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NFL.com just finished unveiling its list of the top 100 players in the league heading into the 2011 season, as voted by both players and fans. Both groups had separate lists, but seven Big 12 players landed on it. Here's where they were placed: 3....

Marshall, you can't pay your mortgage with hacky sacks and good vibes. Oklahoma State safety Markelle Martin nearly left school when the pressures of school got to him. But he rebounded and recently won an academic award, writes Jenni Carlson of ...

Schedule: Kansas State opened spring practice on Wednesday with the first of 15 workouts, concluding with the annual spring game set for April 30. What's new: Defensive coordinator Chris Cosh came under fire after the Wildcats' defense struggled f...

Baylor, Texas and Texas Tech already have begun spring drills., but I'm kicking off my spring tour around the Big 12 campuses on Wednesday. Here's a wide-angle look at the Big 12, with the five biggest questions hounding the conference to begin th...

On Wednesday, we wrapped up our look back at the last five years of ESPNU 150 recruits that signed with Big 12 teams. Here's a quick refresher course on every Big 12 ESPNU 150 signee: Big 12 signees in the 2006 ESPNU 150 Big 12 signees in th...

ESPN the Magazine had a fascinating feature looking back at the past 25 No. 1 high school recruits, where they are now and what the ranking meant to them. With apologies to Vince Young, there aren't a ton of Big 12 talents on the list, but there have...

Don't hide your thighs. Notarize. Randy Peterson of the Des Moines Register takes a look at Iowa State's two new linebackers off to good starts, A.J. Klein and Jake Knott. Mike Leach weighs in on what might as well be the de facto Leach Bowl th...

Conference realignment means we live in even tougher times for the numerically inclined in regards to conference names. So no one should pull a double take at 12 high school quarterbacks taking part in the "EA Sports Elite 11" exhibition and camp for...

MANHATTAN, Kan. -- It was supposed to be Carson Coffman's time. He'd sat behind first-round draft pick and starting quarterback Josh Freeman for two seasons, and now he was going to take his turn, continuing a family tradition. His father, Paul Coffm...

At an earlier stage of my life, I spent almost two years living in Temple, Texas. It's a nice town. Back then, it had a good mall and a great location. I was never more than an hour away from either Austin or Waco if I really wanted to do somethin...

All season long, I heard offensive coordinators across the Big 12 talk about how much more difficult it was to move the ball in the conference last season than it was in 2008. The conference still leads the nation in scoring when compared to other...

Much was made during the past season about the Big 12 defenses had finally started catching up to the offenses across the conference. Obviously, numbers would be expected to plummet with players like Chase Daniel, Graham Harrell, Michael Crabtree,...

Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Griffin The Big 12 North has been a surprise in ways that would have seemed unimaginable before the season started. But it still doesn't explain the unlikely scenario now in place with Kansas State in first place and I...

Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Griffin After several sputtering weeks in Kansas State's retooled new offense, Brandon Banks charged back to show what he could do in one magical afternoon last week. The first three games of the season were disappointi...

Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Griffin Steve Johnson from Oklahoma City writes: Tim, what has happened to the Oklahoma State defense? Everybody was talking about them like they were the second coming of the Pittsburgh Steelers' "Steel Curtain" after the...

Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Griffin Here's a look at how I rank the Big 12 offenses heading into the season. 1. Oklahoma State - The conference's most balanced offense also features the best rushing/receiving combination in Kendall Hunter and Dez...