NBA Roundup – Easter Monday Edition

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...

Daily Dose: Hey, I know these guys!

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...

Pine Tar Rag: No comprehendo

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...

Daily Dose: Bucknell? Really? Oh, that’s rich.

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,...