Wisch: Amaker Isn't The Answer For Northwestern
Since 1920, Northwestern has had just one basketball coach who actually was able to leave Evanston with a winning record – and probably his sanity – intact.
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Since 1920, Northwestern has had just one basketball coach who actually was able to leave Evanston with a winning record – and probably his sanity – intact.
The last time Illinois and Colorado squared off in a game that truly meant something, the Fighting Illini fell far behind, staged a furious comeback and escaped with a dramatic one-point victory.
Some people might think that by leaving Wrigley Field for suburbia the Cubs could finally kill their curse. I think it's more likely that they'd kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
Yes, it's been 104 years since the Cubs last won a World Series and it's been 67 years since they even played in a Fall Classic. But it simply isn't true that the North Siders never snap any streaks at Wrigley Field.
Throughout all the brimstone, my mind kept sparking back to a thought that's been in my head for weeks: The Fighting Illni and Weber's Kansas State Wildcats have no business meeting in the NCAA Tournament this season. And here's to hoping that they don't.
Bruce Weber isn't on the sidelines in Champaign any longer. But that hardly means the guy can't still stir up the Illini faithful.
The Chief Illiniwek saga took a strange twist when it was revealed by the Daily Illini that unofficial results for all referendums on the 2013 student ballot had been released – except for the one involving the Chief.
By the end of that ugly Big Ten basketball tilt in Iowa City on Tuesday night, the only thing more plentiful among the Illini than missed shots was their disappointment.
I love Major League Baseball. But Major League Baseball is wearing me out.
In honor of Assembly Hall's "Big Five-Oh," here are the five most memorable Illini hoops moments that Dave Wischnowsky witnessed there in person.
The Bulls need to do all they can to ensure that home is indeed where Rose's heart is, lest they – and the city's hoops fans – potentially suffer the consequences.
He needs to cut the cord with Bill Carmody. Then, if NU's AD is as smart as NU's student body, he'll make every effort to replace him with Duke associate head coach Chris Collins, a prodigal North Shore son who would fit Evanston like a winter glove.
In 2006, when Indianapolis beat out Chicago for exclusive rights to host the Big Ten men's basketball tournament from 2008-12, conference commissioner Jim Delany expressed his hope that a fixed location would help boost attendance for his league's hoops extravaganza.
With the Chicago Bears entering the final year of their contract with Olivet Nazarene University, the summer of 2013 could be the last that the team spends in Bourbonnais for its annual training camp.
College football seems to just keep getting bigger.
It's the city of Love (Bob) and the city of Roses (Derrick & Family). It's the city of heart taps (Sammy's) and the city of kisses (Sammy's … again). It's the city of passions (ever seen Cubs fans?) and the city of swoons (ever seen the Cubs?).
On Monday morning, a Facebook friend posted a status asking where people thought Illinois will be seeded in the NCAA Tournament. His guess: as a No. 8 seed.
It was a win that only the heaviest orange Kool-Aid drinker could have possibly seen coming, but it's a victory that will forever be viewed by every Illini fan as among the greatest in school history.
A student group is again trying to replace banished school symbol Chief Illiniwek – and, this time, another group of students is trying to stop them.
It's Super Bowl Monday, the day when no one in America really wants to be working, but pretty much all of us are.
So successful was this radio system for the Pirates of Ottawa Township High School that after four seasons they ended up getting the thing outlawed by the Illinois High School Association.
In 108 years of Big Ten basketball, the 1988-89 season still stands out as the conference's gold standard.
When you really boil it down, the rooftops' business model is no different than someone setting up lawn chairs behind a drive-in movie theater's back fence and then inviting people to come over to eat, drink and watch the theater's films.
At least out on the football field, the hits stop when the whistle blows. But in the case of Manti Te'o, they just seem to keep piling up.
