Ohio State defensive line coach Larry Johnson strongly denied on Wednesday an accusation made by a financial adviser in federal court that Johnson encouraged payment to a football player while an assistant at Penn State. Marty Blazer, a former Pittsburgh-based financial adviser, testified in federal court in New York on Tuesday that he paid $10,000 to the father of a Penn State football player in 2009 with the encouragement of Johnson, then an assistant coach for the Nittany Lions. "In no uncertain terms and unequivocally that at no time did I ever ask any person to provide monies to a player or a player's family member with college eligibility remaining for any purpose, let alone to the player referenced by Blazer," Johnson said in a text to The Dispatch...