John Holecek fulfilled a lifelong dream when he committed to play football at the University of Illinois in 1991.
Holecek was a three-sport athlete at Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights,...
Editor's note: Each week, The Daily Illini staffers will offer up their take on the teams that should make it into the College Football Playoff. Peter Bailey-Wells, sports editor1. Ohio State (9-0)The...
On a nippy Chicago fall afternoon, the ferocious defense of the Northwestern Wildcats forced the Minnesota Golden Gophers into the meat grinder that Ryan Field has become.The 27-0 win over the Gophers...
Former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter was on the verge of leading a college sports revolution and becoming an icon of the labor movement in one swoop.Instead, he has become a modern Sisyphus-like...
