Magnetic Curses

carlos boozer's true hollywood stories: http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nba/news/story?id=6270915

changed my mind, seems like it would be stupid to pass up amukamara. thier cbs would just be too great. texans take prince amukamara-cb, nebraska

i'm hearing a lot of buzz that this is done.

or kevin love

oh please let this happen

how crazy was that 2007 class? brandon jennings was far and away the top player in the 2008 class and he looks so ordinary and weak compared to rose.

It's even better when you go to your rivals home and win a championship ;) Didn't see the game, kept checking updates on my phone saw the Bucks were up 14 I think at one point in the 3rd? Told my buddy don't worry they will blow this. Sure enough they did. Good luck the rest of the way to Bulls fans. they didn't blow it.

The community mock sounds tremendously unfun.

he's more skilled offensively than blair was coming out of school. i'd say he's more like a shorter demarcus cousins.

Maybe the Morris twins were holding guns to his head. has to be voodoo

i'm starting to think we can win a title

is there any other st. louis?

if theres a tree thats worse than purdue, its dukes. and we already had an embarrassing flameout from that. no thank you. edit: i do not think purdue's coaching tree is bad at all. dukes, however, is [expletive]. oh johnny dawkins is about to prove everyone wrong.

although i would want illinois to at least show an interest in collins if weber fails again.

you could take your chances with chris collins if you want to go to that well again.

Is Arkansas really a better job? The SEC is hot garbage and has been for some time. It's not, but apparently a 10% raise and his past there was enough to convince him I guess. The situation sucks, but at least I don't have to worry about Jimmy Sexton's sleaze anymore, and Mike Alden has made very good hires for a decade running. Hopefully the new guy can get some momentum with a senior heavy team next year and then make some headway with his own guys. Keeping Phil Pressey and/or getting Otto Porter would be a nice bonus too. the more im reading, the more intriguing cuonzo martin sounds. hes young and has good connections, especially in st louis. and he comes from a good coaching tree. what have the keady-ites done in the tourney except for the one year that weber had deron williams and luther head? even keady himself never made it that far. you should stay as far away from that tree as possible.

arkansas isn't the step up from missouri that kansas was from illinois, though. for one, they don't have banshees or a secret island full of surrogates.

I don't buy Painter leaving his Alma mater for Mizzou. No offense Mizzou guys. Paul Lusk did just withdraw his name from the NIU job so maybe... but I don't buy it. I haven't seen anything on the Purdue Rivals boards either - where I'm sure panic would be ensuing. As an Illinois fan who hates you both, :D I would be shocked if there was any truth to that. Doesn't make much sense at all. mizzou would essentially be a lateral move, why would you leave your AM for a lateral move unless kroenke overspends?

crean is holding a press conference to announce that he has no interest in the job.

you just figured that out?

I don't want to make this about Illinois not being slighted by an outside force, but that wouldn't have been as much of an issue if McCamey and Tisdale didn't suck so badly. McCamey was terrible, and that plays were run for Tisdale over and over and over when he was so over matched inside and clearly couldn't hit anything about gave me an aneurysm. I'm not trying to be illiniguy here, but Bruce's loyalty to his seniors really hurt us last night. Cole and Davis were fine, but DMac and Tisdale just killed us. The problem is the only other one doing any scoring was DJ, and he took 13 shots. Only one who seemed to deserve more tick/opportunities was Head, and I think that's a really tough call to sit McCamey for him. McCamey was a more difficult situation to address, but there wasn't much of an excuse to keep feeding Tisdale in the post so he could continue to brick his little hook shots. It became painfully clear pretty early into the second half that he had no touch last night, and Tisdale with no touch is totally worthless. Something else should have at least been tried, but it wasn't, really. It's all conjecture and sophistry now, but I think we all take solace in the fact that we won't have to see them in uniform anymore. when leonard was in the game and he caught the ball in the post, he'd take a couple of dribbles, back one of the morris twins down, and they'd flop and he'd get the foul. on the other end, he'd get called because he didn't flop. i guess you have to know when to slide on the floor for no reason.

i'll also say that KU got a lot of calls in the second half because they are KU and we are UI. that didn't help, the refs had probably never even heard of the university of illinois before the game. they went with what they knew.

Richmond wi/ll stay. He sat with his teammates and cheered them on. Also, Mychael Henry.

No more soft skinny centers plz.