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It's time for another fun, casual conversation at Roosters restaurant on Olentangy River Road in Columbus. This week, former Ohio State players Bobby Carpenter and Justin Zwick join The Austin & Birm Show to discuss the latest happenings around the Buckeyes football program as the Scarlet and Gray dive into June recruiting camps, summer workouts and more. And yes, there was some great Roosters foo...

Ohio State players were all over the Woody Hayes Athletic Center on Tuesday and more than a few, including Epi Sitanilei, caught our attention as they continue to work toward the 2026 season. This is The Beat from The Austin & Birm Show. Keep your home winter ready with The Waterworks and Hetter Energy Savings Plan. Get priority heating service, members only savings and continuous comfort all year...

The start of Ohio State camp season has temporarily been overshadowed by the Brendan Sorsby debacle as the NCAA was dealt a major setback in a Texas court case. The Buckeyes have always made efforts to follow all rules in the sport, but now it’s fair to wonder on a Talking Tuesday with Television’s Adam King whether any actually exist for athletic director Ross Bjork or coach Ryan Day to pay any a...

Another busy stretch is about to begin at Ohio State with recruiting camps colliding with summer workouts at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. Former Buckeyes captain Zach Boren helps set the table for both while looking ahead at the newcomers on the roster to project who will have the biggest impact on the national-title chase. It’s a Boren Blitz on The Beat! Keep your home winter ready with The W...

It's Friday on The Beat and The Austin & Birm Show are opening up the mailbag to respond to some viewer questions about all things Ohio State football. Keep your home winter ready with The Waterworks and Hetter Energy Savings Plan. Get priority heating service, members only savings and continuous comfort all year long. Call today to schedule. The Waterworks and Hetter – 614-232-2222. The Waterwork...

Ohio State is hosting six official visitors this weekend after hosting just four a week ago. What are the vibes for the Buckeyes on the recruiting front right now? That's the center of another Three Thoughts Thursday episode of The Beat. Keep your home winter ready with The Waterworks and Hetter Energy Savings Plan. Get priority heating service, members only savings and continuous comfort all year...

Ohio State has a number of new names and faces who will be a major part of the 2026 football season but it's a handful of players who have already been around the program who have the biggest opportunity to take advantage of Summer conditioning and workouts for the Buckeyes. The Summer Stock Watch is here on The Austin & Birm Show. Keep your home winter ready with The Waterworks and Hetter Energy...

Ohio State is entering a pivotal stretch of the offseason as the Buckeyes begin a vital recruiting stretch that kicked off last weekend with a handful of very important visitors. On the latest Live Show at Roosters, The Austin & Birm Show is joined by former Buckeyes Bobby Carpenter and Justin Zwick—as well as Roosters Nicole Cox—for a fun, casual conversation about summer conditioning, too-early...

Television’s Adam King is fired up as always for TalKing Tuesday, both nationally because of the lack of rules in place for college football and as he tries to project what the workload will look like as Bo Jackson returns for a second season at Ohio State. The need for a productive rushing attack and how the Buckeyes will get that is among the most pressing offseason conversations in the Woody Ha...

Summer workouts are underway at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center for Ohio State, and the goals are a bit different than the famous winter version with Mat Drills. What all goes into these drills in June and July for the Buckeyes? Former Ohio State captain Zach Boren dives into the process and the differences at this time of year in the latest Boren Blitz on The Beat. Keep your home winter ready wit...

The Austin & Birm Show have reached the end of another off-season week and that means the guys are diving into the mailbag to answer more viewer submitted questions about all things Ohio State football. Today the guys are talking schedules, Nike, Lebron and more. Keep your home winter ready with The Waterworks and Hetter Energy Savings Plan. Get priority heating service, members only savings and c...

It's Thursday on The Beat and that means The Austin & Birm Show have thoughts. This week it's all about recruiting as the Buckeyes ready for their first official visit weekend of the summer with a small but important group of players heading to campus at Ohio State. Keep your home winter ready with The Waterworks and Hetter Energy Savings Plan. Get priority heating service, members only savings an...

The Live Show at Roosters is a few days late this week but the fun, casual conversation was flowing like it always is as former Buckeyes Bobby Carpenter and Justin Zwick join The Austin & Birm Show—as well as Roosters' Nicole Cox—to dive into the latest news and thoughts about all things Ohio State football. Ready for your next adventure? Don't forget to head to https://www.tanskypowersports.com,...

Ohio State football is, year and year out, one of the country's most talented programs and enter 2026 as a projected Top 3 preseason pick. So how can the Buckeyes only have four players inside a recent Top 100 Players in College Football list? That's what we're wondering on a Wednesday on The Beat as Jeremy Birmingham and TV's Adam King have a weird, whatever Wednesday. Keep your home winter ready...

Kevin Ries, the Director of Football Equipment Services at Ohio State, joined The Austin & Birm Show to provide some insight into how the Buckeyes process to update jerseys looks and gives a little behind the scenes look at the equipment room of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. Keep your home winter ready with The Waterworks and Hetter Energy Savings Plan. Get priority heating service, members onl...

Another off-season work week is ending but the passion for Ohio State football continues on The Beat as Austin & Birm talk about everything on the minds of Buckeyes fans with another Freaky Friday Mailbag. Want your question on the next show? Email us TheAustinandBirmShow@gmail.com. Keep your home winter ready with The Waterworks and Hetter Energy Savings Plan. Get priority heating service, member...

It's a Three Thoughts Thursday on The Beat from The Austin & Birm Show as the guys do a little thought experiment on the Ohio State roster and its current needs and how some former Buckeyes stars would fit into the plans for 2026. Keep your home winter ready with The Waterworks and Hetter Energy Savings Plan. Get priority heating service, members only savings and continuous comfort all year long....

The Big Ten is hosting league-wide meetings in California this week and the topic of college football expansion is something that Ohio State head coach Ryan Day has been speaking on publicly. On the latest edition of The Beat from The Austin & BIrm Show, the guys give their thoughts on a couple of the most interesting things Day said in a recent artlcle from Scott Dochterman of The Athletic. Keep...

Television’s Adam King didn’t get an invitation to the Big Ten meetings, and neither did The Beat’s Austin Ward despite both covering Ohio State extensively all year long. They aren’t mad, but they did have plenty of questions for Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti, Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork and Buckeyes coach Ryan Day that probably won’t be answered for a while. That starts with the...

The Buckeyes have unveiled five different jerseys that all will be worn this season, and the program is trying to thread the needle between honoring its history while still evolving with the times. The next mission is doing the same thing with the Horseshoe, and former Ohio State captain Zach Boren has ideas on both fronts as he chats with Austin Ward to start the week on The Beat. Keep your home...

Ohio State decided to spend the last week releasing updated uniforms for the fanbase to drool over and it had The Austin & Birm Show thinking: what else can the Buckeyes do to update and innovate? That’s one of the primary talking points of today’s Live Show, a fun, casual conversation with former Buckeyes linebacker Bobby Carpenter and Justin Zwick as well as Roosters restaurants Nicole Cox. On t...

We’ve made it through another week on The Beat and The Austin & Birm Show are once again heading into the weekend by answer questions from viewers about whatever Ohio State topic is on their mind today. Want your question for next Friday’s mailbag? Send them to TheAustinandBirmShow@gmail.com. Keep your home winter ready with The Waterworks and Hetter Energy Savings Plan. Get priority heating servi...

A foundational member of Zone 6, former Ohio State wideout KJ Hill joins The Austin & Birm Show to talk about his unexpected career path that now sees him following in the footsteps of his former coaches and working to lead young men at South Florida. (AP photo: Michael Conroy) Want your question for next Friday’s mailbag? Send them to TheAustinandBirmShow@gmail.com. Keep your home winter ready wi...

Former Ohio State offensive coordinator and receivers coach Brian Hartline sat down with The Austin & Birm Show for a discussion on his December departure from the Buckeyes, his vision for building the South Florida program and more on the latest episode of The Beat. Want your question for next Friday’s mailbag? Send them to TheAustinandBirmShow@gmail.com. Keep your home winter ready with The Wate...

It's another fun, casual conversation at Roosters restaurant on Olentangy River Road as former Ohio State linebacker Bobby Carpenter and quarterback Justin Zwick—celebrating his 43rd birthday—join The Austin & Birm Show to talk about the latest buckeyes football news. Roosters Nicole Cox also stopped in to update the new test menu as the guys reflect on the passing of time and change. Ready for yo...