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Where Do We Stand? March 4th

I saw a debate today in the comments under an Emo Philips tweet about whether "March 4th" is a gerund or an imperative statement. I haven't thought about Emo Phillips in 20 years. I haven't thought about gerunds in 30. But just now, while

Board Crashers

I tweeted the thing about "The Double" (beating Michigan in both football and basketball this year) and then I headed out. My return train left from Ann Arbor at 7:00 pm EST and the game was finished at exactly 5:52 so I had an hour and

Preseason SP+ And Close Games

I've been intentionally avoiding all football talk. As the guy who spent most Octobers the last 15 years screaming "where is everyone going? There are still six more football games! You can pay attention to basketball after Thanksgiving!", I can't in good conscience then

Illini Power Rankings: Self-Awareness Is a Virtue Most Divine

Throughout the Illinois men's basketball team's recent three-game skid, which has been as dark a period of the Underwood era since he was losing exhibition games at EIU (in case you forgot just how dark it truly was at the beginning), I've found myself

TTH

I was a hyperactive kid. My brain really never turned off. And when I was around other people, I cranked it up a notch. I was often trying to impress the entire world. Can you believe it? Yes, you can believe it. Because of this, my mom developed a signal.

Hard Work

I feel like I need to provide some context here. I'm not sure everyone fully appreciates this win by Brian Campbell on the PGA Tour. I get that not everyone follows Illini Golf like I do, but even some casual fans seem to be missing what was accomplished

The Worst Game I've Ever Covered

...and I was at Iowa 63, Illinois 0. Look at all of those people wearing orange. I zoomed in to just get a picture of two sections in the lower bowl from the Illinois end but there were many more Illini fans there, both in the lower and upper decks.

Where Do We Stand? February 21st

I decided to wait 10 days for this next Where Do We Stand? And then I'm going to wait 11 days to do the next one. With the games spaced a little further apart here at the end of the season (and the current tailspin), I figured two

Double Back

Both Sides Now

I swear I've written this article before. Or, at least, I've written an article with this title before. But I can't find it anywhere in the archive. So maybe I didn't? Either way, that's the title of this article. I&

Sacred

As the teams headed to their benches at the under-4:00 timeout, we had missed 13 consecutive shots. We didn't know that yet – there was a goaltending call on a Kasparas Jakucionis layup that was being reviewed at the time and would soon be determined to not be

PMP 2024: Big Ten Student Sections

I have two remaining "Pick My Post" requests from last summer's fundraiser. Both were podcast guest requests, and both were requests I was unable to fulfill. So I asked both of the donators (wait, that should probably just be "donors") if they have a

The Final Countdown

Do duh do do Do duh doot doot do Do duh do do Do duh doot doot doot doot do You have to be at least 40 to understand that. Well, maybe not. A lot of people know it from Arrested Development when Gob would perform magic tricks (sorry, "

Where Do We Stand? February 11th

We have finally fallen out of the rankings. I say "finally" because I had expected it to happen at least four times and yet we kept hanging in there. This week... no number in front of our name. I guess it's kind of fun to be