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Chapter 1: The Red Paladin

Mason starts another typical day at 4:48 am with his usual breakfast: blue powerade sipped from a metal straw. The dining halls aren’t open yet, but he bought a large pack of the clear blue beverage from Costco so he can enjoy breakfast in bed. 

"Big day today.” he realizes as he scrolls through the 76 alarms on his 6 lb android. Today, Mason gets to meet The UConn Marching Band. He’s excited. He proceeds to get dressed in his favorite outfit: a black zip-up that says “Marching Titans: 2016 Class IVA State Champions” in yellow text, and navy UConn sweatpants he bought from the Bookstore. He puts his hair into a messy bun and looks into the mirror. “Perfect,” he thinks, with the thoughts in his head, and leaves Eddy Hall to meet his new family.

He arrives at the field for his first band practice. There is a gathering of about 50 people there already, but he knows there will be hundreds more in just 30 minutes. He looks around and wonders who to introduce himself to first. Someone walks up beside him, but he doesn’t see her because she’s not in his line of sight, which is weird because they are both 5 feet tall. “Hi, do you live in Eddy Hall?” Mason is startled, and looks to his right to see a blonde girl holding a medium iced coffee from Dunkin. “Yeah,” he responds, “Do you live there too?” “Yeah! Actually I think we’re neighbors. Mason, right? I’m Ashley.” “Nice to meet you!” Before they can talk more, Mrs. Band calls everyone’s attention to the front of the field. Mason looks up to the front, but something else catches his eye. Someone is looking at him from across the field, like that scene in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. A red-haired short king with piercing blue spheres. They lock eyes. Who is that? Mason wonders. The sound of a trumpet rings through the brisk morning air. Band is starting. The red-haired boy gives Mason a smirk, then refocuses his attention on marching. Mason does the same, still thinking about the encounter for the rest of practice.

After hours of marching drills, Mason checks in with his newfound neighbor. “Do you know who that is?” He asks, pointing at the mystery man from earlier. “Oh, that’s Mike Tarny. He plays mellophone. Seems pretty chill.” She responds. Mike Tarny. The name resounds in Mason’s mind. Should I go talk to him? He glances at his phone, reminding him of what he listened to on the walk to the field: A playlist titled “Get Over It”. Fuck it. 

Mason walks carefully to avoid getting dew on his shoes. “Hi, I’m Mason.”

“That’s hot,” Mike Tarny responds. “I’m Mike Tarny. I like your jacket. 2016 Class IVA State Champions. That’s impressive.”

Mason is taken aback by his forwardness. His mind does the “:0″ face. Is Mike Tarny flirting with him? 

“Thanks. We’re pretty good at walking and carry heavy things.”

“Yeah! A lot of people would be scared here. A lot of people would be scared. They don’t know how hard it is to walk and carry heavy objects!!”

“Right?” Mason feels more comfortable now. “Hey, I saw you were staring at me earlier. Why?” He lets out a small chuckle.

“Oh, I was just looking into your beautiful eyes.” Mike Tarny then tells an offensive joke about disabled people. They both burst out laughing. But Mason knows he was just deflecting the first comment, because he can read minds.

“Well, I was doing the same,” Mason responds. Mike Tarny’s pale skin turns medium violet red. Suddenly, Mason’s 1:22 alarm rings. “Oh, I need to leave.”

“Hate to see you go, love to watch you leave,” Mike Tarny winks with both eyes. Now Mason’s Pallor-Caucasian skin turns flamingo pink. He deflects with an offensive joke about the Pope. “See ya.”

Mason arrives at McMahon dining hall to have lunch with his friend Ryan. “Ryan, I’ve been telling you since middle school, it’s weird to eat plain rye bread with milk for lunch.” 

“Oh haha,” Ryan responds. He continues to eat his untoasted bread. Mason rolls his wheels. I can’t believe I ever had a crush on him. “I’m going to get lunch.” 

Mason returns with three cups of blue liquid on a tray. He takes his metal straw out of his backpack and drinks the refreshing beverage, grunting and moaning like children drinking water after they play outside. Suddenly, he spots a shade of blood orange in the corner of his eye.

“Heyyy it’s Mason!” Mike Tarny stops in front of their table holding an ice cream cone. “Oh hey! Ryan, this is Mike Tarny. He’s in band.” 

Ryan looks at Mike Tarny. “Hi.”

Mike Tarny smiles at both of them, but mostly Mason. “Do you think I can fit this whole cone in my mouth?”

“I don’t know,” Mason replies flirtatiously. “I don’t think you can handle it.” Mike Tarny accepts the challenge and sticks the entire cone in his mouth. He swallows it whole. Mason notes that he doesn’t seem to have gag reflexes. “Impressive.”

“So, um, Mike Tarny,” Ryan interrupts their moment. “What instrument do you play?”

“Mellophone.”

“Oh, I played that in high school.”

“Oh really? I guess Mason only talks to guys who play mellophone. We know what you’re doing, Mason,” Mike Tarny touches Mason’s shoulder and holds it there. “You’re trying to start an all-mellophone orchestra.” 

Mason and Mike laugh at the clever band joke. They then share an offensive joke about Helen Keller. “All right, I’ll let y’all eat. I gotta go clean my reed, if you know what I mean.” Mike Tarny exits the dining hall after bumping into 3 people, because no one knows how to walk in McMahon.

“Wow. UConn band kids are kind of weird,” Ryan says, apathetic. Mason senses that Ryan is apathetic. “He’s a cool guy, I love the band so far.”

“Love?” Ryan says, raising an eyebrow.

“Yeah. The band.” Mason responds, confused, trying to read his mind, but failing somehow.

“Okay.” Ryan leaves it at that. They continue the rest of their lunch, talking about adjusting to college and their upcoming classes. Mason tried to talk about the band more, but Ryan would deflect with an offensive joke about Asian people. Mason decides not to over-analyze the situation. He’d much rather think about the connections he made today. Two new friends. Or one friend and one...something more? Mason doesn’t want to get his hopes up. Besides, Mason reflects, while looking into Ryan’s treebark-brown eyes, that hasn’t worked out well in the past.

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MY MARCH MADNESS BRACKETS FOR THE 2021 NCAA DIVISION 1 BASKETBALL TOURNAMENTS BY THE BRUTE FORCE BRAD WEISS

In 2020, we lost out on a chance to watch this great tournament, but this year there will be a tournament and I have my brackets ready to go! Many upsets and a surprise winner are featured on the Men’s bracket and the dominance continues on the Women’s bracket in my bracket predictions!

Don’t forget to hear me speak on The Sports Report only on Sportanarium, the #1 Global Sports Radio Station, via Sportanarium.com this Sunday at 6:00pm ET where I will talk all about my March Madness bracket predictions!

Men’s Bracket:

Questions I know I’m going to be asked:

Texas Tech winning it all are you serious? Yes, I’m serious. With some upsets including Oklahoma State over Illinois and Michigan over Gonzaga, the team that was in the national championship 2 years ago isn’t one to sleep on. I am not the guy to pick like everyone else whose got Gonzaga and Illinois, so as I broke it down I liked Texas Tech upsetting Ohio State and Baylor, and then beating rival West Virginia who beat Texas Tech twice in the regular season very close. It’s hard to beat a team 3 times!

Michigan in the championship and losing to Texas Tech how? Yes, I know Michigan stumbled at the end of the season is dealing with a significant injury to Isaiah Livers. Michigan is gritty team that is being coached excellently by Juwan Howard and has a chip on there shoulder that I believe will propel them to the championship game and get some big upset against many’s pick to win Gonzaga. I predicted they would lose to Texas Tech because there is something about losing in a championship game not too long ago, even though its a different Texas Tech team, that gives you the edge in experience that I think will propel the big upset in the championship game.

Why are you being different not picking Gonzaga-Illinois like everyone else? Simply because it’s March Madness and I want to be different with some upsets that I can see shaping up!

Women’s Bracket:

Questions I know I’m going to be asked:

You just finished saying in your Men’s bracket you were going to be different and then you pick the obvious favorite UConn on the women’s side really? Yes, really I am picking UConn. They are going to win there 12th national championship, even with coach Auriemma out the first couple of games in COVID protocols, they are just that good with star freshman Paige Bueckers playing fantastic with a great supporting cast! On the Women’s side, I just can’t be different simply because UConn is that good and they have one of the greatest coaches who will be back coaching them in time to play some of the top teams in Women’s college basketball.

Long Island’s Stony Brook winning 2 games and 1 vs Rutgers? YES YES YES! I’m confident one of the best defensive teams in Women’s College basketball this season in Stony Brook will represent Long Island winning 2 games shocking Arizona and Rutgers before losing to a very good Texas A&M team! Let’s go Seawolves!

Powerhouse Stanford not playing UConn in the championship game? South Carolina instead? Yes, Stanford has been great all season but do not sleep on South Carolina who has a great women’s college basketball program! I was hesitant to make this decision, but in a close game I think South Carolina will get the key stops and scores to advance to play UConn in the championship game.

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Gameday Central: Wisconsin 28, Illinois 7; End 3rd quarter | Sports

Beat writer Scott Richey will keep providing updates all night long from Camp Randall Stadium as Illinois takes on Wisconsin in the 2020 Big Ten opener. Follow along right here: 

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Meanwhile, back in Champaign. The watch party at Memorial Stadium is drawing a pretty good-sized student crowd.

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Tonight’s Illini starters:

OFFENSE

LT – Vederian Lowe

LG – Kendrick Green

C – Doug Kramer

RG – Verdis Brown

RT – Alex Palczewski

QB – Brandon Peters

RB – Mike Epstein

WR – Josh Imatorbhebhe

WR – Casey Washington

WR – Donny Navarro

TE – Daniel Barker

DEFENSE

DE – Owen Carney Jr.

NT – Roderick Perry II

DT – Jamal Woods

DE – Marc Mondesir

OLB – Khalan Tolson

MLB – Jake Hansen

OLB – Delano Ware

CB – Nate Hobbs

CB – Tony Adams

S – Sydney Brown

S – Derrick Smith

SPECIAL TEAMS

K – James McCourt

P – Blake Hayes

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We’re about an hour from kickoff in Madison, and there’s already some rather significant news to report. Illinois released its list of unavailable players for tonight’s game, and there are some big names on it.

Out at Wisconsin

DL Isaiah Gay DB Michael Marchese WR Trevon Sidney DB Devon Witherspoon OL Blake Jeresaty (season)

— Illini Stats & Notes (@IlliniStats) October 23, 2020

Defensive line was already a question mark heading into the season, and no Isaiah Gay only exacerbates that. Getting pressure on Wisconsin redshirt freshman quarterback Graham Mertz could be important. Gay’s absence means Illinois will have to put an inexperienced defensive end on the field to start the game.

Devon Witherspoon being unavailable is just as big a blow. You might remember the sophomore cornerback from his game-saving tackle in last year’s upset of Wisconsin. The big question, of course, is if Witherspoon is out does that mean Tony Adams moves back to corner or does Marquez Beason make his Illini debut as a starter?

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Looking out from the Camp Randal Stadium press box to no one (save for some cardboard cutouts in the seats closest to the field) is a surreal feeling.

The press box itself is pretty empty, too. Wisconsin is taking the social distancing thing seriously. I’m at an end of a row, and I’ve got more than six feet between my seat and where the Chicago Tribune’s Shannon Ryan will sit. 

Warmups are underway, but for the moment only the specialists for both teams are on the field.

***

The News-Gazette will be represented at Camp Randall Stadium for tonight’s Big Ten opener between Illinois and Wisconsin. Beat writer Scott Richey (that’s me as I shift to first person) is, in fact, set up in an undisclosed Marriott-brand location in Wisconsin right now prepping for his gameday coverage. 

In a typical year I might venture out in Madison. Check out campus (again). In 2020? Hotel. Camp Randall. Nothing in between. Especially in Wisconsin.

The hotel was even a concession to 2020, in a way. The press box at Camp Randall is set to close 30 minutes after the last Zoom interview is complete. That’s not enough time to provide you all with the exhaustive coverage that will wind up right here at IlliniHQ.com in the wee hours Saturday morning. That and much more will grace the pages of Sunday’s News-Gazette.

The strangeness of 2020 aside, the drive from Champaign to Madison was exceedingly normal. I could have done without the rain, but being back on the road for the first time since early March (Illini basketball at Ohio State) was a surreal feeling. Then I hit the construction as soon as I crossed the Illinois-Wisconsin border, and all felt right with the world. It was a sign that at least some things never, ever, ever change.

In our still not-so-normal world, I won’t be joined for tonight’s game by News-Gazette colleague Bob Asmussen. Wisconsin credentialed just six total Illinois media members. It will be nice, though, to see the Decatur Herald & Review’s Joey Wagner, the Chicago Tribune’s Shannon Ryan, 247Sports’ Jeremy Werner, Gatehouse correspondent Gavin Good and Gabby Hajduk from the Daily Illini.

Here we go. I’ll check back in when I can get into Camp Randall at 5:30 p.m.

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— Kendrick J. Green (@The_fridge53) October 23, 2020

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Our beat writer caught up with the Illini coach before Friday night’s season opener at Wisconsin

Beat writer Scott Richey breaks down the 2020 season opener

Here’s what you should expect in the Illini’s season opener

Three AP voters give their take on the Illini quarterback ahead of Friday night’s season opener at Wisconsin

‘Last year, when we played Wisconsin, it was an all-around effort by everybody,’ defensive lineman Jamal Woods said

Well, here we go again. The 2020 Illinois football, once thought lost to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, starts tonight in Madison, Wis. The Illini don’t ease into it either, with No. 14 Wisconsin first up in the revised (times two) Big Ten schedule.

No nonconference warmup in 2020. No shot at an Illinois State or UConn or Bowling Green before jumping into Big Ten play. No, it’s a headfirst dive into the deep end immediately instead.

The Illini and Badgers kick of at 7 p.m. at Camp Randal Stadium. Most will be listening (check out Brian Barnhart and Martin O’Donnell on WDWS) or watching from home. The Big Ten has banned fans in 2020, and even the allowance for families of players and coaches has been put on pause in Madison. 

While you get ready for the start of the most unique Illinois football season in more than a century, catch up on our exhaustive preseason coverage leading up to today’s game. It was a team effort by the entire N-G sports staff, including long-time beat writer Bob Asmussen, sports editor Matt Daniels, preps writer Colin Likas with a major assist, copy editor Joe Vozzelli and beat writer Scott Richey.

Richey will represent the N-G in Madison as one of just six Illinois media credentialed to make the trip in the new COVID-19 world we’re living in. He’ll provide updates throughout the day and late into the night as befitting a 7 p.m. kickoff. (Don’t ask his opinion on that. Or do. He doesn’t mind sharing). 

As always, right here at IlliniHQ.com is where all your gameday needs will be answered, including more from our preseason deep dive on the Illini:

Uniform tweaks further awareness of social justice issues

CHAMPAIGN — Illinois football players have taken an active stance on social justice issues in the last few months, including an athlete-organized march in late August against police violence and racial injustice. Redshirt junior offensive lineman Kendrick Green and senior cornerback Nate Hobbs spearheaded that initiative, and others have been active on social media to promote awareness, too.

The Illini will use Friday’s season opener at No. 14 Wisconsin to further that cause. Illinois will replace its traditional orange and blue Block I helmet decal with a black Block I instead.

“We wanted to show that we are aware of what’s happening in our country right now,” Hobbs said in an official release. “We’re willing to take a stand, not as one, but as a unit.”

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Quarterback Brandon Peters leads a deep and talented senior class for the 2020 Illinois football team, which opens the season at 7 p.m. on Friday at Wisconsin.

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Asmussen | Illini, get ready for a college football season like no other

CHAMPAIGN — It’s 11 a.m. on Dec. 5.

Three inches of snow blanket the Memorial Stadium turf. And the white stuff fills the empty stands.

Well, almost empty … except for the cardboard cutouts of fans ($50 to $99 a pop) and the faux Marching Illini.

In five minutes, Illinois and Iowa will run onto Zuppke Field to no applause, other than what’s generated by the loudspeakers and scoreboards.

No smell of roasting hot dogs or popcorn in the air. No beers being spilled on people in the next row.

Outside beautiful Memorial Stadium, the usual hustle and bustle are absent.

If the Dick Butkus and Red Grange statues could talk, it would be some version of, “What the heck is going on around here?”

To continue reading, click here.

More from the 2020 Illinois football special section:

Meet the seniors

Meet the coaches

Big Ten West preview

Big Ten East preview

Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley graduate Bryce Barnes is entering his sophomore season at Illinois.

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GCMS grad Barnes aiming for bigger special teams presence

CHAMPAIGN — Bryce Barnes is readily visible for about 2 seconds.

His nameplate and number 48, in dark blue print on a gray uniform backdrop, are seen bouncing around before being sucked into a sea of humanity.

The then-Illinois football freshman turns into one small piece of a massive celebration, set off by James McCourt’s 39-yard field goal that allowed the Illini to upset No. 6 Wisconsin 24-23 at Memorial Stadium on Oct. 19, 2019.

It’s all archived in a YouTube video on the Illinois athletics website.

Of course, Barnes lived the moment. And the 2019 Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley graduate can provide a slightly different perspective from it.

“I ended up at the bottom of the pile, and (McCourt and I) were face to face underneath everybody,” said Barnes, who was blocking on the line as McCourt booted the ball through the uprights in front of the Illini band and student section. “It was an honor for me to be out there in such a big win for this program. I wanted to start crying just because of how happy I was.”

To continue reading, click here.

More from the local Illini:

Catching up with Ben Schultz and Dylan Thomas

Danville product Caleb Griffin gets creative ahead of season

Center Doug Kramer is the anchor of an experienced Illinois offensive line with the Hinsdale product’s 32 career starts as an Illini trailing only Alex Palczewski’s 36.

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Asmussen | Illini O-line learns from earlier struggles

CHAMPAIGN — Kendrick Green, Doug Kramer, Vederian Lowe and Alex Palczewski have learned a lot about each other over the years.

Along with new-to-the-lineup Verdis Brown, they will make up the starting offensive line Friday night at No. 14 Wisconsin.

They are close. Not in a forced way. But naturally.

“I think it’s really simple,” Kramer said Tuesday. “There’s never been too many issues in our room. We’ve been friends from the start.”

“We’ve just seen each other grow up over these past three years,” Palczewski added. “We’ve all grown up from these freshmen who didn’t know what was going on.”

In 2017, they were part of a 2-10 team that didn’t win a Big Ten game. For the offensive linemen, it was a punch in the gut.

To their credit, they got better. Four wins in ‘18 and six last season.

Now, they want to take another step. Toward the top of the Big Ten West.

To continue reading, click here.

More from Bob Asmussen:

Contingency plans on need-to-know basis

Week 1 Big Ten power poll

A unique Illini gameday in C-U

Talking points with Wisconsin beat writer Colten Bartholomew

Ask the beat writer: Playing in an empty Camp Randall

Previewing Illinois’ offense

Previewing Illinois’ defense

Previewing Illinois’ special teams

Illinois linebacker Jake Hansen during practice in August at Memorial Stadium in Champaign.

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Illinois underdogs against Wisconsin again

CHAMPAIGN — Jake Hansen sauntered into the interview room at the Smith Center following Illinois football’s upset of No. 6 Wisconsin last October.

It’s the only way to describe Hansen’s entrance — cigar in his hands and a smile on his face.

Hansen also made a point of noting just how much the people that set the gambling lines considered the Illini underdogs against the Badgers.

“Thirty-one point spread, huh?” the Illinois linebacker yelled out as he made his way from a celebratory locker room to the small lobby outside the Smith Center weight room filled with reporters.

Monday marked the one-year anniversary of the biggest Illinois football win in more than a decade. It also coincided with the line for this year’s rematch with Wisconsin receiving a slight adjustment.

Wisconsin opened as a 23 1/2-point favorite last week for the 7 p.m. Friday Big Ten opener in Madison, Wis. Monday’s adjustment didn’t really make Illinois any less the underdog. The Badgers are still considered approximately a 19- or 20-point favorite.

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More from Scott Richey

Lovie: ‘We’re going to see exciting football’

Starters have Smith comfortable with cornerbacks

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Do you believe in rock and roll? Can music save your mortal soul? And can you teach me how to dance real slow? Well, I know that you're in love with him, 'Cause I saw you dancin' in the gym, You both kicked off your shoes, Man, I dig those rhythm-and-blues..." Everyone hopes that this moratorium on our sports will be temporary,  but it does have the feeling of the start of a funeral dirge, or maybe bagpipes in sorrowful harmony. The potential human cost is real and that those who developed the virus, it is very uncertain prognosis some may recover and sadly some will not. The full scale and picture is still yet unknown. The economics of the sports industry teams and players are real. In the coming days, the associated ancillary businesses might be a catastrophe. When 30 days is spoken of as the minimum possible period of time was heading into choppy, very unchartered waters. The workers at the arenas faced immediate hardship. The restaurants, pubs and other local eateries surrounding sports venues will see a dramatic fall off. Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, said it would be cheaper for him and the country to keep these employees on payroll than it would be to send them off on time-consuming unemployment lines and vagaries of that experience. The NCAA is already talking about extending eligibility to spring athletes who lost their entire schedule dashing dreams of playing upon the bigger stage. Drafts to be held, contracts to be signed, the games stopped, but the business side still goes on while we all waiting for the signs we can resume entering our communal cathedrals. We search like a light bean in the midnight sky, for the stars above will the joy and warmth of the games and the people that we encounter, friendships formed can they stay intact in our magic happy space?  Now, for ten years we've been on our own And moss grows fat on a rolling stone But, that's not how it used to be When the jester sang for the king and queen In a coat he borrowed from James Dean And a voice that came from you and me  The seasons ended in quiet prose as the collegiate playoffs were set to begin for UCONN hockey. A month from now, the hope of the return of the annual rite of spring Wolf Pack postseason hockey. That scene was to be kicked off with a celebration of the 2000 Calder Cup team in our Roman amphitheater to turn cold, gray days to ones of a vivid blue sky and warm sun to add fuel to a spring fire, now rests in a place of celestial purgatory.  Now the half-time air was sweet perfume While sergeants played a marching tune We all got up to dance Oh, but we never got the chance 'Cause the players tried to take the field The marching band refused to yield Do you recall what was revealed The day the music died? We started singin' Bye, bye Miss American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye And singin' this'll be the day that I die This'll be the day that I die We will know soon if are days of sports, of sweet divine deception, will resume. Hopefully, like all the other sights and sound spring bring forth from Bradford pears in bloom, cardinals that return to our castles, bluebonnets fields, the smell of freshly cut grass, but the sporting landscape and of life has inextricably changed dramatically and maybe permanently. Read the full article

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The Big East tournament quarterfinals lasted for one eerie, pointless half

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It was quite the different scene inside the nearly empty Madison Square Garden on Thursday.

NEW YORK — For college basketball fans in New York, Big East tournament Thursday is more than the quarterfinal day. It’s a ritual started 40 years ago and perfected slowly over time.

It starts that morning with a call into work. You can’t make it in today. Came down with something overnight … Carlesimonia if you’re a Seton Hall fan, or maybe Hoyafluenza.

The first game starts at noon. You go watch the No. 1 seed coast to victory as the arena slowly fills and your early afternoon beer slowly empties. The No. 4 vs. No. 5 game is next and it’s a little more competitive. That ends around 4:30 p.m. and it’s time for a quick bite at one of the dozens of bars in Manhattan’s West 30s. You’re back in the building well before 7 p.m. for the nightcap: the two-seed vs. seven-seed game and the three vs. six. The event ends around midnight, and by that point you’ve watched eight power conference teams battle it out in an arena that just feels like it was made for college basketball.

It’s one of the great days on the New York sports calendar.

In 2020, with the coronavirus spreading rapidly throughout the country, the sacred ritual came to an eerie halt when the Big East canceled its tournament at halftime of the first quarterfinal game.

It became clear early Wednesday that this could happen and the possibility increased during the first-round doubleheader when the league announced it would play the quarterfinals in front of an audience limited to 200 immediate family members of players and staff from each team.

Yeah, fictional cases of Carlesimonia ended real fast in favor of something far more real.

Oddly, it never seemed like the nearly empty arena games were going to happen, even as the announcement was made Wednesday. The situation had escalated so quickly that outright cancelation seemed inevitable. That feeling intensified as the second game on Wednesday got underway and word got out that the Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert had tested positive and the NBA would suspend its season.

No announcement came after the second game. Or overnight. Or the next morning.

Creighton and St. John’s both showed up to the Garden Thursday. Media, pep bands, cheer teams, and family were there as well. I spoke with Jocelyn Stange, the Creighton cheer coach, before the game and she said her team was proceeding as normal. They’d be there to pump up however many Creighton fans were actually in the stands. Her team stretched, huddled, then took their spot on the baseline.

As of around 11 a.m., it appeared to be game on.

Then, as has happened throughout this surreal pandemic, the dominoes began to fall again. The Big Ten announced it had canceled the rest of its tournament. The AAC did the same. The SEC, Big 12, and Pac-12 weren’t far behind, with the mid-major conferences following suit. Even at 11:55, with no announcement made and both teams on the court, it felt like the Big East would call the whole thing off.

The pregame countdown clock hit zero and there was still no announcement. The Creighton pep band played the national anthem. Polite applause from 400 fans followed, but no announcement. The starting lineups were read with the MSG PA announcer’s voice booming throughout the mostly empty arena. The teams broke their huddles and stepped to mid-court. Still no announcement.

With virtually no other sporting events happening nationwide, the Big East tournament quarterfinals began. To the fans’ credit, they did a good job filling the void left by 18,000 empty seats. Creighton and St. John’s fans alternated roars as their teams each went on first-half runs. The pep bands played at timeouts and heckled the players throughout. If it wasn’t for literally everything else happening in America at this time, you could have been tricked into believing this was a normal basketball game, albeit in front of a small crowd.

Then came the first media timeout and a moment of tension after a couple minutes passed and neither team had broken their huddles. The St. John’s pep band finished it song and for an instant, the arena fell into a brief but unsettling silence, like one of those moments in a crowded room when everyone coincidentally stops talking at once. The horn cut through the silence and jerked the fans back to reality as the two teams re-took the court and the next segment began.

A similar process played out at the under-12 timeout, the under-8, and the under-4. With Twitter ablaze as basketball fans wondered what the heck the Big East was doing still playing games, the action played on and the fans seemed blissfully unaware of the heat the league was taking. Or they just didn’t care.

Sometime in those final minutes of the first half, the Big East finally made the decision to cancel the tournament. The announcement came shortly after halftime began with St. John’s clinging to a 38-35 lead. It was on FS1 far before it was announced in the arena, but word seemed to spread fast. Murmurs began throughout the St. John’s pep band’s section and a moment later fans who had been sitting quietly during the halftime break began to make their way to the exits.

With a couple minutes left before the second half was supposed to start, the fans finally got official word. Quarterfinal Thursday was over one-eighth of the way through and most fans weren’t even around to enjoy that.

The second-best week in college basketball, behind only the beginning of the NCAA tournament, came to an end. March Madness was officially canceled later Thursday.

This crisis will pass eventually, and hopefully without a death toll that grows any bigger. Sports will return, as insignificant as they seem right now. But we were robbed of a truly magical time here at Madison Square Garden. Don’t get me wrong, this was the right call. Anyone with common sense would agree people should not congregate en masse during a global pandemic. It still stings. I still want to go watch college basketball. I still want my quarterfinal Thursday back, even though I know better.

Next year’s figures to be sweeter anyway, with a resurgent UConn program returning to the conference. The Huskies bring a ton of fans and will add even more electricity to the greatest basketball venue on Earth. It’ll be torturous waiting for it. We just have to accept that as reality.

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I’M HELLA HOMESICK

Hey there! I’m Marie and I’m now a sophomore here at UConn. One of the biggest things I struggled with when I first came to here was I got super homesick. I wasn’t expecting to be homesick I only live two hours away! I wasn’t far from home, my brother and several of my high school friends were going to UConn and I was already in Marching Band so I had forced human interaction, what more could I want? The first thing you need to know is EVERYONE gets homesick, it’s nothing to be ashamed of, some people are just better at dealing with it. The second thing you need to know is it does get better. For the first semester I was crying at every slightest thing that reminded me of home. But as I found a rhythm to school I got a little better each week and now I still miss home but I love the home I found at UConn. 

Tips:

-Learn where buildings are and their names!

Knowing where you are on campus and where your next class will be will minimizes your stress and anxiety 

-Join some clubs/sports!

Joining a club that meets even once a week gives you something to look forward to and potential friends that like something you do. UConn has over 300 clubs if you can’t find something you enjoy amongst those you only need seven people to start a new club! Sports are a great way to go out and be active! You don’t need to join a D1 sport you can join intramurals or a club team and just have fun.

-Walk around campus and find a happy place

This sounds cheesy but hiding in your dorm can be lonely especially if you don’t get on with your roommate. We have some really cool places to hang out. The library is warm, has wifi, and a quiet place to read or watch a movie or study! The greenhouses are so beautiful and open to the public, they have benches for a reason. Check out the green if it’s nice out and have a pick up game. People are pretty friendly and joining them on the courts is a great way to make friends or just hang out.

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[nataliepeebles]

GREMLIN

Gremlins are tough to tackle. I have done a lot of work exploring my gremlins over the past two months.

Messages from growing up: 

A lot of people in college still haven’t been forced to fully grow up. Well I grew up at the age of 8. My parents divorce has caused me to be the way I am today. 

At the roots, my parents got divorced because of cheating. My mom simply could not find it in herself to be able to trust my dad after that. They lied to us for years growing up because they didn’t want us to hate my dad.

This has caused some serious trust issues in my life. Forgiving my dad took a lot of time. I don’t understand why anyone could ever do something so selfish. His stupid choice has royally fucked up my family life for so many more years that he would have even imagined. If people understood the consequences of their actions, usually they’d never do that to begin with. Cheating is something I will probably never understand. I can’t stand cheaters in relationships, on assignments, or even simply people that cut lines. Something about it has been ingrained in my head to be a horrible thing because I am the product of this. I’ve seen the consequences and so when someone told me “everyone cheats” (meaning on assignments) I absolutely obliterated this kid the other day. Not everyone cheats. We should not continue to let this be something that is even moderately accepted in our society.  It disgusts me.

I went from my mom’s house to my dad’s house each week from the age of 8 until 18. Yes, I lived out of a suitcase, a lot of the time because you always have your favorite clothes and makeup to carry from one place to another. I always had to know what was being kept where because when I wasn’t organized, I had to make additional trips between houses which has wasted an incredible amount of time over the years. Maybe this is why efficiency is so important to me? A lot of people take not going back and forth for granted. People don’t realize how lucky they are to not have to be on the move at all times. On the bright side, this has made me so much more adaptable because I am able to fit into my various environments. 

I have seen the inequalities in life (to put it simply). My dad has had an easy time. He is lucky to have had wealthy parents, that allowed him to excel in school and sports. He went to an Ivy League school (Cornell) and ran track there. That allowed him to find a career he was passionate about (sales and healthcare) so he is now a VP of their existing sales division at Anthem. He has had this career and continued to move up the corporate ladder for the past 25 years. He works his ass off and is a workaholic. He is constantly traveling, but makes a gross amount of money each year. He is cheap and only likes to save, but he is literally in approximately the top 3% of people financially. My mom is decently educated. She went to UConn and studied Psychology, but has barely used her degree at all. She also worked in healthcare for a few years before becoming a stay at home mom to raise us. When they got divorced, my mom did not realize how difficult it would be to reintegrate into the workforce. She has struggled from recruiting job to school jobs. She has never really had a career and at one point growing up we had to go on food stamps because a single mom and 3 daughters without making much money at all is hard to live off of. This has made me so much more empathetic to people and situations, because I believe people should work hard and get to earn more, but I also believe that sometimes bad things happen that you have very little control over, and sometimes these people deserve additional help until they get back on their feet. To go from one house to the other where my mom constantly struggled to my dad who has never had to worry about finances has shaped my outlook on life. It has made me crave stability in all aspects of my life. I never want to have to worry about money especially. 

Because of my mom’s struggles with finding a satisfying career, and lack of confidence, she constantly seems to end up dependent on a man. She has literally had every single type of boyfriend; the bad boy motorcycle rider, the Italian, the entrepreneur, the soccer player, the millionaire, the average boyfriend. We kind of make fun of it now but growing up we got introduced to so many different men that also lacked stability and I hate seeing her stay with someone just because she feels more stable with someone. I never want to be forced to depend on a man. I want to have a mutually trusting and dependent relationship by choice. Quite honestly this might be the part of my life that has made me more liberal, more feminist, and more fiercely independent. I can’t control most things in my life. I can’t control other people’s choices, decisions, results, but I can absolutely control my own. This might also be part of the reason I tend to be a control freak sometimes.

My stepmom can be neurotic sometimes. She doesn’t realize how good she is at guilt trips and making people feel bad when she wants them to. This has caused me to have so much more awareness for all situations but it has also made me too apologetic. I sometimes apologize for everything, even if I didn’t do anything wrong because I had to be so empathetic and aware growing up or else someone would get their feelings hurt. 

My parents never pushed me too hard growing up. Unlike most parents, mine actually were just proud of the work I did because they knew that I pushed myself (sometimes into the ground). I do think part of the reason I work hard is because I watched my dad work his ass off and how successful he has become from that. I’ve always pushed myself because I don’t want to end up in the horrible situation my mom was in. I push myself because I want to be able to travel and live well. Another reason I push myself is because of my older sister. Cassidy has always been great at everything. Growing up and only being 16 months apart was amazing because we were best friends, but so damn hard because everything was competitive and I hated it. We did all of the same things too. We were on the same soccer team, same track team, both honor students so we had the same teachers, we both even did student government. The main differentiator in sports was that she was way better than me at everything. Of course, she was on the state team, of course she got 5’s on all of her AP tests, of course she had no trouble with the ACT. I really felt like I lived in her shadow growing up. We did too many of the same things, and I constantly compared myself to her in an unhealthy way. It caused me to lack confidence in myself for years. It wasn’t until I started doing my own things such as marching band in high school and coming to a different college to be able to fully differentiate myself from her. For this reason, I hate competitive atmospheres because even when it didn’t seem competitive growing up, I always made it competitive myself. 

When I came back to these on October 17, I realized that there was an area that I refused to even talk about. Those were all my big surface level problems but I had an ice-burg underwater that even for this I didn’t want to talk about because I am afraid that you will view me differently after reading this. 

There is such a deep level of shame that I waited almost a year to tell my roommates. Boys. I give so much power to boys that use me and throw me away. I give so much power to horrible people that I know I shouldn’t give power to. I am so hopeful about the future and about relationships because I haven’t really seen these great loves in movies in real life, but I desperately want to find that. I think I am someone who gets lonely easily and compares myself to others. So many people think that because I am so focused on school, I can’t also have fun. People think that because I am so independent I don’t want a relationship. Just because I am happy on my own doesn’t mean that I don’t crave and hope for the best kind of real and vulnerable love.

I’m in a weird place right now where I don’t know what I want because I want to move away and this is the perfect time to do so. I don’t want to hold myself back by getting emotionally invested in someone this year for me to just move to realistically a different place than someone else.

I have had a friend with benefits for over a year and I didn’t tell more than a few close friends about it until AUGUST OF THIS YEAR. This is confidential.

I don’t share this part of my life because it completely conflicts with how I am in other areas and I don’t know why I let other people have so much power in this area and it terrifies that I do. My mom always says that I need to stop giving my heart away to people that just hurt me but I can’t seem to stop. Since I have gotten to college and gotten out of a long term relationship there is so much shame associated with how much I hoe around. People don’t know about this side of me and I think it’s because I like how people see me now and I don’t want them to see me as being a hoe. Granted, relative to some people it isn’t even bad at all, but relative to my expectations it is. 

And I keep saying that I am going to stop seeing this boy that was HORRIBLE to me. He has held me back from success and I shouldn’t even want that in a friend let alone someone to have deeper feelings with. 

I am so afraid of people's perfect perceptions of me being tarnished. I like being known as the hardworking girl who doesn’t have it all, but will work her ass off until she does. 

My gremlins if other people would find out (including my friends) would say: you’re disgusting. You’re such a slut. No one will ever want to be with you after this. Why do you continue to make such shitty decisions? You’re so unbelievably desperate. 

If I would go on a date with a boy from a dating app (which has happened a few times), I would wait until I knew he was relevant enough to share about to my family. And I said that it has been because I don’t want my family to make fun of me for going on a date, but it truly comes down to shame with my family thinking I am a slut. 

This is the least perfect side of myself. My family knows nothing about this side of myself because I am so good at hiding it. I work so hard at everything that I do. I don’t know how to half ass things. That is included in relationships. Growing up, not that my family was conservative because they weren’t but they definitely didn’t encourage me to make stupid choices with boys either. 

So much of my life I am a control freak about. I want to have control of every aspect of my life and I simply do not. 

I really think shame is a huge point in this realization...

When I hear my gremlins + what they are saying to me:

At class: you’re wrong, don’t even try to answer that question. 

At home: Natalie, stop being a lazy ass that just sits in your room all day watching shows

With friends: I never tell my friends all of the details about boys

While running: Don’t stop or everyone will see you

In academics: I try really hard, am I keeping up, I don’t want to disappoint anyone 

With boys: you disgusting slut. 

I care so much about other people having the perfect perception of me, but deep down I am just searching hard for love and meaning. And as I do everything, i am working really hard to find it. Granted, I won’t settle for less long term, but short term I seem to be okay with it. Why??? I don’t know. 

I hide the things that scare me most about other people finding out about me. I used to hide from everyone that my parents were divorced because I didn’t want to be known as the girl with divorced parents because I am so much more than that. I guess it’s because I want to control other people’s perceptions of me because I am afraid that if you find out these things about me then you won’t like me.

My gremlins are centered around things that aren’t at the surface because I never let them be, but deep down they exist and I notice them constantly. 

Ideas: buy invisible ink and write things. There are so many things I hide. And that doesn’t mean that they aren’t there, that just means that I am good at hiding them. I know that things are there. 

Think about those things that are always there even though no one else sees them… It’s like glasses that I am wearing and see but no one else sees them. 

More Ideas: beneath the surface, beneath the iceberg. My titanic. This has the perceived ability to sink me. It weighs me down wherever I go. I carry this baggage with me wherever I go.  Bird Set Free by Sia.

I cried 4 times that day that I realized how much I hide. That cut deep to realize. And I don’t usually cry at all. That was an emotionally draining day. I also realized that while I thought I was scared of other people’s perceptions of me changing, in reality I was scared of having to realize my own perception of myself changing because of how much I mess up and because of how high my standards for myself are. 

I liked the name as “Bird Set Free” for a while, but now realize that is a great song and metaphor, but not a name. I have renamed my Gremlin, Gnat. Gnat is like Nat or Natalie, but it’s my bad side. It’s my side that is slowly annoying me more and more with its inability to leave me alone. I have trouble not thinking about anything, and my internal Gnat is the reason why my head spins. This is the progress I’ve made thus far and I’m curious to see where I can go as I try to befriend my gremlin moving forward

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Hardcore Connecticut: Documenting the State’s Punk Rock Scene

By Graham Stinnett

Since Chuck Berry did the duck walk and Elvis swung his hips, Rock ‘n’ Roll became the sound of youth rebellion against codes of conduct in post-war America. As the radical 1960s waned and the troubled 1970s bore on, through economic downturn, military withdrawal from Vietnam, and political malaise, Rock ‘n’ Roll came to represent, for some, a tired, moneyed, and virtuosic expression that no longer possessed counter-cultural credibility. The discontented youth of the 1980s scraped its collective nails against the pearly white billboards of America. With intentional tonal simplicity, quickened riffs, and biting attitudes towards the normative, an aggressive genre of music became the banner charge against all limitations to personal expression.

Across the US and even here in the land of steady habits, hardcore punk rockers occupied venue spaces, spectators became performers, pools became skate parks, and Xerox machines became the printing press in this underground renaissance. Modes of production formerly held in the hands of publishers, record companies, and band agents were seized and stripped down with a do-it-yourself sneer. Actively expressing opinions through fanzines, forming bands, making clothes, collectivizing venues, spray painting, skateboarding and just scrapping by—these formed the tenants of the underground punk and hardcore scenes that thrived in Connecticut during the late 1970s into the ‘80s.

UConn Collection Sheds Light on Youth Culture

From hand-drawn flyers and venue calendars, to fanzines, posters, and photographs, the Joe Snow Punk Rock Collection, which is held in the Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries, speaks to the DIY—do it yourself—spirit so essential to the hardcore punk ethic. In addition to buttons and other ephemera, the collection also preserves the music that galvanized fans. From home recordings to studio sessions, the media formats that area bands used to circulate their music included CDs and audio cassette tapes as well as vinyl LP (long-play) and 45-rpm records. The collection also includes documentation related to Incas Records, a West Haven-based recording label started by members of the band Lost Generation.

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So, what can a collection like this tell us about Connecticut history? Seen within the larger context of radical social movements since the late 1960s, it provides an opportunity to examine and understand punk rock as more than a musical genre. With its sociological and economic overtones, this underground do-it-yourself youth culture marks a transition from one generation’s revolt, sparked in 1968, to a very different but no less vibrant social movement that took localized forms in response to the times in which a new generation came of age.

Graham Stinnett, Archivist of the Human Rights Collections at the Archives & Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries, co-curated the exhibition Out of the Frame: Alternative Arts of the 1980s (March 3 to May 11, 2014), which features materials from The Joe Snow Punk Rock Collection.

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/hardcore-connecticut-documenting-the-states-punk-rock-scene/

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