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I've said for nearly a year now that I need to write more short articles. Lately, when I flip on the writing switch, it takes me at least four hours to write something. Some of those NERDstat articles for football were pushing 15-18 hours last fall with one

I view this as the start of the offseason. Yes, there's still Illini sports to cover. The NCAA Golf regional is in Champaign (actually Urbana) this year. I want to get to a few baseball and softball games. But for the "I travel to every game, home

I've been working on an Illini State of the Union address today but I've spent 75% of my time researching (and tweeting about) the reseating process that's going on right now. I finally just gave up on the State of the Union (I'

My mind is still right there. I'm in Boston looking up at a scoreboard that says "Sweet Sixteen" and I'm in Orlando looking at the "I". You don't have to worry - this won't be a football post.

With around 10 minutes left in the second half tonight I got this text from my wife: “Wow - stressful game huh?” First off you gotta love wholly out of context sports texts from your well intentioned, but adorably under informed wife. Secondly, she could not have been more wrong.

I will now tell you the Illini NCAA history that you don't know. You know Austin Peay in 1987 and you know Loyola in 2021 and you know Arizona in 2005 and you know Syracuse in 1989. You might even know Kentucky in 1984 because it was the

Brad Underwood put it very succinctly last night after his team’s first round NCAA Tournament win over Xavier. He had just watched his team get 44 points from freshmen Will Riley (22) , Kasparas Jakucionis (16), and Morez Johnson (6). He got another 20 points from Tomislav Ivisic who is