18 March, 2010 (10:00) | College Basketball, Illinois | By: South Side Sheik
After hearing for weeks that the Fighting Illini only had to win one more game against a quality opponent to seal their NCAA tournament berth, it’s become a habit of mine to wonder how each successive game impacts their ability to move off the proverbial bubble. Well surely their convincing 76-66 win over the Stony [...]
Tags: Human Cannonball, NIT, Seawolves
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14 March, 2010 (19:52) | Big Ten, College Basketball, Illinois | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple
The f$%&ing selection committee can’t seem to get anything right. Those idiots in their ivory tower stare at computers all damn weekend for one weekend a year and then make horrible decisions. Florida? Really? Florida? And Utah State? How do they justify putting Minnesota in over Illinois, when Illinois finished better in the Big Ten?
Okay [...]
Tags: Anger, Blame, Demetri McCamey, Idiots, Screw Job, Selection Committee
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10 March, 2010 (12:57) | College Basketball, Illinois, Northwestern | By: Paul M. Banks
By Paul M. Banks, President of The Sports Bank.net
Regarding college basketball in the state of Illinois, it is the worst of times. And it’s again the worst of times. We may get zero teams in the NCAA tournament. And it’s all over from the Wisconsin border to the edge of the state that neighbors Kentucky. [...]
Tags: Illini, illini hoops, Illinois, illinois basketball, Northwestern, northwestern hoops, northwestern wildcats
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8 February, 2010 (07:00) | Illinois | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple
So this Illini team is for real. I mean don’t get me wrong, they are about as inconsistent as they come, but they can legitimately beat good teams. All “buts” aside (I know Kalin Lucas was out and the win came at home, but MSU is still is a top 5 team in the country, [...]
Tags: Bruce Weber, Demetri McCamey, Illini
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28 January, 2010 (14:44) | Basketball, Chicago Bulls, Illinois, NBA | By: JavierSandooski
After what seems like an eternity, the Chicago Bulls will finally be sending someone to the 2010 All-Star game in Dallas!! Yahoo Sports reports:
Point guards Deron Williams of Utah, Chicago’s Derrick Rose and Boston’s Rajon Rondo will make their All-Star Game debuts next month in Dallas, sources said Thursday.
Williams, Rondo and Rose top the list [...]
Tags: All-Star Game, Deron Williams, Derrick Rose
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14 January, 2010 (07:28) | Illinois | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple
Champaign’s finest sports coverage brought to you by Joe Kutsunis from Hail to the Orange:
Its not every day you can say the Illini are leading in the Big Ten title race, (unless of course you are talking about the three titles the Illini earned early on this decade) but that’s exactly where our hard fought scrappers [...]
Tags: Illinois
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28 December, 2009 (10:00) | Illinois | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple
Sure some of this top ten list are positive things. Obama is from Illinois, and of course the White Sox winning it all in 2005 was fun (for half of Chicago at least). The rest? Meh, not so much. This list was released by the AP titled “Top Stories of the Decade for Illinois”. Enjoy:
Obama’s [...]
Tags: Illinois
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9 December, 2009 (10:57) | College Basketball, Illinois | By: JavierSandooski
Within five minutes of turning on the Illinois game, I knew it was a more enjoyable game to watch than the bulls game. This turned out to be true – and could be true of the entire season for both teams. The Illini have bounced back from a couple of ugly losses to Utah and [...]
Tags: Bruce Weber takes pictures of male models, Illini
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3 December, 2009 (22:55) | Chicago Bears, Illinois | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple
I’m not sure if it’s corn, but I am sure this is a lot of effort to show love for your team. I don’t know if anyone has told the owners of this farm in Spring Grove, Illinois, but the Bears suck. Making that maze this season is like Rule 5 Draftee buying Bulls season [...]
Tags: Bears Farm Maze
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17 September, 2009 (13:31) | College Football, Illinois | By: StevieY19
In a huge blow to the Illini defense, junior linebacker Martez Wilson will miss the remainder of the season with a neck injury. A five-star prospect in 2007, Wilson played for the Illini right away and many expected him to break out in a major way this season.
The injury, a herniated disk requiring surgery, has to [...]
Tags: Big Ten, College Football, Illinois, Injury, Martez Wilson
Comments: 3
9 September, 2009 (11:00) | College Football, Illinois | By: StevieY19
What an awful start for an Illinois team I thought would be near the top of the conference. It’s a familiar formula in the Big Ten: young players show promise, struggle, then put it together in their senior season. I thought Juice would be ready to lead his team to a great season and perhaps [...]
Tags: Bad Losses, College Football, Illinois, Juice Williams, Missouri
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29 July, 2009 (11:00) | College Football, Illinois | By: StevieY19
For two days the Big Ten football coaches and three players from each team gather in Chicago for Big Ten Media Days. From what I could tell, this year’s event was pretty bland (are they ever exciting?), but I guess that’s what you get when Lane Kiffin doesn’t coach in your conference.
So what did we [...]
Tags: Big Ten, College Football, Illinois, Joe Pa, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Terrelle Pryor
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19 March, 2009 (11:00) | College Basketball, Illinois | By: StevieY19
Other than the fact that we know Western Kentucky has a sweet mascot, we really don’t know much else. We also know they won a couple games in the Big Dance last year and bring back a hand-full of those players. But what are they about this year and how do they stack up against [...]
Tags: College Basketball, Illinois, NCAA Tournament, Preview, Western Kentucky
Comments: 3
18 March, 2009 (09:00) | College Basketball, Illinois | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple
It’s time for another one of my crazy sports conspiracy theories. The Illini were cruising along, looking like a solid 5 seed and maybe even a 4 seed in the NCAA Tourney. Then they lost Frazier to a fractured hand/wrist and said he would probably not be back for the Big Ten tourney but he [...]
Tags: Big Ten Tournament, Chester Frazier, NCAA Tournament, Selection Committee
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16 March, 2009 (10:00) | College Basketball, Illinois | By: StevieY19
Illinois pulled the much maligned 5-seed in the NCAA Tournament and they’ll play the 12-seed Western Kentucky in the first round. The Hilltoppers of course have the best mascot in sports history.
So already you have to be worried. The Hilltoppers should actual give Illinois plenty to think about this week, judging by a quick look [...]
Tags: College Basketball, Illinois, Mascots, NCAA Tournament, Western Kentucky
Comments: 1