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So if the Big Ten East is the "Big Boy Division," does that make the West the "Andre 3000 Division?" The East-West split has pluses and minuses, Lee Barfknecht writes. The NFL draft was a slow one both for Ohio State and the Big Ten in general....

"Is there anything that makes people smile more than Broadway and football?" This clip proves it. Penn State made good progress on offense during the spring. Christian Hackenberg still looms in the quarterback race. What's ahead in the next month...

The NFL draft begins a week from today, with the first round taking center stage next Thursday night. But will the Big Ten have any players celebrating before Friday's second round? Prospects for that are starting to look slim, at least according ...

Phew, for a minute there I lost myself. Reports say former Ohio State playcaller and current Purdue offensive line coach Jim Bollman will be the new Michigan State offensive coordinator. Michigan State's Johnny Adams fared well at the NFL combine...

Since the weekly Monday chat is on a brief hiatus, I've decided to add an extra mailbag to the rotation, giving you guys another opportunity to ask questions and get answers. My regular Thursday mailbag will remain in its place, while Adam will conti...

And the Oscar goes to ... Linkin' Tim Beckman is sticking to his plan at Illinois. Michael Buchanan wants to live up to the high standard of previous Illini defensive linemen in the pros. New Indiana recruits pass the eyeball test (subscription...

Michigan's Denard Robinson boasted last year that he could beat Usain Bolt in the 40-yard dash. If that's true, than the Olympic sprint champion wouldn't be one of the fastest 10 men in this year's NFL draft. While Robinson's claim might have been...

The first group of players arrives in Indianapolis today to start the 2013 NFL combine. The event begins with interviews, and the first on-field workouts begin Saturday with the tight ends, offensive linemen and specialists. The Big Ten is sending...

Wisconsin's Montee Ball proved everything he could in college, returning for his senior year to break the all-time FBS record for career touchdowns after tying the mark for most touchdowns in a season in 2011. Little of that matters now, as Ball m...

The official list of players invited to the NFL combine is out. These are the guys the pro scouts most want to see, and they'll be poked, prodded and interviewed in Indianapolis from Feb. 23-26. Here are the 32 players from the Big Ten who've been...

We kicked off our 2013 postseason position rankings on Monday with a look at the quarterbacks. Let's keep it rolling by staying in the backfield and ranking the running back position for each Big Ten team. We're basing this solely on last year's p...

It's awards season in Hollywood, as the film industry lines up to congratulate itself again and again until we're all sick of it before the Oscars. But, hey, some performances do need recognition. With that in mind, we're listing the Top 10 indivi...

Now that bowls are over, the next big date on the college football calendar is signing day. With that in mind, it's time to take a look at where each Big Ten team stands in its recruiting efforts with less than five weeks to go before high school ...

Did the Big Ten redeem itself in the bowl season? That's a story for another post. But I can tell you that I gained some manner of redemption for my sorry regular-season predictions with a perfect 7-0 mark on my Big Ten bowl picks. That wasn't eno...

PASADENA, Calif. -- After he'd finished all his Rose Bowl postgame media obligations, Barry Alvarez took one last stroll through the Wisconsin locker room to talk to some players. He embraced redshirt freshman Derek Watt and told him, "You're going t...

Sadly, it is now officially the offseason for the entire Big Ten. Northwestern finally got the monkey off its back with a bowl win. It was a breakthrough season for the Wildcats. Barry Alvarez's magic wasn't enough to hide Wisconsin's shortcomi...