IHSA releases 2021 schedule

Posted on January 27, 2021
Normal Community basketball
Regions that are in Phase 4 are allowed to play sports at the intraconference or intraregion under guidelines from the Illinois Department of Public Health. (Photo by Karin McCall/You Name It Sports)

 

By Neil Doyle

BLOOMINGTON – The Illinois High School Association on Wednesday released the sports schedule for the remainder of the school year.

Some of the highlights, basketball can get started right away and games can start after teams have seven practices. The basketball season runs until March 13 with no state tournament. The football season will begin March 3 and run until April 24. Baseball and softball run April 5-June 19.

Regions that are in Phase 4 are allowed to play sports at the intraconference or intraregion under guidelines from the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Neil Doyle can be reached at [email protected]

Blogs

Labor Day – Expanding voting rights for all

By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year.  It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …

Is federal mobilization the answer?

By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city.   Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…

In these troubled times, to my fellow white Americans

By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…

Workers’ Memorial Day – Remember those whose job took their life

Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University.   We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk.  Going to work every day for some people means…