Linda Robbins
BTN LiveBIG: Entrepreneurship teams compete at Purdue
BTN LiveBIG: Entrepreneurship teams compete at Purdue
And the Academy goes to?Breeze ++! The Entrepreneurship Academy at Purdue Research Park that is. The one-week summer academy teaches high school juniors and seniors an introduction to free enterprise. Though many students applied to the program, going through a rigorous selection process in which they had to be nominated by a teacher or counselor, […]
BTN LiveBIG: Minnesota's M.A.G.I.C. bus
BTN LiveBIG: Minnesota's M.A.G.I.C. bus
Multitudes of people are familiar with the song ?Magic Bus? made famous by The Who back in 1968. Flash forward to today because there?s a new M.A.G.I.C. Bus in town and it?s time for our generation to learn about University of Minnesota?s Maroon And Gold Impacting the Community! (M.A.G.I.C.) Bus. These Gopher student athletes are […]
BTN LiveBIG: Archie Griffin's Heisman legacy
BTN LiveBIG: Archie Griffin's Heisman legacy
Tonight, college football?s most elite club will welcome a new member when the winner of the 2013 Heisman Trophy is named. On December 9, 1935, the University of Chicago?s Jay Berwanger was awarded the first Heisman Trophy. In the 78 years that followed, only one man won the award twice: Ohio State running back Archie […]
BTN LiveBIG: Mike Alstott giving back
BTN LiveBIG: Mike Alstott giving back
Though he hasn?t played in an NFL game since 2006, Purdue-grad Mike Alstott is one of the most beloved players in Tampa Bay Buccaneers history. Alstott?s name still litters Purdue record books, almost 20 years after he left West Lafayette. He is the Boilermakers? all-time leader in career rushing yards (3,635) and set the single-season […]
