Illinois Baseball Report

A University of Illinois product was inducted into the Waterloo Bucks (Northwoods League) Hall of Fame this year.  You’ll have to go back a few years for this one but Tim Lavery who graduated from the U of I in 1999 was inducted in this year’s annual Bucks’ Hall of Fame banquet. Lavery had some [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on December 30th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

…not sure if I do or not.  Here’s an example: Here’s a link to the official announcement and a gallery of the new Big Ten logos. Compare it  to an example of the old one (it’s actually still up on the Big Ten web pages): The older one had gradient effects and sort of a [...]

Filed under: Off Season Happenings on December 13th, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Just last week, I wrote about Illinois baseball’s 2011 schedule which by the way, included a spring game at the Metrodome Tournament hosted by the Minnesota Golden Gophers.  The Metrodome Stadium now is now used by the Minnesota Vikings and formerly used by baseball’s Minnesota Twins. Fast forward to this past Sunday when under a [...]

Filed under: Media on December 13th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Illinois has finally released the schedule for the 2011 baseball season. Some interesting highlights: – Season opens with Big Ten/Big East Challenge on February 18th (no crazy February home games scheduled this year) – On March 11-13, Illinois will participate in the new Metrodome Tournament in Minnesota.  Illinois will conclude the tournament by playing Minnesota.  [...]

Filed under: Announcements on December 6th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

… there won’t be any. They will be busy incorporating Nebraska into our fair conference but for now, twelve is big enough. From their statement: “Although the conference will continue to monitor the intercollegiate landscape, it will not be actively engaged in conference expansion for the foreseeable future and does not expect to be proactively [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on December 5th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »