That noise you heard coming from the State Farm Center locker room in Champaign after Tuesday's game was less a barbaric yawp and more a sigh of relief after Illinois (7-2, 1-1 Big Ten) slipped away ...
Then my brother Keith and I started riding out for Pat Martin. Granda would have harrowed the gallops at Fairyhouse and we would have gone down on Saturdays with him and looked at the likes of Paul ...