Buckeyes falter again in spotlight
LOS ANGELES — The Ohio State Buckeyes adapted well to their Hollywood surroundings here this weekend. They provided a town full of screenwriters the perfect script for a blockbuster horror flick.
What exactly should we title the latest masterpiece meltdown delivered by Jim Tressel Productions? The Rocky Pick-off Horror Show? Saw (This Already) III?
Following his fifth-ranked team’s 35-3 thumping at the hands of No. 1 USC here Saturday night, Ohio State star James Laurinaitis said, “Obviously, we’re going to take a beating around the country and around the world.”
Actually, that’s already been underway for nearly two years now (at least on domestic soil), but the Buckeyes’ latest big-game blowout — the most lopsided of Tressel’s eight-year tenure — figures to carry far greater consequences.
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9/14/08
