Jeff Gilbert is a Clark County native who began his journalism career answering the phone on the Springfield New-Suns sports desk as a college senior. After college, he began a nine-year run at the Northern Virginia Daily and earned several state-wide writing awards while covering high schools, a summer wooden-bat college baseball league and small-college sports. His next stop was at The Roanoke (Va.) Times as assistant sports editor and sports editor.In 2009, he moved back to Ohio to start the journalism program at his alma mater, Cedarville University, where he still teaches. He has worked as a freelance journalist for a variety of outlets, mostly covering high schools and the Dayton Dragons for the News-Sun and Dayton Daily News, and has won several Ohio Prep Sportstwriters Association awards. In 2022, he won the freelancer best in show award given by the Society of Professional Journalists’ Best of Ohio contest. He covers Ohio State football and high schools for Press Pros
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Saturday, 02 November 2024 / Published in Features, Home Features, OSU, OSU Feature

Gilbert: Buckeyes ‘Will’ Themselves Past Penn State

The best version of themselves?...No. 4 Ohio State grinds and grinds to overcome first-half mistakes with a fourth-quarter goal-line stand and a final clock-killing drive of 11 running plays to stick No. 3 Penn State with its first loss.
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Friday, 01 November 2024 / Published in Features, OSU

Ryan Day’s Latest Project: Fix The Third-Down Problem

Ohio State heads to Penn State on Saturday knowing it must run the football much better and convert more third-down opportunities if it wants a chance to win and keep its Big Ten title hopes alive.
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Monday, 28 October 2024 / Published in Features, Home Features, OSU, OSU Feature

OSU Players Set Expectations, Fans Follow Suit

When a football team this talented presents a championship or bust goal, fans have every right to grumble about a loss – even by a point at the current No. 1 team – and especially a near loss to an unranked team at home.
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Saturday, 26 October 2024 / Published in Features, Home Features, OSU, OSU Feature

Buckeyes Find Themselves In 4th Quarter, Escape Nebraska With Ugly Win

The two constants...Freshman Jeremiah Smith hauls in his eighth touchdown of the season (above), and the only pretty sight at Ohio Stadium Saturday was the blue sky overhead. And while the football was anything but blue skies for the Buckeyes, they found a way to correct the fourth-quarter blues that cost them at Oregon. Read Jeff Gilbert in Sunday Press Pros.
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Saturday, 26 October 2024 / Published in Features

St. Clair Passes, Runs Bellefontaine Past Kenton Ridge

For the final time, a Central Buckeye Conference team had to defend Ohio State-bound quarterback Tavien St. Clair. And like most nights in league play the past four years, St. Clair and his teammates were too much for Kenton Ridge.