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Yahoo Sports: Tressel joins Pryor, ‘Buckeye Five’ in serving full five-game sentence

Certain recent developments probably rendered this a foregone conclusion, but just in case there was any doubt: The NCAA has officially upheld its original decision to suspend five Ohio State players — four of them senior offensive starters expected to form the core of another Big Ten and BCS championship run — for the first five games of the 2011 season for selling jerseys, rings and other tokens of Buckeye pride to a local tattoo parlor. That much we expected. This, we didn't: Coach Jim Tressel has decided to join them for the duration. The Senator has "voluntarily" extended his ...

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