Finally, the full Big Ten season is here! There are major headlines for the Big Ten as league play starts and the real teams show who they are. Rutgers has been hit with NCAA sanctions, Nebraska fired their athletic director for the fall of their football program, and Michigan, Penn State, and Michigan State have … Read more
There are not many teams playing better basketball than what Michigan has accomplished in the last month and change, and there’s even less playing more inspired than the Wolverines. Despite the travel troubles, coach John Beilein and his bunch soared over their opposition in the Big Ten Tournament. Strangely though, it earned them only a 7-seed … Read more
The 2016 College football season is coming to a close. We had a lot of shocking finishes, dominant performances, and even a little controversy peppered in throughout the year. Alabama, Ohio State, and Clemson performed up to expectation for most of the year on their way to a College Football Playoff appearance. Michigan, Washington, Colorado, … Read more
The conference championship games are over and the dust has settled in terms of the College Football Playoff. The CFP committee has spoken and they have determined that No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 Clemson, No. 3 Ohio State, and No. 4 Washington will compete for the National Championship. But what if college football expanded to a … Read more
Friday was officially Veterans Day. But really all weekend, many teams, college and professional, are paying honor and tribute in various ways to the armed forces around the world as way of thanking them to the service. Quite frankly, we should always remind ourselves to do it and think about the brave men and women … Read more
So on Thursday, the North Carolina Tar Heels, ranked No. 17 in the latest College Football Playoff polls, lost on the road to conference foe and arch-rival Duke, 28-27. On the surface of things, it just seems like another upset of a ranked team losing to an unranked opponent. But no, this loss by UNC goes … Read more
Baylor University has dealt with it’s fair share of tragedy recently. This past Thursday night Baylor sophomore David Grotberg was killed in a hit and run accident. Grotberg was 19 years old, a trumpet player in the Golden Wave Band, president of the Campus Ballroom Dance Society, and part of the Honors Program at Baylor. Baylor football … Read more
Hard to believe it’s already week 4 of the college football season, but here we are as the Big Ten and Pac-12 conference schedule gets underway this weekend. Meanwhile down South, ESPN College Gameday is taking a trip to Knoxville for yet another clash between the Gators and Vols. Can Tennessee snap its 11-game losing … Read more
It was an incredible ending to the Central Michigan University game this afternoon as the game ended on an untimed hook and lateral. Final score: Central Michigan 30, Oklahoma State 27. Congratulations to CMU! Video below – this play is hard to put into words. Fire Up Chips!! Holy cow! CMU gets a Hail Mary on an … Read more
The first week of the college football season sure was a doozy. Many games were either close or broke expectation. Top 25 teams dropped left and right while some outright struggled against inferior competition. We saw the Cougars rise, and the Tigers fall. Wisconsin had its day in the sun, and Texas took the night. … Read more
Barry J. Sanders had a great day for the Oklahoma State Cowboys this weekend. Having transferred back to the school of his father and former Lion great Barry Sanders, Barry J. wasted no time making an impact. Watch below as he returns a 1st half punt almost all the way for the score (the touchdown was overruled on … Read more
In 2015, it was the Oklahoma Sooners surviving the late-season gauntlet that is the regular season schedule of the Big 12. The Sooners, led by head coach Bob Stoops and senior transfer quarterback Baker Mayfield, earned one a highly-coveted spot in the College Football Playoff before falling short in the National Semifinals to the Clemson Tigers. There has been … Read more
It was two weekends ago that the Women’s College World Series kicked off in Oklahoma City after the field of 64 was whittled down to eight. Last Wednesday June 8, it was the Oklahoma Sooners capturing their third national championship in school history. The Sooners did not make the field of 64 for the Men’s … Read more
It was rivalry week in college football this weekend. Arguably the biggest and most important game on the slate was “Bedlam”, the annual game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Oklahoma State Cowboys. The winner clinched the Big XII title. When you get two teams that don’t like each other together, you expect a lot … Read more
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[tps_header] Week 10 of the college football season definitely lived up to its billing as ‘Separation Saturday.” Four of the top 10 teams lost and the College Football Playoff rankings are sure to see quite the shakeup. Here is what we project the new College Football Playoff rankings will look like following Week 10. … Read more
