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Column | The bad will slip away, these losses will be forgotten
When I woke up on Saturday, Kansas had 13 points. After I brushed my teeth and had some coffee, Kansas still had 13 points. Then, I made breakfast for my friend and I; Kansas had more than 13 points....
View ArticleIllinois women’s gymnastics downs Rutgers for perfect conference start
On a cold Jersey afternoon in Piscataway, Illinois women’s gymnastics took down Rutgers 196.575 to 196.375. The Illini improved to 3-2 overall and 1-0 in the conference, earning an important...
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No. 19 Illini women’s gymnastics prepares to defend Huff Hall from traveling...
Ranked 19th in the country and coming off a road win against Rutgers, Illinois women’s gymnastics returns to Champaign Saturday for a home meet against the unranked Nebraska Cornhuskers. Fresh off of a...
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Takekawa leads Illini to 2-0 Big Ten start
When senior Mia Takekawa stepped up to the bars, the crowd gathered in Huff Hall knew a winner was in front of them. Like the rest of Illinois women’s gymnastics on Saturday against Nebraska, Takekawa...
View ArticleColumn | Rejuvenated Illini are starting to reach their potential
They’re back, I think. They could have lost to Ohio State, and they could have lost to Wisconsin, but they didn’t, and the Illini are primed to go on a run. Only one ranked team remains on the...
View ArticleNo. 20 Illinois women’s gymnastics preparing for biggest challenge yet with...
It’s been four weeks, and two Big Ten wins, in the opener against Missouri, since Illinois women’s gymnastics has had to compete against a program at or near its level. Traveling to Minneapolis, Minn....
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Column | Illinois men’s basketball continues to take L’s on, off the court
It was with about five minutes left in the game, when Iowa’s junior Tony Perkins turned junior Coleman Hawkins in circles like he was a Looney Tunes villain, that I decided the Orange Krush, and KAMS...
View ArticleNo. 22 Illinois women’s gymnastics gears up for Metroplex Challenge
After a loss at Minnesota last weekend, No. 22 Illinois women’s gymnastics is headed north to O’Hare and then south to Fort Worth for the Metroplex Challenge. Three others — No. 4 Utah, No. 18 Georgia...
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Column | Illinois men‘s basketball is a beautiful catastrophe
Like Phil Collins, I can feel it coming. We’ve got three more weekends of college basketball left, three more weeks of bracketology and wondering what’s coming. We’re in the stretch-run. The Super Bowl...
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Illinois remains on verge of best-of-the-rest in the Big Ten
There’s a logjam in the Big Ten. Five teams with six losses — Maryland, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan State and Illinois — muck up the race for the number two behind Purdue. Currently, Northwestern occupies...
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Column | Bloomington, Ind. is no fun anyways…
Just a mess. We have our own Bloomington here. It’s sort of northwest on I-74, also has a university and is connected to a town called “Normal” that, suspiciously, produces strange people. The school...
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Notes, player grades from Illinois men’s basketball’s 9-point win over Minnesota
Despite coming into Monday night’s contest against the worst team in the Big Ten currently, there were still some nerves around Champaign. Illinois had lost three of its last four games, and although...
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Column | Illinois needs a real rival, Northwestern can’t compete
In Evanston, they have one good road. It snakes north from the end of Lake Shore Drive, following the lake, passing beaches, winding and twisting until it dies someplace in Highland Park. I found it...
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Column | I couldn’t watch the Northwestern game…
To be honest, it wasn’t looking so good at the end of the first half. The Illini were down by 18. Boo Buie had 22. I was pissing my pants — all that crap I talked, all those names I called...
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Column | What they notice in March
What they notice in March is how tall you are. It’s the first, most obvious thing. Height wins. Tall people are hard to miss. Anybody who’s ever played basketball understands the central,...
View ArticleColumn | Beaten by Booty Ball
Illinois lost to Penn State again, and that sucks. They say it’s hard to beat a good team twice, and it’s even harder to beat a good team three times. But Penn State did that, scoring a collective 234...
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Column |‘Succession’ Season 4 Episode 8: A family you love to loathe
** This review may contain spoilers ** The “Succession” we get from season four is more cold and lifeless and dead than ever before. The people are dead. Logan is dead. Everybody is sulking and nobody...
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Column |’Succession’ Season 4 Episode 9: A question of success
Maybe it’s obvious — but maybe it’s been lost in the weekly churn of “Succession” — that someday, at some point, somebody actually has to succeed. They can’t fight about it forever. There will be some...
View ArticleBright spots in 2022-23 season indicate upward trend for Illinois track & field
The 2022-23 Illinois track field season begins, ends and all throughout the middle was about Olivia Howell. The senior from Solon, Ohio had a fantastic season. At the NCAA indoor championships in...
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Column | Illinois leaves deadline day victorious with returning players
Sometimes, and I very much mean sometimes, the sports offseason vomits up some news that feels like winning a game, news that requires celebration and applause. The Illinois NIL machine gurgled,...
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