Debuts It's funny how Will Riley's game tonight snuck up on everyone. With maybe 12 minutes to go in the game, the story was still "DGL can be instant offense for this team - he has 21 points already." And then maybe 15 minutes later
Your Inaugural 2024-25 Illini Power Rankings In the first 18 years of my life, I hugged my father exactly twice. The second time was when I graduated from high school—it was quick and awkward for both of us. The first time was on a March afternoon, when I was 13 years old, after Jay Edwards
Commiserating This is gonna be one of those "stay with me" articles. So stay with me here. It might not make sense at first, but... stay with me. There have been six absolutely gorgeous fall Saturdays for our six home games. I can hardly believe our luck. The gales
From The Stands - Minnesota 2024 I realized today that my uploading problems for From The Stands aren't related to the cell phone signal issues in Champaign on gameday. It's that I can't upload from my phone. I did that for the first two games, but this latest iPhone update
SOC - Minnesota 2024 This is one of those SOCs where I still don't know what my prediction will be at the end. I've gone back and forth on this game all week. It's been helpful, I think that I've been working on the basketball preview
Those Were The Days - Minnesota I didn't forget. You thought I forgot but I didn't forget. I was just wrapped up in the basketball preview (out Monday!) and I didn't get the TWTD published until late afternoon. This week, Detlef is taking us back to the season of Juice