- posted on 5/24/13 @11:38am
- Written by Tom Dienhart, BTN.com Senior Writer
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Ever wonder why the SEC is on such a dominant run and the Big Ten is, well, seemingly playing catch up like every other league? Purdue athletic director Morgan Burke offers up what he thinks to the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel is the difference between the Big Ten and SEC business models.
Burke: “You have two very different models. You have an SEC model and a Big Ten model. The SEC model, almost across the board, is sponsoring the minimum number of sports (16). I’m not being negative toward the SEC, but their strategy has been to take seven men’s sports and nine women’s sports. That puts them in a gender equity balance. If you are getting 80,000 to 90,000 in your stadium, what that means is you’re spending an awful lot on football. You have to call it what it is. I’m not saying it’s wrong.”
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- posted on 5/24/13 @12:07am
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The 2013 Big Ten Baseball Tournament continued Thursday at Target Field with three more games. Illinois survived by eliminating Michigan, Ohio State rallied to top Nebraska, and top-seeded Indiana held off Minnesota.
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- posted on 5/23/13 @2:11pm
- Written by Sean Merriman, BTN.com contributor
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What would it be like to move to a new country, play one year of high school football, and then go on to become one of the greatest placekickers in NFL history? That’s exactly what happened with former Michigan State All-American kicker Morten Andersen. I recently spoke with Andersen and asked him to share some of his best, untold stories during his playing days at Michigan State.
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- posted on 5/23/13 @12:21pm
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First-year Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen has a schedule that’s built for success. The Badgers should start no worse than 3-1—maybe even 4-0—as they head to Ohio State on Sept. 28. After visiting the Horseshoe, the Badgers don’t have a lot of heavy lifting.
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When it comes to Big Ten pitchers, it doesn’t get much better than Minnesota’s Tom Windle. A first-team All-Big Ten honoree, the southpaw led the Big Ten in strikeouts and twirled the conference’s lone solo no-hitter. What makes Windle so tough to hit? “I’m confident that I can get every batter out,” he told BTN.
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