Opening week is so much fun, don’t you think? As the boys are on their way to Cookeville, Tennessee for their first meeting with the Golden Eagles of Tennessee Tech, the official weekend preview has been posted. As noted in my weekend preview, the pitching rotation will include two freshman. With senior Kevin Johnson going [...]
Filed under: Media on February 14th, 2013 | Leave a Comment! »
The 2013 Illini Baseball Record Book is now online! I know that new assistant sports information director Matt Wille has been hard at work putting this together. From what I can tell so far, it looks great. There is a LOT to devour and I just started to delve into it. As in past years, [...]
Filed under: Media on February 8th, 2013 | Leave a Comment! »
Brandon Hohl Justin Parr A few congrats are in order. The Northwoods League just issued a few post-season awards and a few Illini were mentioned. First, among their 2012 ‘Finest in the Field’ honorees was thirdbaseman Brandon Hohl who played for Wisconsin Rapids this summer. His .973 fielding percentage was tops in the NWL. Also, [...]
Filed under: Awards, Media on October 13th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »
For those interested, local online magazine Smile Politely just published an article I wrote. It’s a summer wrap-up of Illinois baseball including highlights from summer leagues and minor league action of former Illini. Once again, I’d like to express thanks to Smile Politely’s interest in covering college baseball throughout the year. *** Also [...]
Filed under: Media on September 20th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »
A couple of videos to link to this week. The first two come to us from Illini Productions’ YouTube Channel. Here’s Brandon Hohl’s postgame interview after Sunday’s game when he hit two homeruns and drove in six runs against SIU. That same day, Josh Ferry won his first college game. Here he is giving [...]
Filed under: Media on March 20th, 2012 | 1 Comment »
For all attending the Hot Stove Banquet on Saturday, have a good time! As for me , I’m in Pittsburgh for a four-day weekend with friends so I’ll miss it. If anyone gets some good photos, contact me and we can post them here. In related news, Coach Hartleb got some air time with Steve [...]
Filed under: Media on January 27th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »
Illinois’ All-Big Ten Third Team pitcher Wes Braun got some post season press coverage. He was interviewed by Jeremy Fine of Oy! Chicago, an online Jewish social website. It’s an illuminating interview… you’ll find out Wes’ hopes for the future, favorite Jewish ballplayers and favorite pizza. By the way, you might recognize the photo from [...]
Filed under: Media on June 29th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »
According to the News-Gazette’s Jeff Huth, Illinois will be the first opponent of Big Ten newcomer Nebraska. We’ll see them next year and the exact date is already set. On March 23-25 Illinois will travel to Lincoln to play the Cornhuskers. Not only will the Nebraska be new to the Big Ten but they’ll have [...]
Filed under: Media on June 14th, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Maybe it’s a bit of schadenfreude on my part but sometimes I like to read recaps on Illinois victories that were posted in newspapers in the enemy’s territory. Here’s the write-up on last night’s game in the Detroit Press. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with good ol’ friendly Illini HQ and fightingillini.com either. Tonight, Illinois [...]
Filed under: 2011 Big Ten Tournament, Media on May 28th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »
Scott Powers of ESPN Chicago has a nice piece on Pete Cappetta and his comeback in the second half. Definitely check it out. The Chicago Tribune interviewed walk-off hero Matt Dittman The Daily Illini has a couple of interesting articles. One on the missing trophy (stupid policy in my opinion) and another preview of the [...]
Filed under: 2011 Big Ten Tournament, Media on May 26th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
