Of all the teams racing in Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, the one with the most ties to the Columbus area is Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. The IZOD IndyCar Series team headquarters is in Hilliard, Ohio. Graham Rahal, the son of team co-owner and 1986 Indy 500 champion Bobby Rahal, was born in Columbus and graduated from New Albany High School.
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The Ohio State men’s lacrosse team suffered a crushing loss to Cornell on Saturday 16-6, eliminating them from this season’s NCAA Tournament.
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Back-to-back losses against No. 21 Indiana spoiled a chance for the Ohio State baseball team to jump the Hoosiers and clinch a Big Ten Championship. Instead, the Buckeyes will be the No. 2 seed in the Big Ten tournament after the 8-1 loss on Saturday.
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The Big Ten released the 2014 conference schedule Thursday, one that sees Ohio State traveling to familiar conference foes Penn State and Michigan State as well as new member Maryland. The Buckeyes are set to host Michigan at the end of the season but do not play Iowa, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue or Wisconsin in 2014.
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Twice this season, the Ohio State men’s tennis team found itself on the losing side of a match. On Thursday night, though, the Buckeyes got their revenge for one of those losses. The No. 5 Buckeyes defeated the No. 12 Texas A&M Aggies, 4-0, in the round of 16 of the NCAA Tournament, improving their record to 34-2 on the season.
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Brett Larson was named the associate head coach for Ohio State's men's hockey.
Steve Rohlik, who was named head coach in April, made the announcement Tuesday. Rohlik replaced former coach Mark Osiecki, who was let go by OSU on April 15 after "a difference of opinion over the management of the program that could not be resolved,” according to Gene Smith, OSU athletic director.
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As a senior captain of the Ohio State football team last season, defensive end John Simon helped lead the Buckeyes to a 12-0 season and was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year.
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Sophomore midfielder Turner Evans scored with 24 seconds remaining and the No. 10 Ohio State men’s lacrosse team pulled out a dramatic, 11-10 victory against Denver in Sunday's Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship Game in Geneva, N.Y.
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The Big Ten Conference office announced new football division alignments on Sunday that are set to begin in 2014 and a nine-game conference schedule for 2016.
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Trailing by one and heading into the fourth quarter of the semifinal matchup, the No. 10 Ohio State men’s lacrosse team needed a spark if they were going to pull out a victory against the defending national champion, the No. 4 Loyola Greyhounds.
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Former Ohio State defensive tackle Johnathan Hankins was selected No. 49 overall by the New York Giants in the 2013 NFL Draft on Friday night.
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The Cleveland Browns may have traded away a lot of their draft picks this past weekend which may be frustrating for some, but it's not as bad as it seems.
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Juniors Sarah Miller and Melanie Shaffer to Los Angeles competed in the NCAA championships for the Ohio State women's gymnastics team on April 19.
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Former Ohio State strong safety and 2013 NFL Draft hopeful Orhian Johnson will be participating in an hour-long Google+ Hangout hosted by the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) on Wednesday beginning at 7 p.m.
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Steve Rohlik has been named head coach of the Ohio State men’s hockey team, athletic director Gene Smith announced Wednesday. Rohlik was OSU’s associate head coach for the past three seasons and has 16 years of coaching experience at the Division I level. “We are pleased Steve has accepted our head coaching position,” Smith said in a statement.
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Despite suffering through a weekend sweep in Madison against the Wisconsin Badgers, the Ohio State softball team (27-17, 6-9) remains optimistic and determined as the season enters the home-stretch.
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Fans of Ohio State sports are lucky, spoiled even, you could say. Not only is Columbus home to one of the country’s best football programs with Urban Meyer at the helm, but the basketball team, under the watch of Thad Matta, has developed into a national power.
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We’ve all made bad decisions. Remember your freshman year when you wore an Ohio State shirt, OSU hat, OSU lanyard and cargo shorts around campus every day? That was brutal. We knew you went here. Or remember that one time when you decided to participate in extracurricular activities a little too much and had to miss out on Mirror Lake Night because you needed to lie down early? It’s OK.
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The four-time defending champion is no more, and the Buckeyes are to blame.
After being eliminated by them in two of the last four NCAA Tournaments, the Ohio State men’s tennis team took down the USC Trojans 4-3 on Saturday night.
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The Ohio State women’s tennis team has their new coach.
Sort of.
Melissa Schaub spent the 2012-13 season as an interim coach for the Buckeyes and was named the full-time coach by the university on Tuesday.
Last year under Schaub, the Buckeyes went 10-14 as a team and were eliminated in the first round of the Big Ten tournament, losing five straight matches to end the season.
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It took nearly the entire first quarter, but once things got started for the Ohio State men’s lacrosse team they never looked back.
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The civil rights movement toward LGBT acceptance within sports took a big step forward on Monday, when NBA center Jason Collins became the first active player to come out as gay in one of the four major U.S. professional sports leagues (NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL).
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The Ohio State men’s tennis team shut out three consecutive conference opponents en route to winning its seventh Big Ten Tournament in eight years.
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The Cleveland Indians finished the first month of the 2013 season two games over .500 with a record of 16-14.
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The Ohio State men’s lacrosse team celebrated their senior day in fashion, winning the season finale over Fairfield 14-8 to lock up the third seed in the ECAC.
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When Michael Newburger stepped onto Ohio State’s campus in 2009 for his freshman year, he was not even a part of the men’s gymnastics team.
Four years later, he is the 2013 NCAA Pommel Horse Champion.
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After taking two out of three from Illinois in last weekend’s Big Ten series, the Ohio State baseball team is looking to keep the winning mindset alive with Penn State coming to town Friday night.
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The Ohio State softball team swept a doubleheader against Michigan State on Wednesday at Buckeye Field. The Buckeyes won the first game by a score of 4-1, and took the second 6-3 to improve their record to 29-17 overall and 8-9 in Big Ten play.
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The Ohio State men’s tennis team captured its eighth-straight Big Ten conference title in style over the weekend — with a pair of victories against both conference rivals from Michigan. The 6-1 home victory against Michigan State (13-12, 6-5) on Friday, paired with the 4-0 road win against No.
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Every four years a sporting event comes around that unites the world for a month of fun, friends and football — or as its known in the U.S., soccer. The World Cup, coming again in 2014, is one of the most well-viewed sporting events in the world. With 32 countries worldwide taking part, it brings people together in a way no event besides the Olympics truly does.
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The Ohio State Buckeyes and Michigan Wolverines, two of college football’s fiercest rivals, could meet one another in the Big Ten Football Championship Game at the conclusion of the 2013 regular season. That will no longer be a possibility in 2014, when OSU and Michigan will be realigned to the same division of the Big Ten, according to a report from ESPN.
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The Ohio State baseball team won its rubber match with Illinois, 7-3, after splitting the first two games of the weekend series. OSU wore camouflage uniforms for Sunday’s game to pay tribute to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. They were originally going to wear them for Tuesday night’s game against Akron, but the game was rained out.
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In Michael and Andrew's final episode they talk about what they took away from the Spring Game and the best moments in Buckeye sports this school year.
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As a senior captain of the Ohio State football team last season, defensive end John Simon helped lead the Buckeyes to a 12-0 season and was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year.
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