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Illinois alum James Holzhauer is making Jeopardy! history

Illinois alum James Holzhauer has broken Jeopardy!

And being an Illinois blog — and it being the offseason for a majority of sports — it seems like the perfect time to update you on Jeopardy James, who won his 21st straight game on Thursday night, moving into second place all-time for consecutive wins.

Three weeks ago, when I tweeted this ESPN story because I saw that he went to Illinois, I didn’t think he would become one of the most talked about people on the Internet.

How little I knew.

There’s tons of articles out there about Holzhauer right now.