As Illinois State football coach Brock Spack examined his team’s season-opening 31-14 at Iowa last Saturday, the sixth-year coach came to this conclusion.… MORE
Category Archives: Illinois State Redbirds
Illinois State’s Rosch named MVC Player of the Week
Illinois State senior outside hitter Ashley Rosch has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week, the league announced Tuesday.… MORE
ISU men’s basketball MVC schedule released
Illinois State’s 2015-16 Missouri Valley Conference men’s basketball schedule, which begins with a Dec. 30 MVC home game against Missouri State, was released by the league office Tuesday.… MORE
ISU soccer notches a shutout against Wisconsin
Lauren Koehl drilled a 20-yard shot into the back of the net in the 22nd minute and that was all the Illinois State soccer team would need in a 1-0 victory over Wisconsin Sunday in Madison, Wisconsin.… MORE
Redbirds fall to Iowa in football season opener 31-14
On a hot and steamy day in Iowa City, the Illinois State football team fell to the Iowa Hawkeyes, 31-14, in the 2015 season opener at Kinnick Stadium.… MORE
Redbirds endure 2-hour lightning delay, draw with EMU
After waiting through a two hour lightning delay, the Illinois State soccer team played 110 minutes against Eastern Michigan before the match ended in a 2-2 draw in double overtime Friday night at Adelaide Street Field in Normal.… MORE
Illinois State volleyball tops Long Beach State in straight sets
By ISU Sports Information CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Illinois State volleyball team topped Long Beach State in straight sets in its first match at the Harvard Invitational Friday at Malkin Athletic Center. The Redbirds won by scores of 25-15, 27-25, 26-24. Lexi Varga paced the Redbirds with a match-high 14 kills, while the trio of…… MORE
Countdown to Kickoff: ISU defense
It’s been well-documented what the Illinois State offense has the potential to do, but what about the defense?… MORE
Brock Spack Show, Bears preseason on WJBC tonight
Illinois State enters the 2015 football season with perhaps more anticipation than ever before, coming off an FCS Championship Game appearance.… MORE
Illinois State unveils commemorative patch to honor plane crash victims
Illinois State University is making sure the seven people who died in a plane crash in Bloomington in April aren’t forgotten.… 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…