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Commentary: New Big Ten Logo a Big Zero

John U. Bacon — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:18:13 +0000

Last spring the Big Ten Conference added Nebraska, giving the league 12 teams.

So, what do you do -- change the name to the Big 12? No, because that name's already taken by another conference -- which, naturally, now has ten teams. So the Big Ten decided to keep its name -- and change everything else.

To create a new logo, they could ask some corn-fed rubes like you and your friends, but you would probably do something stupid like draw on the Big Ten's 115-year history and come up with something simple, honest, and authentic. Or you might just pay some art student a hundred bucks to make a new logo, like Nike did, and end up with some swoosh-looking thing, which no one remembers.

The Big Chill is big time, but hockey was not always so popular at UM

John U. Bacon — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:28:19 +0000

Tomorrow, more than 100,000 frozen fans will watch Michigan play Michigan State at the Big House. Not in football, which happens every other year - but in hockey, thus setting the record for the biggest crowd ever to watch a hockey game - anywhere.