Nathan

Expectations. It’s the thing a lot of us Illinois fans are having to grapple with right now. What do we do with these expectations, and the disappointment that comes from unmet expectations? It was something I was thinking about even before I read the comments of Robert’s piece

When I was getting married in early 2013, I decided to center my bachelor party around an Illini game. I’m not sure why – I guess I wanted to ensure that I saw a win – but I chose the Charleston Southern game in mid-September of 2012. We did win, my

It was in my seventh-grade Spanish class that I first heard the concept of the rope-a-dope. My teacher, Mr. Ramirez, was an eccentric fellow. Anybody who knew him wouldn’t be surprised that he introduced a bunch of 13-year-olds to Muhammad Ali. He made me cry in the first week

I’ve been playing golf more recently. I don’t want to say I’ve been playing golf a lot recently, because I know people who play golf a lot. What I’m doing isn’t playing a lot of golf. It’s just playing more golf than I usually

I left Saturday with more questions than answers. About ghosts, mainly. (Not the galloping kind, either.) As a senior in high school, I, like most teenagers, had acne. In hindsight, it probably didn’t rise to the level of the chronic acne that a lot of teens take medication for,