To IL high schools: prevent football concussions
We join the editors of the <em>Chicago Sun-Times</em> in calling on IL schools to get tougher in the fight against traumatic brain injury in school sports.
Football
Help wanted: Football, Marching Band researchers
Voxitatis is looking to hire two research & writing positions, one for IL football, one for IL marching bands. Here's how to apply.
IHSA sued over brain trauma (concussions) from football
The IHSA is being sued over not exercising the proper care of athletes who had suffered concussions as they played football.
IL may abandon conferences for football in 2015
The IHSA is asking schools to approve sweeping changes in the way football teams are organized in the state for next year's season. Some pros and cons.
Football predictions for the IL championship games
On Thanksgiving weekend, IL football teams will return to Champaign's historic Memorial Stadium to play the state title games. Here's what we think.
Semifinal IL football predictions
Our predictions are in for the football semifinals. We are already sensing upsets because our mathematical model has a few shortcomings.
Football playoff prediction performance in quarterfinals
Last week, we predicted the outcome of the 32 quarterfinal football games in Illinois. We got 24 of them right.
IHSA playoffs cause a reset of our football predictions
A little bird told us we should recompute our football predictive statistics for the quarterfinals. Here are our predictions.
Comparison of IL football playoff performance vs 2013
Are this year's football playoffs in IL just about the same as last year's? A little statistical work can provide the answers.
North Greene football wins in stunning 2nd-round upset
We consider the failure of our math model to predict football games in the Illinois playoffs. Circumstances sometimes throw models out the window.