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TJD is a very good college player but like Deon Thomas mentioned repeatedly on the IU-ILL game broadcast, he consistently goes to his left and almost always uses his left hand. Even in the game today against MSU, he had an easier dunk with his right hand that he switched to his left hand to...

Actually, the player's name was Chuck Hughes and that tragedy was made even more poignant when Dick Butkus-the most fearsome player in football- was the first player to get to him and then frantically waved to the doctors to get out and care to him. As I recall it was reported he died of a heart...

I was at that game--definitely 3 hours I'll never get back. And that's when Northwestern was REALLY bad!

I was at that game too. As I recall, this was the first game Illinois had faced Michigan since they had fired Gary Moeller, who had subsequently been rehired by Bo. As you said, we had a 21-14 lead and was going to score again until Eason was intercepted in the end zone. Bo then poured it on and...