The 88 Illini: #32-#29
I'm just gonna tell you want parenting is like at my age and then I'm gonna get to the next four players on The 88 Illini. Actually, I'm going to tell you what grandparenting is like.
I'm currently with the entire fam
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The 88 Illini: #36-#33
Well, the email just came through announcing the first press conference for the fall. Which means that the season is actually here. Time to buckle in and tell my wife "we won't have any open weekends until April - is that OK?" again. And time to... wait,
The 88 Illini #40-#37
I noted this on Twitter just now but I wanted to write something about it as well. We'll get to the next four players on the list here in a moment but first I wanted to write something about the block I logo. If you're not
The 88 Illini: #44-#41
Another quick reminder that the latest 88 Illini post won't always be at the top. I published two articles the other day and "Blip" was in front of the latest 88 Illini post. So if you didn't see it (and I know many of
The 88 Illini: #48-#45
Just wanted to remind you of the "countdown flexibility" I've given myself here. When I first started writing these countdown posts 15 years ago, I tried to make them daily posts that counted down to the first game of the season. And I rarely ever stayed
The 88 Illini: #52-#49
I still have this sense that people aren't getting it. I've kept the section below the "recent posts" section on the front page (where I can feature a certain series) as last season's "NERDstats" posts because I wanted "How
The 88 Illini: #56-#53
Do you want to know the biggest shift in my life the last six months? No, it's not "my football team beat another SEC team in a bowl game and my basketball team went to the Final Four." It's being on campus once or