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The Illinois Fighting Illini are the athletic teams of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. The school colors are orange and blue and the teams compete in the Big Ten conference. The university has won two Division I National Championships since 1958 and more than 25 overall. Famous players include Red Grange, George Halas, Dick Butkus, Lou Boudreau, Dike Eddleman, Ray Nitschke and Johnny Kerr.
The Illinois Fighting Illini are the athletic teams of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. The school colors are orange and blue and the teams compete in the Big Ten conference. The university has won two Division I National Championships since 1958 and more than 25 overall. Famous players include Red Grange, George Halas, Dick Butkus, Lou Boudreau, Dike Eddleman, Ray Nitschke and Johnny Kerr.
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New UCLA basketball Coach Steve Alford's honeymoon was very short
UCLA and Steve Alford. A basketball program of unmatched pedigree led by a former prodigy who became a national champion and Olympic gold medalist before making a steady climb up the coaching ladder. On paper, a harmonic convergence. ----------------...
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UCLA falls to Minnesota in NCAA tournament opener
UCLA's basketball season is over. Is Ben Howland's tenure as Bruins coach? Minnesota knocked off UCLA, 83-63, Friday night in a second-round South Regional game at Austin, Texas. The Bruins (25-10) went out with a whimper, shooting poorly and...
Tags: Students, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Colorado Buffaloes, Tony Parker, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
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NCAA Tournament: Miami holds off Illinois, 63-59
AUSTIN, Texas -- Shane Larkin hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with a minute left and Miami gained possession on a ball knocked out of bounds that probably should have gone to Illinois, helping the Hurricanes hold on for a 63-59 victory Sunday night to advance to...
Tags: Sports, Miami Hurricanes, College Sports, Basketball, Atlantic Coast Conference
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Colorado players shouldn't expect a 'Big Howdy' Texas welcome
AUSTIN, Texas -- The NCAA selection committee did not put a regional favorite in the Austin games for the tournament’s second and third round this weekend. Only two of the eight teams playing at the Erwin Center are less than 1,000 miles away....
Tags: Texas Longhorns, Big 12 Conference, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Pacific-12 Conference, Colorado Buffaloes
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Stanford-Wisconsin not exactly a matchup made in Rose Bowl heaven
The Rose Bowl pregame weather has been about as crummy as the seven combined losses for Stanford and Wisconsin. It's never good to make Dick Butkus, who made the game-clinching interception for Illinois in the 1964 game, slog through drenching rain...
Tags: Rose Bowl Game, College Football, Greco Roman, Wisconsin Badgers, Stanford Cardinal
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Is Northern Illinois' bowl bid a strength or weakness of the BCS?
Northern Illinois will become the first team from the Mid-American Conference to play in a BCS bowl when it faces Florida State in the Orange Bowl next month. Writers from around the Tribune Co. discuss whether the Huskies getting a BCS bowl berth is a...
Tags: Orange Bowl, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Tribune Company, Penn State Nittany Lions, Florida State Seminoles
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Only major bowl question: Can Northern Illinois steal a BCS bid?
Aren't you going to miss the Bowl Championship Series? (Don't email answer that). The college football selection system for bowl games that has been ordered to the junk heap after next season might have a couple of surprises left in it. Nebraska's...
Tags: Wisconsin Badgers, College Football, Georgia Bulldogs, Orange Bowl, Southeastern Conference
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No surprise: Notre Dame vs. Alabama in BCS title game
The final Bowl Championship Series standings on Sunday produced a lot of expected news and one big surprise. Notre Dame and Alabama, in what everyone knew was just a formality, finished first and second in the final standings and will meet Jan. 7 in...
Tags: Minnesota Golden Gophers, Georgia Bulldogs, Go Daddy Group Inc., Orange Bowl, Central Michigan Chippewas
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As usual, SEC claims ownership of BCS
ATLANTA -- No one down here in Southeastern Conference country was surprised Sunday when the final Bowl Championship Series standings confirmed Alabama would be playing Jan. 7 for the national title. The surprise is why the SEC isn't playing the SEC...
Tags: Big 12 Conference, Fiesta Bowl, Georgia Bulldogs, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Orange Bowl
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Reports: Northern Illinois earns BCS berth to Orange Bowl
Well, sometimes the little guys do win. Northern Illinois has earned a Bowl Championship Series bowl bid, according to several media reports. The champions of the Mid-American Conference will play Florida State in the Orange Bowl. It will be the MAC's...
Tags: College Football, Wisconsin Badgers, Big 12 Conference, Georgia Bulldogs, Orange Bowl
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College football TV lineup for Saturday
MORNING Georgia Tech (6-5) at No. 3 Georgia (10-1) 9 a.m., ESPN Kids spilled into the streets of Athens, Ga., after Stanford's win over Oregon put Georgia on a controls-its-own-destiny track to this year's national title game. But the Bulldogs...
Tags: Maryland Terrapins, Fresno State Bulldogs, Indiana Hoosiers, Mississippi State Bulldogs, San Jose State Spartans
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Patterns have Notre Dame, USC attention
We combed the hills and scoured the wires for this batch of weekend tidbits: • Boston College has knocked undefeated Notre Dame out of the national title race in each of the last two decades: 1993 and 2002. Notre Dame (9-0) plays at Boston College...
Tags: Students, Robert Griffin III, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Big 12 Conference, Jerry Sandusky
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