The decision I made was to sign the NCAA form that all of our players were doing appropriate things — and that wasn't the truth.”

Jim Tressel, the former executive vice president of success at the University of Akron, was nominated to serve as Ohio Governor Mike DeWine's new lieutenant governor Monday, officials announced. Tressel would replace former lieutenant governor Jon Husted,

Former Ohio State Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel was confirmed Wednesday as Ohio’s next lieutenant governor. State senators and representatives affirmed Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s Monday nomination of Tressel in separate floor votes Wednesday: 31-1 in the Senate,