Bill Rabinowitz The Columbus Dispatch @brdispatch It was barely a push. In football, more violent contact happens multiple times on every play. But when Bowling Green guard J.J. Beggan extended his right arm and gave a half-hearted shove to Tracy Sprinkle late in the first quarter of Ohio State’s opener last season, he caught the Buckeyes defensive tackle at just the wrong moment. The play was essentially over. Sprinkle was not bracing for contact. “I was kind of in mid-stride and the dude pushed me,” Sprinkle said last Friday. “As I landed, I guess all the force went into my leg, and I blew it out.” Sprinkle crumpled to the ground, his right patellar tendon torn. A season that was supposed to be the culmination of so much work for the Elyria native was over in an instant. “It was tough,” Sprinkle said. “I can’t lie and say it wasn’t.…
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