Category Archives: General

Saturday’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) When it comes to University of Illinois football, I’ve had a mantra ever since I walked off campus with my diploma in hand way back in May of 1998. And that’s been my vow that I wouldn’t be fully back on board with the Illini program until it […]

This weekend’s Wisch List newspaper column from The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky The Chicago Bears are mess. Or, they simply had a bad week. The sky is falling at Halas Hall. Or, the media just needed some controversy to fill 10 days of […]

Spent a few minutes yesterday evening on 93.5/95.3 ESPN-CU Radio in Champaign catching up with my buddies Lon Tay and Jeremy Werner on the “Tay & Jay Show.” We talked Illini basketball recruiting (I like Kendrick Nunn and the direction John Groce has his program pointing and Illini football (I’m sweating the team’s Saturday night […]

Thursday’s column from CBS Chicago … Ponder this about the championship success – or, you know, total lack thereof – experienced by the Chicago Cubs: The last year in which they won a World Series, the Ottoman Empire still existed. Yeah, really. It was via Twitter that I learned that sobering fact today, and it […]

From the New Yorker … for some reason.

Tuesday’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) From Kansas’ Naismith tradition to North Carolina’s Jordanesque pedigree to Duke’s Coach K-fueled dominance, every “basketball” school in the country has something special to sell. But none of them offer the same opportunity that Illinois does. Especially to in-state recruits. “They put forward something that was pretty much […]

My Sept. 15 Wisch List column from The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky Chicago politics are dirty. Chicago homicide stats are ugly. And Chicago teacher strikes are messy. But Chicago itself? It’s clean. Or, at least, it long has been. Far more so than […]

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Its Leaders are lagging. And its Legends? Well, they look like anything but. But, hey, the Big Ten still has a full slate of football games to play Saturday. So, aren’t you just teeming with excitement? If not, and instead you’re thinking, gee, I sure seem down in […]

My Sept. 13 column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) It passed on the Big Ten’s TV millions. It passed on aligning itself with the familiarity of many of its most traditional rivals. And it passed on the region where its campus is based – although some Fighting Irish fans might tell you that, you know, […]

My Sept. 11 column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) When it comes to Illinois football, I’m not hitting the panic button just yet – even though the Illini themselves apparently were this past Saturday night. “Guys were panicking, everybody yelling, trying to get the (play) call,” Illinois junior defensive tackle Akeem Spence told the Associated […]