On the eve of greatness. Beewunngee. Something has occurred to me that I have to believe has occurred to many other Buckeye fans throughout the year.  There doesn't seem to be all that "conference arrogance" during the current basketball season, like has been seen so recently de...

In today's Skull Session, Nicholas reported on Jim Delany's idle threat to move the entire Big Ten to Division III. I agree with Nicholas that it is a ridiculous proposition. He makes several points - bulleted, in fact... Here are a few other problems with the supposed voluntary transiti...

Preview by Curt Heinrichs Impending fatherhood has kept me from doing a more complete (and prompt) recap of the Big Ten Championships, and here’s hoping I’ll get to recap this weekend’s NCAA tournament for those that are unable to watch it, but if my wife goes into labor anytime s...

What a difference eight games can make... Feeling somewhat like a sinner following a miraculous conversion experience, I find myself singing the indelible line from Amazing Grace: "I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see." Thad Matta is a helluva basketball coach. Fo...

A while back, I made a comment about Coach Coombs being my Algebra teacher my freshman year in High School. Jason asked if I would be willing to share my experience and share a couple of stories, so I reached out to some of my old classmates for their best Coombs anecdotes. The stories they shared w...

According to many Michigan fans, Urban Meyer runs a dirty program filled with arrest issues. Michigan on the other hand is a clean program where their student-athletes perform with the upmost integrity, rarely if ever running afoul of the law. http://michigan.247sports.com/Board/59424/OU-Getting-R...

The curious case of Wally the Walrus Jim Bollman and recent rumors/news regarding defensive guru Jim Heacock got me thinking about Ohio State coaches of olde; specifically, the men who coached at Ohio State during the tenure of Senator James Patrick Tressel. "Where are they now?" I p...

Sunday High St. restaurants began accepting blocks (meal plan units) in students' dreams. A frat house felt like it needed to take a shower. Luke Fickell was hired as interim pope. And the collective campus self esteem went down 35% following the Arnold Classic. Monday Ohio Stat...

Preview by Curt Heinrichs This weekend, the Buckeye wrestling team will take the next step towards earning a National Title when they compete in the toughest conference tournament in the sport, the Big Ten Tournament. Since the NCAA released the number of automatic qualifiers for the national tourn...

A nice article about Aaron Craft on ESPN, written by Wayne Drehs. I don't know if anyone else has had a chance to read this, but this is an incredibly well written article on Aaron Craft. A must read. I have been a fan of his since he came to tOSU. It seems that finally the national press is st...

What a great win last night!  I was very impressed with the effort from the Scarlet and Gray.  After the victory I was thinking about the Buckeyes' split versus the top teams in the conference.  The Buckeyes have gone 1-1 versus each of the top four teams outside of our favorite...

Winning a single Ohio High School State title puts a wrestler in elite company. With each successive title, the wrestler finds himself (or herself) in even rarer air than the year before. This past Saturday, Buckeye wrestling commits Nathan Tomasello and Bo Jordan each joined the elite when they bot...

SUNDAY Ohio State basketball defeated that school up north state. Michigan State realized that turning A.C. on actually only made it hotter. A TFL analysis determined that OSU would be a 5 or 4 or 3 or 2 or 1 seed. An otherwise rational student walked directly into North Commons. And the Osc...

Please post your crocodile tears here for our best friends up North after losing to the worst team in the conference.  I had to check that twice to make sure I saw that box score correctly.  I'm thinking there are at least 3, maybe 5 teams that could win the Big 10 tournament.  Il...

In a relatively  unknown apocalyptic fiction, a fat little man cowers, terrified and trembling before Julian Beliano...the devil himself.  Amused at the large beads of sweat dotting the fat little man's face and soaking up an increasingly larger area of shirt, the devil leans across th...

First, read this: Sources tell us Jim Bollman is expected to accept the Michigan State OC job — FootballScoop Staff (@footballscoop) February 27, 2013 Press play. Wait for the music to begin. Sing along: Sparty doesn't know, That Jim Bollman...

To read a couple of California newspaper columnists last week, you would think that California men's basketball coach Mike Montgomery is the devil, a child abuser, responsible for global warming, and a bad dancer. You've surely seen the video by now: in Cal's Feb. 17 takedown of USC...

Before I get into this - caution: nerd alert.  That said, there have been a few thread topics floating around the last few months about another undefeated season next year.  A common argument that such a season is likely seems to be "show me a game we are going to lose" or someth...

Sunday Thad Matta desperately asked DeShaun Thomas how tall his son was during the under-8 break in Wisconsin’s basketball beatdown of Ohio State. Following the road loss, the team’s plane missed 13 consecutive attempts before finally hitting the landing strip. And a high scho...

I was reading responses in a forum earlier regarding the age old argument that Michigan leads the all-time series vs. Ohio State, although Ohio State has owned that team up north over the last decade and in fact has been the dominant team in the modern era.  So I decided to spend my Sunday m...