Illinois Baseball Report

  The U of I Baseball program has unveiled the official poster for the 2012 season.  If you can’t wait till opening home date to see it up close, they’ve uploaded here so you can take a gander. **** WCIA-News has an interesting story about a few undergraduate students working with a journalism professor to [...]

Filed under: Off Season Happenings on February 5th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »

Here in Champaign-Urbana, we’ve just had our first taste of winter.  In the last couple of days, we’ve had high temps in the 20s with a nice blanket of snow on the ground.  Up until this point, it was almost (college) baseball weather.  On the Fightingillini.com blog, Ben Taylor reminds us that it’s 36 days [...]

Filed under: Analysis on January 14th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. Euripides (484-406 B.C.) It’s a relevant quote considering the announcement three days ago of the 2012 Illini Baseball schedule.  This is big news.  Not just because the new schedule has come out so early.  But also because of the stiff competition we’ll be facing [...]

Filed under: Announcements on November 19th, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The schedule for the 2012 Big East/Big Ten Challenge has been released.  You can find it at http://www.bigtenbigeastbaseballchallenge.com/ Relevant to our interests, here are the Illinois games: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012 1:00pm Notre Dame at Illinois (Walter Fuller Complex – Field #1, St. Petersburg, FL) SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2012 4:00pm Louisville at Illinois (Al Lang [...]

Filed under: Announcements on October 4th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Practice at Illinois Field has, of course, been going on for a few weeks now but fightingillini.com has posted a schedule of practice times for anyone who wants to stop by and watch the boys play. The schedule includes the the official dates for the Orange and Blue World Series games. Mon., Oct. 3 – [...]

Filed under: Off Season Happenings on September 22nd, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

As someone who works at the University of Illinois and lives four blocks from campus, I can tell you the atmosphere has really changed in the past week.  U of I students have been back at classes for a week for the 2011 fall semester and campus is hustling!  Good luck to the baseball team [...]

Filed under: Off Season Happenings on August 27th, 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 »

Weather continues to be an issue with the Illinois baseball schedule.  The Battle at Busch game tonight against Missouri has been postponed with no makeup scheduled yet. Also, the time of Wednesday’s game against the Illinois State Redbirds has been moved up to 3:05pm to take advantage of the warmer afternoon weather. Share Tags: battle [...]

Filed under: Announcements on March 29th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

The Illini (including Adam Davis (left) and Brandon Hohl), were ready to play today We were all there today.  The the fans (more than I thought would show up in this cold weather) were in the stands, players had gone through all their warm-ups, and announced starter John Anderson was tossing in the bullpen. Unfortunately, [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 26th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Illinois just came away with a 1-2 weekend against Western Kentucky University.  Without being snide, they did win a game.  WKU have a tough team and Illinois came off a pretty rough weekend down in DeLand, Florida.  Saturday’s win came at the hands of the John Anderson / Chris Pack combination which has worked relatively [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on March 14th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »