University of Iowa shortstop Megan Blank was selected as a 2012 National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Second Team All-Midwest Region selection, it was announced Thursday
It's better to carry a tune than a grudge. Michigan AD Dave Brandon doesn't view a four-team model as a true playoff. The Wolverines could be sporting more alternate unis in the near future. Urban Meyer releases Ohio State's depth chart and ...
We're getting near the end of our series looking at the most indispensable players on each Big Ten team. Once again, this is not necessarily a listing of the best players on each team, but ones whose absence would be toughest to absorb because of ...
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Just a quick reminder that we'll be chatting about all things Big Ten football today at noon ET. Let's discuss the news coming out of the Big Ten spring meetings in Chicago, how the Big Ten fits into college football's future playoff and anything else that's on your mind. See you at noon ET.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
CHICAGO -- Two years ago, Big Ten expansion dominated the discussion at league's spring meetings. This week, the subject barely came up when athletic directors and others got together. The Big Ten presidents and chancellors announced in August that the league "will not be actively engaged in conference expansion at this time, or at any time in the foreseeable future, barring a significant shift in the current intercollegiate athletic landscape.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
CHICAGO -- Two years ago, Big Ten expansion dominated the discussion at league's spring meetings. This week, the subject barely came up when athletic directors and others got together. The Big Ten presidents and chancellors announced in August that the league "will not be actively engaged in conference expansion at this time, or at any time in the foreseeable future, barring a significant shift in the current intercollegiate athletic landscape.
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Beginning Friday morning, fans of the Iowa Hawkeyes and friends of the University of Iowa who call central Iowa home soon won't have to travel to Iowa City to purchase the latest black and gold gear.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
Spring practice is a time when coaches install new schemes or just instill the fundamentals. The most exciting part of spring practice is potential new stars emerge, with newcomers or former reserves turning heads with their performances. Some of these guys will fade back into the shadows come fall. But others will be making major contributions on a field near you. Here's a list of some players who had breakout springs: Josh Ferguson, RB, Illinois: Redshirted last year after a hamstring injury, Ferguson blew up for 130 yards and caught six passes in the Illini spring game.
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The Kirk Ferentz era of Iowa football has seen a lot of memorable moments and exhilarating wins. But for the sake of this week’s poll, we’d like for you to choose your three favorites.
Yes, just three. It was difficult to choose just four players for the Ferentz Era Mt Rushmore in last week’s poll, but over 1,600 of you cast your ballot. We’re looking forward to the results of this poll and if it’s anything like last week’s, there may be as urprise or two along the way. Again, choose just three games.
| Your THREE Favorite Ferentz Era Wins | |
| 2010 Orange Bowl | |
| 2008 Penn State; Meyer FG to Win | |
| 2009 at Michigan State; Stanzi to McNutt to Win | |
| 2005 Capital One; Tate to Holloway to Win | |
| 2004 at Penn State; 6-4 Win following death of John Ferentz | |
| 2011 Pitt; Biggest Comeback in School history | |
| 2002 at Michigan; 34-7 Beat Down of Big Blue | |
| 2002 Purdue; Banks last drive, TD Toss to Clark | |
| 2009 at Penn State; 21-10 win in White House | |
| 2004 33-7 Win vs Ohio State in Kinnick | |
| 2004 30-7 win vs Wisconsin in Kinnick | |
| 2003 30-27 win vs Michigan; Chandler to Ochoa | |
| 2002 at Penn State 43-25 win in OT | |
| 2001 Alamo Win over Texas Tech, 19-16 | |
| 2000 win vs Northwestern; Ferentz’s 1st against ranked foe | |
| 2000 win at Penn State; 26-23 in OT | |
| pollcode.com free polls | |
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Adam Rittenberg wraps up the final day of the Big Ten spring meetings in ChicagoSource: Big Ten Football Blog
CHICAGO -- The Big Ten is bringing together its brainpower to help gather more information about the effects of concussions in sports. Commissioner Jim Delany announced Wednesday that the league members will launch a research initiative about how head injuries affect athletes in all sports. The Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the Big Ten's internal academic consortium, which includes all 12 sports members and the University of Chicago, will manage the project and the research efforts.Source: Iowa Hawkeyes (Official Site)
Iowa closes the regular season when it hosts No. 13 Purdue in a three-game set beginning Thursday at Duane Banks Field. First pitch for game one is scheduled for 6:05 p.m. The Hawkeyes (21-26, 8-13) and Boilermakers (40-10, 16-5), the regular season Big Ten champions, will also play at 6:35 p.m. on Friday and at 1:05 p.m. on Saturday.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer met with the media Wednesday and unveiled a post-spring depth chart. It didn't contain a lot of surprises. Some of the most interesting items from the depth chart -- and Meyer's comments -- included: Doran Grant has risen to co-starter status with Travis Howard at cornerback. Spring game sensation Michael Thomas is listed as the backup to Devin Smith at receiver, with Corey Brown and Evan Spencer the other starters there.
Source: Des Moines Register by Elizabeth Holoubek
Iowa won its final road game of the season Tuesday afternoon, coming from behind to beat Creighton 5-4 in at TD Ameritrade Park in downtown Omaha.
Iowa trailed 4-0 entering the top of the seventh. Chett Zeise hit a two-run double to plate Mike McQuillan and Phil Keppler. Nick Day hit a sacrifice fly to make it 4-3.
Keppler tied it up with an RBI single in the top of the eight inning.
Then in the ninth, pinch-hitter Bryan Niedbalski had a sacrifice fly to plate the game-winning run.
Six Iowa pitchers took the mound, with Nick Brown getting the win. Brown pitched the final two innings, striking out three.
Keppler finished 3-for-4 and extended his hitting streak to 10 games.
Iowa (21-26) closes the regular season against No. 13 Purdue (39-10) in a three-game series starting Thursday at Duane Banks Field.
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Creighton 101 020 000 — 4 7 1
Ricky Sandquist, Ben Bergman (3), Andrew Hanse (3), Taylor Kaufman (5), Tim Fangman (5), Nick Brown (8) and Dan Sheppard, Anthony Torres; Urban, Musec (4), Webb (7), Winkelman (8) and Bemboom. W – Brown (2-2). L – WInkelman (1-1). 2B – Phil Keppler (I), Chett Zeise (I), Anthony Torres (I). SB – Jake Mangler (I), Mike McQuillan (I), Ross (C). CS – McQuillan (I).
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CHICAGO -- When the Big Ten put 20,000 general public tickets on sale for the inaugural football title game in late July, they were gone within two hours. But many of those tickets -- bought by fans whose teams didn't qualify for the game in Indianapolis -- reappeared on websites like Stubhub.com days before the game, creating a soft secondary market. Some tickets were priced as low as $9 right before the game. Although the game sold out, there were several thousand empty seats at Lucas Oil Stadium when Wisconsin played Michigan State.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany recaps the league's spring meetings with Adam Rittenberg.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
CHICAGO -- Despite a few speed bumps, the Big Ten/Pac-12 scheduling partnership is "a go," Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany told his league's athletic directors this week. The details are still being worked out, which isn't a surprise when you have 24 major-conference programs with unique interests, scheduling philosophies and scheduling agreements. But Delany hopes to have a more specific idea of the scheduling models in the next few months. "We do want it all fit in," Delany said Wednesday.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
CHICAGO -- The Big Ten favors having a college football playoff within the existing bowls, which essentially pushes those games to warmer climates in the south and west. As Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said, "Let's say it is 5 degrees. Is that right for the game?" Apparently it's OK for lower-tier bowls. League commissioner Jim Delany said Wednesday that the Big Ten will have discussions with the Pinstripe Bowl, played outside in late December at New York's Yankee Stadium, about a potential future tie-in.Source: Des Moines Register by Lee Hermiston
First responders representing agencies from Johnson County put their emergency response skills to the test on Wednesday during a large scale recreation of a terrorist attack at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Simulating the response to a chemical attack inside the arena and a radiological attack outside of the area, the scene outside of Carver-Hawkeye looked like a scene from a movie. Men in camouflage fatigues were stationed outside of an entrance that was cordoned off by police tape. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatuses ventured into the arena and carried out dummies representing victims of the attack that were unable to exit on their own.
About 100 feet from the entrance, human volunteers went through decontamination, which in this drill involved being drenched with water from an Iowa City fire truck. The volunteers were then triaged by emergency medical technicians before being transported to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and the Veterans Affairs Health Care System.
UI spokesman Tom Moore said the training was “extremely valuable.”
Moore said representatives from the Iowa Weapons of Mass Destruction Response Team reached out to the university about hosting the emergency preparedness exercise at Carver-Hawkeye eight months ago. The university was happy to oblige, Moore said.
“It’s something our staff really takes seriously and they work hard to be as prepared as possible,” he said.
Participating agencies included the Iowa City Fire Department, Johnson County Hazardous Materials Team, Johnson County Emergency Management Agency, Johnson County Ambulance, UI Public Safety, the State Hygienic Laboratory, the Iowa National Guard’s 71st Civil Support team, Salvation Army and the state’s Weapons of Mass Destruction HazMat Team.
Capt. Clint Powell of the 71st Civil Support Team said Wednesday’s exercise is to gauge how the various responding agencies work together in responding to a disaster.
“We’re going to let the agencies go through their procedures to see what works, what needs to be fixed,” Powell said. “It’s a great event for getting everyone together. It’s been a lot of fun.”
In addition to validating their emergency response procedures, Powell said the exercise promotes communication between agencies, which can be useful when responding to other events, such as floods or other natural disasters.
“It gets everybody talking to each other,” he said.
UI Public Safety Director Chuck Green said the exercises were useful in introducing the agencies to each other before a real disaster occurs.
“The time of a real event is now when you want to make those acquaintances,” he said.
Among the dozens of volunteers who acted as victims of the attack was 19-year-old UI student Stephanie Jacques. As a member of the university’s Emergency Medical Services Club, Jacques she was looking forward to participating into an event like Wednesday’s. She got her wish when she was “decontaminated” with a shower of ice cold water.
“It’s very interesting,” she said, shivering. “It’s pretty cool.”
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Methamphetamine: a drug that is spreading like wildfire across Big Ten country, a drug that addicts countless individuals, destroying their minds, bodies and souls, and, hopefully, a drug that will hopefully be causing a little less destruction in Illinois next year thanks to an awareness-raising new uniform by Nike.
"We discovered two things during our research about Illinois," said Nike head designer Christopher Polyblend. "First: central and southern Illinois is absolutely crawling with meth labs, and second: meth manufacturers tend to be very lax about safety."
"Seriously, it's as if they have no
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CHICAGO -- The Big Ten favors having a college football playoff within the existing bowls, which essentially pushes those games to warmer climates in the south and west. As Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said, "Let's say it is 5 degrees. Is that right for the game?" Apparently it's OK for lower-tier bowls. League commissioner Jim Delany said Wednesday that the Big Ten will have discussions with the Pinstripe Bowl, played outside in late December at New York's Yankee Stadium, about a potential future tie-in.Source: Iowa Hawkeyes (Official Site)
University of Iowa women's tennis freshman Shelby Talcott wants to be among the nation's best. After playing at the top of the lineup in her first season as a Hawkeye, she's on her way there.Source: Des Moines Register by Rick Brown
Iowa’s once-chilly national reputation in men’s golf is melting away.
“They definitely say we’re an underdog based on the fact that we do come from the Midwest,” fifth-year Hawkeye coach Mark Hankins said. “They don’t take us for granted any more. But we still have a chip on our shoulder.”
Mark Hankins
Iowa competes in its fourth consecutive NCAA Regional on Thursday in Athens, Ga., trying to reach the finals for a third time in four years. The Hawkeyes tied for 10th in 2011.
Iowa State is also playing with a chip on its shoulder when it appears in its first NCAA Regional since 1999 on Thursday in Bowling Green, Ky. Senior Nate McCoy touched on that when he spoke at the team’s postseason banquet last week.
“People told him not to come to the program because it wasn’t very good weather, and maybe it would hold him back,” recalled Iowa State coach Andrew Tank. “He said he came to Iowa State because he loved it and he wanted to prove everyone wrong, and show that you could have a good team at Iowa State.”
A top-five finish by the Hawkeyes or Cyclones in their respective three-day, 54-hole regionals – Iowa is the fifth seed in Athens, Iowa State the 10th seed in Bowling Green – would earn a spot in the NCAA finals May 29-June 3 at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Iowa seniors Barrett Kelpin and Chris Brant are making their fourth consecutive NCAA appearance.
“Barrett has been super consistent all year,” Hankins said. “Chris has played great in big tournaments. He’s been clutch down the stretch.”
Kelpin advanced out of the first stage of U.S. Open qualifying Monday in Davenport.
“Without a doubt he’s our No. 1 man,” Hankins said. “You’ve got to have a stud at the top of your lineup, someone you can hang your hat on.”
McCoy is the No. 1 man at Iowa State, with a 71.68 stroke average. Like Kelpin and Brant, he’ll turn pro after NCAA competition is over. McCoy earned playing privileges on the Canadian Tour after tying for fifth in last week’s qualifier.
“He’s certainly put the Iowa State golf program on the map through his individual accomplishments,” Tank said.
McCoy will be a big loss, but the rest of Tank’s NCAA lineup is young. Scott Fernandez and Sam Daley are freshmen, Duncan Croudis a sophomore and Borja Virto a junior.
“Hopefully this will be a motivator, not only to get to Riviera but to set the tone for next season,” Tank said.
Hankins also has a program built on staying power. Steven Ihm is a sophomore and Ian Vandersee and Joseph Winslow are freshmen. Another freshman, Brian Bullington, saw significant action this season as well.
“We’ve been deep, with a bunch of guys trying to get in the top five,” Hankins said.
Source: Iowa Hawkeyes (Official Site)
Five members of the University of Iowa softball team earned All-Big Ten recognition, the league office announced Wednesday. Freshman Megan Blank, sophomore Kayla Massey and senior Liz Watkins were named first team honorees, sophomore Michelle Zoeller was a second team selection and junior Johnnie Dowling earned third team honors.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Michigan lost some invaluable leadership on the offensive line when center David Molk graduated. A somewhat unlikely figure is volunteering to fill that void. "I definitely see myself as a leader," junior left tackle Taylor Lewan told ESPN.com. "I want to be one of the main guys that really helps through all the successes and all the bad things. I want that to be put on myself. "I'm the left tackle, the blind side. They made a movie about it.
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Hawkeye senior Sonja Molnar has been named Most Valuable Player for the University of Iowa women's tennis team. Head coach Katie Dougherty announced the honor at the team's annual awards banquet May 3.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
The league meetings in Chicago and playoffs (cue Jim Mora clip) dominate your hump day links: The Big Ten's love of the Rose Bowl is making it act irrationally and against the league's best interests, Dan Wetzel writes. There's no guarantee on how that Rose Bowl relationship will continue. The Big Ten won't be able to use geography as an excuse for bowl performance in the future, Drew Sharp says. The league is pushing for a seven-win minimum to make a bowl game even though that may hurt some of its own teams.Source: Des Moines Register by Hawk Central
Former University of Iowa Sports Information Director Phil Haddy will receive the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Lifetime Achievement Award June 25 in St. Louis. The award will be presented during the Hall of Fame Luncheon at the annual CoSIDA Convention, held June 22-26.
Haddy, a member of the UI athletic staff for 41 years and Iowa’s Sports Information Director from 1993-2010, is currently the longest-serving member of a Big Ten Sports Information Office. He joined the Iowa athletic staff as assistant sports information director in 1971 and became the third sports information director in school history in 1993. He began a two-year phased retirement in 2010.
Only two athletic department employees, former SID Eric Wilson (46 years) and former swimming and diving coach Dave Armbruster (41 years), have worked for the Hawkeyes as long, or longer, than Haddy. Haddy and his wife, Elaine, have worked at the University of Iowa a total of 86 years.
Haddy was named Wrestling Publicist of the Year in 1992 by the Wrestling Media of America and was recognized with the 2001 Elmer “Scoop” Hudgens Lifetime SID Award from the All-America Football Foundation. His UI wrestling guides were judged “Nations Best” three times, as picked by CoSIDA and Amateur Wrestling News.
Haddy is a native of Cedar Rapids, where he graduated from Washington High School. He holds two degrees from the University of Iowa.
Former Iowa Sports Information Director George Wine received the CoSIDA Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. Eric Wilson (1969) and Wine (1985) are also members of the CoSIDA Hall of Fame.
Source: Iowa Hawkeyes (Official Site)
Six University of Iowa student-athletes have earned All-Big Ten track and field honors. Matt Byers, Troy Doris and McKenzie Melander earned first team all-conference honors following their first place performances at the Big Ten Championships on May 13. Betsy Flood, Ethan Holmes and Ashley Liverpool earned second team accolades. The honors were announced by the conference office on Tuesday.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
CHICAGO -- When the college football playoff push kicked off, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith planted himself in the campus-sites camp. Smith favored having the semifinals on the campuses of the higher-seeded teams. The setup would give Big Ten teams like Ohio State an advantage they've never enjoyed in the current BCS/bowl setup -- nationally significant games on Midwest soil in late December or early January. Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany was among the first major college football figures to stump for campus sites this winter.Source: Iowa Hawkeyes (Official Site)
Former University of Iowa Sports Information Director Phil Haddy will receive the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Lifetime Achievement Award June 25 in St. Louis. The award will be presented during the Hall of Fame Luncheon at the annual CoSIDA Convention, held June 22-26.Source: Iowa Hawkeyes (Official Site)
University of Iowa men's basketball fans can purchase travel packages for the 2012 Cancun Challenge during Thanksgiving week at the all-inclusive Moon Palace Resort in Cancun, Mexico.Source: The High Porch Picnic by Mike Jones
As previously stated: when things get slow, I start posting videos. Here's another, courtesy of LammyHawk. It features overly emotional music, classic highlights we've seen and a few rare ones that I didn't even think were available including hokey pokey footage and the "no-decal" game at Ohio State following the 1991 University of Iowa shootings.
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It's time once again for our series looking at the most indispensable players on each Big Ten squad entering the 2012 season. All together now: this is not necessarily a listing of the best players on each team, but of those whose absence would cause the most pain because of their particular value or a lack of depth at their positions. Up now: Penn State. Silas Redd, RB, Junior Although Bill Belton had a nice spring, Penn State's backfield otherwise looked very thin.Source: Black Heart Gold Pants by PSD
COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS CHANGING. You can watch Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany speak about Big Ten bowl tie-ins and the possibility of college football playoffs. Right now, it's about the "what" and the "where." According to Adam Rittenberg, Delany said "there's a very strong consensus among the league's athletic directors that the bowl-eligibility requirement should increase from six wins to seven wins." Those new requirements could mean new bowl tie-ins for the Big Ten. The contracts for the current
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Adam Rittenberg recaps the day at the Big Ten spring meetings, where the future postseason format and bowls were hot topics.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
I'll be covering the final day of the Big Ten spring meetings in Chicago, so my regular chat is moving from Wednesday to noon ET Thursday. Please join me then to recap the spring meetings, discuss the latest playoff developments and any other Big Ten issues that crop up. Again, noon ET Thursday. See you then.Source: Yahoo! NCAAB
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The Big Ten is holding their annual Athletic Directors meetings in Chicago and Jim Delany is talking more this year than he has in past years.
That makes sense when comparing this May to that of May 2010. At that time, the league was cloaking itself in privacy, trying to keep the media off its trail as well as off the trail of the Nebraska Cornhusker’s interest in joining the league. They did a decent job of that right up until the end.
This year, the topic at hand is a football playoff, what it will look like and how the Big Ten and Pac 12 go about protecting their Rose Bowl tie in.
Delany said this week that the Big Ten (coaches, admins, etc) are in favor of a playoff system that incorporates the best of the bowl system. That may not cater to the Big Ten getting on campus home games, but as long as the league can keep its tie in to the Rose Bowl, it seems like foregoing the on campus opportunities makes some sense to the league.
As to how the teams would be chosen, Delany gave this quote that I saw on ESPN, and it’s a mouthful:
“That would mean if we’re going to use computers, people are more up front about what’s in those computers,” he said. “It would mean perhaps the pollsters that we have would have to refrain from ranking teams before they ever play. It would mean we would have to honestly discuss strength of schedule and how we measure it. … If a computer guy is unwilling to explain to me and everybody else what’s in his program, I don’t think it ought to be part of the process. If a coach is arguing for championships, I’d like to hear the rationale behind that. If someone is arguing that you don’t have to win championships and they’re willing to live with a poll that is not even transparent, I’d like to hear that. And I’d like to hear coaches talk about the influence that a poll-only process, how that plays out in the nonconference scheduling.”
Obviously, a playoff solution is still a ways off, but the parties involved are on board with a playoff of some nature, most likely a four team playoff.
I agree with Delany related to many of his comments above; I’d love to know how the computer guys do what they do. As much as I love preseason polls, it does make more sense to wait until at least October before publicizing the first poll. However, the AP will probably stay separate from the solution in any case and they will conduct their own preseason poll which would probably have at least some effect on whatever poll is decided upon.
I am up in the air related to whether or not a team should be a champion of its league to qualify for the four-team playoff. A few years back when Michigan and Ohio State played a season ending game, they were 1-2 in the nation and the game was a high scoring affair decided by three points with the home team winning. You can’t tell me that the Big East Champion was more deserving than Michigan, who lost that game to Ohio State. This year, we saw a repeat of the Alabama-LSU regular season game which LSU won at Alabama but lost in the rematch. Alabama not only didn’t win the SEC title, it didn’t win its division, yet it won the national title.
Circling back around to the bowl system, Delany also said that the league is in favor of only sending teams to bowl games who have won at least seven regular season games. He also hinted that the league’s bowl partnerships may be changing following 2013 when the contracts are up.
I’d love to see the Big Ten maintain its relationships with the Outback and Cap One bowls, but if I had to pick one over the other, I’d keep the Outback. I’d love to see the league get back in touch with the Alamo Bowl, as San Antonio is a fantastic bowl destination. If it did that, one or both of the lesser Texas bowls would need to go. I’d love to see the Big Ten tie into the Holiday Bowl and have a match up against a Pac 12 team and give the bowl a marquee New Years Day position. I think playing a bowl game in the Phoenix area is also a winner, regardless of what they call it (the Insight is done as the official sponsor).
Changes are coming to the college football post season and it sounds as though the bowl process will remain a vital part of the landscape.
Source: Big Ten Football Blog
CHICAGO -- Big Ten teams will be playing fewer bowl games in the future. And they'll likely be playing some of them in different locations. It's all part of a shifting bowl landscape that Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany discussed Tuesday at the league's spring meetings. Delany said there's a "very strong consensus" among the league's athletic directors that the bowl-eligibility requirement should increase from six wins to seven wins, a sentiment that's echoed nationally.Source: Black Heart Gold Pants by therealCatnuts
8-12 months for Derrick Rose in his ACL recovery. The instant I move to Chicago D-Rose is done for effectively two seasons. FML. Whatever I did to whatever deity is up there, I take it back. I take it back, Ingvi Freyr!
I need something to cheer me up. Something even stronger than Nyan Cat. Dallas Clark vs Purdue? Nah, that was an entire decade ago. I'll go with the best bowl game performance in this Hawkeye's memory. OK, starting to feel better.
Adrian Clayborn vs. Georgia Tech (2009) (via
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LINK: A Miracle Squared: Celebrating The Greatness Of Bo JacksonBo Jackson is the first athlete I ever loved. He's the reason I became an Oakland Raider fan. He's the reason I (almost) became a Kansas City Royal fan. His career-ending injury is the reason I still feel a little bitterness to this day toward the Cincinnati Bengals.
I was 6 or 7 in his heyday and I was in awe of him: at the way he could hit home runs farther than anyone else, at the way he could snap baseball bats like toothpicks, at the way he could bust off 90-yard runs in football at the drop of a hat. Even now, over 20 years later, I can still vividly recall several of his
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CHICAGO -- Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany didn't reveal the future college football playoff model Tuesday, but he made it clear the process is shifting from what the format will be to how it will be determined and who will participate. Although Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman recently told ESPN.com he and other presidents prefer a plus-one model, a true four-team playoff is much more likely. And the format almost certainly will take place within the existing bowls.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany discusses the future of bowls and college football's postseason format at the league's spring meetings.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
Had colleague Ivan Maisel not spelled out a little-known rule about the College Football Hall of Fame's induction procedures, there would likely be some righteous outrage in Lincoln, Neb., and Columbus, Ohio, today. Maisel wrote this morning that the Hall has a rule preventing the selection of players from the same school in back-to-back years. That must have been the only thing keeping Nebraska's Tommie Frazier and Ohio State's Orlando Pace from being elected this year.Source: Big Ten Football Blog
CHICAGO -- It has taken some time, but Big Ten nonconference schedules are finally beefing up. Michigan opens the 2012 season against Alabama and Michigan State kicks off against Boise State. The Spartans also have contracts to face Oregon, Alabama and Miami. Ohio State has Virginia Tech and Oklahoma on its future schedules. Northwestern, which used to shy away from tough non-league foes, has series set with Stanford, California and Notre Dame. Traditional series with teams like Notre Dame (Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue) and Iowa State (Iowa) aren't going anywhere.Source: Iowa Hawkeyes (Official Site)
The University of Iowa baseball team earned a 5-4 come-from-behind victory at Creighton on Tuesday in its final road game of the season.
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