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Wisch: In Name Game, Big Ten Gets Routed
By Dave Wischnowsky– This past summer, when the Big Ten announced that the University of Nebraska was signing on as the league’s 12th team, the Conference That Can’t Count hit a stand-up triple. (It...
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What Went In To Division Names? Delany Explains
When the Big Ten announced they were adding Nebraska, the response was almost all positive. And when the Big Ten announced the names for the new divisions, the response was almost all negative. There...
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Wisch: The Big Ten Needs To Get ‘Black & Blue’
By Dave Wischnowsky– On Feb. 8, 1896 – one month after X-Rays were discovered and nine months before William McKinley was elected as the United States’ 25th president – the Midwest’s premier...
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Big Ten Football Championship Staying In Indy
CHICAGO (AP) – Big Ten president and chancellors have voted to keep the conference football championship game in Indianapolis through at least 2015. The inaugural game will be played at Lucas Oil...
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CBS Sports, Big Ten Agree To Contract Extension For Basketball
CHICAGO (CBS) CBS Sports and the Big Ten conference have agreed to a multi-year contract extension for the broadcast rights to the conference’s basketball games through the 2016-17 season, the two...
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Big Ten’s Delany The Highest Paid Commissioner In 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) According to tax records recently acquired by the Associated Press, four of college football’s top conferences pay their commissioners $1 million or more, far exceeding the salary of...
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Wisch: Is College Football Really America’s No. 2 Sport?
By Dave Wischnowsky – (CBS) Jim Delany had a lot to say last week. During Big Ten Media Days in Chicago, the longtime conference commish said he’s pleased with the Big Ten Network (now boasting 45...
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Wisch: What Would Save A Notre Dame Season? The Big Ten
By Dave Wischnowsky – (CBS) It wasn’t really Armageddon this past Saturday at Notre Dame. It just looked like it was. Although, beneath all those bolts of lightning crackling above South Bend, it...
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Wisch: If Irish Spurn Big Ten For ACC, Big Ten Should Spurn Irish
By Dave Wischnowsky – (CBS) When it comes to college football, I’m generally not one to mess with tradition. I love the sport’s pomp. I revel in its circumstance. And the game’s historical rivalries...
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Delany Shuts Down Big Ten Expansion Talk
By Adam Hoge- ROSEMONT, Ill. (CBS) While most conferences around the country continue to juggle expansion talks, Commissioner Jim Delany reiterated Thursday that the Big Ten is not currently interested...
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Hoge: If True, Big Ten Should Kick Penn State Out
By Adam Hoge- (CBS) As far as NCAA scandals go, this is as bad as it gets. It’s worse than the worst recruiting violation. It’s worse than free tattoos. It’s worse than top bowl officials skimming...
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Wisch: Big Ten Should Scrap ‘Legends’ and ‘Leaders’
By Dave Wischnowsky – (CBS) It was a bad idea in the first place. Now, it’s a truly embarrassing one. And in light of the despicable child sex abuse scandal that’s eviscerated Penn State University...
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Paterno’s Name Removed From Big Ten Trophy
(CBS) Joe Paterno’s name has been removed from the Big Ten’s championship game trophy, league commissioner Jim Delany announced Monday. “We believe that it would be inappropriate to keep Joe Paterno’s...
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Wisch: Big Ten Should Try Championship Game In Chicago
By Dave Wischnowsky- (CBS) During Saturday night’s Big Ten Football Championship Game in Indianapolis, my dad and I sat four rows from the top of massive Lucas Oil Stadium. But we enjoyed luxury...
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Hoge: Why Urban Meyer Will Win The Big Ten Civil War
By Adam Hoge- (CBS) A war has erupted in the Big Ten. It started Wednesday when Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema fired a shot in the direction of Urban Meyer, strongly hinting that the Ohio State head...
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Big Ten Open To 4-Team Playoff
(CBS) The Big Ten is finally listening. Conference commissioner Jim Delany has long been pegged as the highest-profile figurehead in opposition to a college football playoff, but it appears the Big Ten...
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Greenstein: Big Ten’s Plan For A Playoff System Is ‘Incredible’
(WSCR) It’s a debate that has gone nowhere for years: should college football use a playoff system or the bowl system? Until recently, it appeared a foregone conclusion that the BCS system would...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Passion, Playoffs And Patrick Kane
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Mere seconds after I filed last week’s TFMB I learned of the passing of Adam Yauch, a.k.a. MCA of the seminal group The Beastie Boys. Ironic that I answered a question in that...
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Hoge: With Blind Rose Bowl Loyalty, Big Ten Losing Playoff Battle
By Adam Hoge- (CBS) If only Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany could go back in time and erase the last two days. Oh, what an embarrassment they were. To summarize: 1) The Big Ten doesn’t want to host a...
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Big Ten Still Prefers Plus-One Over Playoff
CHICAGO (AP) — Big Ten administrators would prefer a plus-one system over a four-team playoff to determine a national champion if the BCS can’t be maintained in its current form. Nebraska chancellor...
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Big Ten, Pac-12 Suspend Scheduling Agreement
(AP) The Big Ten and Pac-12 have scrapped plans to schedule games against each other in all sports, with Pac-12 officials saying there were too many complications with football schedules to pull it...
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Hoge: Why The Big Ten Should — But Likely Won’t — Kick Penn State Out
By Adam Hoge- (CBS) “If True, Big Ten Should Kick Penn State Out” That was the headline on my Nov. 8, 2011 column, written the day before Joe Paterno and Graham Spanier were fired. I believed it then,...
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Big Ten May Give Commish Power To Fire Coaches
(AP) The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting that the Big Ten is considering a plan to give its commissioner the power to fire coaches in the wake of the Penn State child sex-abuse scandal. An...
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Wisch: Big Ten Makes Right Call On Limiting Delany’s Power
By Dave Wischnowsky – (CBS) Thank you, Big Ten. You took a deep breath. You slowed your roll. And you appear to have kept your wits about you in regards to the criminal, ethical and administrative...
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Hoge: Beckman’s Recruiting Tactics At Odds With Delany’s Desires
By Adam Hoge- CHICAGO (CBS) Tim Beckman’s commissioner might be a little unhappy with him. Big Ten boss Jim Delany said Thursday at Big Ten Media Days that he originally pushed for Big Ten coaches not...
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Wisch: Illinois’ Beckman Mishandled Penn State ‘Recruiting’ Trip
By Dave Wischnowsky- (CBS) On Tuesday, I wrote that the ineligibility of Penn State and Ohio State for this season’s Big Ten Championship Game opened a door in the Leaders Division for new Illinois...
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Wisch: How Will Notre Dame’s Big Move Impact The Big Ten?
By Dave Wischnowsky – (CBS) It passed on the Big Ten’s TV millions. It passed on aligning itself with the familiarity of many of its most traditional rivals. And it passed on the region where its...
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Delany: College Football Playoff Won’t Start A Year Early
By Adam Hoge- ROSEMONT, Ill. (CBS) Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany expects the new college football playoff to be finalized by Jan. 1, but he ruled out the possibility of the new four-team tournament...
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Wisch: Big Ten Can’t Dump ‘Legends’, ‘Leaders’ Soon Enough
By Dave Wischnowsky – (CBS) From the get-go, the names fit like a small-sized helmet on an XL-sized head. Awkwardly. And now, it’s time for the Big Ten to send “Legends” and “Leaders” on their way....
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Wisch: Does College Football Need A 13-Game Regular Season?
By Dave Wischnowsky- (CBS) College football seems to just keep getting bigger. So, is it time for its regular season to grow, too? On Monday, Big Ten coaches and athletic directors met in Chicago to...
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Wisch: Sold-Out Big Ten Tourney Shows Chicago Should Stay In Mix
By Dave Wischnowsky – (CBS) In 2006, when Indianapolis beat out Chicago for exclusive rights to host the Big Ten men’s basketball tournament from 2008-12, conference commissioner Jim Delany expressed...
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Bernstein: Why Is Beckman Not Fired?
By Dan Bernstein- CBSChicago.com Senior Columnist (CBS) Mike Thomas could not have been clearer about his standards for Illinois football. The school’s athletic director laid it all out in very certain...
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Wisch: Who Are Chicago’s Most Powerful Sports Figures?
By Dave Wischnowsky – (CBS) In Chicago, power matters. But what exactly is it that defines power? On Monday, when Chicago Magazine released its third annual list of the “100 Most Powerful Chicagoans,”...
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Wisch: When It Comes To Titles, Big Ten Is Final Forlorn
By Dave Wischnowsky – (CBS) When it comes to reaching the Final Four, the Big Ten can hold its own with any conference in America. But when it comes to actually winning championships? Well, that’s a...
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Doyel: Players Union Won’t Ruin College Sports
Gregg Doyel- CBSSports.com national columnist (CBS) Mark Emmert is president of the NCAA. He calls a union for college athletes “a grossly inappropriate solution to the problem” that would “blow up...
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Wisch: Big Ten Must Remember Roots While Branching Out East
By Dave Wischnowsky – (CBS) This, my friends, is not your father’s Big Ten. “We’re thrilled to announce plans to host the Big Ten men’s basketball tournament in Washington, D.C.,” conference...
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Wisch: Rutgers’ Bad Rep A Scarlet Letter For Big Ten
By Dave Wischnowsky – (CBS) As the Big Ten heads into a big summer, it has a big problem. Because when the league announced in November 2012 that it was expanding eastward, the thought was that in...
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Emma: Let’s Finally Accept Big Ten’s Eastern Expansion
By Chris Emma- ROSEMONT, Ill. (CBS) — In a dapper display throughout the Big Ten’s swanky Rosemont offices, the conference’s new direction is unmistakable. The hallways are coated with décor of the Big...
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Jerry Reinsdorf, Rocky Wirtz Rank In Top 10 Of Chicago Magazine’s Power 100
(CBS) White Sox and Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf was ranked fifth in Chicago Magazine’s Power 100, while Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz was tabbed ninth. The newest edition of the annual rankings — which...
View ArticleBig Ten’s Delany: ‘Storm Clouds’ Hang Over College Sports
ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said Thursday significant “storm clouds” are hanging over college athletics because of a basketball recruiting scandal displaying what many see as...
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