With the win, the Illini are off to a 9-1 start this season — the program’s best 10-game start in a year in more than four decades since 1981-82.

A new book celebrates U.S. 41, an overlooked route that also celebrates its 100th birthday in 2026.

Overall, the Big Ten acquitted itself well in the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament – unless you happened to be a Big Ten team from the state of California (we’ll get to that in a minute.) Before I ...