The Futon Report

First, the unimportant news: NIU’s basketball game against WMU on Sunday has been canceled. Okay, let’s move on.

I’ve never been to Northern Illinois University. Or the city of DeKalb. But NIU athletics have been a solid foundation of Mid-American Conference sports for the last 45 years, rejoining the MAC back in ‘97. And I can’t really explain why I feel compelled to write some sort of post or article or smatterings of paragraphs dedicated to the lives lost and innocences shattered by the gunman who entered Cole Hall last night. But while in the past the unknown has caused some fun around here, for once this will be serious, and have a message … maybe, when I close the laptop. (warning: this is really long) Read more