Shannon Ryan
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My favorite co-byline. 😉 Check out how my son and I rank kids’ sports movies. What are your favorites?
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Dawn Staley asked about Geno’s 11-0 record in the title game. “We’re 1-0, so we’re 100 percent too.”
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That’s Bears QB Justin Fields, taking a front row seat for Sky game.
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I'm excited to officially announce I'm joining
@TheAthletic
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@TheAthleticWBB
. Thrilled be joining a team of great journalists and editors.
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This is the person writing about why Jemele Hill definitely should have better thought out her tweets. 🤦🏼♀️
I'm going to delete the tweet shown below. Many of you misunderstood the intent, because, well, I wrote it really poorly and quickly. /1
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Loyola confirms Sister Jean is ready to cut down some nets. The 101-year-old team chaplain and sports icon is headed to Indy for the NCAA Tournament.
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Chance says he’s going out with the team tonight and getting his Sky tattoo. Whatever the players choose.
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I have an idea. Hear me out.
ILLINOIS AND LOYOLA SHOULD PLAY EVERY SEASON.
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This is an official request to ESPN for a split screen between on-court action and Illinois' bench reaction for the remainder of this game. Please and thank you.
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Asked about Michigan winning Big Ten title over Illinois,
#Illini
coach Brad Underwood says, "I know this, nobody’s won more games than us. And we’ve played them all."
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Dr. Carlos Del Rio, Infectious Diseases Society of America, during media zoom briefing w/ other NCAA medical advisers on COVID-19 and college football:
"I feel like we have hit the iceberg, and we are making decisions about when we should have the band play."
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Saw the craziest thing today. A guy was going into a grocery store and told he couldn’t enter without a mask. He says “oops, my bad” and goes back to his car to get a face covering. Seemed simple.
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A tough decision, but I will be among those leaving the Tribune. Another update on my future soon.
Beyond thankful to have worked with such gifted, driven and passionate reporters during my time with
@ChicagoSports
. 1/3
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"We don't like each other. Simple as that." - Ayo Dosunmu
All hail players who give honest answers in press conferences.
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Super excited to see that college football plans will now be political thanks to politicians who tell athletes not to comment on politics.
#2020
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Read a lot of great Ali tributes. But sports fans and writers: if u can't handle Cam Newton dabbin', u surely wouldn't have been an Ali fan
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He coached cross-country. Scanned barcodes on tech equipment. Short on gas money, he bummed rides.
The first 20 years of Brad Underwood's career were spent ingloriously at JUCOs & midmajors. But they shaped him as a coach. Now he's leading No. 5
#Illini
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Updated column:
AD Josh Whitman's letter ripping the B1G for not naming
#Illini
co-champs w/ Michigan raised some fair points. But Whitman voted with colleagues TWICE to go with win % to decide champions, as recently as Feb. 26. That wasn't in his letter.
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Well, about to start my day as a woman, just “flopping and throwing my head back” as we do.
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
"He's got a lot of female tendencies on the court, flopping and throwing his head back...he's soft, very woman-like"
- Marcus Morris on Jae Crowder
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Man, there are some really great moments in March.
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NU coach Pat Fitzgerald asked after beating Illinois about assessing season, responds: “I’m going to enjoy the shit out of today. Is that OK?”
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His dad was the first black president of a major bowl game. His brother was one of the first black athletes at Stanford.
Kevin Warren was surrounded by success and determination.
Now he's the first black commissioner of a Power 5 conference.
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Candace Parker asking about the Bears score during post-game presser and dissing the Lions.
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Perhaps the best post-game interview moment was
#Illini
LB Jake Hansen walking into the interview room with a cigar, yelling "31 point spread, huh?"
"It's a big F you," he said of the validation of upsetting No. 6 Wisconsin 24-23.
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Giorgi Bezhanishvili's mom Lali sent me this photo today. A guest at the hotel where she works in Vienna brought her a copy of
@chicagotribune
with the feature I wrote on the
#Illini
big man.
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Nobody saw the stripper poles being installed on a basketball court. Sure. 😂😂😂
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This is great but can they make it five time bigger and put it in front of the parents’ bleachers?
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It's officially happened. I have completed my metamorphosis into one of my old Irish aunts as I stepped outside, got hit in the face with a blast of arctic wind and said for the first time in my life to no one in particular, "Jesus, Mary and Joseph."
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Ummm did Brad Underwood actually sign an Orange Krush poster of an angry-faced Fran McCaffery? And on the forehead no less?
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On behalf of women everywhere, I had to ask, "What the hell, man?"
NHL analyst Pierre McGuire's condescending tone with Kendall Coyne was familiar to many women who work in male-dominated fields.
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Poor class by Illini fans booing Liddell and Garza for being named to the Big Ten team.
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‘Don’t let the NCAA take football away from me’ The NCAA has made some fair improvements for transfers but it needs to stop meddling in no-brainer deserving cases like Luke Ford at Illinois and Brock Hoffman at VT. My column:
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Whoever picks the songs here must be an amazing smack talking. “Jump Around” playing an extra slap in the face to Wisconsin - just downed 24-23 by
#Illini
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For Lovie Smith, common sense should be enough to solve college football’s issues of equitable hiring. If only.
“I guess what Illinois is saying is that a man of color can lead men of color, or anyone for that matter.”
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My sis had successful heart procedure yesterday. I cry of thankfulness thinking @ the medical team - geniuses who invented a tech-advanced surgery & drs who know how to execute it. Absolutely blows my mind to think ppl exist who rebuff science rather than be filled w/ gratitude.
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Mike Polisky resigned as Northwestern athletic director, according to athletic spokesman.
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Be honest: Nobody has ever watched a football game because of the national anthem. This faux appreciation for a song and tradition nobody thought much about a few years ago is ridiculous. Most of you wouldn't have even noticed if it had /hadn't been played before a game.
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Gorbachev, Reagan & Bush jerseys sit in an Illinois equipment room.
They were supposed to be delivered to the Cold War leaders 30 years ago when the
#Illini
were set to play a game in Moscow. Until it all unraveled.
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Life of an Irish-American sports reporter covering an upset victory by a Catholic school on St. Patrick's day: 75-year-old aunt who is a nun texting me about Loyola's win, Sister Jean and how the game was so exciting she almost forgot to take her Irish soda bread out of oven.☘️
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The drunk driver who nearly killed my brother was born and raised in Ohio. Drunk driving is what is dangerous, not where the drunk driver was born. Ridiculous and sad that anyone would use Jackson's death to try to make that point. How awful for his family too.
I had an emotional conversation with a friend of Edwin Jackson's family today who offered some heartfelt sentiments about him as well as a quick reaction to the politicization of his death:
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My column: Love the Sister Jean story? Take a cue from
#Loyola
players on how to treat the elderly.
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"I'm damn proud to be an Illini. That's for sure," Brad Underwood said.
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Female sports reporter writes column on mansplaining in sports.
Comments from men: "Now let me tell you why you're wrong about this."
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Northwestern football returned to the field today after learning its one positive test that suspended workouts and led to 37 players in quarantine was a false positive.
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Big news for
#Loyola
. Tribune has learned the program reached contract deal through 2026 with coach Porter Moser after he led Ramblers to Final Four.
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#Illini
coach Lovie Smith had been in football for a quarter century before he was on a team with a Black head coach, joining Tony Dungy's Bucs staff in 1996.
He's now providing that opportunity w/ more Black assistant coaches than any other FBS team.
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Ayo Dosunmu’s insistence on seeing the bright side after a heartbreaking loss has been pretty remarkable. A message from a player who will long be remembered in Champaign:
I’m incredibly proud of all that my brothers and I accomplished this season. We didn’t get the deep run we’d hoped for, but it’s a new era for
@IlliniMBB
that’s only just begun!
Thanks for the love
#IlliniNation
! It’s an honor to suit up in 🔸🔹, and I’m
#Illini4Life
.
#JL4L
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"According to the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, twice as many people voted at the United Center (home of the Chicago Bulls) than any other universal voting site or precinct."
Nearly 300,000 Americans voted in sports arenas in the 2020 election
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#Illini
coach Lovie Smith: “For some programs, getting to a bowl game may not be a big deal. For our program, we needed to cross this hurdle to make an even bigger step."
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I hope everyone recognizes the difference between how people who disagree w/ Leonard standing are discussing this vs. how people who disagreed with Kaepernick kneeling discussed the topic.
Having known
@MeyersLeonard
for years, can say he doesn’t have prejudice bone in his body. He agonized, cried at times about not kneeling with teammates. His brother served in Marines, so it was a painful decision. I asked him if he still views kneeling as disrespectful to flag:
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I left a half-eaten bag of chips at my seat in the press room. It's now empty.
Freakin' sports writers, man.
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Real life discussions in my home.
Me: "Where should we go on a trip after the pandemic? I want to go to Jamaica."
My kid (who is 8, not 80): "We should go to the Indianapolis Marriott. I want to see if that lady who gave me the free yogurts still works there."
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A team from the state of Illinois will play in the NCAA tournament. Illinois State beat Indiana State 77-70, setting up an all-Illinois MVC semifinals. Redbirds will face Southern Illinois. Bradley vs. Loyola in earlier game.
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On same call, Brian Hainline, NCAA's chief medical officer, says they're aware of 12 cases of myocarditis (a rare inflammation of the heart) in athletes.
Dr. Colleen Kraft said, "I think one case of myocarditis in an athlete is too many."
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If you happen to somehow lose your purse at the Indiana / Chicago toll booth, you better hope a reporter finds it! I was able to track down the woman despite no digital footprint and mail it back to her within 24 hours. 🙌
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If I had three wishes in this world, it would be for:
1. COVID to go away forever.
2. People to read columns and articles before commenting on them.
3. And world peace.
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I'm so sad to share the news that DePaul basketball student manager Aameer Sahi passed away this afternoon. "We lost our FIGHTER," his dad told me.
Aameer was surrounded by the support and love of so many friends and family through his fight.
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Time for everyone to realize:
Maybe it's not magic.
Loyola is just this good.
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You’ve probably seen this already if you’re an Illinois fan but this is just beautiful.
You knew we had to get
@BobbyRoundtr97
in on the celebration.
"That's for you, bro." -
@dele_harding
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Looks like Lovie is being hoisted onto his players’ shoulders after beating Michigan State to earn bowl eligibility.
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Y’all are suckers, spending boku bucks on youth sports in hopes your kid gets a scholarship or makes the Olympics.
I’m training my son to be an unsuccessful Power 5 football coach. Cha-ching!
At SEC spring meetings one year, I mentioned to Will Muschamp how journalists get fired just like coaches, except we don’t have the buyouts. He joked: “Thank God for the buyouts” Muschamp could earn $21.7 million in buyouts from UF & South Carolina,
@APMarkLong
reports
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The Sky said it will be filing a complaint with the WNBA office after coach James Wade, who is Black, said a white official referred to him as "boy" during Tuesday's loss.
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NIU AD Sean Frazier on canceling MAC fall season: "Here’s the bottom line: We don’t have a vaccine. We can test til the cows come home but we can not prevent, we can not stabilize once an individual does have Covid because we don’t know all of the affects long and short term."
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I love that this wasn't decided because someone missed.
Thanks for this game, Gonzaga and UCLA. We missed this fun.
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My advice to every reporter covering
#Illini
in the NCAA Tournament: Cover every single Giorgi Bezhanishvili press conference you get a chance to.
Contagious joy.
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At Sister Jean's news conference today, she commented that it was nice to see familiar faces in the crowd and some new reporters. "Then I know reporters are not dying out. We need you. Hang in there." 😊
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It looks like Kofi Cockburn shared in his IG stories a vile racist message he received from a fan. Sickening. This isn't because of social media. It doesn't matter what fan base it was from. Racism is woven into the founding of our nation. Not ok to happen to star athlete or any1
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Images of Greg Hardy's abuse are disturbing. Also disturbing?That ppl must see bruises, broken bones, video of actual punch to believe women
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Every March, I'm reminded how much more I like how East Coasters say "touuurnament" vs. Midwesterners' "tern-a-ment."
(I am bilingual and use both.)
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I've gotten a few emails from readers in the last week responding to an article on Lovie Smith's racially equitable hiring practices at Illinois. Some are actually defending the Tim Beckman era.
It must suck to be **that** racist.
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Aneesah Morrow wasn’t even a top 100 recruit. Now, the
@DePaulWBBHoops
forward leads the nation with 23 double-doubles and is destined to win national freshman of the year.
My story on the Chicagoan who stayed home to chase her dreams:
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The only thing better than covering March Madness games is hearing my 5-year-old son in his bedroom practicing buzzer-beater shots with his Nerf ball and hoop on the door. "5, 4, 3, 2 ... and it's in!" over and over. :)
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I believe the Bielema story was the 3,000th story I have pulled over in my car to write on my phone.
What do I win? ;)
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In an era of cynicism around college basketball, is there anyone better for the sport than Notre Dame coach Mike Brey? "The loosest coach in America" is about to surpass Irish legend Digger Phelps on the win list at Notre Dame.
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Loyola officially announces Moser left for Oklahoma. AD Steve Watson:"It is impossible to properly thank Porter for all he’s done for our basketball program and University. His vision and leadership brought Loyola to new heights and Ramblers everywhere will be eternally grateful"
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So 1 positive-tested player at NU leads to pausing workouts.
23 positive cases at Illinois, and workouts continue.
I think this is an example of why some players, parents and fans want uniform protocol and required procedures across the board.
BREAKING: Northwestern pauses workouts after player tests pos for COVID-19:
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A player who knows the way to his coach's heart.
Giorgi Bezhanishvili brought Underwood a bottle of wine from his native Georgia, which is known for its excellent vino.
"Giorgi knows I enjoy a glass of wine. He calls it grape juice,”
#Illini
coach Brad Underwood said.
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“I do it for my family and for my island.” Andre Curbelo’s family insisted he persist when he wanted to give up as a 13-yr-old, culturally isolated & more than 1,000 miles away from Puerto Rico. Now, is anyone having more fun than Curbelo & the
#Illini
?
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Mushy sports journalism post coming but ... there's something unique about being on a beat. I feel bad for anyone who never experiences it. Example: After Illinois' late game Tuesday, one young reporter on deadline took off his headphones to ask about my son's football game (1/3)
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Northwestern coach Fitzgerald on 7-game win streak momentum after 42-7 victory at Illinois: "The Chicago work ethic. Roll your sleeves up and go to work. That’s what they did and that’s why we’re Chicago’s Big Ten team."
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From NFL draft to covering Last Dance to MLB developments to golf to unique features, we haven't stopped working in the sports departments. Many of us are writing obits. I often feel like we're working harder than ever despite no games. Hoping Trib recognizes we provide a service
In negotiations today,
@tribpub
's leaders revealed that they want to furlough half of the Tribune’s features and sports departments, plus an unspecified number of photographers, for three straight months. This is disgraceful, unnecessary and dangerous to the company's future.
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#SisterJean
promises to behave if she receives the blessing she's seeking to attend March Madness to watch
#Loyola
.
The 101-yr-old team chaplain says, "I’m not going to run down on the court & I’m not going to cause any disturbance."
#LetSisterJeanMarch
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Fellow sports scribes, let me brag. I got through an entire half of a college basketball game with a can of soda on press row without it being confiscated.
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#Illini
Giorgi Bezhanishvili joins Zoom with a big smile and says "it's a great day to have a great day."
Followup: Can Giorgi be my life coach?
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I’m no expert but advice I’ve been giving young / aspiring sports reporters who ask:
You should love reporting & writing more than you love (or like) a sport you cover.
Otherwise, there are many sports jobs out there that allow you to cheer for a team.
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Hoiberg threw off that mask like he was at a QAnon rally.
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#Illini
LB Milo Eifler has spent an hour talking to reporters about his very valid concerns of playing football during a pandemic & about balancing his passion against health.
Topics Illinois should feel proud its athletes are thinking about and raising concerns about.
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Here's your "South Side of Chicago" story, rest of the country (and too many North Siders):
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Told my 5-year-old Chicago could break a record for most cold days in a row. In an unimpressed tone, he says, "Really? What about the ice age?"
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Interrupting football for a second:
#Loyola
's Cam Krutwig in elite territory in tonight's win vs. Indiana State. He's one of only 4 in MVC history to get 1,500 points, 800 rebounds & 300 assists.
The others?
Might've heard of 'em: Oscar Robertson, Larry Bird and Hersey Hawkins.
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Geez. What a bad move by Bradley. When you're trying to become Cinderella, don't act like the evil step-sisters.
There’s more going on in Peoria than state hoops. Bradley, instead of preparing for the NCAAs, is picking a fight with the media. Here’s the story:
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My son just told me a mom at school pickup told her son stop playing & get in the car.
She started The Mom Countdown: '3...' The boy didn't move. '2...' Still nothing.
'If u don't get in this car, we won't watch Caitlin Clark tonight!'
The boy ran to the car.
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Sister Jean is rooting for an all-Jesuit national championship: Loyola vs Gonzaga.
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A former walk-on with
@NUMensBball
,
@OmarJimenez
brings lessons of athleticism to his role as a
@CNN
correspondent. He’s shown poise covering wildfires, hurricanes, protests and even while arrested on-air.
My
@ChicagoSports
story:
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Hard to imagine Illinois not destined for something interesting come tournament play after this statement victory against Michigan. 76-53 on the road without Dosunmu.
Impressive.
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Someone just told me about a $300 wide receiver class for elementary school-aged kids taught by someone who played at Olivet or something.
I wouldn't pay Jerry Rice that much money to teach my 7-year-old how to catch a ball.
#KidsSportsAreARacket
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