2013‐14 BIG TEN MEN’S BASKETBALL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

DECEMBER

31 Ohio State at Purdue 1 p.m. ESPN2

Indiana at Illinois 3 p.m. ESPN2

Michigan State at Penn State 5 p.m. TBA

Nebraska at Iowa 7 p.m. TBA

JANUARY

2 Wisconsin at Northwestern 7 p.m. ESPN2

Michigan at Minnesota 7 p.m. TBA

4 Nebraska at Ohio State Noon TBA

Michigan State at Indiana 2 p.m. CBS

Penn State at Illinois 2:15 p.m. TBA

5 Iowa at Wisconsin 7:30 p.m. TBA

Purdue at Minnesota TBD TBA

Northwestern at Michigan TBD TBA

7 Ohio State at Michigan State 9 p.m. ESPN

8 Minnesota at Penn State 7 p.m. TBA

Illinois at Wisconsin 9 p.m. TBA

9 Michigan at Nebraska Noon ESPN/ESPN2

Northwestern at Iowa 9 p.m. ESPNU

11 Indiana at Penn State Noon TBA

Minnesota at Michigan State 2:15 p.m. TBA

12 Nebraska at Purdue Noon/4:30 p.m. TBA

Iowa at Ohio State 1/4:30 p.m. CBS

Illinois at Northwestern 7:30 p.m. TBA

14 Wisconsin at Indiana 7 p.m. ESPN

Penn State at Michigan 8 p.m. TBA

15 Michigan State at Northwestern 7 p.m. TBA

Purdue at Illinois 9 p.m. TBA

16 Ohio State at Minnesota 9 p.m. ESPN2

18 Northwestern at Indiana 2:30 p.m. TBA

Michigan at Wisconsin 6 p.m. ESPN

Penn State at Purdue 7 p.m. ESPNU

Michigan State at Illinois 8 p.m. TBA

19 Minnesota at Iowa 1 p.m. TBA

20 Ohio State at Nebraska 7 p.m. TBA

21 Indiana at Michigan State 7 p.m. ESPN

Purdue at Northwestern 9 p.m. TBA

22 Iowa at Michigan 7 p.m. TBA

Wisconsin at Minnesota 9 p.m. TBA

23 Illinois at Ohio State 7 p.m. ESPN/ESPN2

Nebraska at Penn State 8 p.m. ESPNU

25 Iowa at Northwestern Noon TBA

Wisconsin at Purdue 5 p.m. TBA

Michigan at Michigan State 7 p.m. ESPN

26 Illinois at Indiana 3 p.m. TBA

Minnesota at Nebraska 6 p.m. TBA

28 Michigan State at Iowa 7 p.m. ESPN

29 Penn State at Ohio State 7 p.m. TBA

Northwestern at Wisconsin 9 p.m. TBA

30 Indiana at Nebraska 8:15 p.m. TBA

Purdue at Michigan 9 p.m. ESPN/ESPN

FEBRUARY

1 Ohio State at Wisconsin Noon ESPN/ESPN2

Northwestern at Minnesota 2 p.m. TBA

Iowa at Illinois 7:30 p.m. TBA

2 Purdue at Penn State 11:30 a.m. TBA

Michigan at Indiana 1 p.m. CBS

4 Ohio State at Iowa 7 p.m. ESPN/ESPN2

Wisconsin at Illinois 9 p.m. TBA

5 Nebraska at Michigan 6:30 p.m. TBA

Minnesota at Purdue 8:30 p.m. TBA

6 Penn State at Michigan State 9 p.m. ESPN/ESPN2

8 Nebraska at Northwestern 1 p.m. ESPNU

Michigan at Iowa 2 p.m. ESPN

Purdue at Ohio State 6 p.m. TBA

Indiana at Minnesota 8:15 p.m. TBA

9 Michigan State at Wisconsin 1 p.m. CBS

Illinois at Penn State 4:15 p.m. TBA

11 Michigan at Ohio State 9 p.m. ESPN

12 Penn State at Indiana 7 p.m. TBA

Illinois at Nebraska 9 p.m. TBA

13 Northwestern at Michigan State 7 p.m. TBA

Minnesota at Wisconsin 9 p.m. ESPN/ESPN2

15 Iowa at Penn State 1 p.m. ESPNU

Indiana at Purdue 4 p.m. ESPN/ESPN2

Ohio State at Illinois 8 p.m. TBA

16 Wisconsin at Michigan 1 p.m. CBS

Nebraska at Michigan State 3 p.m. TBA

Minnesota at Northwestern 6 p.m. TBA

18 Iowa at Indiana 9 p.m. ESPN

19 Northwestern at Ohio State 7 p.m. TBA

Illinois at Minnesota 9 p.m. TBA

20 Michigan State at Purdue 7 p.m. ESPN/ESPN2

Penn State at Nebraska 7 p.m. ESPNU

22 Wisconsin at Iowa Noon ESPN/ESPN2

Minnesota at Ohio State 6/8 p.m. TBA

22 or 23 Indiana at Northwestern TBD TBA

23 Michigan State at Michigan Noon/6 p.m. TBA

Purdue at Nebraska Noon/4:15 p.m. TBA

25 Iowa at Minnesota 7 p.m. TBA

Indiana at Wisconsin 9 p.m. ESPN

26 Michigan at Purdue 7 p.m. TBA

Nebraska at Illinois 9 p.m. TBA

27 Ohio State at Penn State 7 p.m. ESPN/ESPN2

MARCH

1 Illinois at Michigan State 2 p.m. ESPN/ESPN2

Northwestern at Nebraska 5 p.m. ESPNU

Minnesota at Michigan 6 p.m. TBA

1 or 2 Purdue at Iowa TBD TBA

2 Wisconsin at Penn State Noon/4 p.m. TBA

Ohio State at Indiana Noon/4 p.m. TBA

4 Michigan at Illinois 7 p.m. ESPN

5 Nebraska at Indiana 7 p.m. TBA

Purdue at Wisconsin 9 p.m. TBA

6 Penn State at Northwestern 7 p.m. ESPNU

Iowa at Michigan State 9 p.m. ESPN/ESPN2

8 Indiana at Michigan 6 p.m. ESPN

8 or 9 Illinois at Iowa TBD TBA

Northwestern at Purdue TBD TBA

Penn State at Minnesota TBD TBA

9 Michigan State at Ohio State Noon/4:30 p.m. TBA

Wisconsin at Nebraska 5:15/7:30 p.m. TBA

13 Big Ten Tournament Game #1 Noon TBA

Big Ten Tournament Game #2 2:30 p.m. TBA

Big Ten Tournament Game #3 6:30 p.m. ESPN2

Big Ten Tournament Game #4 9 p.m. ESPN2

14 Big Ten Tournament Game #5 Noon ESPN

Big Ten Tournament Game #6 2:30 p.m. ESPN

Big Ten Tournament Game #7 6:30 p.m. TBA

Big Ten Tournament Game #8 9 p.m. TBA

15 Big Ten Tournament Semifinal #1 1:40 p.m. CBS

Big Ten Tournament Semifinal #2 4 p.m. CBS

16 Big Ten Tournament Championship 4 p.m. CBS

McDonald’s wings are entering the world of fast food.

The food giant plans to begin rolling out the “Mighty Wings” on Sept. 9 and have them in all U.S. stores by Sept. 24, according to Bloomberg.

NBC news reports, the bone-in chicken wings are expected to stay in stores through November

The wings will be flavored with chili pepper and cayenne, Bloomberg reports, and will come with a variety of sauces. They will be sold in packs of three, five or 10 pieces with prices starting at $2.99.

Governor Mike Pence honored the dozens of men and women who rescued a six-year old Illinois boy from a collapsed sand dune last month.

Nathan Woessner  (WAYZ-ner) was buried alive when he fell into a 11-foot-deep sand hole on Mount Baldy at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.  At a ceremony Wednesday in Michigan City, Pence says the rescuers never stopped looking for Nathan.

He compared the determined rescue workers to a shepherd in the Bible who never gave up on looking for one lost sheep.  The Governor says the first responders are special, because they never gave up and never lost hope even after Nathan’s lifeless body was pulled from the hole.

Even Nathan’s family believes Jesus was with their little boy helping rescuers on the day they brought him home.  The first responders were also honored in another ceremony at the event center at Blue Chip Casino.

Almost seven decades after he lost it, a 92-year-old Indiana Marine has his World War Two dog tag back thanks to a garden tiller.  Jahue (JAY-hue) Mundy was among the Marines who invaded Iwo Jima and helped secure Okinawa and other islands in the Pacific.  When he was sent to China after the war he lost his dog tag shortly before it was time for him to come home.

“I think when I lost it was when I was putting some stuff in some packages to send to my wife.

In June, while doing some work in his mother‘s garden in Mooreland – not far from where Mundy grew up, Delbert Adkins saw something in the dirt.  He says it had United States Marine Corps on it, so he knew right then it was a dog tag.  Adkins gave it to his wife, Pam, who tracked Mundy to his current home in Roanoke, Virginia.

The Adkins family mailed the dog tag to Mundy, and on Wednesday, they met in person for the first time at the home of Mundy‘s son on the north side of Indianapolis.

For Mundy, the returned dog tag brought back a lot of memories, good and bad, from the war.  Mundy says his son will keep his dog tag, just as he keeps the Purple Heart Mundy earned when he was wounded during the war.

An Evansville man is behind bars after over 15-hundred marijuana plants were found at his home Wednesday.

Indiana State Police say 50-year-old Mark Alan Hunt was arrested after they received an anonymous tip that marijuana was being grown at his home.  When driving by the home, troopers spotted marijuana plants over six feet tall in the back yard.

Acting on a search warrant, officials from State Police, the Indiana National Guard Counter Drug Task Force, the U-S Forest Service Law Enforcement Division and the Warrick County Sheriff‘s Office found over 15-hundred marijuana plants and over 300 grams of marijuana packaged and ready for delivery.

State Police say the plants had a street value of about one-point-five million dollars.  Hunt faces felony charges of cultivating marijuana, dealing marijuana, maintaining a common nuisance and possession of marijuana.  He‘s being held without bond in the Vanderburgh County Jail.

A Purdue University political science professor and disaster recovery expert says Hoosiers and most Americans are not prepared for a major disaster like Hurricane Katrina.

Daniel Aldrich lived in New Orleans in 2005 and was encouraged by a neighbor to leave the are when Katrina hit on this day 8 years ago.  Aldrich has studied the disaster from all angles since that time and determined the number one cause that effected all other aspects of the disaster was the lack of preparation.

Aldrich says all levels of government were not prepared and the general public wasn‘t prepared either. An when it comes to any future disasters, regardless of where it happens or what it is, most people still are not prepared.

Aldrich says Katrina presented an opportunity for people to prepare themselves and their families individually for a disaster, but it didn‘t happen. He says most people were sympathetic to the plight of the people in Louisiana and Mississippi, but still maintain the attitude that ” it can‘t happen to them.”

Aldrich says although people may treat a disaster like Katrina like a distant fire, disaster can happen to anyone at anytime.

As the Obama administration decides how to respond to Syria‘s use of chemical weapons on civilians, the prospect of a conflict there is already affecting the economy.

Stock prices fell on Tuesday, and oil prices rose as the U.S. considered its response to last week‘s attacks.  Dr. Mike Hicks with Ball State‘s Center For Business and Economic Research says the trend could continue depending on the length of any Western military operation in Syria.

He says tose are all potentially bad outcomes that argue for a very limited, very brief engagement, if any at all.  Crude oil prices rose to an 18-month high of almost $110 per barrel on Tuesday, and Hicks says the reason is two-fold.  “Obviously, there are concerns about supply interruptions and concerns over whether or not the conflict will extend into the Persian Gulf,” Hicks says, adding that there isn‘t much oil traffic through Syria itself.

Oil also tends to move higher when stock prices fall, “simply because the uncertainty involving the ultimate outcome requires many investors to hold cash, so they retreat out of the market to see how things shake out.”  Hicks says it is easier for investors to obtain cash for commodities than from stocks.

Many economists are worried about the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons again within Syria‘s borders, or perhaps launching an attack against a neighboring country.

He says that would have big spillovers into oil prices, which would do all kinds of bad things to our economy; slow the economy, stop tourism, and cause consumers to shift their income from other areas into fuel.

Subaru of Indiana Automotive in Lafayette will mark the production today (Wed) of its four millionth vehicle. 

SIA‘s parent company, Japan-based Fuji Heavy Industries announced plans in May to invest up to 450 million dollars in a massive expansion at the Lafayette Plant.

The company will build the Subaru Impreza at the facility. The move will add 900 jobs by 2016.  The plant employs more than 36-hundred in Tippecanoe County.

Trustees with Brownstown Central Community School Corp. have offered a three-year contract with a base annual salary of $120,000 to the man serving now as interim superintendent.

On July 1, Jim Terrell replaced Roger Bane as interim superintendent after Bane retired in May, citing differences in the direction the board was taking after the January death of long-time board president Jack Montgomery.

The proposal offered to Terrell does not mean he has the superintendent’s job – yet.

The hiring process requires that once a board reaches a tentative contract with a candidate, it must publish the details of that contract, including salary information in a local newspaper and conduct a public hearing to give people an opportunity to comment on the contract.

The proposed contract with salary information is available online at www.btownccs.k12.in.us.

Guns, Knives and More LLC of Paoli has opened an outdoor handgun and rifle range near the store located at 1875 N. Ind. 37.

The company, owned by Willie Sprinkle, also put in a pond, which will be stocked with fish such as bluegill and catfish. The pond will be used for children to fish. A fish fry will take place with what the children catch.

Additionally, the company plans to host tournaments.

For more information, call the store at (812) 723-3300.