By Woodrow Carroll How far the Northwestern Wildcats have fallen! At least when it comes to the National Football League Draft. It was only a year ago that Northwestern, not Ohio State or Michigan as you might have expected, was the first Big Ten team to have two players selected...
By Woodrow Carroll What happened to the Chicago White Sox team that opened the this season by winning six of their first eight games? The White Sox won two of three games each from Detroit, Seattle, and Tampa Bay, to start the season After falling to the Minnesota Twins, 6-4...
By Woodrow Carroll The Chicago White Sox second home game of the this season well could end up being the least attended home game of the season. It has been the case more than once in previous seasons for the Sox, and, for Major League Baseball (MLB) clubs in the...
By Woodrow Carroll Although it was certainly a small sample, fans of the Chicago White Sox had to be pleased with the way things unfolded last weekend. Playing in Detroit to open the 2022 Major League Baseball season, the Chicago White Sox captured two victories in three games with the...
By Woodrow Carroll Those of you who watched the University of Kansas’ come-from-behind 72-69 victory over North Carolina in Monday night’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament championship games saw a good one. Kansas backers had to savor the Jayhawks’ coming from 15 points behind at halftime to pull out the victory....
By Woodrow Carroll If you want to put a positive spin on the Big Ten’s Conference’s showing in the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) men’s basketball tournament this season, nine teams from the Conference in the field of 68 finished with a combined 9-9. However, the Big Ten came up...
By Woodrow Carroll Were it not for Purdue University’s 71-61 victory over Texas late in the day Sunday, March 20 in the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) second round men’s basketball Division I game, the Big Ten Conference was looking at possibly its worst day in basketball history. Purdue came...
By Woodrow Carroll Likely no event gives the sports public more fertile grounds for discussion than the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Division I men’s basketball tournament; not even the Super Bowl, although many fans may take exception. Sixty-eight teams were selected for the 2022 NCAA men’s tournament which runs...
By Woodrow Carroll In spite of a 58-57 victory over Ohio University Friday, March 4, the Northern Illinois University men’s basketball team failed to qualify for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Tournament in Cleveland this week. With it the Huskies’ season likely has come to an end. The victory over Ohio,...
By Woodrow Carroll There are 32 major college basketball conferences. Any team in any one of these conferences theoretically could capture the NCAA basketball tournament championship. The tournament will begin March 15. Clearly, the eventual national champion will come from approximately 20 schools. There are no undefeated teams this season....
By Woodrow Carroll What teams may perform well in the men’s collegiate basketball season and make the NCAA Tournament. March 15-April 4? There are 13 Illinois schools playing Division I basketball. Schools in theory, could be part of the Big Dance final four tournament. The University of Illinois heads up...
By Woodrow Carroll With football behind us for now and baseball still on the horizon, we can concentrate on something else.. Take nothing away from the National Basketball Association, however, college basketball almost always provides us with an interesting story, or two, to digest. Conference affiliations and the teams that...
By Woodrow Carroll Super Bowl LVI at 5:30p.m. Sunday, Feb. 13 in Englewood, Calif. will pit the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams in what promises to be a good game. Why shouldn’t it be a good game? We have two teams that qualified for the playoffs and made it...
By Woodrow Carroll A look at college conference membership can be a bit tricky, especially when considering a great many conferences vary membership depending on the sport. We take a look at the Ohio Valley Conference in men’s basketball. The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) has 10 teams. Conference membership can...
By Woodrow Carroll Following the upper echelon of college football is a relatively easy task. With 130 teams vying for the national championship, which was won earlier this month by the Georgia Bulldogs, keeping up with the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams is not difficult. The NCAA Division I basketball...
By Woodrow Carroll It was not a classic two-game run for the Northern Illinois University men’s basketball program for sure. Yet, the two victories turned in by the Huskies last week were important. First, Northern Illinois edged Kent State, 65-63, on the road in a Mid-American Conference (MAC) match. Then,...
By Woodrow Carroll Thanks to Ohio State University’s 48-45 comeback victory over Utah in the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Jan. 1, the Big Ten Conference closed out participation in this season’s bowl games with a final record of 6-4. Thanks to the Buckeyes’ victory, the Big Ten avoided a bit of...
By Woodrow Carroll The University of Wyoming football program should say “thanks” to the Mid-American Conference (MAC). In a season of COVID uncertainty and other concerns, the Wyoming Cowboys closed out the this season with a final record of 7-6 which was capped off by a 52-38 victory over Kent...
By Woodrow Carroll For the third time this season the Northern Illinois Huskies surpassed 40 points only to lose the game. With a 47-41 defeat at the hands of Coastal Carolina in the Cure Bowl in Orlando, Fla. Friday, Dec. 17, Northern Illinois wrote finish to this season with a...
By Woodrow Carroll A wave of college football bowl games are upon us. It will start Friday, Dec. 17 with two games and there will be virtually no letup through January 10, 2022 when a national champion will be determined in Indianapolis. There are 130 schools playing major college football...
