I traveled to Seattle for my brother’s wedding this past weekend. While I was a little bummed that I would miss Critical Mass in Champaign-Urbana, it never occurred to me to attend the Seattle equivalent. …
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Bike Tour Has Its Ups and Downs
My friend Tony and I went for a bike tour of the lovely state of Indiana a couple of weeks ago, and it was a truly humbling experience. We rode 500 miles in four days; …
Delmon Young Tries to Live Up to Hype
When the Minnesota Twins traded Matt Garza and Jason Bartlett, two of their best young players whose last names didn’t begin with “M,” to the Tampa Bay Rays for Delmon Young this past offseason, it …
ChampaignCountyBikes.org Releases Bike Map
As promised, a new bike transportation map of Champaign-Urbana has been released. For the time being, the map is available as a free pdf on ChampaignCountyBikes.org, but tens of thousands of copies will soon be …
Neil Street Starbucks Among 600 U.S. Locations to be Closed
Starbucks released the full list of locations to be closed yesterday, and Store #10365, located at 2000 N. Neil St. at the Market Place Mall in Champaign, is on the list. The shift manager on …
A Soggy Bottom Centrally Located
For the last seven-plus years, Bill Simmons has been writing for ESPN.com on many sporting topics. Since the Sports Guy is taking a full-summer leave of absence, many of you may be going through a …
Bike Riders Come Bearing Cookies
Have you ever had the desire to grab multiple boxes of fragile cookies, strap them to your bike, and make a mad dash across campus to deliver them to a starving, drunken horde? If so, …
Casilla and Gomez Energize Twins
Before two gut-wrenching losses to the Boston Red Sox the past couple of evenings (thanks, bullpen!), the Minnesota Twins were the hottest team in baseball, having won 18 of their last 21 games dating back …
My Predictions = Toilet Paper: AL Central Mid-Season Report
We’ve reached the midpoint of the baseball season, and it’s time for mid-season awards and a State of the AL Central Report. It’s also a good time to revisit my predictions from the beginning of …
Shooter Jennings Set to Rock Canopy Club Tonight
Country-rocker Shooter Jennings will appear with his band, the 357’s, tonight at the Canopy Club in Urbana. It’s a 9:00 p.m. show, and American Bang and local up-and-comers Number One Sons are slated to open. …