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100 days away ... Illinois is very much in the mix for Oklahoma State QB transfer Wes Lunt. Illini coach Tim Beckman and his assistants are social-media machines. A great look inside a week with Michigan offensive coordinator Al Borges. Michiga...

When something seemingly loud happens, we can't help but stare. The momentum of attention, which of course can be monetized by the media, creates a hungry void that is filled with endless analysis. The end-result is a suffusion of broad statements of...

Steve Muench looks at the needs of the Indianapolis Colts and New England Patriots, and how those needs might be addressed in the 2013 draft.

Blog | Conversation | November 15, 2012

While Michigan's coaching staff is doing fine on its own on the recruiting trail, some of its commitments have picked up the ball and run with it, too.

Story | Conversation | November 13, 2012

Some Monday linkage for your viewing pleasure: Former Alabama linebacker Eryk Anders is making hits in mixed martial arts. Former Georgia safety Terreal Bierria begins trial on Monday and is accused of killing his childhood best friend in a blo...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Denard Robinson has always been hard to define by standard notions of quarterback play. He plays with his shoelaces out, throws the ball up for grabs at times and rips off game-breaking runs. Those things were good enough to ma...

Had my first pepperoni roll on Tuesday. I'm impressed. Lee Barfknecht of the Omaha World-Herald catches up with former KU coach Turner Gill at his new home at Liberty. He admitted he was surprised he was fired after two seasons in Kansas, but it ...

The Danny O'Brien tour is in full swing. O'Brien, the former Maryland quarterback, reportedly visited Penn State during the weekend. After a midweek stop at Ole Miss, O'Brien will head to Wisconsin, according to The Badger Nation's Benjamin Worgul...

Bill O'Brien might not have had direct ties to Penn State before becoming the team's head coach Jan. 6, but he wanted some assistants with connections to the school and to the state. He found one in quarterbacks coach Charlie Fisher, a native of Alle...

White placards with a set of rules were affixed to the glass doors of the players' entrance at the Penn State football building about the time Bill O'Brien agreed to become the school's next football coach.

Fourteen former Big Ten players will soon be the proud owners of new Super Bowl championship rings. The league had 23 players on the two Super Bowl squads, and several played key roles in the New York Giants' victory against New England. Michigan ...

Tight end Kevin Koger has earned high marks for his play during practices leading up to Saturday's East-West Shrine Game.

If Penn State fans are disappointed with the list of candidates for the school's head-coaching vacancy, they should check out another list: the school's recent quarterbacks. This exercise isn't meant to further depress Nittany Lions supporters. It...

Like many people, former Penn State linebacker Paul Posluszny knows little about Bill O'Brien, beyond a well-publicized sideline spat. "I don't know a whole lot about him, to be honest with you, except that fight he had with Tom Brady," Posluszny,...

Penn State's hire of Bill O'Brien -- a man with no ties to Penn State and no head-coaching experience -- might be exactly what the Nittany Lions need. But he'll need a fair shot in State College to be successful.

NEW ORLEANS -- Greetings from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, where tonight No. 13 Michigan faces No. 11 Virginia Tech in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. Michigan makes its first BCS bowl appearance since the 2007 Rose Bowl, and aims for its first BCS bowl ...