Penn St. gets an extra night in the big city
The Penn State football team was literally stuck in Chicago overnight Saturday when the right rear wheels of its chartered airplane went off a runway at Midway Airport and became...
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Paterno: BCS setup `disaster’ for league
Penn State coach Joe Paterno has long favored a Division I-A football playoff, but when the Bowl Championship Series was unveiled in 1996 he called it "a giant step forward...
Florida’s defeat changes focus of BCS picture
On the final snap of Florida's 23-20 loss at Auburn late Saturday night, Gators quarterback Rex Grossman shoveled a desperate lateral into the backfield, where it was recovered by a...
The shoe drops on Wisconsin
For the third time in eight years, the NCAA found Tuesday that Wisconsin's scandal-plagued athletic department was guilty of major rules violations. The NCAA placed the university on five years'...
PREDICTIONS FROM GUT, NOT THE HEAD
The picks are clicking as you fill out the NCAA tournament pool sheet. Then you run into a dead end: A matchup neither team can win. For me, that dead...
AT LEAST ONE GOPHER GOLDEN
Minnesota guard Kerwin Fleming had a raft of friends and family watching Thursday at the United Center. "I wanted to give them a little show," said Fleming, a product of...
FEW BUBBLES WILL BE BURST
The Bracket Gods, otherwise known as the 10 members of the NCAA Division I men's basketball committee, will begin checking into the Westin Hotel in downtown Indianapolis Thursday. They will...
PEERS BACK OSU’S O’BRIEN AS LEAGUE’S TOP COACH
If it were up to his peers, Ohio State coach Jim O'Brien would be a shoo-in to win Big Ten Coach of the Year for the second time in three...
PLANTING THE SEED
Michael Tranghese chuckled at the suggestion. "Never," Tranghese said, "has CBS made a request for a game." Tranghese, the Big East commissioner and chairman of the Division I men's basketball...
NOTHING REGULAR ABOUT PURDUE-IOWA MATCHUP
Purdue visits Iowa on Wednesday night in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Huh? It's obviously a regular-season game. But the Big Ten's coldest teams might need to look...