College/Pro

On December 6, it was announced that longtime Cubs third baseman and announcer Ron Santo will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in the Class of 2012. For nearly everyone in Chicagoland, the induction news came was bittersweet, as Santo had...

Purdue senior guard Lewis Jackson has been named a candidate for the 2012 Bob Cousy Collegiate Point Guard of the Year Award in an announcement by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The annual honor, named for Hall of Famer and former...

Sometimes finding the silver linings in bad situations can be very difficult. For the NBA lockout, one silver lining plain as day: there will be a ton of basketball in a short amount of time. The Bulls’ season begins on the road Christmas Day...

That time of year is here – it’s time to take a look back at some of the best stories to grace the PortageLife Sports Section in 2011! We posted well over 350 articles to the PortageLife Sports pages this year, our most ever! With over 350 GOOD...

Professional basketball fans stewed through the summer and early fall, wondering if a labor dispute between team owners and their players would cancel the 2011-12 season. In the end, the teams and players reached agreement. A shortened season will...

Sixty years ago football provided the nation an escape from a world war, but today, football, and other popular American sports, are often the source of conflict. "Sports, especially American football, has become a world in itself," says Randy...

After nearly five full months, the NBA lockout is supposedly over! I’m one of the few people in this country that prefers the NBA product to any other sport (yes! even college football), so this news is especially great to hear. This being a...

The Purdue North Central Alumni Association will host a PNC Basketball Alumni Night, Dec. 3, at the LaPorte Civic Auditorium, 1001 Ridge Street in LaPorte. All PNC alumni, friends and fans are invited to participate in a pregame reception that will...

Head coach Matt Painter and the Purdue men’s basketball staff put the official seal on one of the nation’s top recruiting classes on Wednesday, as a highly-praised quartet signed National Letters of Intent to begin competing for the...

NBA world champion and former Boilermaker star Brian Cardinal has joined the Purdue athletics staff as an athletics administration intern. Cardinal’s internship will include roles with the John Purdue Club and Purdue’s John R. Wooden...