By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Correspondent Notre Dame is for real. If there was any doubt, Brian Kelly’s fifth-ranked Irish silenced the critics with an extremely impressive 30-13 win at No. 8 Oklahoma. Go ahead start the national championship talk because it’s warranted. Barring something out of the ordinary, Notre Dame will be 11-0 when it […]
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By CLIFF BRUNT ISL Editor I watched Greenwood play Indian Creek earlier this season and was impressed. I had heard about Roncalli and knew the Rebels were good. I was expecting a battle when Greenwood and Roncalli faced off in a Class 4A sectional game, but that’s not what I saw. Roncalli scored three touchdowns in the […]
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By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Correspondent If you’re not one of the lucky 82,112 to be in attendance Saturday night in Norman, Okla., you’ll probably be glued to your television watching what will be the biggest game of this college football season so far. Without question, it doesn’t get any bigger than No. 5 Notre Dame […]
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By CRAIG DRAGASH ISL Correspondent Fortunately for Lawrence Central, winning is more important than how you look doing it. The 5A No. 1 Bears committed 12 penalties and two turnovers, but they still survived a late charge to hold on for a 21-14 win Friday in sectional play at Warren Central. Drake Christen finished the night with 200-all purpose […]
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By BEN FAHRBACH ISL Correspondent Chatard’s predictable offense does it the same way every week, run right, run left or run middle. That tried and true formula worked again on Friday. Chatard beat Brebeuf Jesuit 28-0 in the second round of sectional play by following the game plan that has gotten them to this point: keeping […]
Continue ReadingBy DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Correspondent One look at Saturday’s Big Ten schedule and it’s easy to decipher that we could be entering the month of November and both divisions could for all practical purposes be sewn up. That scenario will indeed unfold if Michigan is able to win Saturday at Nebraska. A Wolverine win in […]
Continue ReadingBy DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Correspondent Irish coach Brian Kelly made it very clear that he wants the success Notre Dame is currently enjoying to be a common occurrence and not just a one-year wonder. Appearing on ESPN’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd Wednesday morning, Brian Kelly said, We’re trying to be a consistent program. We […]
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By CLIFF BRUNT ISL Editor WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — It’s supposed to be a down year for Purdue. I chuckle when I hear that. I was here in 2006. I know what a “down year” is. True, the Boilermakers no longer have the players who made them nationally known in recent years. Robbie Hummel went […]
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Already named the preseason No. 1 team in the nation by several publications, Indiana has been chosen as the Big Ten favorite heading into the 2012-13 season as voted on by a panel of conference media. The media also tabbed Hoosier sophomore Cody Zeller as the Preseason Player of the Year. Michigan and Ohio State, […]
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From the Indianapolis Colts Pike’s Derek Moyers has been named the Colts/NFL Coach of the Week, a program presented by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Moyers was selected after his Red Devils defeated Class 5A No. 3 ranked Ben Davis 35-25 in the opening round of the IHSAA State Football Tournament presented by the […]
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By CRAIG DRAGASH ISL Correspondent There are a lot of reactions you can have after my Week one sectional performance last week: Wow, there were a lot of upsets last week! Those were some great games that could have gone either way. That Dragash guy has no idea what he is talking about! I can’t […]
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