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Rutgers will need their B1G Boy pants for 2014
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Rutgers will host long time regional rival and new division rival Penn State in the first Big Ten Conference game in program history on September 13, 2014. The home date against Penn State will be the first of a healthy dose of contests against some of college football's legendary programs in 2014 as the Big Ten is handing Rutgers quite the initiation...
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2014 Big Ten schedule includes Rutgers, Maryland
The Big Ten released its first football schedule with Rutgers and Maryland included, and the Scarlet Knights are getting quite a welcome to conference in 2014.
Rutgers' first five Big Ten games are: home for Penn State and Michigan, back-to-back road trips at Ohio State and Nebraska, and a home game against Wisconsin.
The Penn State game will be Sept. 13 in Piscataway.
Maryland...
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Rutgers to hire woman as new athletic director: Report
As Rutgers takes a giant step into its future by joining the Big Ten Conference in 2014, the university just might be taking an even bigger leap right now by hiring a woman the run the athletic department for the first time in the New Jersey school's history.
Julie Hermann, most recently the No. 2 athletic administrator at Louisville, has been named the school’s new athletic...
Photos: Rutgers Awarded Players F.A.M.I.L.Y. Rings After Finishing As 2012 Big East Co-Champions
Rutgers won a share of the 2012 Big East football crown, and now the Scarlet Knights have rings to prove it. To go along with one of the themes of their season, the school put F.A.M.I.L.Y. on the side of each ring – which stands for “Forget About Me, I Love You”. Rutgers also used the acronym on jerseys this past season as well.
Kicker Nick Borgese posted some photos of the...
2012 Big East championship rings for Rutgers
The final year of Big East play in football ended with a four-way tie for the conference championship. Louisville came out on top withe tiebreakers awarding the Cardinals with the conference’s automatic BCS berth, sending Louisville to the Sugar Bowl to take on the SEC’s Florida Gators. To get there Louisville needed a second-half rally on the road against future Big Ten member...
Carter 'excited' to get to Gainesville
Former Rutgers guard Eli Carter announced in late April that he would transfer to finish his final two years of eligibility at Florida. The school made that decision official on Friday. Carter has put in a waiver to the NCAA to be eligible for the 2013-14 season, but there hasn’t been a decision made at this point.
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Seton Hall-Rutgers rivalry to continue
New Jersey rivals Seton Hall and Rutgers are going to continue their basketball rivalry for the next eight years.
The schools announced Thursday that they have signed an eight-year agreement to continue the men's basketball series at alternating home sites beginning next season. The first meeting will take place at Rutgers Dec. 8.
The rivalry was put in jeopardy when the Big...
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Report: Julie Hermann candidate for Rutgers AD job
Rutgers University is muddling through the process of righting its athletic department after recently firing its basketball coach and athletic director. The school also suspended its men’s lacrosse coach last month for verbal abuse of players.
The Scarlett Knights haven’t seemed to do anything right when it comes to athletics and they’re looking for new athletic director. They...
The American Preview: Top 10 biggest games for the conference
It's a new era and a new makeup for the now former Big East football playing schools and for some it's their last go-round in their old home before Rutgers and Louisville are off to new homes in the Big Ten and ACC next season. There are also new members to the league, but as we look at the big games and the dangerous matchups ahead a theme of three teams emerges.
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Rutgers turning to new home for new AD?
Rutgers athletics has been in the headlines more so in the past month than ever before and for all the wrong reasons. Thanks to an idiot coach and an administration that wouldn't know it's elbow to it's ass things are changing in New Brunswick to say the least. Gone is the man that guided the RU brand to the Big Ten, Tim Pernetti, and in.... Well, there are three...
Top 100 forward Junior Etou to Rutgers
The massive rebuilding effort for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights under new head coach Eddie Jordan is underway, and help is on the way. On Wednesday, Jordan and Rutgers landed one of three available members of our final top 100 player rankings in the 2013 class, power forward Junior Etou of Bishop O’ Connell (VA). Etou played for Jordan for [...]
Rutgers gives Sandy victims thrill
It's been six months since Hurricane Sandy throttled the East Coast, causing more than $70 billion in damage in the U.S. and killing more than three dozen people in New Jersey alone. For many of those displaced by the storm, life still hasn't gotten back to normal. So when Rutgers took the field for its annual spring game Saturday afternoon at High Point Solutions Stadium...
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JUST SO YOU KNOW...
Rice warned recruit about practice tape
Shane Rector, a once-potential Rutgers recruit, said Mike Rice personally warned him about the now-infamous video a few days before it was released.
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Report: Murdock being investigated for extortion
Eric Murdock, the former Rutgers coach who blew the whistle on Mike Rice, is allegedly being investigated by the FBI for extortion.
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Fired Rutgers coach Mike Rice speaks
Mike Rice was fired by Rutgers on Wednesday morning, here's a video of him addressing ABC News following the firing.
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