The No. 4 Illinois State Redbirds football team remains unbeaten at renovated Hancock Stadium as they took down No. 6 Northern Iowa 21-13 in the opening of the Missouri Valley Football Conference season.… MORE
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The No. 4 Illinois State Redbirds football team remains unbeaten at renovated Hancock Stadium as they took down No. 6 Northern Iowa 21-13 in the opening of the Missouri Valley Football Conference season.… MORE
By ISU Sports Information NORMAL, Ill. – The Illinois State volleyball team rallied back after dropping the first set in its Missouri Valley Conference home opener Friday, topping visiting Drake by a 3-1 score. The Redbirds won the match by scores of 22-25, 25-16, 25-19, 25-19. Ashley Rosch led four Redbirds reaching double figures in…… MORE
Former Illinois State men’s basketball forward John Jones has signed a contract to play professionally in Bolivia for Vikingos Tarija.… MORE
The Illinois State soccer team fell to Oklahoma, 1-0, Friday afternoon at Adelaide Street Field.… MORE
Illinois State men’s basketball has landed a guard from Augusta, Ga.… MORE
Illinois State football coach Brock Spack will offer a preview of the Redbirds’ Missouri Valley Football Conference opener tonight when he joins WJBC’s Dick Luedke and Ted Schmitz in the Schooners beer garden.… MORE
Ali Farkos and Lauren Koehl each scored a goal as the Illinois State soccer team held off a late rally from Loyola to pick up a, 2-1, win in Missouri Valley Conference play Wednesday night at Adelaide Street Field.… MORE
Illinois State’s No. 4 nationally ranked football team begins defense of its Missouri Valley Conference championship Saturday when it meets No. 6 ranked Northern Iowa in a noon kickoff at Hancock Stadium.… MORE
The Illinois State volleyball team won the opening set but dropped the next three as host Wichita State claimed a 3-1 win over the Redbirds Saturday night at Charles Koch Arena. Wichita State won by scores of 25-27, 25-23, 25-23, 25-22.… MORE
The St. Louis Cardinals meet the Milwaukee Brewers in the second of a four-game series tonight at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.… MORE
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.” …
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…
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…
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…