Big 12 Conference

As we wind down the final month of the regular season college football schedule - rivalry games taking center stage - the Big 12 Conference is currently sitting on the outside looking in for a shot at one of the coveted 4 spots in the BCS Bowl Playoff. When the season kicked off way back in early September, four Big 12 schools actually had high hopes of receiving one of those four esteemed bids. Oklahoma, Baylor, West Virginia and Oklahoma State University all started the season like that little ant; they had “high hopes”! But as we near the end of the season, the college football Bowl Championship Series Selection Committee is simply not showing any love for the top rated teams from the conference. Baylor saw their season hopes plummet amid…

from a lot of different backgrounds. I must choose which student body I want to be a part of, either a bigger school or a little smaller school. A lot of people who want to get involved in their school, like me, want to join sororities or fraternities which is a lot fun to be a part of. Most big school like the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas have a lot of different sororities that I can be apart of. I really can’t go wrong with joining a house because they all offer the same…

KU ties a record for most regular season conference titles. Kansas has 13 straight. UCLA also had a streak of 13 straight but it was achieved by 3 different coaches, Kansas was achieved by one coach, Bill Self. John Wooden, arguably the greatest winner in sports history, never won more than 9 in a row. Mike Krzyzewski, also known as Coach K, who some say is the greatest coach in any sport ever, has never won more than 5 straight. KU has 3 national titles, 2 helm championships, and 14 final four…

Ezekiel Elliott powered through the second half of last season, especially the final three games. The junior running back rambled over Wisconsin for 220 rushing yards in the Big 10 Championship Game, plowed through Alabama for 230 yards rushing in the national semifinal and bludgeoned Oregon for 246 yards in the National Championship game. Elliot is a Heisman candidate heading into this season, but it will be tough for him to take home the award because of the smorgasbord of talent on his team. …

his/her professor that a regular student gets. Students due to the lack of education can be compensated with money (Griffin). The average college basketball player, “Practices between two to three hours a day, plays two or three games a week and participates in a number of strength and conditioning sessions on top of that. There is little time left over to pursue an education in earnest,” (Scott). College football players have struggles when it comes to graduating. In Ohio State less than 50…

watch a game that always ends a huge blowout by one team. Even UConn fans are getting tired of seeing the same thing over and over again. During the 2015-16 season the Lady Huskies averaged a little under 9,000 fans a game, that number is 2,500 less than what it was ten years ago and 1,000 less from five years ago. This season alone, the women Huskies have defeated twenty seven nationally ranked teams by an average score of 24 points a game. You can not blame someone for wanting to watch two…

To be apart of the All Iowa Honor Dance Team is the greatest honor any high school dance team member in the state of Iowa can receive. The honor team is created of 250 girls that outshined the other 500 that auditioned for a spot on the floor. Nothing is more nerve racking than only being allowed two minutes to prove to a panel of judges, without a retry. It’s not a basketball game where a time out can be called and one can try the play again, and if the play fails and the game is lost, another…

is paid six million annually, Bill Self (Kansas mens basketball head coach) is paid five million annually, and Mike Krzyzewski (Duke mens basketball head coach) is paid the most of any mens college basketball head coach at seven million a year. To be clear I am not saying it is wrong in itself to pay these coaches as much as they currently are, instead I am saying that the NCAA cannot have it both ways. I see it as exceedingly transparent why the NCAA allows its employees to receive…

On top of that they are last season’s champions as well. With all that said, it is not easy to accomplish a perfect season and then aim for back-to-back championships. “There’s a big impetus put on male sports and not much attention gets put towards women’s sports,” said Chris Deleon, the conditioning coach and alternate coach of Misfits. “I think it is really unfortunate. It can be discouraging if no one cares.” One Love’s fearless captain, Jenny L. Swabb, a defender, said they had…

The NCAA rakes in on average $12 billion in revenues annually that flow in through college athletics programs(Finley, 2015). The latest and biggest debate is "Whether or not college athletes should get paid?". When college athletes go to college they are not allowed to earn any money while they are participating in athletics, but is that fair? Generally they are putting in full time work hours(40/week) or sometimes even more. As more and more college athletes are struggling to get by through and…