basketball

When you're on Twitter the last people you want to start a "flame war" with are those who are quick witted. You can add Aaron Rodgers to the list.

What’s the old line about never letting them see you sweat?

The 2016 NCAA men’s basketball tournament field of 68 was announced Sunday evening. While college students around the country rejoiced and planned epic road trips to see their teams in action, you may have been gripped by anxiety: your 2016 NCAA Tournament bracket for your office pool is due soon.

Injuries in sports happen all the time, but never like this.

Kris Dunn gets a lot of credit for the plays he makes, but he's getting cash for the one he didn't. Okay, okay -- it's not what you think. He didn't throw a game or anything like that, so get those thoughts out of your head right now.

All-star games are supposed to bring together the best of the best -- the key word being "supposed."

The "sixth man" gave birth to a seventh man.

A rough off-season for the Fighting Illini and coach John Groce just got worse. A few weeks after finding out starting point guard Tracy Abrams would miss his second-straight season, the new arrives that forward Darius Paul has been suspended following his arrest during a team trip to France...

Are you familiar with "The Magnus Effect?" Yeah...me either. Well, at least I wasn't until my wife passed this video along to me. In a nutshell, The Magnus Effect is (according to Wikipedia): ...the commonly observed effect in which a spinning ball (or cylinder) curves away from its principal flight path...

Due to renovations at State Farm Center in Champaign, the Fighting Illini basketball team was in need of a venue to host five games during the early part of the 2015/16 season. New documents obtained by the Champaign News-Gazette as part of a Freedom of Information Act request detail the offers received by the University of Illinois from various locales...