Not Gonna Lie Podcast: NFL Week 10 | Justin Fields, Josh Allen, Packers, Jeff ‘Sunday’ & Week 11 Picks
The Jeff Saturday Experience is 1-0 and the Indianapolis Colts could provide a highly entertaining storyline throughout the final eight weeks of the NFL season. Jon and Pat talk about Saturday’s...
Don’t Push The Panic Button on The Chicago Bears – Yet.
With an inexperienced roster and fresh coaching staff all organized by a first-time general manager, expectations for the Chicago Bears in 2022 often included severe growing pains. However, that pain ...
Not Gonna Lie Podcast: NFL Week 4 Wrap-Up – Colts, Bears Talk & Week 5 Picks
Shocking development! Jon and Patrick are already sick and tired of watching their teams this NFL season. Through four weeks, the Indianapolis Colts have lost more games than Patrick predicted for the...
Five Level-Headed Takeaways From The First Round of The 2022 NFL Draft
1. Christian Kirk broke the receiver market. Kirk’s contract at the start of free agency with the Jaguars was equal to throwing a hanging breaking ball to Barry Bonds; a no-brainer home run for ...
The Bulls Have 99 Problems, Unfortunately Billy Donovan is an Important One.
Lonzo Ball’s final game in his inaugural season in Chicago took place on January 14th. Patrick Williams returned to action on March 21st following surgery to repair damaged ligaments in his wris...
DeRozan, Donovan & Bulls: Seeing Red & Raising Expectations at All-Star Break
The NBA’s Cinderella story is blooming from fairy tale into reality; the Chicago Bulls sit atop the Eastern Conference tied with the Miami Heat at the NBA All-Star Break. From “worst signi...
Illinois Basketball: Healthy, Primed for March
When the Illini enter Mackey Arena in West Lafayette to take on the #3 Purdue Boilermakers on Tuesday night, the expectation is for a hard-fought battle between two of the best teams in the Big Ten. P...
Good Riddance, George McCaskey: Even The Good Days Go Awry
When word broke of the Bears firing Matt Nagy, the entire city of Chicago awaited a final decision on embattled General Manager Ryan Pace. Since Pace’s arrival this time in 2014, things haven...
Bears Have One Option Come Monday: Fire Everybody
Sunday’s matinee against Minnesota marks the likely end of the Matt Nagy era in Chicago. Unfortunately for a fanbase in limbo, nobody’s quite sure of the fate of failed general manager Rya...
Bad News Bears: Understanding The Whys
After a pummeling at the hands of a well-rested, better coached, better schemed, more talented — just better in every sense — Tampa Bay Buccaneers squad on Sunday, the Chicago Bears posses...
Ryan Pace & Matt Nagy Are Who We Thought They Were
…and ownership let ’em off the hook. The late Dennis Green was spot on in his assessment of the Chicago Bears back in 2006; he was simply fifteen years too early. Sunday night’s blow...
Planting the Seeds: Gonzaga, Baylor & … Who Else?
As the College Basketball regular season and conference championship schedule blends together for the final two weeks leading into Selection Sunday, only three things seem certain one year removed fro...
Les Miles, Kansas Part Ways Amid Resurfaced Allegations
Two years after signing on to build the football program in Lawrence, Kansas, Les Miles’ harrowing past flooded with sexual misconduct allegations while in charge of the Louisiana State Tigers r...
Speaking Into Existence: Russell Wilson to Chicago
July 22nd, 2021 Fresh air, warm breeze, blinding sun, and nothing but smiles surrounding the practice field at Halas Hall in Lake Forest, Illinois. Today marks the beginning of a new chapter in Chicag...
Quarterback Controversy: Why it’s Wilson, Watson or Bust for Chicago
In the history of the Chicago Bears, no quarterback has eclipsed 4,000 passing yards in a single season. Erik Kramer fell just shy with 3,838 in 1995, followed by Jay Cutler with the four next best se...
JJ Watt Released: What’s Next?
In a surprising twist to the NFL offseason, the Houston Texans and all-world defensive lineman JJ Watt mutually agreed to part ways on Friday morning. Watt’s reign as one of the league’s m...
Big Game Prop-aganda: Best Bets, Props for SBLV
When the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers compete for the 55th Lombardi Trophy this upcoming Sunday night, the game forever becomes emblematic of the season endured over the course of the p...
“Sell The Team”: Once Wishful Thinking, Now An Apathetic Outcry
The Chicago Bears met their drawn out demise at the hands of the New Orleans Saints less than two weeks ago. Yet, heading into conference championship weekend, the dread feels existential. This isn...
NFL Wild Card Weekend: Mayhem & Madness Awaits
The longest week of the NFL season is finally coming to a close. Of the fourteen teams qualified for the postseason, twelve match up on Saturday or Sunday. The reigning Super Bowl Champion Kansas City...
Campus Cover Ep. 62: NFL Week 7 w/ Jonathan Terry
The Campus Cover guys welcomed back Jonathan Terry of the Not Gonna Lie Podcast to discuss the first third of the NFL season. Cody, Patrick and JT discussed the board heading toward the weekend, each ...
Quinton Spain’s A Perfect Fit for Bears: Ryan Pace, Please…
Where is the general manager of the Chicago Bears? After a 5-1 start to the 2020 campaign that saw fourth-year QB Mitchell Trubisky benched halfway through Week 3, it seems the man at the forefront of...
Hottest Seat in Town: Who’s Axed Next?
Dan Quinn and Bill O’Brien didn’t survive the winless beginnings for the Falcons and Texans. Who’s next on the list? Only one winless team remains in the league, but the list of cand...
Todd Haley & Arthur Blank: Match Made in Heaven
Todd Haley made waves on social media this morning when he posted a link to the Google search of his own name. While the common theory is a social blunder from an inexperienced Twitter user (Haley onl...
Running It Back: Giants @ Bears, Week 2
For the third straight season, the Chicago Bears find themselves staring down the barrel of a relatively uninteresting New York Giants squad. Led by Saquon Barkley, there’s hope for Daniel Jones...
Campus Cover: Ep. 56 & 57 – Week 2 NFL Picks with Bryce Hopwood
The Campus Cover podcast welcomed Bryce Hopwood of Student Union’s Lecture Hall podcast this week. The weekend’s spread is only comparable in size to the table on Thanksgiving Day. The Bro...
The Case To Not Extend Allen Robinson
There is no case. Extend your #1 wide receiver....
New England Patriots: 2020 NFL Preview
For the first time in a long time — twenty seasons — the offensive huddle of the New England Patriots is missing #12 Tom Brady. It’s a new era for the NFL’s 21st century dynast...
The Chicago Bears: A Look Inside the 2020 Season
After a troublesome 2019 season, the Chicago Bears are looking to rebound in a major way one year later. Quite possibly a much different looking offense, it’s the defense that must return to 201...
Big Ten’s Kevin Warren Indirectly Responds to Justin Fields, Permanently Cancels 2020 Fall Sports
The Big Ten ensured the world on Wednesday night there would be no fall sports in 2020. The conference has no plans to overturn its sport-altering decision, cancelling all fall sports competition in 2...
NHL Qualifiers: Six Elimination Games & Picks
Backs against the wall, Friday sets up as an exhilarating slate full of eliminators in the NHL Qualifiers. All six games today, starting with Florida-New York at 11 am (CST) in Toronto, could result i...
Heart Attack Hawks Return, Steal 2-1 Advantage
Even if just for one night, the magic returned. When the Chicago Blackhawks entered the NHL Western Conference bubble in Edmonton, Alberta two weeks ago, expectations weren’t high. A Stanley Cup...
NHL Qualifiers Underway: Don’t Throw Your Money Away
We’re a couple days into the NHL Qualifiers as well as the seeding round robins. Do-or-die hockey, one of the best events in sports, but a seemingly impossible path to pocket some cash on your f...
Ivy League Cancels Fall Sports
Didn’t J.K. Rowling, Noam Chomsky, Margaret Atwood and a few more people just sign an open-letter unironically canceling “cancel culture”? Yet, here we are. As some may remember, the...
Stanford Eliminating Eleven Varsity Sports
Stanford University announced Wednesday morning their plan to cut eleven varsity sports from the school’s athletics department budget. Programs facing elimination upon conclusion of the 2020-21 ...
Josh Rosen and the Bears: Match Made… Somewhere
When the Arizona Cardinals selected Josh Rosen with the tenth selection in the 2018 NFL Draft, the UCLA quarterback didn’t hold back when barking about the newly found chip on his shoulder. The ...
Reliving The Last Dance… for the first time.
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, I thought I understood the impact of Michael Jordan on the city, on the game of basketball and on the world. I was born in 1999, eleven months after the Bulls rea...
Kofi Cockburn Declares for NBA Draft
It’s Instagram official. Kofi Cockburn declared for the 2020 NBA Draft. The Big Ten Freshman of the Year is testing the draft waters, but leaving a return to the Illini starting rotation as an o...
Raise a Glass to Freedom: Coronavirus Survival Guide
We’re all reeling. Priority #1 is our health, but we can focus on our well-being while sulking about the effects on our daily lives. No sports. No restaurants and bars. Some of us are out of wor...
Travis Etienne: America’s Running Back
Travis Etienne isn’t leaving Clemson. At least not this year, anyway. But that didn’t stop one of the nation’s best running backs from having fun with the life-altering decision. The...
Bet Against Us: February 19th, 2020
Success! 2-1 last night gets us back on track. But February 19th is a new day, so go ahead and bet against us. Dayton saved our asses and covered -3.5 against VCU last night with the help of some clut...
Ayo returns, leads Illini past #9 Penn State
When Ayo Dosunmu slipped and suffered a potentially devastating knee injury a week ago, nobody genuinely cared about the unfortunate outcome of the game. While the Illini dropped their home rematch wi...
Bet Against Us: February 18th, 2020
Things don’t always flow in our favor. A Notre Dame buzzer-beater victory over the Tar Heels devastated yesterday’s parlay. But it really hit the fan when Xavier and St. John’s decid...
Bet Against Us: February 17th, 2020
I own a career 5-14 record in online sports betting. I’m not good. I don’t claim otherwise. Don’t follow my betting advice. I did not know how to place a parlay bet until today. Knew...
Illinois Struggles: Blip or Major Malfunction?
After shocking the conference with a seven game win streak, things have cooled down quickly in Champaign. At a time, it seemed the Illini were the only squad capable of winning on the road in the Big ...
2019 Sun Bowl: Florida State vs. Arizona State
The 2019 Sun Bowl is moments away from kickoff in El Paso, Texas with the Seminoles set to clash with the Sun Devils. While both teams squeaked into postseason play, records don’t show the full ...
2019 Redbox Bowl: Cal vs. Illinois
One of the better stories of the college football season comes to an end today when the Illini (6-6) take on the Golden Bears (7-5) this afternoon in the 2019 Redbox Bowl. With bowl season in full swi...
Illinois Basketball: Certifiably Good
Things are clicking for the Illini. A big win in Champaign on Wednesday night gives the Illinois basketball program their first victory against a top-five ranked opponent since Tyler Griffey sealed th...
New! Schiano Reuniting With Scarlet Knights
Greg Schiano is reversing course and returning to Piscataway. A Rutgers program Schiano helped restore former glory at between 2001 and 2011 is less than a shell of its former self in its current stat...
How To: Write a Blog for Student Union Sports
Hello friends, it’s your friendly neighborhood Editor-In-Chief Patty Takes here. Today, we’re going to quickly dissect how to write a blog for Student Union Sports, things that must be che...
SU25: 2019 CFB Week 3
As we enter 2019 CFB Week 3, this is one of the final weeks we’ll see the Playoff caliber squads beating up on the cupcakes and FCS school. In case that’s your thing, don’t fret, Kan...
SU25: 2019 CFB Week 1
It’s that time of the year again: A bunch of college bloggers outsmarting the pros at other sites. It’s the return of the SU25: 2019 CFB Week 1 edition! Reigning champion Clemson Tigers fi...
2019 CFB Preview: American Athletic Conference
This is UCFs conference now. A few formidable FBS opponents, but the Knights own the headlines when it comes to the American Athletic Conference. The AAC is yet to receive respect in the eyes of the P...
2019 CFB Preview: Illinois Fighting Illini
The Kansas of the B1G, the Illinois Fighting Illini haven’t found much success for the better part of a decade. Entering year four of the Lovie Smith Experiment, which hasn’t yielded many ...
2019 CFB Preview: Kansas Jayhawks
In the year of our lord, two-thousand and nineteen, anticipation builds before students crowd Jayhawk Boulevard for the fall semester. For the first time in a long time, there’s genuine exciteme...
What In The World Is This: Instagram Algorithms
You’re scrolling through Instagram, still in bed trying to decide whether or not to head back to sleep for another hour or start your Saturday before noon. Then the biggest WTF moment of the day...
Jayhawks of the Midwestern: The Curse of the Bruce Pearl
Turns out that the Kansas Jayhawks losing the Big XII regular-season title for the first time in fourteen years wasn’t an elaborate rouse by Bill Self to catch the rest of the March Madness fiel...
College Coaches: I Scream, You Scream, Tom Izzo’s A Bit Extreme
Fact: Old Guys Like Yelling At Young Guys With Tom Izzo caught on camera berating Aaron Henry during Michigan State’s first round victory against the Bradley Braves, coaching tactics have been p...
What Happened to The Jayhawks?
It’s finally over. Fourteen years stopped at a screeching halt. Oh well. For the 2018-19 Kansas Jayhawks, it’s time to learn and move on. No longer at the top of the Big XII mountain, doub...
Is Bill Self On The Hot Seat?
Nope. Carry on. While you’re here, check out why I think Illinois has a shot at an auto-bid this March....
Illinois Basketball: B1G Tournament Champions
Speak it into existence. Brad Underwood’s squad is trending upward, and while they sit at 9-15, an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament is up for grabs in March. The path to the madness is far f...
#SU25 Basketball: Week 16
The Student Union Difference: #1 team in the country from last week’s poll defeats #3 team, #1 drops in this week’s #SU25 Basketball poll! This week lacked major upsets, but since the last...
#SU25 Basketball: Week (1)5!
Football season is over, but there is some good news: The Patriots can’t win March Madness. But the Patriots of college basketball find themselves atop our first #SU25 rankings of the regular se...
Silvio De Sousa, Kansas Hosed by NCAA
Well, that’s that. Silvio De Sousa banned from the NCAA until 2020-2021. Held out for all of the 2018-19 season this point, hope remained with the Jayhawks that they might get their big back bef...
2018(19?) Playoff Final Preview
Monday night, the culmination of the entire college football season, but what year is Monday’s College Football Playoff Final taking place in? Is this the 2018 Natty or the 2019? I’ve had ...
2018 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic Preview
Folks, the College Football Playoff is finally here, and we’re just hours away from the first semifinal. This year’s Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic is sure to excite when two undefeated squa...
Electrifying Finish in First Responder Bowl
Does this mean the under hit? Asking for a friend....
Kyler Murray Wins Heisman
After one of the longer Heisman presentation shows of recent memory, this time filled with awkward segments and enough missed jokes to make you think a Kansas quarterback was making them. Where was I?...
Les Miles to Kansas: Wave the Grass?
Ever since the announcement was made that David Beaty would not be returning for the 2019 season, rumors began flying around Lawrence regarding the next head football coach. But today, sources to Spor...
The Experience: Ranking The Best College Stadium Traditions
Traditions: The sacred ceremonies that make college football and basketball unlike any other experience imaginable. Just about every college has ’em and just about every alumni remembers their s...
#SU25 Basketball: Preseason
It’s that time of the year again! The college basketball season tips off tonight with the Champions Classic taking place in Indianapolis. The Kansas Jayhawks take on the Michigan State Spartans,...
Fight On: Ranking The Best College Fight Songs
Call ’em the best, most memorable, most recognizable: fight songs become ingrained in your mind, even if you can’t remember the associated school. When you listen to this list, there’...
Beaty Fired, It’s Basketball Season
After four years of David Beaty football in Lawrence, new AD Jeff Long announced the football program would be moving in a different direction come season’s end. Beaty will exit the scene with t...
College Hockey is About to Get B1Gger.
The legitimacy of the account is in question without a blue checkmark and some questionable posts in the past, but this tweet is certainly getting plenty of attention in the college hockey universe. W...
SU25: Week 7
We’re halfway through the 2018 college football season and our rankings are starting to take tremendous form. More confidence in Michigan and Texas in actual rank, but not too much change in the...
Heisman Watch: The Year of the Back
Quarterback, that is. Remember before the season began when everybody assumed the college quarterback landscape was weak and that any of the talented running backs would be a shoe-in for the coveted t...
Marching Bands: College Football’s Secret Weapon
The age-old debate about whether the NFL product is better than the NCAA’s commodity is easily settled: the NFL lacks marching bands. The Baltimore Ravens and Washington Redskins escape blame he...
Land of Lincoln: Norman, Oklahoma
Well that’s that. The Stoops family is no longer when it comes to the staff of the Sooners. This is Lincoln Riley’s team now. Has been for a year and now he’s shocked the nation in h...
LSU Punts Away Perfect Season
Noooo! Not like this, Coach O! Florida? LSU’s defense has been so good all year, but it was a pick-6 that finally ended the Tigers’ perfect season bid. Joe Burrow couldn’t get it don...
By God, Texas IS Back.
They actually did the damn thing and took down #7 Oklahoma! After losing to B1G powerhouse MARYLAND(!) in the first game of the 2018 campaign, it seemed as though Texas was on it’s way to anothe...
Kansas Football: At Least We Have Volleyball
Well, you can’t win ’em all, and luckily for the Jayhawks, they have two wins already in 2018, so they won’t lose ’em all either. Another fantastic defensive outing washed away...
Notre Dame: Legit Contender. No! Don’t Hang Up!
A big victory on Saturday night against #24 Virginia Tech once again proved to the nation that Notre Dame is not messing around in 2018. With wins over Michigan to begin the season, now two consecutiv...
#SU25: Week 4
Alabama (10) Clemson (2) Georgia Ohio State Oklahoma LSU Stanford Washington West Virginia Notre Dame Auburn Penn State Mississippi State Virginia Tech UCF Oklahoma State TCU Oregon Wisconsin Michigan...
KANSAS FOOTBALL IS GOING BOWLING
Cancel the Rutgers Scarlet Knights’ football program IMMEDIATELY. 55-14? Are you kidding me? KU just put up 55 points on a team that only allowed 52 to THE Ohio State. Urban Meyer on the hot sea...
Dear Vanderbilt University, Please Hire Jay Cutler.
After the news out of Vanderbilt that athletic director David Williams would be resigning, Clay Travis dropped into the conversation with an absurd suggestion for the university’s next man up: ...
What Could’ve Been: The Jim Harbaugh/Kansas Saga
Everybody’s favorite milk-drinking, red meat-devouring, chicken-avoiding, khaki-wearing football coach resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he belongs, but Jim Harbaugh’s journey to the Bi...
Student Union CFB Preview: Kansas
The Jayhawks have one of the most negative outlooks you can find in the game. With new Athletic Director Jeff Long in the building, the writing is on the wall for head coach David Beaty. With three w...
Student Union CFB Preview: Illinois
The Fighting Illini have been in the rebuild stage for what feels like an eternity. Their games have been hard to watch with glaring issues on all three phases, but it’s all developmental and w...
Ten Things To Do at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas
With at least one more season of David Beaty unfortunately on the horizon, it’s apparent that the only reasons to attend a Kansas Jayhawks football game is for Family Weekend, you know somebody ...
I Was Julius Caesared by Not Being Invited to Last Week’s Student Union Summit
This past weekend, Student Union Sports held its first annual SUS Summit somewhere near Atlanta, Georgia. To receive an invite, you had to be one of the top dogs at the blog, producing content and pag...
The Wicked Witch Is Dead
Praise the lord, Sheahon Zenger isn’t in Kansas anymore, and from the looks of it, David Beaty doesn’t appear to be far behind. University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod sent out a sta...
“Academics” in the NBA Playoffs: Crafting Nine Collegiate Starting Lineups
Remember watching the tournament a couple weeks ago and being continuously bothered by Jerry Rice’s voice speaking on behalf of the NCAA about how student-athletes are students first? Well, I do...
Oklahoma Sucks, Nothing Is Real, This is Bullsh*t.
I quit. I just left the Student Union Sports Slack channel. I am a rogue writer right now. This is RIDICULOUS. Besides “5+ turnovers per game” Trae Young, how in the WORLD did Oklahoma mak...
Apply to Become Pitt’s Head Coach Today!
Only a few hours removed from Kevin Stallings’ release, the University of Pittsburgh is working on finding a new head coach for their men’s basketball team through… the internet? If ...
SU25: Basketball Edition
“We’re a blog of many talents, but ranking the top 25 college basketball teams isn’t necessarily one of them.” – Me, Patrick Norton, four weeks ago. Conference tournament...
National Lampoon’s College Vacation
Did somebody say… VACATION? With all of this talk of vacation out of South Bend, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky, I can’t help but dream of a warm beach somewhere with the waves crashing ...
SU25: Basketball Edition
“We’re a blog of many talents, but ranking the top 25 college basketball teams isn’t necessarily one of them.” – Me, Patrick Norton, three weeks ago. “…Basket...
A Jayhawk’s (Half-Hearted) Prayer for Keller Chryst
In the name of James “The Father” Naismith, Bill “The Son” Self and the Almighty Mark “The Holy Spirit” Mangino: A reading from the Book of Jayhawks: Brothers and S...
SU25: Basketball Edition
“We’re a blog of many talents, but ranking the top 25 college basketball teams isn’t necessarily one of them.” – Me, Patrick Norton, two weeks ago. After Villanova, Virgi...
SU25: Basketball Edition
*extreme Pitbull voice* “We’re bringing it, we’re bringing it, we’re bringing it back.” We’re a blog of many talents, but ranking the top 25 college basketball team...
Five Takeaways from Oklahoma’s Win Over Kansas
#12 Oklahoma played host to #5 Kansas in a Tuesday night Big 12 match with potentially serious implications on the conference’s standings. After KU held a lead for much of the second half, an in...
Nine People You’ll Meet Playing Basketball at the Rec
If you’ve been to your school’s rec center this year, you’ve probably come across a game or two of pickup basketball. While we all believe in our talents and think we can shoot like ...
It’s Time for Notre Dame to Move On
After a great start to the 2017 season, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have fallen apart at the seams once again. Just last year, the Fighting Irish finished a dismal season with a 4-8 record. In 2017,...
Dear Patrick, Is Alabama Overrated?
The short answer? Yes. The long answer? Yes, absolutely. Thanks to fellow Student Union writer Cody Goggin, we publish a Top 25 College Football Poll every week compiled of our picks and rankings amon...