"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming. We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming. Four dead in Ohio." I couldn't believe my eyes. I was watching the news when I saw police pepper spraying peaceful Occupy-sympathizing protestors at the University of California-Davis. In fact, they were so peaceful they were sitting cross-legged in a line on the ground in front of the police who not only pepper sprayed them once, but twice, then three times, four times, so many times they ran out of pepper spray and had to get another can!

Ohio State fans will be visible around the Valley this week at a variety of events and activities. Here's the schedule:

"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming. We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming. Four dead in Ohio." I couldn't believe my eyes. I was watching the news when I saw police pepper spraying peaceful Occupy-sympathizing protestors at the University of California-Davis. In fact, they were so peaceful they were sitting cross-legged in a line on the ground in front of the police who not only pepper sprayed them once, but twice, then three times, four times, so many times they ran out of pepper spray and had to get another can!

The first official BCS national championship game could be billed as Role Reversal I. Just as in the last title game in the Valley, a wire-to-wire No. 1 on a long winning streak will meet a team accused of squeaking its way in — if that is even possible.

The Ohio State Buckeyes will wear their white uniforms, the traditional color of the visiting team, at the Tostitos BCS National Championship game on Monday. But in fact, Ohio State has become the de facto home team for bowl games in Arizona.

Gene Smith, Arizona State University’s athletic director since July 2000, has emerged as the leading candidate to become the new AD at Ohio State, according to a story in today’s Columbus Dispatch.

March 4, 2005

The Fiesta Bowl's title sponsor - Tostitos - could not be more appropriate this year, as both competing teams touched down Monday in the Valley with huge chips on their shoulders.

The BCS National Championship won’t be played until Monday, but there are already some big winners in the Valley.

Ohio State junior Anthony Gonzalez is a wide receiver with an even wider view of life, a complex package equipped for two worlds — 4.3 speed and a near-4.0 grade point average.

July 15, 2004

"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming. We're finally on our own own. This summer I hear the drumming. Four dead in Ohio."

The University of Phoenix Stadium scoreboard lied Monday. It said the Texas Longhorns beat the Ohio State Buckeyes, 24-21, in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.

Lee Friend won’t be able to watch the first half of today’s Ohio State-Michigan football game. The sound you hear is the thud of collapsing bodies of Michigan fans across the Valley upon learning of this news.

Left out of the national title game, Colt McCoy and Texas made the most of their trip to the Fiesta Bowl.

The University of Texas’ “Showband of the Southwest” and Ohio State University’s “Best Damn Band in the Land” are looking to fire up revelers at the 2009 Fiesta Bowl Parade in Phoenix today.

Don Wirtanen and his daughter don't normally square off against one another during football season.

Kickoff for the Ohio State-Michigan game is more than four hours off when the cab driver drops me off on the corner of Lane Avenue.

Ohio State’s Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, Troy Smith, can do it all. His coach, Jim Tressel, does a pretty good end run.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Born, raised and educated in Ohio, Urban Meyer now finds himself trying to destroy the championship dreams of the team he rooted for as a kid.

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — On the same afternoon thousands of Hispanics in Alabama took the day off to protest the state's strict new immigration law, Mexican-born Francisco Mejia was ringing up diners' bills and handing containers piled with carnitas to drive-thru customers on the east side of Dayton.

When those college tuition bills come in, be prepared for sticker shock.