Hope your week is going well. If not, here are some of the best Big Ten links that I found from around the web. Get to reading!

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, and it’s time for the best daily links from across the Big Ten.

It’s the Monday following Big Ten Media Days, we’re getting closer and closer to the college football season, so there’s plenty of terrific Big Ten web links from around the web. Get all of Monday’s top clicks in this post.

Big Ten media days kick off on Thursday in Chicago. Get all the latest Big Ten web links in this post.

News about the NCAA sanctions against Penn State dominated the headlines Monday. Seemingly everyone around the nation had a take, and for the most part agreed with the severe sanctions levied by NCAA prez Mark Emmert. But here are a few aspects of the story that didn’t get as much play. For starters, amid the penalties it was announced that any players already on the Penn State roster could transfer to any school immediately and be eligible. This is devastating news for the Nittany Lions.

It’s Friday … it’s late July … but the Big Ten football news never sleeps.

Storms all over the Midwest so be careful out there, people. Now here’s my look at Thursday’s Big Ten football news, including this video where the great Doug Lesmerises of the Cleveland Plain Dealer says Ohio State’s Braxton Miller is one of the Big Ten’s top quarterbacks. Lesmerises is correct, and let me tell you why.

A look at the Big Ten football headlines on this Wednesday.

What are people talking about in Big Ten football circles on this hot, hazy Tuesday across Big Ten country?

Start your week off right with some of the latest Big Ten football stories. I post my daily links every weekday morning, and you can see the complete archive here. Have a worthy link? Send it to me in the comment box at the bottom of the post or tweet it to me (@BTNTomDienhart). Enjoy Monday’s sampling!

With the release of the Freeh Report and all of its damning revelations yesterday, reaction was swift and blunt.You know how I feel about the whole story. If you missed it, you can read it here. Each weekday I usually post a collection of links and tweets about stories worth a read – you can find my daily posts here. Today’s edition of my daily links focuses on Penn State. Here’s a look at how the Big Ten’s and nation’s leading pundits reacted. And, as you would suspect, it wasn’t pretty.Michael Arace, Columbus Dispatch: Paterno’s legacy is nearly destroyed.Bob Wojnowski, Detroit News: Paterno’s legacy forever stained.Terry Pluto, Cleveland Plain Dealer: NCAA must penalize Penn State football program.Jim Litke, Associated Press: Report takes halo over JoePa’s head and turns it into a noose; truth lies in between.Herb Gould, Chicago Sun-Times: Freeh Report exposes Penn State.David Jones, Harrisburg Patriot-News: It’s time for Joe Paterno’s fans to open their eyes.Jim Carlson, Harrisburg Patriot-News: Penn State’s public image rebuilding will be long, hard road.Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports: Joe Paterno’s new legacy—coach turned his back on helpless boys to protect himself and Sandusky.Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN.com: Paterno empowered a predator.Mark Schlabach, ESPN.com: Penn State deserves the NCAA’s wrath.Stewart Mandel, SI.com: Vile Penn State case a lesson for naïve fans, power programs.Grantland: A failed experiment.Sally Jenkins, Washington Post: Joe Paterno, at the end, showed more interest in his legacy than Jerry Sandusky’s victims.Lisa Olson, AOL Fanhouse: JoePa exposed as Penn State’s cowardly Lion.USA Today: Freeh report blasts culture of Penn State.Mike DeCourcy, Sporting News: Transparency would help college sports avoid Penn State situation.And then there is this from former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, who at one time was engaged in a heated race with Paterno to see who would have the most victories as a Division I coach. Turns out, Bowden thinks that statue of JoePa outside of Beaver Stadium should be torn down. What do you think?And Nebraska A.D. Tom Osborne thinks Penn State’s pain may linger on.Paterno still has his backers. Did you see what former Nittany Lion linebacker and JoePa sycophant Matt Millen was saying yesterday? Needless to say, Millen was ripped and roasted for his comments.TWEETS THAT MATTERhttps://twitter.com/HuskerExtraSip/status/223490331784642562My take: Let that be lesson to all of you.https://twitter.com/MikelSevere/status/223404184744099842My take: No doubt. I have to think many people suspected things about Sandusky long before anything could be proven in the courts.https://twitter.com/brdispatch/status/223477232016961536My take: Eighty-four players on a watch list!!! Eighty-four!!! Not a really exclusive club, huh? This is why watch lists put me to sleep. Names, names, names for trophy after trophy after trophy. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.https://twitter.com/kmeinke/status/223518936078090241My take: I can only hope.BTN.com senior writer Tom Dienhart is on Twitter and Facebook, all of his work is at btn.com/tomdienhart, and you can subscribe to it all via his RSS feed. Also, send questions to his weekly mailbag using the form below.And if you want to leave a comment on this post, use the box below. All comments need to be approved by a moderator.

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It’s hot out there, people. Be careful. Stay inside, and click on these cool Big Ten football links.

It’s Monday, it’s the height of vacation season, but that doesn’t mean the Big Ten football news is at the beach riding waves.