College Sports

Bielema still needs to prove the Illini can win in a conference that just got even better with Oregon, USC, Washington and UCLA on board and has done away with divisions, the days of a weaker West now over.
“It’s always been a dream that I’ve had since I started playing hockey,” Zimmer said.
“If you choose Northwestern, there’s a picture of me on the home screen,” A.J. Henning said. “That was awesome. I didn’t know that was going to be in the game … I kind of started tearing up a little bit.”
Is Jim Harbaugh’s successor really ready for this? It’s what everybody wants to know.
Saban coached Eberflus his junior year when he was a linebacker at Toledo.
At halftime of last season’s game against Minnesota, everything started to get better for the Wildcats. Braun was right at the heart of it.
With a nod toward the centennial anniversary of the famed Notre Dame-Army football game in 1924, the Irish will wear blue-gray jerseys with Gaelic-themed gold numbers when they face Army on Nov. 23 at Yankee Stadium.
More money, more chaos, more excess. The Big Ten never has had more of all those things — or more juice within the sport.
To say that the sports-video gaming world has been in a decade of darkness is an understatement. Eleven years to be exact.
Bet on it: All eyes are on Longhorns wunderkind Arch Manning, even as he remains the backup QB behind Quinn Ewers.
Each team will have its own sideline instead of sharing one as they had in previous years.
NBA
The draft stock had varied on the former Illinois standout. But after being found not guilty of rape two weeks ago, NBA teams regained interest with most analysts forecasting him in the late first round.
It’s something that Gragg and the university, when asked, publicly deny. Yet, it has been believed and framed by us — the media — differently.
“This is a relationship business,” DePaul coach Doug Bruno said. “You have to make sure you interact well with the student-athletes, and she did those things well.”
It doesn’t seem like Shannon is going to personally have a problem putting the falsehood and what he had to go through because of the falsehood behind him. Unknown is whether the rest of the world finds the ability to do the same.
The 23-year-old Shannon was accused of committing sexual assault last September while visiting Kansas for a football game between the Illini and the Jayhawks.
After three tumultuous years as AD, Gragg’s primary responsibilities will lie in the expansive, ever-evolving realm of NIL, with a focus on fundraising.
Two Illinois products impacted in a big way, more than any other freshmen and did so at the highest level in the Big Ten: Minnesota’s Cameron Christie and Iowa’s Owen Freeman.
For decades, it made sense whenever a proverbial program CEO turned down the grind of the pros. But now, with the nonstop, Wild West nature of life with the transfer portal and NIL, an escape plan will be more attractive.
Fitzgerald has about a dozen scholarship offers and could have added more as the recruiting process continued.