Recent content by oldman

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    Illini Women's Basketball

    How quickly our perspective has changed. Three years ago we would have been over the moon with our transfers and freshman recruits.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    I understand a person on a student visa cannot do NIL work. What prevents them from getting a work visa, other than the “intricacies” of the US immigration bureaucracy?
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    TSJ Thread

    I assume the Kansas rules of evidence require the court to weigh the prejudicial effect versus the probative value of the DNA evidence. Even assuming the Kansas testing processes, which apparently deviate from the manufacturer's, have been sufficiently evaluated to withstand the Dauber...
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    Coaching Carousel (Basketball)

    This was the lineup in the late 1950s. One of my favorite memories as a 10 year old was getting home from school and watching the final innings of Don Cardwell’s no-hitter in his first start for the Cubs. It doesn’t seem right watching the Cubs on a channel other than WGN and singing the Holy...
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    Illini Women's Basketball

    Do we have any idea which potential transfers are visiting?
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    Illini Women's Basketball 2023-2024

    62-45 end of 3.
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    Illinois Football Recruiting Thread

    Have yet to see a media report which concludes any coaches have had to reduce their compensation because NIL has shrunk the pool of available cash.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    This time last year how many of us knew anything about Domask, Gurrier and Harmon?
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    Chicago Bears 2024

    I am sorry to say, after decades of being a Bears fan, I fear Fields will play in a Super Bowl before Williams or anyone else the Bears may draft to play quarterback.
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    Chicago Bears 2024

    There is a large tract of largely empty/underdeveloped land immediately to the west of Lake Shore Drive and immediately to the south of I55, easily connected to McCormick Place either underground or by building over I55. I have heard no discussion regarding this piece of real estate. Is this...
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    Chicago Bears 2024

    In true Bears fashion, Fields leads Atlanta to the Super Bowl while Williams pulls a Trubisky.
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    Chicago Bears 2024

    South of I55 to 31st St, between Martin Luther King Drive and the railroad tracks. Immediately across I55 is McCormick Place, which is immediately north of I55. Would make an incredible convention complex.
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Michigan

    As the teams broke for the time out Howard was talking to one of the refs with a smile on his face. Could you imagine Brad talking to an official with a smile on his face while 26 points down?
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    For those talking about a salary cap as a solution for NIL excesses, you do realize the NBA salary cap only applies to the contract between the team and the player. The player is free to go out and make whatever additional money he can through endorsements, appearances and the use of his name...
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    Chicago Bears 2023-2024

    If the Bears draft a quarterback and get rid of Fields without fixing the offensive line they better draft someone who can run better than Fields.