So, who’s ready for another season of Mikel Leshoure and Corey Liuget? You may get your wish only if there’s an NFL lockout. Leshoure ran for 184 yards and scored three touchdown for Illinois, as they mauled the Baylor Bears 38-14 in the Texas Bowl at Reliant Stadium in Houston. Leshoure broke numerous school records, including [...]

The Illinois football team has accepted an invitation to the Texas Bowl in Houston. The Illini (6-6) will face Baylor at Houston’s Reliant Stadium, home of the NFL’s Houston Texans, on Wednesday, December 29 . The game will kickoff at 5 p.m. Central time and will be televised on ESPN and ESPN HD. The Bears finished [...]

Welcome to our LIVE Blog for the regular season finale as Illinois travels to Fresno State. To access the LIVE Blog, please click on the following link: Illinois at Fresno State

For the last three weeks, everyone has been wondering why does it have to be so tough to get the sixth win? The real question is, who knew it could be so easy? Mikel Leshoure set a school record by rushing for 330 yards to lead Illinois (6-5, 4-4 Big Ten) to a 48-27 win [...]

Blank screen, blank stare. Tough loss last week, sucker punched this week. The outlook was Tampa or Texas, now it’s Detroit or nothing. DeLeon Eskridge scored three touchdowns, two late in the fourth quarter, to lead Minnesota (2-9, 1-6 Big Ten) to a stunning 38-34 victory over Illinois at blustery Memorial Stadium. The loss keeps [...]

Minnesota at Illinois

I’ve watched sports for decades, and covered area sports off-and-on for many years. There are many memorable games, but only three stand out in my mind. Number One is Super Bowl 31, when the Green Bay Packers defeated the New England Patriots. Number Two is the Illinois-Arizona Elite Eight game in 2005, where the Illini made a [...]

The teams won’t be going to the National Championship Game, or even a BCS bowl. There will be no postgame praise, let alone postseason awards. But for one afternoon in Ann Arbor, two unranked teams gave college football fans one of the most entertaining, exhilarating, and exhausting games in recent memory. After a Michael Shaw [...]

Illinois at Michigan

Nathan Scheelhaase was 16-20 for 195 yards and 4 touchdowns to lead Illinois to a 44-10 victory over the Purdue Boilermakers at Memorial Stadium. Scheelhaase also had 118 yards on 21 carries. The Boilermakers (4-4, 2-2) entered the game with severe injury problems. Their first two quarterbacks are out for the season, and third-string Rob Henry was [...]