The second week of the Illinois High School Association football playoffs saw three out of four Heart of Illinois Conference teams get eliminated and the last intercity team fall at home.… MORE
Category Archives: High School Sports
Second round football playoffs include 4 games on WJBC.com
Four high school football playoff games can be heard Saturday afternoon on WJBC.com.… MORE
WJBC Athletes of the Week: Oct. 31, 2016
WJBC Radio, in conjunction with Meatheads of Bloomington-Normal, Clay Dooley Tire and Auto and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… MORE
WJBC Intercity Football Player of the Week
WJBC Radio, in conjunction with Ron Smith Printing, is proud to present the Intercity Football Player of the Week.
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High school football playoff schedule set for Week 2
The Illinois High School Association has announced the schedule for week two of the football playoffs.… MORE
U-High win state soccer title
The University High Pioneers claimed the school’s first boys soccer title in school history with a 3-1 win over Westchester St. Joseph in the Class 1A championship game at EastSide Centre on Saturday.… MORE
HOIC schools roll in playoffs, late stand earns win for NCHS
Normal Community, Tri-Valley, LeRoy and Deer-Creek-Mackinaw were winners Saturday in opening round games of the state football playoffs.… MORE
Playoff football: Normal West, EPG fall; 6 area teams in action Saturday
Top-ranked Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin had two 200-yard rushers as the Cyclones steamrolled Normal West 57-20 in the Class 6A football playoffs at Cyclone Field in Springfield.… MORE
U-High to play for 1A boys soccer state title
Cayden Redd scored the game’s only goal in the 49th minute to give U-High a 1-0 win over Waterloo Gibault on Friday in the Class 1A state semifinals at East Side Centre.… MORE
WJBC Athletes of the Week: Oct. 24, 2016
WJBC Radio, in conjunction with Meatheads of Bloomington-Normal, Clay Dooley Tire and Auto and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… MORE
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…