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Randle eager for flight, new league in Israel
4:14 PM 8/28/2008 — Brian Randle stayed awake as long as he could Tuesday night.
The miles passed on his drive from Champaign to Peoria - roughly 90 of them - after a final round of "goodbyes," and " see you laters" went down around campus.
The former Illini was thinking about his 14-hour flight from O'Hare to Israel, with an expected layover in London's Heathrow Airport.
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Pruitt follows wave across Atlantic
12:40 AM 8/28/2008 — By Jeremy Werner
Staff Writer
Shaun Pruitt's senior season at Illinois didn't go exactly as planned. The former Illini led the team with 12.6 points and 7.3 rebounds per game, but his struggles at the free throw line continued. League coaches did not name him to an All-Big Ten team, and the center was even benched for a game after a verbal altercation with the coaching staff following the Illini's 74-67 loss at Purdue Jan.
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Barring kicking game, Zook still considers special teams a strength
12:44 AM 8/28/2008 — Even if they didn't have all the time they wanted to prepare, Illinois football and Ron Zook now have less than two days until their first - and possibly most important - game of the season.
The Illini will have a similar team to the one that traveled to St.
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Conditioning now, success later for Illini women's tennis
10:58 PM 8/27/2008 — The Illini women's tennis players have begun their preparations for the 2008 season without even stepping foot on the court as a team. Illinois has remained off the court because practices cannot officially begin until Sept. 8 due to NCAA rules.
"We have had seven and eight a.
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Maclin, Daniel form dynamic duo for Missouri
10:48 PM 8/27/2008 — COLUMBIA, Mo. - This time last year, Jeremy Maclin was a backup wide receiver at Missouri. Highly touted, definitely, but still a redshirt freshman coming off major knee surgery.
That was about the last time the Tigers' do-it-all threat wasn't a major headache for defensive coordinators.
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No excuse for Bears' preseason struggles
10:12 PM 8/27/2008 — LAKE FOREST, Ill. - Leave it to Mike Brown to deliver one of the bigger hits from the Chicago Bears recently.
While the slate gets wiped clean following Thursday's preseason finale at Cleveland, Brown made no effort to hide his concern after watching the defense fall flat against San Francisco in a 37-30 loss last week.
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