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
Soon I forget about the potential rain and observe the mesmerizing rallies across all courts. Serves and forehands get sliced. Some balls barely clear the net but somehow do make it over — that never ceases to transfix me. The players grunt after hits, just like on TV. Different parts of the crowd erupt in cheers for players…
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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.