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Pickin' on the Big Ten: Teams for Sale

Every Thursday, Pickin' on the Big Ten gives you the bottom line on the upcoming weekend's games. Every team now has six games on the books. Well, Illinois doesn't, which is good news/bad news. Illinois fans have only had to watch five games so far; that's good news. They have seven games left to watch, which is not such...

Pickin' On the Big Ten: Is the Peter Principle Making Illinois Ill?

Every Thursday, Pickin' On the Big Ten stays late to run the TPS reports on the coming weekend's games. In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence. The above statement is better known as the Peter Principle, and if it doesn't make sense to you, join the club. I didn't get it the...

Pickin' On the Big Ten: Wake Me Up When Spartember Ends

Every Thursday, Pickin' On the Big Ten tries to make sense out of the upcoming weekend's games. It was not supposed to be like this for Mark Dantonio and the Michigan State Spartans. Sure, they lost in the Capital One Bowl last season, but not by much, which is why many people tagged them as the Big Ten's third-best team...

Pickin' On the Big Ten: Jim Tressel Is Not On the Hot Seat

Every Thursday, Pickin' On the Big Ten previews the weekend's action, or lack thereof. There are weeks when many of us would trade lives with Jim Tressel. This is not one of those weeks. Not only did his Buckeyes fail to finish USC when they had the Trojans on the ropes, Tressel also saw "Tresselball" ripped apart by...

QB Sherer, RB Clay Focal Points at Wisconsin Spring Game

As Mark Hasty mentioned Friday, there is much pressure on the Wisconsin Badgers football team this fall. After a disappointing season a year ago, the heat is on to prove it was nothing but a fluke.To do so, Wisconsin will rely, in large part, on a "new" starting offensive backfield in 2009. 2008's starting running back,...

JohnClay News From the Web

05/16/12 Craven County arrests and citations May 16, 2012 Source: The Sun Journal - New Bern NC Cordell James Bryant, 17, Greenville, May 11, misdemeanor larceny.
04/26/12 Roman Britain debut to H&S Source: The Bookseller Hodder & Stoughton has bought a debut about Roman Britain, The Lion and The Lamb , by Durham academic Dr John Henry Clay. The publisher acquired British and Commonwealth rights from James Gill at United Agents and will publish in 2013.
04/24/12 100 years ago: KU Mandolin Club makes formal debut Source: Lawrence Journal-World & 6 News - Lawrence KS "Do you know where any heirs of John P. Clay may be living? Mr. Clay was killed in an accident while he was working on the First National Bank far back in the year of 1873. If the heirs can be found there is a valuable homestead right awaiting them because of some land that Mr. Clay took up out in Morris county, years ago."
03/20/12 GERY WOELFEL: Bucks will make playoffs Source: The Journal Times - Racine WI The Milwaukee Bucks are headed to the NBA playoffs.
03/19/12 Defendant's statements, bloody clothes out as evidence... Source: The Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville FL ATLANTA | A Glynn County man facing a death-penalty trial will not have four statements he made used against him nor can prosecutors use his bloody clothes as evidence, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled today.