• Tate's Take
  (Updated 06/30/2008)

• Bob's Blast
  (Updated 06/16/2008)

UI grad George hopes to medal in six events at Paralympics

Miscellaneous

CHAMPAIGN – When Joshua George was a little boy, the nurses at the Virginia hospital where he would spend months at a time would often get mad at him.

"They didn't like that I would try to push my chair as fast as I could around the hallway," George said. "The wing I was in, there was a looped hallway and the rooms were on the loop and their offices were in the center and the hallway looped all the way around.

UI wheelchair track program will be well represented in Beijing

Miscellaneous

CHAMPAIGN – When most Illinois fans think about the Olympic Games in Beijing, basketball player Deron Williams and gymnast Justin Spring are names that immediately pop into their heads.

But there is another group of Illinois athletes poised to make a splash in the Far East later this summer.

C-U in Beijing

Miscellaneous

Still haven't come down with a case of Olympic fever? Now you can have a rooting interest as contributor Brandon Barak takes a look at Champaign-Urbana's connections to the Aug. 8-24 Games in China:

Ask Tony

Football

Ann Landers and Abby have nothing on our sports know-it-all, Tony Bleill: