The Voice of the Fighting Illini Brian Barnhart joins us to preview the big game in the Big Ten West this weekend: Illinois and Purdue.

Check out this week's edition of The Sports Life! We preview the big matchup in the west between Illinois and Purdue with the Voices of the two teams, Brian Barnhart of the Illini and Tim Newton of the Boilermakers. Also, we check in with Tim May of The Letterman Row to try and understand just how good Ohio State is. Finally, we throw it back to 11/11/11 to the first basketball game on an aircraft carrier between Michigan State and North Carolina, and a wonderful side story off of it.

We throw it back to our first ever episode of The Sports Life, when Mark Silverman joined us to share the story of how BTN got off the ground. You don't want to miss this!

Emily Giambalvo of The Washington Post helps put perspective on why this is a special year in College Park with the Terrapins already being bowl eligible!

Former Illinois Football player and current radio analyst Martin O'Donnell explains how the Illini have gotten off to such a great year, and what makes this collection so special.

Mike DeCourcey of The Sporting News joins us to help celebrate show no. 100 and to take a look at Big Ten Basketball before the season tips!

OUR 100TH EPISODE!!! Check out our special edition of The Sports Life as we throw back to our first episode and our interview with Mark Silverman about how BTN got going! Also, one of our guests from our first show we brought back here, Mike DeCourcey from The Sporting News joins us to preview Big Ten Basketball! Finally, we also hear from Emily Giambalvo of The Washington Post and Martin O'Donnell, analyst for Illinois Football on the Radio Network, shares the special seasons that Maryland and Illinois are having.

Michigan State Women's Soccer player Raegan Cox sits down with Dalton Shetler to share a bit about how MSU Women's Soccer ran the Big Ten Table and won the Title.

Michigan State Women's Soccer Head Coach Jeff Hosler sits down with Dalton Shetler to share what has happened to lead to this magical run at Michigan State, with the Spartans being undefeated Big Ten Champs!

Michigan State Women's Soccer went from the bottom of the Big Ten, to being undefeated in the Big Ten and becoming Regular Season Champs. We take a look at how it happened in just year two of the Jeff Hosler Era, as we talk with Hosler himself and Raegan Cox.