Illinois Baseball Report

The Big Ten Network came out with a nice feature video of the Illinois baseball team’s trip down to Busch Stadium to play Missouri last month.  The “new border war”, as Coach Hartleb calls it.    Tags: battle at busch, big ten network, missouri Related posts Woot, woot, Lutes! (0) Illinois posts just one win [...]

Filed under: Media on May 3rd, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Fighting Illini.com has put the first installment of Inside Pitch online.  SID Ben Taylor interviews OF/DH Casey McMurray.  Among other things, McMurray talks about the Illini defeating then-#12 Coastal Carolina and the upcoming Big Ten opener with Penn State.     Also, Lee Zerrusen continues his beat as the blogger for the team.  In Diamond [...]

Filed under: Media on March 27th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Gardenhire rounding third to score in his final regular season game with the Illini in 2005  Kelsie Smith of the Saint Paul Pioneer Press has a lengthy feature article on former Illini infielder and current Minnesota Twin catcher Toby Gardenhire.  Much of the article is focusing on the relationship between Toby and his father Ron, [...]

Filed under: Media on March 6th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

A quick note:  Sports Information Director Ben Taylor will be live blogging today’s opening game against Notre Dame.  Ben is inviting fans to log in, follow along and even submit comments during the game.  You will find the landing page for the live blogging at the Illinois baseball web site. Tags: live blogging, notre dame [...]

Filed under: Media on February 26th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Today,  The Big Ten Network came out with a press release announcing their baseball and softball coverage for 2010. BTN’s baseball and softball coverage will be doubled from last year, they say.  They will be producing at least 102 baseball and softball games for either the Big Ten Network telecast or the Big Ten Network [...]

Filed under: Media on February 16th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

The Big Ten Network has promised they would provide more games via streaming video this year and it looks like they are coming through.  They have announced their online streaming schedule for 2010 and it is quite improved from last year.  At this point, Illinois has ten games on their schedule.  Essentially, it comes down [...]

Filed under: Media on February 1st, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

There was a positive “state of the program” article in the college paper The Daily Illini today.  They interviewed Coach Hartleb and infielder Josh Parr.for the piece. Quoth Hartleb: “The LSU series, it showed not only our team, but people across the country that we have improved as a program and we can compete against [...]

Filed under: Media on July 1st, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

I would like to take the time to thank Chris Webb (from The Buckeye Nine) for taking on the arduous task of bringing up Buckeye Nine Tournament Central, a blog which covered the Big Ten Tournament from a more independent (i.e. not Big Ten) perspective.  Webb did a fantastic job.  If you haven’t already, read [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament, Media on May 24th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

What the media is saying about the Big Ten Tournament… both here in Columbus and back at the universities. First-year ballpark presents challenge – Columbus Dispatch Big Ten Baseball Tournament Up For Grabs Next Year – Columbus NBC Illini baseball advances in Big Ten Tournament with thumping of Michigan State- Daily Illini Minnesota to Face [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament, Media on May 21st, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Just a couple interesting articles I ran across beyond the usual fare.  I thought I’d pass them along. IlliniHQ.com has a nice piece by Jeff Huth looking back to 1998 when former Illinois coach Itch Jones won his 1,000 game.  Also, the Big Ten web site has a nice feature article on Ben Reeser dealing [...]

Filed under: Media on April 24th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »