By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor Finally, the college football season starts to really heat up this week as there are plenty of good games on tap to satisfy your craving for what should be some really hotly contested games. The best matchup in the Big Ten will be in Lincoln, where a pair of […]
Continue ReadingBy DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor How impressed were you with how the Big Ten fared in the opening weekend of college football? Not very? Don’t feel too bad because there wasn’t too much to get excited about. No. 2 Ohio State, the second-ranked team in the country, only beat dismal Buffalo by 20. Michigan […]
Continue ReadingBy DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor Thankfully, the college football season has finally arrived! As we celebrate this Labor Day weekend, college football officially kicks off. In fact, three Big Ten teams got things going prior to Saturday. On Thursday night, Indiana destroyed Indiana State, scoring 73 points – the most for a Hoosier football […]
Continue ReadingBy CHUCK SAMPLES ISL Correspondent Big Ten football begins this week, and ISL’s Chuck Samples is here to offer his forecast. Leaders 6. Illinois. Fighting Illini didn’t show much fight last year. A two-win season already has head coach Tim Beckman on the hot spot, largely because the team had virtually no offense to speak […]
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent The Indiana Hoosiers announced their 2013-14 basketball schedule on Wednesday. A look at the 31-game slate that includes two trips to New York (where Indiana competes in the 2K Sports Classic the week before Thanksgiving) is printed below. The Hoosiers play 18 of the 31 games at home. They are […]
Continue ReadingBy DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor VALPARAISO, Ind. — Robbie Hummel is glad to be back home again. Spending the 2012-13 season in Spain’s top-level professional basketball league, the former Purdue star got his fill of European life. There was the language barrier playing on Obradoiro CAB in the Spanish league which the Valparaiso native […]
Continue ReadingBy DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor The Big Ten’s annual football Media Days have come and gone, and as we brace for the start of fall camps over the next couple weeks, there was plenty of food for thought that came out of Chicago. Despite a couple of off-the-field issues with two of its stars, […]
Continue ReadingBy DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor Fresh off a 12-0 season and with 12 starters returning, Urban Meyer’s Ohio State Buckeyes are the overwhelming pick to win the Big Ten this season, so says the media. Of those 12 starters returning, nine reside on the offensive side of the ball, which should mean the Scarlet […]
Continue ReadingBy DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor If you’re like me, you’re beginning to think more and more about the college football season. Sure, we haven’t even arrived at the Fourth of July or endured the dog days of summer. But in about a month conferences across the country will hold their annual media days and […]
Continue ReadingBy DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor The Big Ten has to be sick and tired of hearing about its lack of recent success in college football. It knows Ohio State’s 2002 national title was the last time the conference was king of the sport. In fact, the Big Ten has had just two national champions […]
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent Indiana’s season came to an end Wednesday night with a 1-0 loss to Oregon State in the College World Series. Lefty Matt Boyd baffled the Hoosiers with 11 strikeouts in his complete-game shutout, making a tough-luck loser of Big Ten Pitcher of the Year Aaron Slegers. Indiana never really came […]
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