Hi Illinois baseball fans, In the spirit of the new year and new season, I thought I would write up a quick article about “What is the Illinois Baseball Report?” Many of you see my posts and photos and might wonder, “who is the guy behind the Illinois Baseball Report?” …
Happy New Year! With 2018 already in its second week, here comes a new look for the Illinois Baseball Report! With a little over a month before the Illinois baseball season starts on February 16, it was time to update the overall look of IBR’s website. Go ahead and…
It’s the fall semester now at the University of Illinois. As is the tradition with the Illinois Baseball Report this time of year, I’ve replaced the banner photo with up to date photos (and players!). I do put some thought into who goes up top but it’s certainly not a…
In his effort to cover the Big Ten Baseball scene, Chris Webb asked me if I could answer some questions for his blog, B1G Baseball. No one needs to ask me twice to talk about Illini Baseball so I told him I was happy to do so. You can check…
With much hesitation, I changed the banner of IBR. I really liked the photo that was up there before (shown above). It wasn’t the sharpest image but boy, there was a lot of action and the expression on every guy’s face face is unique and priceless. And what’s with Corey…
Happy New Year everybody! It’s nice to go into 2012 knowing that our team is the reigning Big Ten co-champions AND the Big Ten Tournament Champions. That’s gotta carry some weight and I’m sure help in terms of confidence. With our new, improved schedule (i.e. tougher) for 2012, we’ll be…
If you haven’t noticed, there’s a new banner at the top of the IBR web page. This was one of my favorite photos from last season. Nothing captures emotion better than a key homerun during the last series of the season. We can thank Casey McMurray for all of this. …
What’s there to do for an Illini baseball blogger when there’s no baseball?? Update the banner, of course. I’ve updated the banner annually to reflect the changes in the personnel of team for the past few years now. Now that fall practice is over, it was time to do so. …
This weekend, Illinois takes on Michigan. Michigan Wolverines April 16, 2010 6:05 pm ct April 17, 2010 3:05 pm ct April 18, 2010 1:05 pm ct Illinois Field Champaign, IL Program website link Record 18-11 (Big Ten 4-2) Head Coach: Rich Maloney Key player: Ryan LaMarre If you missed…
Larry Fall blogs about sports at Penn State University and his blog, Happy Valley Hardball covers the baseball team at PSU. Happy Valley takes a unique look at the team as it is very stats-oriented and Larry even occasionally expands his coverage to the conference in general. In light of…