Welcome to the second installment of the Big 10’s Off-season Snapshot series. This series looks at the men’s basketball teams in the Big Ten, noting some of their key losses, key prospects, and key returning players. If you missed week one, I covered Michigan State. You can check out their roster break-down here. Without further […]
At Michigan State, their 2019-20 season didn’t end as planned, due to the pandemic taking away March Madness. As well as the social unrest that is taking place in our nation due to racism and bigotry, college basketball could be a bit different the next time we see it. Yet, hoping that college basketball returns […]
In a perfect world, NCAA Football franchise fans would be waiting with bated breath for the next video game release in July. However, as many know, that isn’t the current situation.Beyond the uncertainty of whether a season will occur this year, people don’t have a game to anticipate. NCAA officials allowed its athletes to be […]
2007 does not only represent the year of my Nissan Altima, but it also defines the wackiest year of NCAA college football probably ever in the history of the sport. Nicknamed, “the year of the upsets,” it ended with Kansas and Missouri battling to get to the national title. Yes, you read that right; Kansas […]
The NCAA’s Unprecedented Steps Forward 2020 has started with a bang for sure, and the coronavirus has hit hard. No one took it seriously, and it came back to bite us like a rattlesnake waiting in the Alabama shade. The number of things that we never expected to happen have hit us one after the other, so it’s only fitting that we would get […]
Whether the coronavirus is actually real, just a conspiracy, or nothing much worse than the age-old flu, it is something that the entire world is taking very seriously. Personally, I’m not too big on conspiracy theories. If I’m being honest, they scare me. So I’ve never been one to dive headfirst into the Reddit conversations. […]
Coronavirus cancelations hit us all by surprise, and student-athletes need eligibility relief. First, we thought, well, there is an outbreak in China, but it’s half a world away. We thought news outlets were exaggerating the severity of the virus. For the most part, everyone was prepared to simply get on with their lives. They paid the […]
Coronavirus has ended sports for a while, but if you don’t mind, I want to take a look back at the 2019-20 college basketball season anyway. But I am not talking about Power-5 schools. Nor am I talking about the pure parody that has existed on the top end of college basketball. The remarkable thing […]
For the first time since 2015, the Sooners will have a true quarterback battle. When Spencer Rattler or Tanner Mordecai takes the field for the start of the 2020 season, it will mark the first time the Sooners have started a homegrown talent at QB since the Trevor Knight era. With the loss of Jalen […]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Coronavirus, AKA COVID-19, has put the sports world on pause. With that, the NCAA was forced to cancel its annual season-ending tournament, March Madness. And despite the NCAA granting seniors another year of eligibility, players still wanted to stamp a championship to their legacy this […]
Today is March 22nd, 2020. In a perfect world, the first and second rounds of March Madness would have just ended. 16-32 teams and their fanbases would be celebrating their memorable wins, and the losers, not so much. Actually, in a more perfect world, my North Texas Mean Green would be on the way to their […]
Embed from Getty Images The debut of the transfer portal in October 2018 has taken the world of college football by storm. Headlined by Ohio State’s star quarterback Justin Fields, the transfer portal has added a new dynamic to recruiting across all sports. Whether you love it or hate it, the transfer portal is here […]
Sexual assault on college campuses is no secret. Yet, sexual assault within college sports is a growing epidemic. College sports fans can all remember when cases like Penn State football, Baylor football, and Michigan State gymnastics first broke. These cases, all public, exemplified a major issue with college athletics. That issue? College sports gives those […]
It’s no secret that Historically Black Colleges and Universities – commonly known as HBCUs – have a significant disadvantage when it comes to the athletic spotlight compared to its’ predominantly white-school counterparts. The Celebration Bowl is a time where the best black college football programs get to meet up on network television to show the […]
The 2019-2020 NCAA men’s basketball regular season has ended. Conference titles have been awarded, and now most Division-1 tournaments are in full swing. Selection Sunday is just one week away, and so is the beginning of the mad dash to complete brackets and place bets on all of the games. What was last year like? Sure, […]
The Big 10 has a serious problem on their hands. They are too competitive this season. This past college basketball season, eight of the Big 10’s teams made the tournament in March. This season it looks like more teams will be going dancing. As it stands now, 12 of the 14 Big Ten teams will […]
Embed from Getty Images Imagine this. You’ve just picked up a basketball for the first time. Your dad made you do it, but what the heck you weren’t afraid to try. You make your first basket. Something about seeing the ball swish through the net made you smile. You continue to play until you learn […]
The NCAA Board of Governors voted unanimously to allow the possibility for college athletes to earn money for their athletic services. The board’s chair, Michael Drake, went so far as to describe this development as a “modernization” on Twitter. Modernization describes this perfectly. Many claim that these athletes being able to earn money is something […]