Ohio State celebrated the university’s summer commencement on Sunday, with 29 current and former student-athletes among those honored at The Schottenstein Center.
Student-athletes from 17 different sports were recognized, including men’s basketball’s Justin Ahrens and Jimmy Sotos, as well as Jeremie Simmons, who played at Ohio State from 2008-10 and Read More
The addition of USC and UCLA into the Big Ten flipped the landscape of college athletics on its head from a competitive standpoint, but it will also carry plenty of weight on the Big Ten’s ongoing pursuit of a new media rights deal.
The swift inclusion of USC and UCLA Read More
The Ohio State Department of Athletics remains in the top five of the LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup standings with numbers still to be added for baseball.
The Directors’ Cup is an annual award given by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the most successful collegiate athletics program in Read More
The No. 4-seeded Ohio State men’s tennis team took advantage of an early lead over No. 13 USC to secure a 4-2 win in the NCAA super regional on Saturday.
Ohio State won the first two points in doubles, with Andrew Lutschaunig/Justin Boulais and Cannon Kingsley/JJ Tracy both winning 6-1. Read More
Rumors have swirled this offseason that a new contract could be in the works for Ohio State head coach Ryan Day, but athletic director Gene Smith confirmed Wednesday that no discussions have taken place yet regarding a potential extension for the football program’s lead man.
“At the end of the Read More
Ohio State’s student-athletes lead the nation in Name, Image and Likeness compensation, according to a presentation to the Board of Trustees’ legal, risk and compliance committee on Thursday.
Since NIL’s introduction in July of 2021, 225 unique Ohio State student-athletes have disclosed 619 deals totaling $2,985,559, and every Ohio State Read More
The ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 Alliance have come together to announce a new joint mental health initiative designed to raise awareness about the importance of mental health and wellness in student athletes.
The initiative, entitled “Teammates for Mental Health,” will begin with the 2021 Big Ten/ACC Men’s and Women’s Read More
Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith has signed a contract extension that keeps him with the university until June 2026, when he will be 70-years old.
The deal needs to approved by the school’s board of trustees, but that should happen this Read More
During two rain-soaked spring commencement ceremonies Sunday, Ohio State honored 12,345 degree recipients, including 172 Buckeye athletes.
Headlining that list was former Ohio State defensive back and 2014 Denver Broncos first-round draft pick Bradley Roby. Now with the Houston Texans, Roby’s degree is in communications.
Roby was one of ten Read More
The Ohio State University reported an additional 157 cases of COVID-19 among students Saturday, Sept. 5.
One hundred fifty-one out of 2,542 Buckeye students tested were positive for COVID-19 across the 24-hour period of Thursday, Sept. 3. These new cases brought the cumulative number for Aug. 14-Sept. 3 to 1,376, Read More
