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Yahoo Sports: Headlinin’: Tressel’s contact with Pryor ‘mentor’ went beyond e-mails

Making the morning rounds. • The Sarniak Files. The Columbus Dispatch has unearthed records (significant portions of which have been redacted by the university) that show far more extensive contact than previously reported between ex-Ohio State coach Jim Tressel and Ted Sarniak, the Jeanette, Pa., glass salesman often described as a "mentor" to Buckeye quarterback Terrelle Pryor, after Tressel was sent incriminating e-mails naming Pryor and at least one other player in possible NCAA violations in April 2010. Altogether, Tressel and Sarniak exchanged 77 phone calls and text messages and spent more than four hours in phone conversations throughout last ...

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