The Little Brown Jug that the Michigan Wolverines and Minnesota Golden Gophers Play for is College Football at Its Best

By Mark Schipper Within the next four years, whenever the universities of Texas and Oklahoma are allowed to fly from the Big 12 and...

By Mark Schipper George Kliavkoff, a major operator in digital-television and a sports-entertainment executive at MGM Resorts International, was hired in the late spring of 2021 to replace Larry Scott as commissioner of the Pac-12 Conference. Kliavkoff, a well-connected operator hired to take over the Pac-12, stands in front of the White House. Kliavkoff took over on the first day of July but had been meeting with the conference's membership for the previous six weeks, attemp

By Mark Schipper The empty paving stones beneath the golden awning of the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago. photo by Mark Schipper A strange sort of desolation has settled over the legendary Palmer House in the heart of Chicago’s downtown Loop, the hotel where the Big Ten Conference was founded one-hundred twenty-six years ago. When life is as it ought be, that turn east from State Street onto Monroe, where the colossal hotel rises up twenty-five stories in the shape of a blunte