Griffiths: Big Ten picks, Week 2

By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor How impressed were you with how the Big Ten fared in the opening weekend of college football? Not very? Don’t feel too bad because there wasn’t too much to get excited about. No. 2 Ohio State, the second-ranked team in the country, only beat dismal Buffalo by 20. Michigan […]

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Zionsville upsets Noblesville 14-9

By RYAN NAYLOR ISL Correspondent Zionsville put an end to Noblesville’s feel-good story, at least for now. The Eagles defeated the previously unbeaten Millers 14-9 on Friday night. Noblesville entered the game with a great deal of confidence after handing Brownsburg its first home loss in three years the previous week and debuting in the […]

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Hazell: “Culture thing” a problem for Purdue football

By CLIFF BRUNT ISL Editor My wife, Christina, is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences at IUPUI. Last week, I asked her what she taught her graduate level students in her class, Theories of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. She said she talked about psychologist Albert Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy. Self-efficacy? I’m […]

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Butler seems like redundant part for Pacers

By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent The Pacers are giving Rasual Butler a chance to get back into the Association. But why? One way to look at signing Butler for the minimum is they’ll have some insurance in case increasingly brittle Danny Granger gets hurt. Butler may be paid cheaply, and he could have value as […]

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Hoosiers’ Cody Latimer benefits from career audible

By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Cody Latimer smiles at a question he’d never been asked. Why did someone who dreamed of playing in the NBA decide to pick up football midway through high school? “That’s a good question,” Latimer said. “To tell you the truth I started playing football pretty much because […]

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Big East announces conference schedule

By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent The Big East released its 2013-14 conference schedule on Thursday afternoon. Each school plays 18 league games, nine at home, facing each opponent in the 10-team league twice. Below is Butler’s slate. The Bulldogs are expected to announce their nonconference schedule in the coming days. Scroll to the bottom of […]

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Brunt: Indiana high school football notebook

By CLIFF BRUNT ISL Editor Chatard led Broad Ripple 47-20 last Friday when the storms came rolling in. The game was called because of lightning with 3:50 left in the third quarter, but the game was over long before that. The Trojans recovered from their season-opening loss to Brebeuf by pounding Broad Ripple for 250 […]

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Siegfried: Previewing the NFC in 2013

By PAUL SIEGFRIED ISL Correspondent Breaking down the NFC teams heading into the 2013 season: NFC EAST GIANTS In a division with no clear-cut frontrunner, the Giants are as good a pick as any. Besides, they have been at their best when they have struggled just to get into the postseason, with a pair of […]

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Siegfried: Previewing the AFC in 2013

By PAUL SIEGFRIED ISL Correspondent Breaking down the AFC teams heading into the 2013 season: AFC East PATRIOTS New England still the class of this division, not because the Patriots remain a dominant team, but because the rest of the division stinks like egg salad left out at a summer picnic. With QB Tom Brady […]

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