Bracketology
It's time for the annual March Madness ritual. It gives us a chance to ponder a few questions about college sports and, in particular, basketball.
Sports
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.
The girl in white on the volleyball court this year
New uniform rules in girls' volleyball require the libero to wear a different color uniform from the other players on her team. We explain.
IL state girls' volleyball champions 2014
We will update this story as championship games are played and/or news reports received. Illinois will name four state champs today in girls' volleyball.
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.