Illinois Baseball Report

This weekend, Illinois takes on Michigan.   Michigan Wolverines April 16, 2010 6:05 pm ct April 17, 2010 3:05 pm ct April 18, 2010 1:05 pm ct Illinois Field Champaign, IL Program website link Record 18-11 (Big Ten 4-2) Head Coach: Rich Maloney Key player: Ryan LaMarre If you missed it from the previous post, [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 15th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Larry Fall blogs about sports at Penn State University and his blog, Happy Valley  Hardball covers the baseball team at PSU.  Happy Valley takes a unique look at the team as it is very stats-oriented and Larry even occasionally expands his coverage to the conference in general.  In light of Illinois’ opening Big Ten series [...]

Filed under: Feature on March 31st, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

formerlyanonymous who covers Michigan baseball for mgoblog.com, did a fair assessment of the 2010 Big Ten Baseball teams.  While of course, I would like to see Illinois higher in his preview (he puts him in the second tier after Ohio State, Michigan and Minnesota), it’s pretty consistent with what I’ve seen elsewhere.  And he has [...]

Filed under: Analysis on February 18th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Illinois Baseball Report now has a fan page on Facebook.  If you like to use Facebook, consider becoming a fan. The page will link to all of my web updates and articles plus allow for another venue for discussion (I still encourage commenting here, though!) Here is the link to IBR’s Facebook fan page. Tags: [...]

Filed under: Blog Administration on February 14th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

A quick note:  Brian over at The College Baseball Blog is interviewing college baseball coaches around the nation and recently he got around to quizzing our own Coach Hartleb.  It’s a good read. Tags: blog, coach hartleb, interview Related posts Hartleb to return in 2011 (0) Interview with Assistant Sports Information Director Ben Taylor (0) [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on January 30th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

A quick note with a slight bittersweet tint…  Big Ten Hardball, the blog that incessantly covered Big Ten Baseball news, issues, and analysis, is closing its virtual doors.  Brian DeCaussin who maintained BTH, is calling it quits after five incredible years. Those of you who are parents of players most likely know of Brian and [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on January 22nd, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

To start the new year, I thought I’d throw out some helpful links that might be useful in getting news and information on Illinois Baseball and Big Ten Baseball this year.  So bookmark the ones you find interesting or useful.  They may come in handy down the road during the 2010 baseball season. It’s a [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on January 9th, 2010 | 2 Comments »

In the off-season, Buckeye State Baseball is doing a Top 9 Division I Moments of 2009 as they pertain to Ohio baseball.  Number 6 on the list is “Welcome to the Adult Table Big Ten”.  In some ways it’s an all-encompassing topic but it manifests itself in the Ohio State-Illinois game at the Big Ten [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament on January 4th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

New Banner You may notice I changed the banner that headlines this website.  Times change and players move on so I thought I’d update the photos to reflect that.  Also, while I’m on the topic of photos, I’ve put a widget on the sidebar that will display a random photo from this season (right now [...]

Filed under: Announcements on December 2nd, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

There are college baseball websites I check out and there are pro baseball websites I browse.  And unless it’s MLB draft time, never the twain shall meet. So when it was twittered (by @IlliniBaseball in case you’re wondering) that Brandon Wikoff was mentioned on one of my favorite web sites that mostly focuses on major [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on July 10th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »