Jim Delany rethinks bowl appeal

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    Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany believes he might have acted differently toward five Ohio State players who were allowed to play in the Allstate Sugar Bowl despite NCAA violations had he known the information that has since been uncovered.

    The players were permitted to wait until this fall to begin serving a five-game suspension for accepting money and tattoos from the owner of a Columbus tattoo parlor. It wasn't until more than a week after the Buckeyes' 31-26 victory over Arkansas that school officials realized coach Jim Tressel had known about the violations for more than nine months.

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