RealClearSports: Memorial Golf Uplifting in Columbus Gloom

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- This is football country. This is disgraced-school country after what has happened to Ohio State -- the cover-up and the needed departure of coach Jim Tressel.

For a few days, happily, this is also golf country. The Buckeyes matter, but for the rest of a difficult week, they aren't the only game in town. Fore!

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RealClearSports: Terrelle Pryor Proves He's a Quarterback

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

PASADENA -­- Isn't this what he was supposed to do? Wasn't Terrelle Pryor rated the best prep football player in the land a couple of seasons ago? Didn't everyone contend when Ohio State picked up Pryor it picked up a national championship? Or at the least a BCS bowl game win?

It hadn't worked that way. Until Friday night. Until the first evening of 2010.

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