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STONY BROOK, N.Y. -- Taylor Thornton scored twice, including the game-winning goal with 16:19 remaining and second-seeded Northwestern advanced to another women's lacrosse national championship game with a 9-7 victory over No. 3 Maryland on Friday n...

Dontae Ayres, a three-star running back from Wicomico High School (Salisbury, Md.), has committed to play for Rutgers, multiple sources report. The 5-foot-8, 205-pound prospect selected the Scarlet Knights over scholarship offers from Northwestern...

When it comes to passing statistics in college football, 3,000 yards is a pretty good benchmark. If you've reached that milestone as a quarterback, you're in pretty elite company. There were only 39 quarterbacks to do so in the FBS last season, an...

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Hope everyone has a terrific Memorial Day weekend. I can already smell the grilled meats. Ohio State's John Simon talks about his "Tebowish" dedication. Buckeyes players are following Urban Meyer's marching orders and putting in extra work this s...

As part of ESPN.com's Hate Week, we asked you on Tuesday to vote for the most hated coach of all time in the Big Ten. Now to wrap up Hate Week -- and we promise it's only going to be love from now on in this space (ahem) -- here are some of your c...

It's Maryland and Northwestern again. This time in an NCAA women's lacrosse semifinal that is a rematch of the last two championship games.

Hump day linkage: Michigan AD Dave Brandon not only doesn't favor using campus sites for semifinal games, he doesn't think they should be played in the Midwest anywhere, not even indoors. Huh? Pat Harty argues that the Big Ten should go to geog...

Tough news for former Northwestern quarterback Dan Persa. As the Chicago Tribune's Teddy Greenstein reports, Persa needs a second surgery on his right Achilles tendon, a procedure which could end his playing career. Persa, who went undrafted last ...

Most Big Ten coaches label their jobs with a capital D for destination. When a head coach arrives on a Big Ten campus, he usually isn't looking for his next stop. Big Ten fans take pride in this. The league has been largely immune from the wanderi...

With 15 FBS offers, safety Erik Huhn (Cibolo, Texas/Steele) has his choice of where to play college football. As he continues to look at each offer equally, he admitted the offer from Georgia made him think a little harder. Huhn picked up an offer...

Blog | May 22, 2012

When you think Big Ten football, what usually comes to mind is big, corn-fed Midwestern players and bruising offenses. The kind of place that would be perfect for a tight end. But the 2011 season was a little lackluster for that position in the le...

Links are schedule-heavy today, as everyone is weighing in on the 2015/2016 slates. One downside of the future schedules is a four-year break for Ohio State and Nebraska. Wisconsin finally returns to Michigan's schedule in 2015. Wolverines coac...

Northwestern has announced its complete schedules for the 2015 and 2016 seasons, which includes one change to the 2015 nonconference slate. The Wildcats will play home-and-home series with Stanford and Duke in both seasons. A scheduled 2015 game a...

The Big Ten released its conference football schedules for the 2015 and 2016 seasons on Monday. Here's a look at the Northwestern Wildcats' and Illinois Fighting Illini's schedules for both seasons. Northwestern 2015 Oct. 3: at Iowa Oct. 10: ...

Tra'Von Chapman (Kent, Ohio/Theodore Roosevelt) already had nine offers including a handful from BCS programs, but he still felt he had not landed his first major offer yet. Wisconsin fits that description, and the Badgers offered the three-star q...

Blog | May 21, 2012