Former Ohio State Star Has Reportedly Been Banned From Program

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According to a report from Meet at Midfield, former Ohio State offensive tackle Kirk Barton and his associate, Ken Stickney, will no longer have media credentials for the Buckeyes after using "improper and unauthorized access to Oho State's internal football video system" to expose the team's formations, schemes and personnel changes among other things. Per Meet at Midfield...

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This is hardly Barton’s first public run-in with scandal, as the former media member and current car salesman was accused in the lawsuit of stealing endorsement dollars from website partners and cheating in a Buckeye Scoop-affiliated fantasy football league for financial gain. Competing media outlets have also publicly accused Barton and Buckeye Scoop of stealing video content to publish as their own on their YouTube channel.

In 2018, Barton was infamously caught on video being “tased, arrested, and charged with felonious assault” while intoxicated at the Bogey Inn, where he slammed a police officer’s arm in a car door. That arrest is the source of this article’s lead image, via the Delaware County Prosecutor’s office.

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(The Spun)