For the past six years, the OSU Spring Game has been shown on WBNS TV here in Central Ohio.  And what, pray tell, have the money grubbing slugs at WBNS done with the profits from this broadcast?  They give it to hungry people in Central Ohio by donating profits to the mid Ohio Food Bank.  Perhaps [...]

The Big Ten Network has decreed that the OSU Spring Game will not be shown live to the fans of the OSU Buckeyes.  Rather than being shown on WBNS TV as it has for the last six years, this year it will be shown only on the Big Ten Network, with the millions of OSU Buckeye [...]

Video from the Big Ten Network. ikoni

Need more proof of the idiocy of the powers that be in the Big Ten and the Big Ten Network?  Here you go… The Columbus Dispatch ran a story stating that the Big Ten Network would be available to all student dormitories.  The quote from Steve Snapp ran as follows: “It was a high priority [...]

Time Warner Cable confirms that the Big Ten is requiring that Warner Cable carry the Big Ten Network as part of a package deal, and charge everyone (whether they are football fans or not) an extra $1.10 per month if they live in one of the 8 states in which there is a Big Ten [...]

University of Michigan Athletics On August 30, a new television network dedicated to showcasing the Big Ten will be launched nationwide. The Big Ten Network will broadcast an unprecedented number of Big Ten sporting events, and it will bring the University of Michigan increased regional and national exposure. The best way you can support the [...]

Get ready for some vituperative invective, or move on to another post, because I am about to vent my spleen about the whole Big Ten Network Controversy. Here is how the Big Ten is supposed to make money off college football (and basketball).  It’s not hard.  It’s not complex.  It’s not new.  It’s simple.  It [...]

Last week, Big Ten Network President Mark Silverman and Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany visited Ann Arbor to respond to the questions in the community about the launch of the Big Ten Network. The Big Ten Network, which will launch August 30th, is a first-of-its-kind partnership between the eleven Big Ten universities and a major [...]