Around the NCAA
NBA needs to pull stars from USA Basketball, which is showcasing only Duke's coach - Yahoo Sports
Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski has a pretty damning article about Coach K needing and exploiting his coaching of USA Basketball as a recruiting tool for Duke.
USA Basketball, Mike Krzyzewski and thoughts on today’s ‘takedown’ | CollegeBasketballTalk
Counterpoint to Wojnarowski's article
Maryland Football
Terps did 'a lot of good things' vs. West Virginia, Randy Edsall says - Baltimore Sun
Some positives from Maryland's loss to WVU
Former Terps star Shawne Merriman talks about Maryland football - baltimoresun.com
For around 15 hours Saturday, Shawne Merriman was at the Big Ten Network building in Chicago watching, evaluating and talking about the conference's football games.
FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: Innovative Statistics, Intelligent Analysis | 2014 NCAA FOOTBALL S&P+ RATINGS
Maryland went up from 56th to 51st.
Around the B1G
3 weird complaints about Penn State, as illustrated by weird Rutgers fans - SBNation.com
Rutgers appears not at all ready for big-time football -- or at least a local writer isn't.
6 increasingly ridiculous things the Big Ten can do to improve at football - SBNation.com
Very funny. Dinosaurs with freakin' lasor beams!