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Catching The Game

Catching The Game

Tuesday night, I noted on Twitter that my son was trying to find the Illinois-Purdue game in St. Louis and struggling to find a sports bar that had it on. The responses went in several different directions, so I wanted to write about what I was trying to say. It

Didn't We Almost Have It All

Didn't We Almost Have It All

I probably have 75 pictures just like that one on my phone. Maybe 100 such pictures of Memorial Stadium after a game. One of my favorite things on earth is the warm glow of a stadium or arena after all the fans have gone home, so I take a lot

Where Do We Stand? March 5th

Where Do We Stand? March 5th

My very first thought this week: when is the last time that the only two ranked Big Ten teams met during the final week of the season? Now that I type that out, I'm realizing that it's probably been a very long time since the Big

2017 Coaching Hires

2017 Coaching Hires

This is one of those "one question mailbag" posts. It wasn't submitted as a mailbag question – it was a text on Saturday evening from a former Illini football player asking about Underwood compared to other coaching hires – but the more I dug into the numbers, the

The BoardRoom 4.16 - Winning Against Wisco With Marcus

While waiting for Tyler's writeup from Madison (I'm pretty sure he drove back home first and is now writing it back in the western burbs), here's The BoardRoom episode after today's game. As they said in the episode notes, State Farm Center

Up To Speed - March 1, 2024

Up To Speed - March 1, 2024

I'm visiting my son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter right now. Booked this trip the day after the Penn State loss. Tyler could cover the Wisconsin game, my wife had to be in Idaho for work, so all of the stars aligned. Being around Penn State fans celebrating their greatest

Seven Seconds

Seven Seconds

Think back to when Brad Underwood was hired. Josh Whitman fired John Groce and held the "if we're not careful..." press conference, we were still playing in the NIT with Jamal Walker as the head coach, and Whitman snuck down to Oklahoma and stole Brad Underwood