Penn State’s Bill O’Brien profiled on HBO Real Sports

May 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment

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Bill O’Brien will be a feature subject on the next HBO Real Sports; which debuts Tuesday, May 21st.

After nearly 20 years in college and pro football, Bill O’Brien finally attained the head coaching job he coveted. Prior to the 2012 season, the 43-year-old Bill O’Brien took over a Penn State University program devastated by the child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.

My favorite part of Big Ten media day last summer was when I asked Penn State coach Bill O’Brien for further information about the likely transfer of Silas Redd from Penn State to USC. O’Brien was at the podium and just said “no.”

That’s it. “No.”

That’s all he said. This exchange was just awesomesauce. And it even got described in the Chicago Tribune.

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Big Ten ACC Challenge match-ups announced

May 8, 2013 by

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This year’s Big Ten ACC Challenge will be Dec. 3-4. It features a lot of college basketball teams from the ESPN.com early preseason top 25: No. 3 Michigan State, No. 5 Duke, No. 6 Ohio State, No. 8 Syracuse, No. 9 Michigan, No. 11 North Carolina, No. 20 Indiana and No. 25 Iowa.

Three of the games will pit ranked teams against each other: No. 9 Michigan at No. 5 Duke, No. 11 North Carolina at No. 3 Michigan State and No. 20 Indiana at No. 8 Syracuse.

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2013 NBA Mock Draft- Second Round (5/2/13)

May 1, 2013 by 2 Comments

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Here is the second round of our updated 2013 NBA Mock Draft.  Click on the players’ name for a complete, in-depth scouting report.

(By the way, The Sports Bank was graded as the most accurate 2011 AND 2012 NBA Mock Draft on the web.)

CLICK HERE FOR THE FIRST ROUND

Check out The Sports Bank’s 2013 NFL Mock Draft.

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2013 NBA Mock Draft- First Round (5/2/13)

May 1, 2013 by 13 Comments

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Here is our updated 2013 NBA Mock Draft.  Click on the players’ name for a complete, in-depth scouting report.

(By the way, The Sports Bank was graded as the most accurate 2011 AND 2012 NBA Mock Draft on the web.)

GO HERE FOR THE SECOND ROUND

Check out The Sports Bank’s 2013 NFL Mock Draft.

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Yahoo hires Melanie Collins

May 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment

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Former bikini model and Penn State alum Melanie Collins has a job again. After falling down from NBA TV and Big Ten Network to Total College Sports, she’s back to help ramp up page views for Yahoo! Because one thing Melanie Collins does well is increase the page views. That’s probably why Yahoo! is making this move.

Not that I’m any better, I mean I’m wasting a whole post here on Melanie Collins. I think she has boyfriend that plays hockey, so I guess that makes this legitimate sports news. Hey, at least I’m writing something Penn State related (sort of) that isn’t about something horrific and awful.

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NFL Network, YES Network Kimberly Jones: photos and bio

April 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment

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Kimberly Jones also known as Kim Jones used to be a New York Yankees sideline reporter for the YES Network and a semi-regular talk show host on WFAN, the famous New York City sports talk radio station. She was with YES from 2005 through 2011.

The 43-year-old Kimberly Jones graduated from Penn State University in the early 1990s and is associated with their Center for Sports Journalism

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Big Ten officially buries AWFUL “Legends” and “Leaders” Names

April 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment

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Yesterday, the Big Ten officially announced what we all knew for at least a week. However, for those who are oblivious I’ll reiterate: new realignment and division names starting in 2014 and nine-game conference schedules starting in 2016. Most important about this college football news nugget or tidbit if you will, the Big Ten has laid to rest the HORRIBLE division names: Legends and Leaders.

Thankfully we only suffered through that pathetic pablum masquerading as division names for just two years. With Rutgers and Maryland joining the conference, where’s Rebecca Martinson when you need here? I’d love to hear her SCREAM and CURSE LOUDLY IN ANGER at whoever came up with that Legends and Leaders garbage.

Moving on, the new division alignments are:

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Former NBA TV, BTN, TNT personality Melanie Collins: bikini pictures

April 26, 2013 by 2 Comments

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Melanie Collins is a hostess for Total College Sports, videos which appear on numerous websites in the ad space- including this one. You can see Melanie Collins in action right here on this site, in the right rail! Since graduating from Penn State in 2008 Melanie Collins has worked for Big Ten Network, NBA TV and E! News.

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Full 7 Round 2013 NFL Mock Draft FINAL

April 25, 2013 by 3 Comments

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Happy NFL mock draft day!

This 2013 NFL mock draft is a reader submission from an author who wishes to remain anonymous. This is not my 2013 NFL mock draft, but this is a very comprehensive NFL mock draft as it covers all seven rounds. As always we encourage debate, and reader comments are very much welcome. Especially if you have a NFL mock draft of your own and would like to compare it up against this NFL mock draft.

Like I say on my own, detailed first round NFL mock draft. You’re free to say “this sucks because x, y, z,” but if your comment is simply “this sucks.”

Then I have to say “hey, thanks for coming!”

And check out our NFL mock draft of all 7 rounds for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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100th Rose Bowl Game logo revealed (pictures)

April 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment

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The Rose Bowl is hitting the century mark!

Like Dr. Dre and 2pac Shakur told us in “California Love:” “Pasadena. Pasadena, where ya at?”

The Rose Bowl will become the first college football bowl game to reach 100 this Jan 1. And the Rose Bowl is also hosting the next college football national title game on top of that. Late last night, the Tournament of Roses, the Big Ten and Pac-12 Conferences unveiled modifications to the champion’s trophy and a new logo to commemorate the 100th Rose Bowl Game.

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What each Big Ten basketball team loses next season

April 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment

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The Big Ten was the best conference of all this past college basketball season. That will change as a lot of talent graduates and declares for the NBA Draft. In the past few days, we’ve already seen Deshaun Thomas of Ohio State and the Hoosiers’ Victor Oladipo and Cody Zeller declare. Add in the fact that only one McDonald’s All-American is coming to the Big Ten- Noah Vonleh to IU.

Still, we have Michigan State ranked #2 in the nation in our way too early top 25.   Ohio State is #3, the Hoosiers #8. Michigan is #14 and Wisconsin #15 rounding out the Big Ten representation in the top 25.

SB Nation’s Purdue site “Hammer and Rails” breaks down all the departures for every team and includes the scoring ppg averages:

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