DeKalb| As we move into the beginning of summer, the NFL lockout continues to loom in the heads of coaches, fans and players alike. Even current NFL veterans are showing the displeasure around the league with the continuous staring contest between players...

  DeKALB | Student-athlete scholarships are like a complicated game of fact or fiction. The fact is NCAA student-athletes receive full-ride scholarships. The fiction of scholarships is that full-ride doesn't cover everything one might think. NCAA members...

Chicago Bulls' head coach Tom Thibodeau was named the NBA's Coach of the Year. There's one move that he's not making that's making him look like the dunce of the decade, though. Consider this a public plea, Thibs: Start. Taj. Gibson. It should be abundantly...

Rashard Mendenhall should thank his lucky stars that he lives in a free country.There aren't a lot of places where the public would stand for a person defending an enemy as hated as the recently-killed Osama bin Laden.The Pittsburgh Steelers running back...

Xavier Silas could be a lot higher on this list, but the NBA hopeful is slotted at No. 5 for his role on a nine-win team that lost its head coach in the immediate aftermath of an atrocious season.Early on in the NIU men's basketball 2010-11 season, Silas...

Apparently a laser-rocket arm that racked up 8,388 career passing yards at Michigan and Arkansas wasn't good enough to be chosen before the 74th overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft. Why did Ryan Mallett last that long? Character issues, leadership questions,...

Maksym Bartiuk has accomplished quite a bit in his first two years as a Huskie. After last season's impressive 13-6 record at one singles, he earned a 17-9 record this season while being named to his second-straight All-MAC First Team, and is the Northern...

When is the public going to be cured of its Joe Mauer fever? When are people going to realize that the catcher isn't nearly as great as the so-called "experts" claim him to be? Will it be when he has to move to another position when his seemingly 80-year-old...

Jay Cutler is finally settling down off the field. Known for throwing the occasional check-down of his phone number to the ladies, the diabetic quarterback is reportedly engaged to reality star and girlfriend, Kristin Cavallari. Cutler dropped the big...

What happens when Roberto Luongo gives up five goals tonight? In a perfect world, the Canucks' star net minder would put on his suit and go home. In reality, there's no way Luongo will be able to dust himself off and forget about his long list of failures....