COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State is vacating its wins from the 2010 football season, including its share of the Big Ten championship and the Buckeyes’ victory over Arkansas in the 2011 Sugar Bowl.
Responding to the NCAA’s investigation of a memorabilia-for-cash scandal that cost former coach Jim Tressel his job and led to star quarterback Terrelle Pryor leaving school, the university also said Friday it is waiving a $250,000 fine imposed on Tressel and changing his resignation to a retirement.
Through the school, the ex-Buckeyes coach said that he is taking responsibility for the NCAA inquiry, which developed after it was learned Tressel failed to report players receiving improper benefits.
Former NFL quarterback Jim McMahon is being treated at a hospital after the limousine he was riding in crashed through a fence south of Reno.
The Nevada Highway Patrol says the accident happened around 2 p.m. Monday on U.S. 395 in Pleasant Valley. The patrol says the limo was heading north when it left the four-lane highway, crashed through a fence and into a pasture.
Trooper Mike Edgell says both McMahon and the limo driver were taken to Renown Regional Medical Center as a precaution. He says there were no serious injuries.
McMahon played 15 seasons in the NFL and helped the Chicago Bears win the Super Bowl in 1986.
What in the blue hell is going to happen after the events of one of the greatest events the WWE has unleashed upon us in forever?
That is one of the many questions that are currently racing through the minds of the WWE universe.
Money in the Bank was an epic, enthralling, captivating, nerve-racking, but very satisfying experience.
We witnessed the “impossible” happen as Daniel Bryan captured the Smackdown Money in the Bank contract.
Mark Henry decimate the Big Show.
Kelly Kelly shockingly defeat Brie Bella to retain her Divas Championship.
We were treated to the pleasures of watching Alberto Del Rio climb the ladder, rung by rung til he reached his “destiny” as he moves one step closer to becoming a world’s champion.
Christian is now the new World Heavyweight Champion.
Darren Clarke was clearly making the most of his first day as a major champion today and he hopes it is only four weeks until Lee Westwood is doing the same.
Up all night celebrating his Open success, the 42yearold ‘People’s Champion’ spared a thought for his longtime friend and world number two.
Westwood is the younger by four years, but he was also playing his 54th major at Sandwich and after missing the halfway cut his wait goes on.
‘Lee has done everything he can do to get himself into contention to win,’ said Clarke, who flew home to Portrush this afternoon to be reunited with his sons, Tyrone and Conor, and then to continue the partying.
‘He has been there many times (six topthree finishes in the last three years).
The Browns’ Colt McCoy said he believes the West Coast offense caters to his strengths as a quarterback.
Once the lockout ends, the Browns plan to institute the West Coast offense. McCoy, speaking at his inaugural football camp at Strongsville High School on Saturday, said it’s reminiscent of the college system he ran at the University of Texas.
“We had a little bit different lingo and a little bit different language,” he said.
