1979 — Men's outdoor track and field at Memorial Stadium

Fans saw Renaldo Nehemiah, who still holds collegiate record, win 110 hurdles

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It's Philly or bust for an Illinois professor who's mad about wrestling.

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Assembly Hall naming rights to BP

Softball A T-Second — 45-win team set program mark for winning percentage

CHAMPAIGN — Michael Peck, a former assistant coach at Penn State and Florida, has joined Jolette Law’s Illini women’s basketball staff in a similar capacity.
Peck most recently worked as an account executive for AchieveGlobal in Dallas. Since 2007, he also has been a proprietor of The Wine Loft bar/restaurant in Dallas.

CHAMPAIGN – Jenna Smith was named the Illinois women's basketball team MVP for the third year in a row Sunday at the team's annual season-ending banquet.

Smith, who also won the team's free throw award, joins Ashley Berggren as the only Illini to earn the MVP award three times.

We woke up to about 2 inches of snow on Saturday morning. It was 65 degrees on Thursday and this morning was absolutely freezing. I am pretty sure spring is right around the corner, but after a morning like today, I am not so sure.

Saturday morning's session of wrestling consisted of the place matches. All wrestlers still in action have achieved All-American status.

OMAHA, Neb. – Illinois wrestlers John Dergo and Jordan Blanton each rebounded from consolation semifinal defeats to finish in fifth place Saturday at the NCAA Championships.

Dergo (184 pounds) lost to fourth-seeded Mike Cannon of American 7-5 before bouncing back to beat fifth-seeded Clayton Foster of Oklahoma State 10-4.