Love seeing things like this. Even though he is "just" a punter. His athletic and academic achievements a better than most. Congrats

Sounds like Cliff Alexander wants to be his own man. I like that.

Pretty solid praise from Izzo. Bout time we had a good offseason.

Nice work Chris: "As CoachingSearch.com's Chris Vannini points out, certain states in the Big Ten footprint, namely Ohio, have seen a drop in producing first-round picks in recent years. Vannini looked at where first-round picks from the past eight drafts played their high school ball."

USF's our week 2 opponent if anyone He didn't play much at Penn State, so it's hard to say if he'll give our defense much of a challenge; he's also got to pick up an entirely new playbook, and USF has a new coaching staff. But hey, this far out from the season any news is interesting news, amirite?

Brian Hoyer agress to 2 year deal with the Cleveland Browns according to the WWL and other sources Heard some rumors on sports radio this morning that the may have a shot to win the starting slot on the depth chart.

Round 2 of a 16 team tournament puts #10 seeded Michigan State versus #2 Colorado Buffaloes. MSU won their conference to reach the tournament while CU received an at-large bid when they lost to #1 overall seed Colorado State University in their conference final. CU is 16-2 overall MSU is 14-2 overall

#10 MSU takes on #7 Stanford in the 16 team MCLA National Championship Tournament live from South Carolina.

I know this is kind of last minute but check out the link above. It's the kickoff event to a three day long forum in Chicago that includes Coaches Izzo, D, Anastos, Merchant, Cathy George (volleyball) & Stacy Slobidnik-Stoll (women's golf) plus several PhD's that teach at Broad. The Hollis event is $50 and includes cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and a Q&A with Hollis after the presentation. It looks like about 75 people have signed up so far.

Next season is the first for Big Ten hockey, and the schedule is out. In all, every team plays every other twice at home and twice on the road.