http://www.elevenwarriors.com You're Stepping into Manhood Right Now Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:42:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Rebuilder is no OSU fan (artistry by Jason) With the somewhat shocking revelation that The Villain won the B10 media's unanimous vote but not a unanimous nod from the coaches, we immediately and sorta jokingly tweeted that Tom Crean was behind the madness thanks to his behavior following the second ... http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2010/03/whodunnit-crean-or-izzo.html It's that time of the year again. Time to fill out brackets based on who has the tougher mascot and/or better uniform colors as you try to compete with the one woman in our pool that will enter and win using those techniques. Or you could just take The Villain ... http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2010/03/pick-teams-talk-smack-win-badass-prize.html Can Troy save the Browns?There has been plenty of debate following the 2007 National Championship Game of whether Troy Smith can be a starting quarterback in the National Football League. After defying all odds at the college level and going from kick returner/athlete earlier in his career to Heisman Trophy ... http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2010/03/the-return-of-troy.html After winning the Big Ten Player of the Week award a record seven different times this season, you'd figure it was a no-brainer that Evan Turner would be named the conference's Player of the Year as well. And you'd be right. Also named to the league's all-First Team, The Villain ... http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2010/03/turner-wins-big-ten-poy-matta-coy.html You always remember your first. As mentioned last week, John Gasaway (former Big Ten hoops blog god) christened our very own Mr. Turner as college basketball's player of the year using the statistical analysis tinged oeuvre that made us all worship his wonk'dom in the first place. As if Turner didn't ... http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2010/03/spoiler-alert-the-villain-will-win-npoy.html The Great Big Ten Three Way (with extra cheese) became a reality after the Boilermakers and Spartans won their season finales over the weekend, thus sending co-championships to East Lansing and West Lafayette to go with the one earned in Columbus last week. Purdue took care of business dispatching ... http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2010/03/the-bracket-reveal-upsetting-a-legend.html http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2010/03/one-double-down.html The times, they're good. Much chest-thumping has occurred around these parts after the Buckeyes wrapped up their third Big Ten Triple Crown1 in the past five years. And rightfully so -- no Big Ten program had ever won football, men's and women's basketball championships in the same school year and ... http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2010/03/aiming-higher.html One of the cool things about running a site with thousands hundreds dozens of readers is that sometimes they will send you cool stuff. Take this amazing schedule map wallpaper, courtesy of reader Walt Keys. Thanks to Walt, you, too, can trace the expected shutouts across the midwest ... http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2010/03/the-spokes-represent-shutouts.html Any excuse to miss Jay Leno. On Tuesday we learned that the 2010 version of the Ohio State's men football team would be driven by a Public Enemy'esque motto. Late Thursday night saw the team begin to practice what they've been preaching, as the team reportedly gathered for a 9 PM workout/conditioning ... http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2010/03/late-night-practice-makes-perfect.html