ROSEMONT, Ill. - If there was one game that typified the stereotype surrounding the Big Ten - both in football and basketball - a season ago, it was one in the hands of Illinois coach Bruce Weber. His team had played in a game last season that defied the shot ...
ROSEMONT, Ill. - The shots, even Kevin Coble admits, aren’t textbook form. If most players took them, they’d be relegated to the end of the bench or demoted to manager status. They are wild, running floaters and off-balance jumpers and some shots that, well, look better in a game or ...
ROSEMONT, Ill. - It is the question that will follow Northwestern basketball all season long. After being so close to the NCAA tournament last season, a berth that would have been the first in school history, will the Wildcats finally get over the hump. Northwestern, to its credit, isn’t hiding ...
ROSEMONT, Ill. ¬- When Todd Lickliter moved deeper into the Midwest three years ago from a program in the middle of a big city, Butler in Indianapolis, he wasn’t totally sure what to expect. He’d be moving into the Big Ten. He’d be taking over a program that had won ...
We're back with our last Big Ten preview: Michigan. Writers Dave Birkett and Michael Rothstein will, as they have for the past two weeks, jaw back-and-forth with words, parting shots and general opinions about why we selected each team to finish where we did. Sometimes we'll agree. Other times, we ...
Four consecutive Big Ten titles should have the Ohio State Buckeyes feeling pretty good about themselves. Instead, they enter the fall searching for an identity. Their two losses in recent BCS championship games have contributed to the Big Ten's tarnished reputation. Moreso, the Buckeyes are fielding the youngest and most ...
For each Big Ten preview, Michigan writers Dave Birkett and Michael Rothstein will jaw back-and-forth with words, parting shots and general opinions about why we selected each team to finish where we did. Sometimes we'll agree. Other times, we won't.
For the first time in almost three decades, Ohio State had a freshman starting at quarterback last fall. You might have heard of Terrelle Pryor. He led the Buckeyes to the Fiesta Bowl with experience around him. Now, in Year 2, he's going to be expected to help lead the ...
CHICAGO - They kept checking their cell phones on the bus, hoping for any bit of information, any hint of a score or a yardage or whether or not their chance at another Big Ten championship still remained. Ohio State had lost to Penn State a week earlier, putting the ...
For a school that many people are touting as a Big Ten and BCS contender, Penn State sure seems to have a lot of question marks. The Nittany Lions have a new receiving corps, new offensive line and some inexperience on defense.
For each Big Ten preview, Michigan writers Dave Birkett and Michael Rothstein will jaw back-and-forth with words, parting shots and general opinions about why we selected each team to finish where we did. Sometimes we'll agree. Other times, we won't.
CHICAGO - The bench became an unwilling partner, an unwanted friend, a large metal weight that was forced onto Daryll Clark his sophomore year. He had felt he was ready. He knew he was ready. His position coach at Penn State, Jay Paterno, said the same thing. The problem was, ...
In a college football world where scheduling is talked about as much as recruiting in the offseason, Penn State coach Joe Paterno explained, sort of, why his team's non-conference schedule looks rather paltry this year. Part of it is Penn State's fault. Part of it isn't. Not that Paterno really ...
The state's most famous little brother has done some serious growing up. Last year, Michigan State snapped a six-game losing streak against the Wolverines, reached its second consecutive bowl and held tough in a Capital One Bowl loss against SEC stalwart Georgia.
For years, most of the high school football players at St. Thomas Aquinas who went on to play college football stayed in the south. But Brett Swenson, Michigan State's senior kicker, blazed a northbound trail, and high school teammates have followed.
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