By Paul M. Banks, President of The Sports Bank.net When Michigan State meets #3 Purdue on Sunday, it’ll have huge influence on who wins the Big Ten regular season title. But beyond that…who will eventually take Purdue’s #1 seed in the NCAA tourney now? The Purdue Boilermakers are 12-3 in the Big Ten, a half-game [...]

Charlie Weis has to be smiling between bites these days.  A couple of weeks ago the Irish coach added “punches thrown after plays” to his long list of complaints after a loss at Michigan.  Following some YouTube spotshadowing and more whining from South Bend, Michigan linebacker Jonas Mouton was suspended by the Big Ten for [...]

For the next few weeks leading up to the college football season, we’ll be previewing every Big Ten team, starting with my prediction to finish last, to my predicted champ.  This way if I don’t get to Ohio State before the season starts, you’ll have a good grasp on all the teams whose analysis isn’t [...]

Somehow the three days to start this week always seem to go faster than the days between the Selection Show and the first round games. That could be due to the two days it took me to recover from a trip to Nashville where I did little other than watching games and watching live bands in bars. Regardless, it’s time for the second weekends of the NCAA Tournament and it promises to be a great one.

The early games are just about finished, with Michigan State beating Minnesota 64-56 and Ohio State and Wisconsin still going at it and it looks like it could go down to the wire…. 5:30 pm (2) Illinois vs. (7) Michigan- The first issue that comes to mind with this game is the availability of Chester [...]

What a win for Northwestern!  The Wildcats ruined Purdue’s Senior Night with a stunner; I heard they can still be as high as a six seed in the Big Ten Tournament.  Bubble?  [Lake The Posts] I absolutely agree with 3:10 to Joba that Tim Lincecum is awesome and so is the new commercial he is [...]