[NU Sports] Big Ten Friday Night Tailgate

[Joe Thiegs]

The Big Ten Network's "Big Ten Friday Night Tailgate" show covers 
NU/Evanston and U of Ill/Champaign tonight.  I love this show.  It's a 
two-hour program hosted and loosely moderated by former ESPN/ESPNU 
anchor Mike Hall.  In case you haven't seen it, they use two amusing 
road reporters, Andy and Jordan, who each cover one campus and "compete" 
for the best overall atmosphere in a number of categories.  So far 
they've done Michigan-PSU, Minnesota-Iowa, Wisconsin-Indiana, 
Michigan-tOSU, and now NU-Illinois. I like it because you learn a lot 
about each of the schools--history and traditions, unique events or 
attributes, school spirit-related items, a segment on a prominent 
academic field or specialty at the school, and other tidbits.  I'll be 
interested to see what they pick up about Northwestern.

-Joe