Former colleagues and students remember Illini baseball and basketball player Richard 'Free' Freehill, 74, of Urbana, who died last month, as an outgoing man who taught them about respect, responsibility and fun — and who could talk to anyone. URBANA — More than 35 years after his time at Champaign's Jefferson Junior High in the late 1960s, Mike Kiser was back in C-U and ran into his old PE teacher, Richard Freehill. read more
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