Basketball games will be a different experience next season at Redbird Arena.… MORE
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Basketball games will be a different experience next season at Redbird Arena.… MORE
ESPN and the Missouri Valley Conference have announced a 10-year extension to their current media rights agreement that will provide increased coverage of conference events across ESPN platforms through the 2023-24 academic year.… MORE
Illinois State junior offensive lineman Kyle Avaloy was named a nominee for the 2015 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, the most esteemed off-the-field honor in college football.… MORE
Illinois State senior middle linebacker Pat Meehan was named to the 2015 STATS FCS Defensive Player of the Year Watch List Wednesday.… MORE
Illinois State women’s basketball coach Barb Smith announced the team’s 2015-16 non-conference schedule Wednesday.… MORE
The dynamic offensive duo of quarterback Tre Roberson and running back Marshaun Coprich led Illinois State to unprecedented heights last season, resulting in both being named to the 2015 STATS FCS Offensive Player of the Year Watch List Monday.… MORE
Illinois State added another potential weapon to his receiving corps Monday, with the addition of Cincinnati transfer wide receiver Jeremy Graves to the 2015 roster.… MORE
Former Illinois State University All-American basketball player Doug Collins was back in Bloomington-Normal Thursday.… MORE
By ISU Media Relations PHILADELPHIA – It should come as no surprise to see a quartet of players from Illinois State, last year’s national FCS runner-up, on the 2015 STATS FCS Preseason All-America Team announced Thursday. Illinois State’s four selections trailed only defending national champion North Dakota State’s five players named to the list. The…… MORE
Illinois State soccer has released its 2015 schedule.… 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…