The Chase: T-Minus 100 Days
The offseason feels like years when all is normal. With an absence during bowl season, the November to August lull is unbearable for some in Buckeye Nation. Ohio State fans pride themselves on being...
View ArticleDreaming Up Future Non-Conference Opponents
The undefeated season of 2012 worked wonders for the swagger of Ohio State's football program, and even more so for their enormous fan base. Even before the season was over, Buckeye Nation (the real...
View ArticleWhat's the Difference between a Pro-Style and Spread Offense, Anyway?
No two terms are bandied about more in football today than "spread" and "pro-style." From recruiting to Saturday commentary, they are ever-present. But the distinction between the two offensive systems...
View ArticleLinebacker Dante Booker is Number Nine
Link: https://twitter.com/D_Book47/status/337629226998050816 Dante Booker has finally committed to Ohio State. The 2014 linebacker from Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary, long considered an Ohio State lean,...
View ArticleTurning Points, Volume Four: A Buckeye Block Party
Setting the SceneThe year was 1979, and the program was just dealt a major blow after a punch in Dec. of 1978 sent the team’s iconic coach packing.Twenty-eight seasons had passed since Ohio State was...
View ArticleFriday Skull Session
Despite it being just a normal, run of the mill Thursday, the Buckeyes were treated to a commitment from one of the top outside linebackers in the class of 2014, longtime Buckeye fan Dante Booker....
View ArticlePride of Ohio: Lakewood
It’s no secret that small town football in the state of Ohio is a success story. It involves winning, community spirit and togetherness. But the state is also home to powerhouse programs in major...
View ArticleFlashBuck: Clark Kellogg
July 2, 1961, was a very eventful day.Novelist Ernest Hemingway lost his battle with depression and took his own life in Ketchum, Idaho, with a shotgun. The same day, Nikita Khrushchev threatened the...
View ArticleAround the Oval on Friday, May 24
Around the Oval is Eleven Warriors' weekly love letter to Ohio State sports that don't get the coverage they should.In a week that promised to be incredibly exciting for Buckeye fans with the men's...
View ArticleOhio State Football Recruiting Notebook: 5/24
A week has passed since the last edition of the recruiting notebook and quite a bit has happened since we last talked Ohio State football recruiting.Booker makes nine for 2014The biggest news is the...
View ArticleSaturday Skull Session
Have any big plans for the Memorial Day Weekend? Saturday is probably everyone's favorite day of the week. It improves that much more when there is knowledge that Monday is a federal holiday as...
View ArticleSo Raven: Simon Already Pouring Himself into Baltimore
John Simon’s new beginning starts in a place he despised until the day he was drafted. The Youngstown native is a lifelong Pittsburgh Steelers fan with a family full of Black and Yellow diehards. In an...
View Article11W Community Interview: Damon Webb
The 11W Community Interview is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people. You submit the questions, vote on them, and then we pass the top ones on to the biggest names in the world of Ohio...
View ArticleHappy Memorial Day
Thank you to all of the men and women of the United States Armed Forces that have served or are serving this great country.© 2013 Eleven Warriors.
View ArticleMonday Skull Session
Good morning and happy Memorial Day.Not long after more than 600,000 Americans perished in the Civil War, it was decided that honoring those that had fallen was in order. What began as Decoration Day,...
View ArticleThe Story of Joe Brown, Buckeye Turned Soldier
There are changes in attitudes and shifts in how athletes approach their sport with every generation. We’re presently immersed in the Me Generation with an endless fountain of prima donnas. From Chad...
View ArticleDelany's Island
In the off-season, sometimes one gets stuck when searching for a topic, particularly when recruiting isn’t one’s forte.Pictured: Not Brady Hoke. Probably.So when I got stuck, I remembered that Ted...
View ArticleRyan Shazier's Top Five Slobber Knockers of 2012
Ryan Shazier is a bad man. It was clear even as a true freshman when he tallied 57 tackles, the most by a true freshman since Andy Katzenmoyer’s 86 in 1996.The last thing you see before you die.In...
View ArticleTuesday Skull Session
Hello and welcome to the Skull Session. What was your favorite part of Memorial Day weekend? Mine was beating some friends at mini golf, but barbecuing some veggies on the grill was a blast as...
View ArticleTwo Years after TatGate, Things are Just Fine, Really
On Memorial Day 2011 one of the country’s leading sports programs had reached its lowest point. Mired in a scandal that drew national headlines, Ohio State’s legendary head coach, Jim Tressel, resigned...
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