Kickoff week is here. Michigan (at Utah) and Minnesota (vs. No. 2 TCU) kick off the Big Ten season Thursday night, and the games continue every day through Monday night. Until then, get our Big Ten East preview.
Six Big Ten teams in the preseason AVCA poll was great. Seven teams in the first regular-season poll is even greater. Yes, half of the Big Ten teams are represented in the latest AVCA poll, highlighted by No. 1 Penn State, released Monday. The reigning national champion Nittany Lions went 3-0 last week to remain […]
If movies like ?Revenge of the Nerds? are to be believed, one of the things that has long separated the brainy from the brawny is the latter?s participation in sports and other regular physical activity. While there may be some truth to that stereotype, professors at the University of Illinois recently found that 9- and […]
When Max Lynch and Ben Sperry met in Kindergarten more than two decades ago, the Internet was still largely a novelty, and mobile phones were only used to make calls. Lynch and Sperry formed a friendship there that has lasted to this day. Both of them went to the University of Wisconsin and, after graduating, […]
In exactly one week, Michigan (at Utah) and Minnesota (vs. No. 2 TCU) will help kick off the 2015 college football season. We've been counting down the days for weeks now (watch the videos), so it's exciting to know we're inside the one-week mark. Before Thursday night arrives, the BTN.com team takes a look at […]
For Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., is more than just the site of the flagship campus. It?s the school?s hometown, and the community it serves. Incoming RU freshman learned that lesson this summer before even setting foot in a lab or lecture hall for a course. Thanks to a new partnership between Rutgers Against Hunger […]