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How will Randle be remembered?
12:49 AM 3/7/2008 — Slowly, Brian Randle's head and neck started to slink forward as his sentences came to an end. The words just stopped coming all of a sudden, it was as simple as that, and even though he had already talked about almost everything he could - the injuries, his dad, leaving everything behind - it sounded as if there could have been so much more to say.
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Women's basketball advances to Big Ten Tournament finals
1:49 PM 3/9/2008 — INDIANAPOLIS - Never before has a seed lower than fifth made the finals of the women's Big Ten Tournament. But Saturday, Illinois, a No. 9 seed, advanced to the finals for the program's first time since 1999, beating Michigan State 55-41.
After upsetting eighth-seeded Wisconsin on Thursday and top seed Ohio State on Friday, the Illini stand just one game away from winning their first ever Big Ten Championship.
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Basketball sends seniors off with win
1:30 AM 3/9/2008 — Brian Randle and Shaun Pruitt made only one field goal apiece in their last game at Assembly Hall in the Illini's 67-58 win over Minnesota on Saturday afternoon. Chris Hicks, also in his last home game, drained a three pointer in the final seconds to end his home career in style.
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RECRUITING: JUCO forward Keller to commit to Illinois
10:53 AM 3/7/2008 — RECRUITING - Junior college prospect Dominique Keller told The Daily Illini Thursday night that he would give Bruce Weber a commitment following the Illini's 59-51 loss to Michigan State.
The 6-foot-8, 225-pound forward could fill the scholarship of departing sophomore center Brian Carlwell.
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Weather forces trip cancellation of Texas Tech series
3:38 PM 3/7/2008 — According to a press release from Ben Taylor, assistant sports information director, the University of Illinois baseball team was forced to cancel its trip to Texas Tech because of weather conditions in Dallas that prevented the squad from making the trip to Lubbock.
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Seniors saying goodbye to Huff
12:47 AM 3/7/2008 — And with a blink of an eye, they are seniors, at their last home meet.
The 2004 recruiting class of Michael Boyer, Ross Bradley, Jon Drollinger, Wes Haagensen, Chris Silcox and Tyler Yamauchi will participate in a meet it can hardly believe is now here.
The seniors were intense as ever with their preparation for Michigan, in hopes of avenging their loss to the Wolverines from earlier in the year, and because it has become more than habit for them in their four years time.
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Perfection on ice; Illini celebrate year
12:44 AM 3/7/2008 — Anything short of a national title may well have been a crushing disappointment. Even so, the reaction to the Illinois hockey club's 4-2 win over Lindenwood in the American Collegiate Hockey Association national championship game was anything but quiet satisfaction.
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Women's basketball defeats Wisconsin
1:02 AM 3/7/2008 — INDIANAPOLIS - At tip-off, the votes were already cast for the Big Ten player awards and the correlations for seeding in the Big Ten Tournament were already made. Wisconsin's senior guard Jolene Anderson was the media selection for Big Ten Player of the Year and the Illini sat in the ninth seed at the Big Ten Tournament.
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Tennis riding high off wins
12:59 AM 3/7/2008 — Sitting at 7-4, the Illinois men's tennis team's outlook on the year could be worse. Instead, the Illini are riding high after topping No. 66 Michigan State on Friday before dismantling No. 15 Notre Dame, 6-1, on Saturday.
So how does the team keep the momentum going after its most successful weekend of the season?
"We've got to play aggressive tennis," head coach Brad Dancer said of this weekend's match against Purdue.
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Wrestlers bring high seeds into Saturday matches
11:41 PM 3/6/2008 — Mike Poeta and Jimmy Kennedy will lead the tenth-ranked Fighting Illini wrestling team into the Big Ten Championships this Saturday and Sunday at Williams Arena in Minneapolis. All ten Illinois starters received pre-rankings for the tournament, but Poeta (157 pounds) and Kennedy (133) earned No.
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Tennis on its toes for Big Ten schedule
11:01 PM 3/6/2008 — The well-rested Illini are fired up to start Big Ten conference play Saturday as they head to West Lafayette, Ind., to take on the Boilermakers.
The Illini have had two weeks off to relax and heal in hopes of bouncing back from their loss against Washington on Feb.
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Softball ready for stiff competition at Aggie Classic
11:38 PM 3/6/2008 — The Illini are well aware that "everything's bigger in Texas" - proof lies on the field of the Aggie Classic.
This weekend, Illinois (12-8) will travel to College Station, Texas to do battle in one of their most loaded tournaments yet. The stacked deck includes matchups against No.
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Track sends representatives to indoor championships
12:36 AM 3/7/2008 — With the NCAA Track and Field Indoor Championships looming, this weekend's meet will be the last chance for Illini athletes to earn a spot for nationals.
The women head to Iowa State in hopes of qualifying, while the men travel to Notre Dame.
The women are only sending senior LaNeisha Waller in the 60-meter hurdles and the distance medley relay team of Angela Bizzarri, Rachel Hernandez, Danelle Woods and Omoye Ugiagbe to Ames, Iowa.
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Spartans will bring fight to March Madness
12:54 AM 3/7/2008 — Wisconsin, Indiana and Purdue are battling down to the wire for the regular season Big Ten crown, but a troop of Spartans may be the fiercest conference team as the postseason looms. Michigan State began the year as a top-10 team and took a 19-2 record through January.
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Cubs staff needs to speak our language
12:55 AM 3/7/2008 — There is a significant distinction between normal English and sports English. Both use the same grammar and vocabulary, but the actual meaning behind the words tends to get lost in translation. For example, when an athlete says he's happy to be in a new town that he just signed with, he really means he's happy someone is paying him a ton of money to play there.
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