Category: Sports
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The Scholar Boxer
The desire to lose weight and racial battle fatigue inspired Dr. J. Luke Wood to take up boxing. Now he’s aiming to move up in the sport.
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Baseball Players with Disabilities Light Up AMBUCS Park
I’d say this is the most heartwarming story I’ve ever written. I remember a sunny Saturday morning and meeting in the stands the “Voice of the Illini,” Brian Barnhart, who couldn’t have been nicer and more genuine. But most of all I remember the joy on the faces of the kids on the ball field,…
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Strike! The Invention of a New Soccer Drill?
Our thirty minutes or so in the backyard reminded me of the joys of being around small children and being young in general. How many similar games had my neighborhood friends and I made up on the spot while playing outside as carefree kids?
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NCAA Women’s Tennis Matchups Entertain on a Rainy Saturday Evening
This piece was originally published by Smile Politely on May 23, 2022. Fifteen dollars and two cents gets me a half tank of gas. I head to the Atkins Tennis Center in Urbana, Illinois, to watch the women from the top-seeded University of North Carolina take on the number four seed University of Texas at…
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Lose Chief Illiniwek and You May Lose History
While I believe sports teams such as the Washington Redskins and Atlanta Braves do have racial overtones to their names, I do not think the same holds true with Chief Illiniwek. It took a long-ago memory and concern about people forgetting the roots of this state for me to recognize the Chief Illiniwek’s value.
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