Last year was supposed to be the year of the wide receiver in the Big Ten, with stars like Illinois's Arrelious Benn and Minnesota's Eric Decker returning. While some stars emerged from other teams, the stars failed to deliver, as Benn turned into an average wide receiver and Decker go hurt halfway through the season, ending his year. This year's crop of receivers looks just as promising and is much deeper, with a few possible ...

Three weeks remain before Selection Sunday. Time to consider ‘the last four in’, ‘the last four out’, and maybe even “four score and seven years ago.” Okay, so the last one was irrelevant. After the conferences determine their automatic bids, 34 spots remain for the tournament selection committee to decide. This year has the makings for multiple bids from conferences outside the big six conferences. The Pac-10 has no team with less than eight losses.  The SEC has one ...

  Head Coach Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverine football program had it's Junior Day yesterday and some recruits even attended that "so called" basketball game. One junior from Birmingham, MI decided that his Michigan offer was too good to pass up. That young man was wide receiver prospect, Shawn Conway. Conway, who is listed at 6'4 and 183 pounds, runs around a 4.5 40. Shawn hasn't been rated by any of the recruiting services, ...

Exactly three weeks from today is Selection Sunday. Which teams will gather around and celebrate a berth into the NCAA Tournament? Who will be left out?   The last hurrah for the nation’s bubble teams has to be now.   Here’s a look at some of the bubble teams as of Feb. 21:     Florida State (19-7, 7-5) (ACC)   The Seminoles are in sixth place in the ACC right now, they go at North Carolina on Wednesday.   RPI: 40 S.O.S.: 57     Georgia Tech (18-9, 6-7) ...

The 14th ranked Wisconsin Badgers (19-7, 9-5) took the court at the Kohl Center on Sunday in a conference matchup against the Northwestern Wildcats (17-9, 6-8). The Badgers came into the contest after losing big at Minnesota on Thursday, looking to avoid their first back-to-back-losses of the season. The first half started as a shootout, with both teams seemingly scoring at will. Wisconsin, however, went on a 17-6 run to end the half and take a 43-29 lead. The ...

With 11:36 to go in the second half, Alabama led by 13 points. First year Alabama head coach Anthony Grant called a timeout to give the team their instructions for the remainder of the game. Coming out of the timeout, Georgia went on an 11-2 run, closing in on the Tide and shrinking the lead to four points. With the score 54-50, Grant called timeout again. Alabama was losing grip on a victory, a game in ...

Eleventh-ranked Michigan State's (11-4, 21-7) 74-67 loss to the 12th-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes (11-4, 21-7) was more than a just a loss, it may have cost Tom Izzo's Spartans a league title. Thad Matta's club killed two birds with one stone Sunday. The first "bird" was knocking Sparty from first place in the Big Ten for the first time since 2008. The other "bird" was delivering the Spartans a loss at the Breslin Center, something that ...

If you were hired by the big ten to give an evaluation of 15 potential candidates, what would your list look like? According to Barry Alvarez you need to give the following information: “They basically broke down what they would bring to the table," Alvarez said. "They talked about academics. They talked about size. They talked about size of their arenas. They talked about attendance. They talked about the populace in that specific area." First thing mentioned: ...

"It was the best of times,it was the worst of times," Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities . So it is for the men's basketball team at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. With three games to play before the Mountain West Conference Tournament at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, the Rebels find themselves clearly right on the bubble for an invitation to the NCAA Tournament certainly better ...

It's a sign of a healthy program when seven of its players are about to head to the NFL combine in a few days. Hawkeye fans have a lot to be proud of and a lot to look forward to, as seven Iowa players prepare for the the 2010 NFL Scouting Combine, held from Feb. 24 to March 2. Bryan Bulaga, Kyle Calloway, Pat Angerer, Amari Spievey, A.J. Edds, Tony Moeaki, and Dace Richardson will ...