This is opening weekend for Big Ten Baseball albeit without the Illini. Those teams lucky enough to play in warmer climates have been doing fairly well at least for the first two days. In the 11 games played Friday and Saturday, the Big Ten is 7-4 led by two wallopings…
Hang up your down coat. Pack away your snow pants. You won’t need them this weekend. The Bradley series this coming weekend has been canceled due to the “forecasted below-average temperatures and current snow cover”. I doubt this series ever had a fleeting chance given our cold winter this year. …
formerlyanonymous who covers Michigan baseball for mgoblog.com, did a fair assessment of the 2010 Big Ten Baseball teams. While of course, I would like to see Illinois higher in his preview (he puts him in the second tier after Ohio State, Michigan and Minnesota), it’s pretty consistent with what I’ve…
Fightingillini.com came out with their Illinois Baseball Pitchers Preview for 2010 today. Nothing too earth-shattering about it nor should it have been. The outlook with the pitching staff was relatively predictable. Sophomores Will Strack and Bryan Roberts, who both looked real good last year and virtually unhittable at some points,…
Today, The Big Ten Network came out with a press release announcing their baseball and softball coverage for 2010. BTN’s baseball and softball coverage will be doubled from last year, they say. They will be producing at least 102 baseball and softball games for either the Big Ten Network telecast…
It’s Monday, February 15, five days before the scheduled opening day at Illinois Field. Right now in Urbana, it’s 23 degrees and there are light flurries falling on the already packed snow. I’m not holding my breath for a game on Saturday but I’d love to see Mother Nature prove…
Illinois Baseball Report now has a fan page on Facebook. If you like to use Facebook, consider becoming a fan. The page will link to all of my web updates and articles plus allow for another venue for discussion (I still encourage commenting here, though!) Here is the link to…
My first memory of Pete Cappetta was during a particularly one-sided loss against Penn State in 2008, his freshman year. Cappetta was our backup shortstop back then and wasn’t getting a lot of playing time yet. While Illinois lost that game 16-5, Cappetta’s three-run homerun in the seventh inning (seen…
Yippie! The Illinois Baseball Media Guide is out. I always enjoy perusing the guide each year. Each year’s guide which is issued by the Illinois Athletic Public Relations Office, is jam-packed full of info. This year’s guide is 148 pages. Not only does it give me a good overview of…
A couple days ago, I posted some photos from 2005 that I had not seen for a long while. As promised, here are some from 2006 I also ran across. Again, these photos are not the best quality but definitely valuable from an archive perspective. Enjoy. Shawn Roof at…