Central Catholic’s boys basketball team plays host the Illinois Valley Central Grey Ghosts of Chillicothe in a Corn Belt Conference battle at Cvengros Gymnasium tonight.… MORE
Category Archives: High School Sports
WJBC Athletes of the Week: Jan. 18, 2015
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… MORE
Op Ed: Handing off the future of high school football in Illinois
In the fall of 1972, I started my high school athletic career on a football field at New Berlin High School in New Berlin, Illinois.… MORE
NCHS AD Turner leaving after 11 years for same job at Maine South
Normal Community High School is looking for a new athletic director.… MORE
WJBC Athletes of the Week: Jan. 11, 2016
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… MORE
Normal Community at Peoria Manual hoops tonight on WJBC
It will be a battle of Big 12 leaders in boys basketball tonight when the Normal Community Ironmen visit No. 3-ranked (in Class 3A) Peoria Manual.… MORE
Bloomington repeats as Intercity wrestling champs
By WJBC Staff NORMAL – For the fifth straight year and 21st out of 23 tournaments, Bloomington has earned the Intercity wrestling title. Purple Raiders coach Mark Gardner says his team went through ups and downs during Wednesday’s meet at Normal Community High School. “We’ve been working on some new things and some of those…… MORE
ISU, IWU hoops, Intercity Wrestling Meet on WJBC
Off to a 2-0 start in Missouri Valley Conference play and winners of five of their last six games, the Redbirds are aiming for their fourth-straight victory when ISU hosts Loyola tonight.… MORE
WJBC Athletes of the Week: Jan. 4, 2016
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… MORE
State Farm Holiday Classic crown champions; U-High and Central Catholic fall short
The Central Catholic Saints’ run for a State Farm Holiday Classic Title came to an end at the Shirk Center for the third straight year, as Quincy Notre Dame took down the Saints in the Small School Boys title game, 60-50.… 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…