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In extra time, add an additional ball every five minutes.😜 Chris "Mad Dog" Russo once suggested a second ball as a way to make soccer more exciting for the American audience.

If the U.S. wins today, Friday's game against Spain or Portugal becomes an unprecedented national holiday-type atmosphere in the U.S. Weird starting time (12 PDT, 2 CDT) to accomodate European viewers, but still possibly the most-watched soccer game in American history. Also likely the end of...

Decades ago, I got my hair cut at an old school barbershop on 72nd Street in Manhattan's Upper West Side. No frills, a few older guys with the blue sanitary shirts. One day, I'm heading there, and across the street there's a sign saying that one of the barbers, Rubin, has opened up his own...

Original Air Bud for Mirkovic or Air Bud: Golden Receiver because it's in a football stadium? FOIA request coming.

This BBC documentary on Woody Hayes, presumably filmed in 1977 ("Star Wars" is playing at the movies), offers a lot of insight on him from the perspective of people who have no prior knowledge of college football. I think the wryness shows through. It leads up to OSU's opener (against a...

Former Illini Gene Cross gets a ring as the Knicks' Director of Scouting and Administration.

NBA championships are almost always won by climbing a ladder rather than riding a rocket. In the three previous years, the Knicks played 42 playoff games. Zero for the Spurs. The difference in experience kept showing up down the stretch. I became a believer that the Knicks had what it took when...

Yes, Towns got just enough of the ball with his finger to alter the inbounds pass and blow up a play that seemed headed for an uncontested game-winning layup. Hart slipped a bit on the screen action and Castle was all alone. One for the guard-the-inbounder side last night. On the previous play...

Yes, we're playing with Charleston and Harvard.

Charleston is really cooking right now. They've moved to fifth place at -11, five strokes ahead of us and BYU.

Fifth. Big run of birdies and we are now tied for fifth with BYU.

First Illini golfer hits the turn and after making up some ground, a Vools double-bogey 7 on 7 returns us to -1.

Not sure if the regionals or the first three days of the championships are now streamable. Traditionally, Golf Channel coverage starts on the Monday (Day 4) of the championships. This is the day where the individual winner is crowned and the team field is cut from 15 to eight (After Sunday's...

Might be hard to find, but there's a cute video of when she was an assistant at Ohio State and Whitman went into the batting cages to tell her she would be inducted into the Illini Hall of Fame.

Not over yet. Four strokes back. Players on holes 13-17.