Merit Club to host prestigious women’s golf event
The Merit Club has stepped in for Rich Harvest Farms to host the 2016 UL International Crown, an international team match-play event featuring many of the top players in women's...
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Illinois has ties to search firm with bad recent run of Big Ten AD hires
For weeks, even before Illinois fired Mike Thomas, industry sources pegged the university's next move. You watch, they said. Illinois will hire Parker Executive Search to help find its next...
Should Ohio State’s Ezekiel Elliott have apologized for criticizing his coaches?
Ezekiel Elliott can be excused. He's 20. His team had just blown its chance to make the College Football Playoff, and his Heisman hopes got flushed away. Supremely talented and...
Michigan State’s defensive effort against Ohio State a game-changer
Two days ago, you could have summed up Michigan State's season this way: An average defense, a bunch of tight victories and an ugly, controversial loss to Nebraska. The Spartans...
Michigan State comes together as grumbling Ohio State falls apart
As Michigan State's postgame news conference was about to begin, quarterback Connor Cook noticed that the vinyl banner hanging behind the players was all scarlet and gray. So he replaced...
Former Notre Dame coach Bob Davie doing things his way at New Mexico
The date: Sept. 11, 1995. The scene: Bob Davie's office at Notre Dame. At 6:30 a.m., athletic director Mike Wadsworth informs the defensive coordinator that Lou Holtz needs time to...
Michigan State rallies from nine-point deficit to top Kansas 79-73
The helmet-wearing Spartans of Michigan State will play an all-or-nothing game Saturday at Ohio State. Tom Izzo's crew faced no such pressure Tuesday night when it took the floor against...
College Football Playoffs top five unchanged, though a lot’s going on
The chaos will have to wait a week, maybe more. The top five teams from last week's College Football Playoff rankings remain frozen in time. This is good news for...
Season at stake for each in Michigan State-Ohio State face-off
You know it's a big week when the coaches get a little testy. Reporter on the weekly Big Ten teleconference: "Just to be clear, you expect Connor Cook to play?"...
How did Trevor Siemian go from Big Ten’s 11th-rated QB to Broncos’ No. 2?
When Trevor Siemian tore his ACL last November, I thought: Man, tough end to a football career, but at least he'll always have Notre Dame. One week earlier, Siemian had...