Illinois Baseball Report

Ben Taylor is my go-to guy for information about the University of Illinois baseball program.  Ben serves as Assistant Sports Information Director at the U of I and specifically works with the Illini baseball, wrestling and football teams.  It his job to coordinate publicity for the sports programs and work with the media.  From my [...]

Filed under: Feature on May 14th, 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! »

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! »

Yippie!  The Illinois Baseball Media Guide is out.  I always enjoy perusing the guide each year.  Each year’s guide which is issued by the Illinois Athletic Public Relations Office, is jam-packed full of info.  This year’s guide is 148 pages.  Not only does it give me a good overview of the team but more importantly, [...]

Filed under: UI Baseball Program and Management on February 13th, 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! »

Ok, this one goes back in the annals of Illinois baseball history… The SouthTown Star just did a piece on their star that made it big from Evergreen Park High School, Donn Pall.  Pall, of course, played for the University of Illinois.  In 1985, he was drafted and went on to play in the majors, [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on October 19th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Two days ago was the beginning of classes at the University of Illinois.  As someone who works on campus (in a department in the College of ACES), I witness the hustle and bustle of students getting to their new classes especially the freshmen who are learning the ropes and getting used to the ways of [...]

Filed under: UI Baseball Program and Management on August 26th, 2009 | 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! »

The Mattoon Charleston Journal-Gazette Times-Courier has a nice feature article on former Illini centerfielder Kyle Hudson who is faring just fine with the Oriole Class A Delmarva Shorebirds.  Hudson has 17 stolen bases so far this year and 31 runs scored both good for second on the team. Tags: kyle hudson, Media Related posts Illini [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on June 25th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »