Andrew Bagnato

Offense sells tickets, goes the old college football saw, but defense wins championships. It's time for a new cliche on campus. In the first season of the new century, the...

The Miami Hurricanes will leapfrog Florida State into second place behind Oklahoma in the new Bowl Championship Series standings Monday, according to projections by Chicago-area mathematician Jerry Palm, who has...

Paul Hackett and his assistants were amazed when they heard about Northwestern's 54-51 victory over Michigan on Saturday. "We're looking at that Northwestern-Michigan score and we're saying, `Oh my goodness,...

A Northwestern fan is, by definition, an optimist. So if you have even one purple garment in your closet, you have little doubt that Northwestern is headed back to the...

Penn State's faculty recently took time out from the consuming business of instruction and research to tackle a truly important issue: fan decorum at Beaver Stadium. Seems the Blue and...

Jerry Tagge and Jack Mildren used to have a bet whenever Nebraska played Oklahoma: the loser had to hang the winner's picture in his office. Mildren was serving as Oklahoma's...

With No. 12 Ohio State preparing to square off with 16th-ranked Purdue for control of the Big Ten race Saturday, Buckeyes linebacker Joe Cooper fired a personal volley at Purdue...

At a time of escalating tuition costs and dwindling state and federal support, $90,000 doesn't go as far as it used to in higher education. Still, $90,000 could pay a...

As the unofficial coach-hunting season opens in college football, we begin our tour in Columbia, Mo., home to the Missouri Tigers, a disappointment in the last two autumns of Larry...

Chuck Long left Iowa as the leading passer in Big Ten history. Long's record--10,461 yards--looked as if it might stand a long time in a ground-oriented conference. It has lasted...