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Pickin’ On the Big Ten: 2013 Legends Division Preview
The Big Ten’s Legends Division goes away after this season, but not without a fight for its last-ever division title. Will it be a tight and suspenseful race? I don’t know, but it promises to be a lot...
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Pickin’ On the Big Ten, Week 10: Huskerdammerung
When one Pelini brother lost his job this week, many wondered why it wasn’t two. Bo Pelini is deep in the weeds in Lincoln after that loss to Minnesota, and everybody knows it. Nebraska can tolerate...
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Did Bo Pelini seal his fate in stormy post-game presser?
It was not a good day for embattled head football coach Bo Pelini, as the University of Nebraska closed out the 2013 football season with a 38-17 loss to Iowa. Pelini also snapped at ESPN reporter...
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2014 NCAA Baseball Tournament Preview
After a weekend of compelling conference tournaments and a historic crowd of 19,965 on hand to witness the Big Ten Championship game, the NCAA Baseball Tournament is set to begin at 16 regional sites....
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Pickin’ On the Big Ten, Week 1: Appalachian State and Other Disasters
Week One of the 2014 Big Ten football season is here. I’ve already given you my picks for the three early games this upcoming week, but what about the games that are being played when they’re supposed...
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Pickin’ On the Big Ten, Week 2: The Something Strange Is Always Les Miles
Big Ten football didn’t have too many shocks last week. There were only two real surprises, one pleasant (Rutgers’ win over Washington State) and one unpleasant but probably not all that surprising...
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Pickin’ On the Big Ten, Week 3: All Thy Sins Laid Bare
I don’t know if you noticed, but the Big Ten lost a few important non-conference games last week. In this week’s Big Ten football picks I’ll be looking at each team, evaluating what’s working and what...
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Pickin’ On the Big Ten: I’m OK, You’re OK, It’s Not OK
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: The Big Ten plays some pretty important non-conference games in front of millions of eyes, but things don’t quite go according to p- (The Internet, as one: “Stop!...
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Pickin’ On the Big Ten, Week 5: Ice-Cold Hoke Zero
The Wheel of Narrative has spun once more, and this week the Big Ten’s arrow is pointing to “hopeful.” (WARNING: Not valid in Washtenaw County, Michigan.) Can the conference keep the good football...
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Pickin’ On the Big Ten, Week 6: Negative Brand(on) Equity
I could write something snarky about Michigan, Brady Hoke, and/or Dave Brandon, but I don’t like to do what everyone else does. Besides, we all know there’s a huge game this week, one with potential...
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Recapping College Football’s Historically Chaotic Week 6
Well, the landscape of college football has been left in smoldering ruin. Between this insanity and the MLB playoffs, we were treated to one of the most exciting weekends of sports in recent memory,...
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Pickin’ On the Big Ten, Week 8: Regression Analysis
At first glance, this week’s collection of Big Ten football games looks uninspiring, without a true marquee matchup. At second and third glance it’s much the same. But burbling just below the surface...
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Pickin’ On the Big Ten, Week 9: All These Miles, None of Them Les
This week’s Big Ten football schedule features two of the longest roads trips possible for conference teams — and the absolute shortest. No doubt some of these teams will be wishing they’d just stayed...
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Pickin’ On The Big Ten, Week 10: Playoffs?
The first College Football Playoff rankings came out this week and, well, there weren’t any Big Ten teams in the top four. If you find that news surprising, let me also break it you that the stuff in...
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Pickin’ On The Big Ten, Week 13: Where The Buck Stops
Week 13 of Big Ten football brings several critical matchups, some important “yardstick” games, and also Northwestern versus Purdue. We’re heading into the silly season for coaches as, if history is...
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