Mar 28, 2005 | Andy
Let me start with a long, rambling story, that will probably just annoy you and make you seriously consider taking a floppy disk and attempt to stuff it into your brain stem through your ear, if that’s even possible. When I was in high school, I spent an entire...
Mar 28, 2005 | Andy
It’s Easter, which means the NBA Playoff races are hotting up, and over the next 4 weeks the battles for the final, critical, rankings of season 2004/05 – both postseason and lottery – will be intense. However, just to spoil all the fun, the top 8...
Mar 27, 2005 | Andy
Mar 25, 2005 | Andy
Finally, after a weird, and yet successful absence of almost three weeks, the “real” Fighting Illini showed up. Nobody really expected them to lose to 12th seed UW-Milwaukee, but it’s been frustrating to watch a bonafide great team not hit on all...
Mar 22, 2005 | Andy
When Saturday Night Live tried to spoof the appearance of Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Jose Canseco and the boys before Congress they had a hard time finding a way to be more absurd or funnier than the real thing. That’s for two reasons. First, the real thing was...
Mar 21, 2005 | Andy
I’m not one of those Illini fans who is mad at Bill Self for leaving Illinois for Kansas. At the time though, I wondered why he was so sure that he had a better chance of winning a national championship in Lawrence. Sure, there’s the whole “Rock,...
