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Ohio State wrestling gears up for Big Ten and NCAA Championships

Ohio State wrestling coach Tom Ryan said he gets the sense that this season, his team is doing big things. "Despite the fact that we've got so many young people on the team, I think there's great leadership and a great sense of this group leaving a legacy here," Ryan said. Full story

Ohio State men's hockey looks to end struggles against Western Michigan

The Ohio State men's ice hockey team ended its double-digit winless streak at Western Michigan with a 3-0 win Nov. 24, 2007. This weekend, OSU will look to repeat the success it had in Kalamazoo, Mich., more than four years ago. The No. 15-ranked Buckeyes (14-10-5, 10-9-5-1 CCHA), winless in their past 10 games, take on No. Full story

Ohio State softball says ‘WTF’ on eve of 2012 season

After earning an unsatisfying 14-37 record last year, the Ohio State softball team has developed a new, inspirational motto as the 2012 season opens on Friday: "WTF." "We've thrown that out a lot, with a more politically correct meaning than it usually has," said coach Linda Kalafatis. Full story

Ohio State men’s lacrosse looks to ‘win the conference’ in 2012

For the Ohio State men's lacrosse team, it's all about taking it one game at a time. Cliché as it might seem, with a schedule that includes defending national champion Virginia, and multiple other teams in the Nike/Inside Lacrosse Top 20 Poll, coach Nick Myers and his team said they have to. Full story

Ohio State women's ice hockey tries to make up ground vs. Gophers as conference playoffs approach

With just four games left in the regular season, the Ohio State women's ice hockey team is fighting for position in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings. The team, tied for fourth place with the University of Minnesota-Duluth, is hoping to separate itself from UMD in order to gain home-ice advantage for the conference playoffs. Full story

No. 3-ranked Buckeyes avoid Boilermakers' burn

Seven-hundred-twenty days. That’s how long it has been since Feb. 17, 2010, when the Ohio State men's basketball team lost a home game to Purdue. It was the last time the Buckeyes lost a home game coming into Tuesday’s matchup against the Boilermakers. Keep counting. Full story

Commentary: E. Gordon Gee warming up to change in college football

The winds are changing. With multiple reports saying the Big Ten Conference is considering a four–team playoff in college football, you can consider some form of a playoff system in college football an inevitability. "We have to listen to the fans; we cannot be tone-deaf," Northwestern director of athletics and recreation Jim Phillips told the Chicago Tribune on the matter. Full story

Ohio State men's ice hockey 'desperate,' not panicking

On a 10-game winless streak with four games left in the regular season and one of its top players suspended, one might think it is time for the Ohio State men's ice hockey team to start panicking. OSU senior defenseman and co-captain Sean Duddy said otherwise. Full story

Ohio State men's basketball counterfeit ticket problems reaches levels 'never experienced'

The Ohio State athletic department has dealt with counterfeit tickets for football games in the past, but the recent uptick in counterfeits surfacing at the Schottenstein Center turnstiles for men's basketball is a new challenge. "It's a problem we've dealt with for several years regarding football and we feel like we've taken a lot of measures to address those situations," OSU's senior director of ticketing, Brett Scarbrough, told The Lantern Monday. Full story

Prahalis' career-best scoring helps Buckeyes beat Badgers

Senior guard Samantha Prahalis scored a career-high 34 points to lead the No. 11 Ohio State women’s basketball team to a 72-58 victory over the Wisconsin Badgers (4-7, 8-15 Big Ten) Monday night. The senior was unaware of her accomplishment until she was taken out of the game with less than three minutes left. Full story

En guarde! Fencing takes aim in 2012

The Ohio State men's and women's fencing teams opened their season in a winning fashion after competing in the New York University Invitational and St. John's Invitational on Jan. 21 and 22, respectively. At the St. John's Invitational, the No. 5-ranked men defeated Columbia, No. Full story

Commentary: A season of discontent for the Columbus Blue Jackets

The Columbus Blue Jackets concluded their six-game road trip on Friday with a 3-2 overtime win against the Anaheim Ducks. Blue Jackets' center Derick Brassard scored the game-winning goal to give the team its first three-point effort of the road trip. Full story

Ohio State's Luke Fickell revisits the mat as honorary coach

Apparently Luke Fickell's coaching forte isn't limited to Saturdays in Ohio Stadium. A 106-0 record on his way to three wrestling state championships at local St. Francis DeSales High School in Columbus, Ohio, could have a little to do with that. The 38-year-old defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the Ohio State football team served as the honorary coach for the OSU wrestling team's 24-13 win against Michigan Friday night. Full story

Ohio State men's hockey's winless streak stretches to 10 games

The Ohio State men's ice hockey team continued its winless ways in a two-game series against Michigan State this past weekend. The No. 10-ranked Buckeyes lost back-to-back games in Columbus this weekend, falling to the Spartans, 6-3 and 3-2, on Friday and Saturday night, respectively. Full story

Ohio State women's basketball coach Jim Foster boasts 100 percent graduation rate

Ohio State women's basketball coach Jim Foster hasn't quite embraced the idea of social media. "I mean really, tweeting?" Foster said. "Who cares what you think at the moment, you're going to change your mind in five." He might not tweet about his 760 career wins, a Final Four appearance or being 12th on the all-time NCAA wins list, but he's not afraid to share one aspect of his career: getting all his players to earn degrees. Full story

Ohio State wrestling rolls to 24-13 win against Michigan

Ohio State wrestling coach Tom Ryan has compared this season to being on a roller coaster ride, and Friday’s match night was no different. The No. 6-ranked Buckeyes beat No. 10-ranked Michigan, 24-13, in its last home dual of the season, which featured three consecutive overtime matches between the teams. Full story

From Boston to Buckeye Nation: Bill Belichick’s daughter coaching at OSU

Add New England Patriots' coach Bill Belichick's name to the ever-growing list of people who consider themselves Ohio State fans. Or, at least, that's the way his daughter sees it. Assistant women's lacrosse coach Amanda Belichick, 27, said her father has become an OSU fan since she started coaching at OSU. Full story

Bill Sheridan shakes Michigan roots for Ohio State

As Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer went through the process of filling out his coaching staff, a common theme began to form. Whether by design or coincidence, almost all of the coaches on staff had Ohio roots, a history coaching at OSU or had worked with Meyer before. Full story

Ohio State running back Jaamal Berry no longer on football team

Suspended Ohio State running back Jaamal Berry will no longer play for OSU, his attorney, William Meeks, said Wednesday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. Meeks said Berry remains in good standings as a student and is still on scholarship, but no longer a part of the football team. Full story

Blue Jackets wrangle Wild, 3-1

The Columbus Blue Jackets' interim coach Todd Richards had a message for his players after their Tuesday game against the Minnesota Wild. "My message to them was I'll sleep pretty good tonight and enjoy this one," Richards said. Richards, a former coach of the Wild from 2009-11, saw his current club defeat Minnesota, 3-1, at Nationwide Arena. Full story

Tom Herman hire a 'no-brainer' for Urban Meyer

As Ohio State football enters the third month of the Urban Meyer era, recruiting is nearly finalized and the coaching staff has had several weeks to get acclimated to Columbus. The program now begins a shift in theme from transition to implementation. Full story

No. 3 Ohio State men's basketball looks to boil unranked Purdue

The last time the Ohio State men's basketball team played Purdue, E'Twaun Moore scored 38 points and the No. 11 Boilermakers defeated the then-No. 2 ranked Buckeyes, 76-63, Feb. 20, 2011. But this isn't the same Purdue team. Moore graduated and this year's Boilermakers come into Wednesday's game against OSU unranked with a 15-8 record overall and a 5-5 record in the Big Ten. Full story

Ohio State men's volleyball takes weekend sweep in State College, Pa.

The No. 9-ranked Ohio State men's volleyball team took home two wins this weekend after defeating California Baptist, 3-1, and Mount Olive, 3-0, in the Penn State Invitational, improving to 8-4 on the season. Some OSU players saw more action than normal in Saturday's match against the Mount Olive Trojans. Full story

Ohio State men's hockey hopes to get back on track against Spartans

The Ohio State men's ice hockey team hasn't won in eight games, but coach Mark Osiecki said he remains, for the most part, pleased with how his team has been playing. "Four of our past six games we've played extremely well," Osiecki said. "Unfortunately, we don't have much to show for it. Full story

Blue Jackets blue in the face about clock malfunction

The Columbus Blue Jackets are again at the center of controversy, but this time it has nothing to do with an upset fan base. In Wednesday's game against the Los Angeles Kings, with the score tied, 2-2, Blue Jackets center Samuel Påhlsson was sent to the penalty box for holding at 18:54 of the third period. Full story

Urban Meyer's signature signing day

During Wednesday's National Signing Day press conference, Urban Meyer said the defensive end and offensive tackle positions were areas of need for the Buckeyes. Consider those needs taken care of. Meyer's haul of recruits for the 2012 class included decorated and sought-after defensive ends Adolphus Washington from Taft High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, Noah Spence from Bishop McDevitt High School in Harrisburg, Pa. Full story

Mickey Marotti ‘antsy’ to get Buckeyes buff

The Ohio State football team did not get much time to rest after its 24-17 loss to Florida in the Gator Bowl on Jan. 2. Just days after the conclusion of the 2011 season, the Buckeyes were back in the weight room for training and conditioning under the instruction of new strength coach Mickey Marotti, who pushed up the start of offseason workouts by a week. Full story

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