Apr 30, 2003 | Andy
Just when you thought it was never going to end, the Illinois basketball coaching search came crashing to earth on Tuesday night. At a 1 p.m. press conference this afternoon, Illinois Athletic Director Ron Guenther will stand at the podium and say, “Prepare to...
Apr 29, 2003 | Andy
Their new manager saw fit at his introductory press conference to say, “My name is Dusty, not Messiah,†but you’d be hard pressed to convince the suddenly frisky Chicago Cubs of that fact. Granted, slow starts by the division favorites in St. Louis and Houston...
Apr 29, 2003 | Andy
The men’s basketball job at Illinois pays somewhere in the neighborhood of $700,000 to $900,000. That’s a pretty nice neighborhood. You get a complimentary car. You get membership in a Champaign country club. You get to try on Chief Illiniwek’s head...
Apr 28, 2003 | Andy
The NFL Draft is one of the more fascinating, and all-too American, of American pastimes. There are people who actually sit and watch the whole thing. They make their own charts, they hunker down in their own war rooms and they spend six hours a day four two days...
Apr 28, 2003 | Andy
This was a big weekend for a lot of the teams we follow here. The Bears drafted every player they could off the worst Florida Gators team in ten years. The Cubs frittered away two of three games in Denver. The Sox got booed a lot and still won two of three from the...
