Big Ten has 2nd-toughest strength of schedule in 2024 college football Notable is that Purdue has the toughest strength of schedule for any Big Ten team (No. 11 in the FBS), while Rutgers has it easiest (No. 78). Visit our friends at Fighting Irish Wire, Buffaloes Wire, ... 06/6/2024 - 12:25 pm | View Link
Berry Tramel: Big Ten non-conference football schedules starting to look very much like the SEC's Big Ten dumbs down its non-conference football scheduling, and now the Big Ten has nothing on the SEC for weakened schedules. 06/6/2024 - 8:20 am | View Link
ESPN FPI projected win-loss record for every Big Ten football team in 2024 With those thoughts entering the 2024 Big Ten football season, we’ve already analyzed ESPN FPI’s strength of schedule ranking, Big Ten power ranking, Big Ten conference championship likelihood and ... 06/6/2024 - 1:12 am | View Link
Why Notre Dame football and Big Ten are a threat to SEC (or maybe not) The first 12-team College Football Playoff projects to be an SEC party – so long as Notre Dame and the Big Ten don't interfere. 06/5/2024 - 10:02 pm | View Link
College Football Playoff announces kickoff times for expanded playoff Even at the end of the spring, when college football is really in its offseason, the College Football Playoff knows how to pull at fans' heartstrings. The College Football Playoff released ... 06/5/2024 - 12:18 pm | View Link
NEW YORK — Inspired by an 18th century Scottish philosopher and the modern scourge of misinformation, Suzanne Collins is returning to the ravaged, post-apocalyptic land of Panem for a new The Hunger Games novel.
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Scholastic announced Thursday that “Sunrise on the Reaping,” the fifth volume of Collins’ blockbuster dystopian series, will be published March 18, 2025.
St. Petersburg, Fla. — At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off Florida’s Gulf Coast was a piece of wood. It turned out to be something far rarer, Lundberg said: a large section of tusk from a long-extinct mastodon.
Lundberg and his diver companion had found fossils in the same place before, including mammoth teeth, bones of an ancient jaguar and parts of a dire wolf.
Washington — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to address a joint meeting of Congress on July 24, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Congressional leaders last week formally invited Netanyahu to come speak, delivering the most recent show of wartime support for the longtime ally despite mounting political divisions over Israel’s military assault on Hamas in Gaza.
Washington — The Supreme Court sided with Native American tribes Thursday in a dispute with the federal government over the cost of health care when tribes run programs in their own communities.
The 5-4 decision means the government will cover millions in overhead costs that two tribes faced when they took over running their health care programs under a law meant to give Native Americans more local control.
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Covering those costs is “necessary to prevent a funding gap,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion, joined by the three liberal justices and fellow conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch.
A new sexually transmitted fungal infection has been detected for the first time in the U. S., health experts announced Wednesday.
A study, published in the journal JAMA Dermatology on Wednesday, reported that the first known U. S. case of this new form of ringworm was discovered in a man from New York City in his 30s.
Three Florida parents sued Florida’s Board of Education on Thursday because they allege the board violates their rights by not having a process to object to the removal of books from school libraries and classrooms.
In the lawsuit, which was filed in the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, the plaintiffs say that Florida law H.