About

First off: how the hell did you find us? (And also, welcome!)

We're the only independent blog that exclusively covers Big Ten sports and Midwestern beer and food. As a preface: We don't do listicles, we don't do recruiting updates. We're not breaking news about the transfer portal. We're not optimized for clicks or views. We don't have any ads or paywalls. We all have day jobs. This is just for fun.

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Think of this site as your online hole-in-the-wall neighborhood pub. Think of us as reasonably well-informed sports fans halfway through that second pint. If you're tired of talking heads yelling about complete nonsense unrelated to the games you love, or irritated about every goddamn DraftDuelFanKings-sponsored ad on your sports blog, or if you really have a fetish for punting, I say to you: Welcome home.

A Republic, If You Can Keep It

It’s a big week in college sports! Ok, it’s technically the deadest of dead zones between collegiate basketball and the start of football season, squarely in the gap after the College World Series has ended but before the buzz for Week Zero kicks in. It’s a brutal time where little

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We're good-natured college sports obsessives, nerds for history of all kinds, and defenders of all things Midwestern. We hope you are too. Pull up a stool and come watch a game with us, whydoncha? Beers are in the cooler out back.