial will never leave Kevin McMahon, because he was a juror on the case. “Judge (James) Henson told us ‘It will follow […]