COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State head team physician Dr. James Borchers was credited with helping the Big Ten Conference find a way through the caution and confusion of the coronavirus pandemic to reinstate its football season in 2020. Now the former Buckeye football player will take a more direct role in all of the conference’s health-related matters. The Big Ten announced Thursday that Borchers would become the league’s first chief medical officer. He becomes the second high-profile Ohio State staffer to join the league office in the past six months. Deputy athletic director Diana Sabau left last March to become a Big Ten deputy commissioner. Borchers was an Ohio State walk-on long snapper in the early 90s. That background gave him a broader perspective when he co-chaired the medical subcommittee on the Big Ten’s Return to Play Task Force last year. Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren had announced the creation…
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