B1G Dance Contest! Tom Izzo (Michigan State) vs. Bo Ryan (Wisconsin)

            There is no doubt that the Big Ten has some great basketball coaches, but between them who has the best moves off the court? Michigan State coach Tom Izzo became an off-court sensation over the last couple of days thanks to a local commercial he filmed for a ladder company during which he dances at the top of a ladder in order to demonstrate all the room at the summit. A few years ago, Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan, for reasons I am not quite sure of but fully support, filmed a choreographed video of him dancing to the short lived hit “Crank That” by Soulja Boy. Two legendary coaches, two fantastic videos, but only one can be named the Big Ten’s Best Dancing Coach. So which coach has the better moves? Let’s break down the videos.

2013 Festivus Airing of Sports Grievances

In honor of the wonderful holiday of Festivus, made popular by the TV show Seinfeld, I will be performing the opening tradition, the ‘Airing of Grievances,’ where I will lash out at all those who have disappointed me this year. Since this is a sports blog, here are some of the sports related grievances I would like to air out (I will try and write them in a similar fashion that I believe Frank Costanza would                                                                                   write them in):

The Badger Herald’s “Naughty List”

Naming Names

On Sunday December 5th at 9:00 PM CT 5,800 tickets for the 2011 Rose Bowl went on sale for University of Wisconsin students. 20 minutes later they were gone. Shortly after that multiple posts went up on facebook marketplace looking to sell these student tickets for outrageous profits. Face value for these tickets is $150 and some are going for $400.

In response to such posts, The Badger Herald, one of the student newspapers at the University of Wisconsin, wrote up a “Naughty List” of