Conor Blount

Despite a snap of its five-game win streak over the weekend, Illinois volleyball (14-6, 6-4) still managed to end the weekend with a win. The team went 1-1 with a win over Iowa and a loss to No. 2 Nebraska.

After two weeks of recovery and training, Illinois men's tennis will send two members to South Bend, Indiana, to resume the fall slate. The Fighting Irish Mini Duals, hosted by Notre Dame, will feature several Big Ten and non-conference opponents, headlined by No. 3 Ohio State and No. 23 Michigan State. All

Illinois women's soccer head coach Janet Rayfield has retired following the end of her team's season. She was the winningest head soccer coach in Illini history.

Only a few more competitions remain for Illinois women's tennis, who head to Fort Worth, Texas this weekend for TCU's Jae Foundation Invitational. This is the final fall action for four Illini, as all three of Illinois' final stops are qualifying tournaments. Juniors McKenna Schaefbauer and Violeta Martinez are the only Illini not competing this weekend. Martinez is not scheduled to compete at any other events this fall, marking regionals as her final matches of the fall season.

Late in the 2023 season, the NCAA’s Division I committee approved a drastic plan for the annual individual tennis championships: The team and individual championships are no longer simultaneous. The team, singles and doubles championships used to all be in the spring, which posed several issues that the pilot plan hoped to amend. Student-athlete well-being...

Illinois fans are used to hearing the school's fight song around campus, but a lot went into the tune before it was blasted at every sporting event. Every school in the now 18-team Big Ten Conference has its own version of a fight song, but how did they all come to be?

It's time for part two of the Big Ten fight songs. Featuring some of the conference's oldest and newest members, the history behind all nine of these schools' traditional tunes is rich.

While Illinois hosted the ATP Paine Schwartz Partners Challenger last week, court time had to be rationed. With 32 singles players and 16 doubles teams in the main draw, players signed up for training time on four spare courts while the tournament played out on courts one and two. This presented the opportunity to hit...

It’s been almost nine years since Josh Whitman was hired as Illinois’ athletic director. He’s now the third longest-tenured athletic director in the Big Ten, and it’s easy to see why. Across the board, Illinois is thriving athletically. Nailing the hires of three head coaches has played a big part in that overall success. Men’s...

Despite grade school curriculums varying across the country, there are always commonalities. Everyone learns math, and everyone is taught English. There may be differences in how students learn to solve equations or in the books assigned to them, but the core principles remain. Meanwhile, one of the world's biggest professional industries plays a minor role.