Well, not the actual front page of cbssports.com (it is a Wednesday in January, after all), but the front page of the college basketball section. Check out the clever headline:
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Urbana native Tommy Craggs took over as Editor-in-Chief of Deadspin on Monday. He talks about scuzz money and being on the side of the bomb-throwers.
Christensen named U of I interim police chief
From a U of I News Bureau release: CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Jeff Christensen, deputy chief of police and assistant director of public safety at the University of Illinois, temporarily will assume the department’s top leadership …
Ooh, a cool map showing migration to & from C-U
C-U Citizen Access has a blog post up with an interactive map detailing census data for households which moved into and out of Champaign County between 2009 and 2010. For instance, 91 people moved from …
Some things you may be interested in, dear reader
Item! Smile Politely will be resuming regular publication tomorrow, Monday, January 9. We plan to have three or four articles a day, five days a week, including Mondays. The whole several-posts-on-Monday thing may fall apart …
Gone (ice) fishin’
Dear loyal readers, As usually happens around this time of year, we’ll be taking a break from our regular calendar for three weeks, starting today. So, you can still submit items to the SPlog, and …
UI prof stabbed in alleged hate crime at Illinois Terminal
From the N-G: A Fithian man has been arrested for attempted murder and a hate crime for allegedly stabbing a man at the Illinois Terminal Wednesday morning. … A male witness told police the men …
Chomsky joins McChesney on WILL this Sunday
Noam Chomsky will be a guest of Bob McChesney on Media Matters Sunday at 1 p.m. From WILL: Noam Chomsky is a US political theorist and activist, and institute professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts …
A shocking look at local nursing homes
From C-U Citizen Access: Over the past few months, we’ve reviewed hundreds of federal and state inspection reports on the quality of nursing home care. The results are startling. Many nursing homes have repeated safety …
CPD denies FOIA request for pepper-sprayed jaywalker’s police report
An alert reader pointed out that Case #11CF000889 on the Champaign County Circuit Clerk’s website (click the link and then search by case number) is identical in its details to the June 5 incident captured …