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The Reason For Today's Silence

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Everyone has reasons as to why they became a sports fan. Tomorrow I will lay to rest one of my greatest basketball influences.

SB Nation College Bowl Pick Em' Update #2

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40 out of the 135 people who signed up for the game correctly picked BYU and Northern Illinois. The Top 10 in the standings now look like this: 1. COUGS 2. Wurtland Warriors 3. FlaGators 4. Hilary Lee (Off Tackle Empire) 5. Miller 6. jerjharris 7. Hustle Belt Compensation Picks 8. nebraskasux 9. mojo133/2 10. WMH9

SB Nation College Bowl Pick Em' Update

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85 of the 135 people who signed up for the game correctly picked BYU. The Top 10 in the standings now look like this: 1. 4JD 2. Easy 1 3. OH_IO! Go Buckeyes! 4. Miller 5. CODawg 6. Wurtland Warriors 7. mojo133/2 8. The Gary Carter's 9. COUGS 10. nebraskasux

Big Ten reconsidering Divisional Names?

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"We've had enough experience with names and expansion and development of divisions that we know that you rarely get a 90 percent approval rating," Delany told WGN AM-720. "But to get a 90 percent non-approval rating was really surprising. It showed that we didn’t connect with our fans in a way that we wanted to. It’s humbling, to say the least, because we’re trying to build fan bases, not push them away." -Jim Delaney, on WGN Radio

Kawann Short named to CFN's All-Sophomore Team

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Peters Drey was also an honorable mention guy on the offensive side. On the All-Freshman team Ricardo Allen was a second-team selection.

Ryan Kerrigan Named Unanimous All-American

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It is a slow news day because of Finals and I don't have much to write about, but this is some very good news to share. Kerrigan is Purdue's first unanimous All-American in 30 years. Ricardo Allen has also been named a Freshman All-American and the Big Ten's Freshman Defensive Player of the Year by Rivals.

This Should Help - Oakland 89 Tennessee 82

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The team our Boilers beat 82 - 67 took down the #7 Vols - Defend that Digger

Kerrigan named AP All-American

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Some more respect for the reason we had hope the last half of this 2010 season.

Jacob Lawson Named ARod Classic MVP

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2011 Commitment Jacob Lawson was named the ARod Classic MVP following Oak Ridge Military Academy's (10-1) 72-60 win against Christopher Columbus for the tournament title. Lawson scored 7 points for ORMA in the championship game. He scored 15 points (12/1) and 8 points, 10 rebounds, and 6 block shots (12/10) in his previous two tournament games.

Purdue Volleyball In The Elite 8!

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The ladies kicked the living crap out of #1 seed Florida, who was 28-1 on the year coming in. The Boilers swept them right out of the tournament and will play either Illinois or Texas Saturday night at 9pm on ESPNU for the right to go to next week's Final Four in Kansas City. Congrats, ladies! Way to represent Purdue!