Illinois Baseball Report

This weekend brings the Michigan State Spartans to Champaign, Illinois.  Looking at the weather forecast, Saturday may actually be a decent day for baseball… cloudy, maybe but warm and not wet.  Friday and Sunday may be a different story, however.  I’m still holding hope. I really do hope that we can get Friday’s game in.  [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 21st, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

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.    Share Tags: battle at busch, big ten network, missouri Related posts Illini welcome Michigan State this weekend (0) Weather [...]

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

Boy, it sure is fun when the Illini win! In Illini Nation, Craig Lutes is the hero of the day.  Yes, he’s in that mob of Illinois players you see in the above photo.  Not only is he the one who hit the walk-off homerun against the Northwestern Wildcats today to win 4-3 but he’s [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 1st, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Casey McMurray hopes to continue his hot hitting against Penn State this weekend Nothing brings out the best in our players than an honest-to-goodness Big Ten battle.  This weekend, we’re getting just that.  Coach Robbie Wine brings his 10-13 Penn State Nittany Lions to town to face the 9-9 Illini.  The Nits are coming off [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 1st, 2010 | 1 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! »

Hard to believe that one month from today when students are still in their first week of classes, Illinois is scheduled for their first game of the 2010 season.  It’s a HOME game to boot.  Some of the cynics out there are wondering if given our Illinois weather, we’ll be able to get our weekend [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on January 20th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

The Big Ten Network tried their best to delay today’s game as much as possible but it just wasn’t going to happen.  Around 4:30, during a break between “Big Ten Short Stories” (did you know a Penn State hockey goalie became Miss Virginia??), the broadcasters told us that they were going to try to get [...]

Filed under: Announcements on March 28th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

The Big Ten Network began broadcasting the games by the third round.  This camera operator didn’t care for me taking her picture even though she was poking her camera into Illinois’ dugout a good part of the game. This is a mid-game interview of Coach Hartleb of Illinois.  This goes for MLB too but my [...]

Filed under: 2008 Big Ten Baseball Tournament on May 24th, 2008 | 8 Comments »