Rants, ravings, and somewhat sensical opinions following the wild, wacky, and wide-wide world of Purdue sports. It is Halloween, my fair readers. Time for spooky-scary skeletons, candy, and things that go bump in the night. If you’ve endured the horrors of this football season to this point, you, like me, can handle the torturous terrors subjected upon the Boilermaker faithful.

Rants, ravings, and somewhat sensical opinions following the wild, wacky, and wide-wide world of Purdue sports, following the Boilermakers’ 41-7 home loss to the Ohio State Buckeyes. Lets imagine, if you will, a theoretic Purdue fan. Just your average run of the mill, Purdue guy. We’ll call him Billy...

Rants, ravings, and somewhat sensical opinions following the wild, wacky, and wide-wide world of Purdue sports, following the Boilermakers’ 44-19 homecoming victory. This week at work, my company had a Jenga tournament as a teamwork building exercise. I lost in the first round, which if you’ve met me, shouldn’t surprise you. You see, I have what people in the beauty industry call ‘Ham Hands’. Manipulating small blocks of wood has never been in my wheelhouse.

Rants, ravings, and somewhat sensical opinions following the wild, wacky, and wide-wide world of Purdue sports, following the Boilermakers’ 38-17 loss to the Wisconsin Badgers. Have you ever seen a badger in the wild? Sure, they look cute or whatever, but let me tell you, they’re terrifying. If...

Rants, ravings, and somewhat sensical opinions following the wild, wacky, and wide-wide world of Purdue sports following the Boilermaker’s 35-20 home loss to the Syracuse Orange. Yes, my fair readers, I have missed you. For the eagle eyed ISC consumers, you’ve probably noticed that I have been missing a...

Rants, ravings, and somewhat sensical opinions following the wild, wacky, and wide-wide world of Purdue sports after Purdue’s 39-35 loss to Fresno State. As I wandered around Slayter Hill on Saturday morning, I was filled with a sense of hope. A sense of nostalgia. Sensory overload, really. My eyes...

Rants, ravings, and somewhat sensical opinions following the wild, wacky, and wide-wide world of Purdue sports. It’s been a while, folks. 5-ish months. 23 weeks. 161 days to be exact, since my last article. Hope that timeframe has treated you well. I’m fine. No, really, I am fine.

Rants, ravings, and somewhat sensical opinions following the wild, wacky, and wide-wide world of Purdue sports. In times like these, I often take a day or two to write my column, because I don’t want to say something emotionally charged and… stupid. You, my fair readers, are well aware of my stupidity, so a few days of reflection and thought may be a good thing for any reasonable message to be put forth.

Rants, ravings, and somewhat sensical opinions following the wild, wacky, and wide-wide world of Purdue sports. I sat in the United Center, courtside, enjoying the electric crowd for the Big Ten Tournament Championship game. It is not unheard of for me to cover a game courtside, but something seemed so different about yesterday’s contest.

Rants, ravings, and somewhat sensical opinions following the wild, wacky, and wide-wide world of Purdue sports. Perspective is a strange thing. I was blessed to have the opportunity to cover the game on Sunday. I ran into some of our readers and saw some fellow journalists that I’ve known over the years. Thank you all for the hellos and the kind words!

Three Boilermakers took to the NFL Draft Combine podiums on Day 4 of the Combine. “Obviously, I overstayed my welcome a little bit, I was there for six years. I was there for a long time, saw a lot of football, not just me playing but just taking mental reps when I was younger from older guys. I feel prepared. I feel like I’ve seen a lot of football. I’ve seen a lot of things offensively and defensively, and so I got to learn a lot. I feel like I’ll have hopefully a step up going to the next level.”

Workouts began for the Defensive Lineman & Linebackers | Interviews for DBs & PK/ST. Workouts – 40 Yard Dash: 4.64 | 10 Yd Split: 1.68 | Vertical: 30.5 | Broad: 9’4″. Measurements – Height: 6’2″ | Weight: 220 pounds | Arm Length: 33″ | Hand Size: 9 7/8″

Notable Quotes & Highlights: Team Personnel + Prospect Interviews (DL + LB) “To move up, there’s gotta be a guy worthy of it, OK? This is what’s great right now: Everybody has just automatically stamped that you’ve gotta move up to #1 to get it right. I don’t know that I agree with that. I don’t. But that’s going to be the narrative, and that’s OK. You’ve all gotta write something. You’ve gotta keep the news flowing. I don’t necessarily know if that’s the right course of business.”

Back in the Circle City for its 36th season the NFL Draft kicked off on Tuesday, February 28. A total of 319 prospects are invited to the NFL Draft Combine to participate in on-field drills & interview with NFL teams. NFL Draft Schedule. 3/1 Wednesday: Prospect Medical Exams & Team...

Rants, ravings, and somewhat sensical opinions following the wild, wacky, and wide-wide world of Purdue sports. 2013 the world was a completely different place. Barack Obama just began his second term as president, Alabama had won another football championship, and Louisville temporarily won a national championship in basketball, until it was quickly rescinded. The Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, The Boston Red Sox won the World Series,

Rants, ravings, and somewhat sensical opinions following the wild, wacky, and wide-wide world of Purdue sports. Imagine, if you will, its sometime in the late 1990s. You’ve just watched the latest episode of Bevis and Butthead, and music videos are starting to play after the show. You have Happy Gilmore rented from Blockbuster, and a double pepperoni pizza is coming your way in 20 minutes or less. As you wait for the pizza, the first music video starts playing, and your life is forever changed.