Buckeyes right tackle Kirk Barton announced yesterday that he will return to school for his senior season, giving the team what will likely be the best pair of bookend tackles in the nation in 2007. This announcement leaves the trio of Ginn, Gonzalez, and Pittman all still yet to declare. And contrary to public opinion, Mike Furlan believes all three will leave. In his latest, he tells us why, where they will get picked, and how they will fare as pros.

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Love it or hate it, the bowl system that we have now is the bowl system that we must continue to deal with. Granted, the fans have been screaming for a playoff for about as long as I can remember, but that really doesn

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In his latest, Gary Benz takes aim at the PD and their latest manufactured news story. It would be nice to think that newspapers have better things to do with their time than use their increasingly diminishing power to settle personal grudges, real or imagined. But with the hatchet jobs done on Tressel by Bill Livingston recently and today's phony suggestions about Tressel

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During Saturday's Heisman Trophy presentation, ESPN college football analyst and former Ohio State quarterback Kirk Herbstreit took a rare public interest in one of his home state's pro football teams. The Browns, he told millions of nationwide viewers, would "be crazy" to pass on newly-minted Heisman winner Troy Smith if he is there when the Browns make their almost-certain Top 10 selection next spring. Papa Cass chimes in on the Troy to the Browns debate, making some great points as usual along the way.

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