Travel Log
I wrote this one all weekend. It's over 6,000 words. It has very little to do with the Illini and a lot to do with my trip on the train to East Lansing and back. I mean, it has everything to do with the Illini – with me
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Low Five: Michigan State
It’s been 57 days since I last had to type the letters L-O-W for this feature. Eight weeks of a rather miserable Midwestern winter warmed considerably by 12 straight wins. The basketball was good. Alas, the streak was halted last Saturday in East Lansing and as we
Sell Out or Get the Hell Out
I just had an unexpected ten minutes in my evening. The title of this post came to me, and then I remembered it as a vestige of a 90's rap lyric in my brain, and then I searched for it, and came upon a song from 1990 I
Man Of La Mancha
For whatever reason, I've always identified with Man of La Mancha. Which, I guess, means I identify with Don Quixote. Because the story of Don Quixote was introduced to me through the musical Man of La Mancha, I guess I tend more towards the adaptation than the book.
High Five: Northwestern II
The idea of “High Five“ first took shape in my head after the Tennessee game. I was doing what I always do the day after a game: watching it again. This second viewing is through a more critical lens compared to my “in the moment” viewing experience which is often
Where Do We Stand? February 5th
Oh, we stand.
The last three seasons, when writing the Where Do We Stand articles and compiling the I-N-I, we've, uh, never been this high. We're 5th in the I-N-I this week and that's the highest we've ever
The Problem Solvers
Games like this one make for a challenging write-up. One can only dive so deep when recapping a 40 point beat down. I feel like Chris Farley in that SNL sketch where he’s interviewing Paul McCartney...
“Remember that one time…when Keaton Wagler made a three quarter court