Illinois Football: Incompetence You Can Depend On
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Brad Underwood Heads To Illinois After One Year With Oklahoma State
Brad Underwood has left Oklahoma State after just one season, jumping ship for Illinois. The university announced the…
Illinois Receiver Malik Turner Taken Off Field On Stretcher After Helmet-To-Helmet Hit
Minnesota defensive back Duke McGhee was ejected for targeting after a play that left Illinois wide receiver Malik…
Murray St. Forced To Start At 1-Yard-Line After Official Hallucinates Fair Catch Call On Kickoff
Murray State’s day is bad enough as they get walloped by the Illini, but it didn’t help that officials declared the…
Fighting Illini Guard Kendrick Nunn Charged With Domestic Battery
Fighting Illini junior guard Kendrick Nunn was charged today with one count of domestic battery after authorities in…
Report: Illinois Basketball Player Jaylon Tate Arrested For Punching His Girlfriend In The Face
Illinois basketball’s bad season ended yesterday with a blowout loss to Purdue in the Big Ten tournament. Shortly after…
Illinois Football Fires The Coach They Just Hired (Update: Lovie Smith Will Reportedly Replace Him)
Remember back in late November, when the Illinois Fighting Illini had just lost to Northwestern to wrap up a 5-7…
Cops: Illinois Basketball Player Leron Black Arrested For Pulling A Knife On A Bouncer
Sophomore Illinois forward Leron Black was arrested late Thursday night in Urbana after he threatened a bouncer at…
Illinois AD On Coach He Just Rehired: "It's Not Ideal"
Illinois ended their football season with a 24-14 loss to in-state rival Northwestern yesterday. At 5-7, they won’t…
Report: Illinois' Darius Paul Arrested In France
According to Bret Behrens of WCIA-TV (Champaign, Il.), Darius Paul of the Illinois men’s basketball team was arrested…
Illinois Defensive Back Eric Finney Is Really Good At Taking Surveys
The Champaign-based News-Gazette is surveying Illinois football players before the season to learn fun facts about…
Former Illinois Lineman Accuses Coach Of "Abuse And Misuse Of Power"
Former Illinois left tackle Simon Cvijanovic took to Twitter on Sunday to air some serious grievances with the Fighting…
John Groce Wants To Tell You About Size
Illinois landed Charlotte transfer Mike Thorne, and head coach John Groce is excited! Why? Because Thorne is big where…
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Illinois's Chief Illiniwek To Perform At High School Basketball Game
The University of Illinois retired their mascot Chief Illiniwek in 2007 after facing pressure and sanctions from the…
Geronimo!
Washington's giving the Illini a thorough stomping, but Illinois has at least one shining moment: this fingertips catch…
Illinois QB's Father Banned From Campus After Arrest
Nathan Creer, the father of Illinois starting quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase has been banned from campus for a year…
Ron Zook Works At A Florida Bank Now, And He'll Respond To Your Email
Former Florida and Illinois coach Ron Zook has given college coaching the old college try twice, and failed twice. Now…
The Fighting Illini Ticket Office Chose An Unfortunate Picture To Advertise The Penn State Game
Illinois's ticket office sent this email blast out to its fans early this morning—view the full email online here,…
Illinois Shocks No. 1 Indiana On A Last-Second Layup
This is how you gain and then lose a No. 1 ranking in a span of five days. Illinois's Tyler Griffey's uncontested…