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First off, let me get this out of the way. Yes, there's a blue checkmark next to my name on Twitter now. I paid to upgrade to Premium today. I did this because I wanted to tweet the entire video of my question and Bret Bielema's

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. (Hey, Robert’s not the only one who can reference great novels.) Camp Randall is now the site of two of the more memorable games, at least for me, of Bret Bielema’s tenure at Illinois. And they’

No, I'm not gonna get all Cormac McCarthy on you. I planned out this article when I decided to try to watch both the basketball game in Champaign and the football game in Madison today. After this game tonight, I no longer want to write it, but this

Not sure what to say. This loss is more confusing to me than Indiana or Washington. I understand getting beat but it's been a long time since we beat ourselves while playing a 3-7 team. So after the loss, I went outside to the stands – wearing a short

This is one of those days were basketball happily takes second billing. With Illinois v Wisconsin kicking off in this evening in Madison, today’s buy game against Long Island ( #277 in KenPom) was merely an afternoon amuse bouche. It was a mostly uneventful exercise - although the relatively subdued

I totally forgot I had that photo on my phone. That's from the Wisconsin game in 2022. There had been some kind of ice display with a Wisconsin logo – I think it was for where the people in the field-level suites would go get food? – and as I