SOC - Washington That's a photo I took the last time I was here. The date on the photo (I'm surprised it was still on my phone) is September 12, 2014. The game that year was on September 13, 2014 so that means I watched that sunset with my
Those Were The Days - Washington I almost forgot again BUT I'm on this flight from Dallas to Seattle and I just watched one of those ads to get myself 20 minutes of free wifi so in those 20 minutes I can quickly scramble and get TWTD posted. The SOC will be very late
Getting It Back This is a blog entry. It has very little to do with Illini athletics and everything to do with my personal experience covering these teams. If these are the types of articles that make you say "Robert, why would I care?", take this as a flashing sign at
How Well Do We Havoc? I really enjoy crazy box scores. I'm not a Los Angeles Rams fan (not only did Stan Kroenke lie and cheat, he lost $790 million to the City of St. Louis in a lawsuit because he lied and cheated), but I was a St. Louis Rams fan. I
Bye Week Tradition: 2026 Three Deep Bye week thought I was pondering this morning: what if we had an afternoon or evening game scheduled yesterday? It basically hasn't rained in Champaign since July. A few spot showers here and there (and by "here and there" I mean "rain a few weeks
Golf Trip I took a little bye week vacation on Monday and Tuesday. Instead of poring over NERDstats all day (the next NERDstats post won't go up until next week so that I can add this weekend's data), I went and watched some golf in Ohio. Even though
What's Possible I'm in a weird place, man. I got to my seats to find four Ohio State fans had snatched up the tickets across the aisle. Then I watched my team make mistake after mistake – the complete opposite of footballing – in a 34-16 loss while the Ohio State fans