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I'm With The Band

I'm With The Band

This is the final article from my fundraiser last May (and, like all of those articles, it is unlocked and free for anyone to read). In exchange for a donation to my dad's scholarship, I stated that I would write an article of your choice. I completed most

PMP 2023: Best Basketball Bench

PMP 2023: Best Basketball Bench

After this one I only have two more PMP articles to write and then my Pick My Post articles from this 2023 fundraiser will be complete. Both of those will require some deep research. For one I'll need to go deep into the archive to do some research

PMP 2023: JJ O'Laughlin

PMP 2023: JJ O'Laughlin

Next up on the Pick My Post list, a very specific question about a very specific Illini player. And it's actually not the most specific question I was asked as part of this. That one comes later (and it's a doozy). First up, a big thank

PMP 2023: Illini Golf

PMP 2023: Illini Golf

I still have five more of these to write. So the suggestion for this Pick My Post was perfectly timed. I left the NCAA Golf Championships a week ago yet I still have all of these Illini Golf thoughts in my head. So what better way to take advantage of

PMP 2023 - The Marching Illini

PMP 2023 - The Marching Illini

This will be one of two PMP articles on the same subject: The Marching Illini. The second one can't be written until this fall, though, because it's a request to write about something relating to the season. I guess I didn't really need to

PMP 2023: The Proper State Of Mind

PMP 2023: The Proper State Of Mind

I'm continuing this series of Pick My Post requests with a topic I've written about many times over the last 14 years: Ray Eliot's "Proper State Of Mind" speech. We'll start with the full question from Fred (thanks so much

PMP 2023: Illini Football, September 2013

PMP 2023: Illini Football, September 2013

For this PMP, the person who donated $100 to the scholarship fund (Randy) replied to my "what article would you like me to write?" with "whatever you want." I still felt like it should be random, so I decided I would write about a certain Illini