Ohio State’s Jim Tressel Steps Down: College Sports Seamy Side Again Exposed

It was Memorial Day around the rest of the country, but it likely seemed like Doomsday in central Ohio.
The news that beloved—but beleaguered—Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel was quitting under fire hit Columbus and the sports world like the worst kind of natural disaster.  With LeBron James having taken his talents to South Beach, Jim Tressel is the biggest sports name in the state of Ohio.
Even though Tressel has been under scrutiny for months and had voluntarily agreed to miss games without pay next season as a self-imposed penalty for failing to report what he knew about rules violations, most sports observers felt Tressel might be wounded, but would never take himself out.  
Yet Tressel—whose resume at Ohio State includes a national championship,…
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