He did play a little with the Joliet Ravens youth football program as an eighth-grader. But Alexander didn’t really take the sport seriously until an encounter with Lincoln-Way East coach Rob Zvonar.

No. 18 Illini dropped another heartbreaker, losing at Nebraska in overtime. Brad Underwood and Illinois are now 14-7 and 6-5 in Big Ten -- which is 7th place. Poor threat point shooting, no Tomislav ...

The New York Giants are hiring Illinois coach Grant Morgan for a role on defensive coordinator Shane Bowen's staff.

Jon Calipari returns to Kentucky! It's time to continue our College Basketball odds series with an Arkansas-Kentucky ...