With the hiring of a big-name football coach (good)), the arrests of two more basketball players (bad) and a lot of buzz about the fate of the school’s embattled basketball coach (ugly), it’s been a busy few weeks for the University of Illinois. And it’s been a busy few weeks for me talking about the […]
Monthly Archives: March 2016
New AD dazzles in dizzying week for Illini Nation
From the Saturday, March 12, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky New AD dazzles in dizzying week for Illini Lovie Smith is the head football coach of not a pro team, but the University of Illinois. The thrifty school has ponied up […]
Diary of an Illini Fan
It’s been a great week to be an Illinois fan, but it’s taken a wild year to get there What a year it’s been. Last March, after another frustrating Illini basketball season ended not with an NCAA bang, but an NIT whimper, I wrote a column for CBS Chicago in which I dumped at the feet of […]
Dressing Downton: The Crawleys come to Chicago
From the Saturday, March 5, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky If you’re a Chicagoland fan of Downton Abbey and want to visit the fictional Yorkshire estate of your Edwardian dreams, you’ll need to hop a 7½-hour flight to London Heathrow, followed […]