How Great Is This?
My youngest son was the first one to let me know that "OK" wasn't a proper text response. This was at least 10 years ago. He'd be all "I should be done around 5:45 so you can pick me up at 6:
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The Good, the Bad, and the Shrill
I go to many Illini sporting events each year, but only one makes me worry for my (aural) health: the annual Tuesday morning women's basketball game with approximately 50,000 screaming children. I legitimately have to give myself a pep talk in the parking lot before I head
College Football 201
It's time for a class you'd take your sophomore year. Yes, you had College Football 101 as a freshman in Foellinger and you'd always get a seat in the balcony so you could take a little nap. But now it's time for
Composure
First, a little housekeeping. I'm not going to publish what I recorded for From The Stands. I didn't really talk much about the game in the recording. I got... distracted by other things and honestly, nobody wants to hear that stuff. I've refused to
SOC - Maryland
This is an IlliniBoard first. I'm writing at one end of the kitchen island and Tyler is writing at the other end of the kitchen island. Our wives are both asleep. We both covered the basketball game tonight and we're both tailgating tomorrow and we'
SOC - Colgate Post Game
It’s 12:19 AM on a FOOTBALL SATURDAY. That means it’s SOC Time here at IlliniBoard. As it is, I’m literally sitting in Robert’s kitchen eating his pimento cheese dip with him 10 feet away from me as he writes his SOC for the Maryland game
Those Were The Days - Maryland
This has to be the most recent Those Were The Days in Those Were The Days history, right? Detlef is taking us allllllll the way back to October 2023 here. It remains the only Illini Football game I haven't attended in person this decade (I had the flu)