I should save copies of things I’ve written that I never post on the blog.  It would be quite the blooper reel.  The post I wrote last night was so bad you might have stopped reading for a month.  Just awful.  I read it again before I deleted it and physically cringed.  Twice.  I can’t [...]

Before we get to the mailbaggery, some thoughts on the basketball game tonight. 1) Good win.  Possibly a tourney/no tourney win.  We’ll likely lose at home to Ohio State, and probably Michigan State, so we need to balance that out with road wins.  (Am I wrong that this is where I’m at with this season [...]

A few more mailbag questions.  Sorry if I didn’t get to yours.  Readers whose questions were not used will receive a lovely bag of parting gifts including a VHS copy of Jerry Hester’s overtime explosion against Missouri in 1995 and a small chard of glass from the Jack Daniels bottle that the Black Crowes guitarist [...]

5 questions tonight, 5 more tomorrow, then a SOC, then barely sleep, then a win over Indiana to become bowl eligible before Columbus Day. October is the greatest month in the history of ever. With Bad News Brown suspended for the Indiana game (and deservedly so), what can we expect from Houston Bates in his [...]

More mailbag.  And good questions, people.  I think about Illini football all the time, and I always forget to think about some of these things.  Thanks for the reminder to remember to think about these things. In this surprising 5-0 start, what do you think has been the biggest surprise? AJ Jenkins? This one’s easy: [...]