BSB Reprints

Gene Smith’s final day as Ohio State athletic director is rapidly approaching, and so is Buckeye Sports Bulletin’s July Interview issue, which has been anchored by Smith since its inception in 2014.

For the next several weeks we will be featuring Smith’s Interviews, starting with his inaugural chat with BSB Read More

At this time five years ago, Ryan Day was on the recruiting trail for the first time as head coach at Ohio State. For this edition of Reprint Thursday, Buckeye Sports Bulletin offers all of the recruiting news from the June 2019 issue of BSB. Day was busy trying to Read More

For this edition of Reprint Thursday, we once again play Reprint Roulette, where we randomly choose an issue from the Buckeye Sports Bulletin archives for reprints. This time the ball fell on another good one, the Nov. 19, 1994, issue of BSB.

That paper covered Ohio State’s 32-17 road win Read More

Haskins Comes Off The Bench To Lead Buckeyes

For this edition of Reprint Thursday, we play Reprint Roulette, where we randomly choose an issue from the Buckeye Sports Bulletin archives for reprints. This time the ball fell on a good one, covering Ohio State’s 31-20 victory against Michigan in Ann Read More

Ten years ago, the Ohio State football team was in the midst of a recruiting drought. The Buckeyes had not landed a recruit since Feb. 11 before 2015 quarterback “Joey” Burrow, out of The Plains (Ohio) Athens, gave his pledge to the Buckeyes on May 27, 2014.

“Recruiting has not Read More

In this edition of Reprint Thursday, we look back 12 years to the June 2012 issue of Buckeye Sports Bulletin. It had been one year since Ohio State and its popular and successful coach Jim Tressel parted ways under a cloud of NCAA problems, and BSB attempted to determine his Read More

Ryan Day’s First Spring As Head coach

With COVID and three straight losses in between, it may seem like a longer time has passed, but it was just five years ago that Ryan Day had just finished his first spring practice as head coach of the Buckeyes. In this edition Read More

Geiger Looks Back On His First Decade At OSU In 2004 Interview With BSB

We are inching ever closer to Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith’s June 30 retirement. But 20 years ago, his predecessor, Andy Geiger was just finishing his first decade as AD at Ohio State. In an Read More

We will call the May 2011 issue of Buckeye Sports Bulletin the “some turmoil before the storm” issue. Ohio State and BSB readers already knew that Terrelle Pryor, DeVier Posey, Dan “Boom” Herron, Mike Adams, Solomon Thomas and coach Jim Tressel, himself, were facing five-game suspensions when the season opened Read More

The Ohio State athletic department is currently in the process of transitioning from Gene Smith to Ross Bjork as the OSU athletic director. Thirty years ago, Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee was in the process of introducing Andy Geiger, Smith’s predecessor, as the new athletic director.

Geiger came to Read More