Make sure to listen to WJBC 1230 AM at 5:10 p.m. today for the second segment of our three-part Coach to Coach series, a conversation between former Central Catholic, Normal Community and Illinois Coa… MORE
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Make sure to listen to WJBC 1230 AM at 5:10 p.m. today for the second segment of our three-part Coach to Coach series, a conversation between former Central Catholic, Normal Community and Illinois Coa… MORE
The Illinois State men's basketball team snapped a two-game skid and won its first Missouri Valley Conference game of the season Wednesday as the Redbirds downed visiting Drake, 81-45.… MORE
The Illinois State men's basketball team returns home to continue Missouri Valley Conference play by hosting Drake Wednesday at 7 p.m. on Doug Collins Court at Redbird Arena.… MORE
Illinois State football coach Brock Spack believes the three-week layoff between the Redbirds’ last playoff game and Saturday’s FCS national championship game wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.… MORE
Illinois State football coach Brock Spack will join WJBC's Dick Luedke and Ted Schmitz at Schooners in Bloomington for a championship edition of the Brock Spack Show.… MORE
Former ISU athletics director Sheahon Zenger will be the first to admit he isn't surprised the Redbirds are playing for the FCS national championship.… MORE
Wichita State outscored ISU, 13-7, over the final 3:25, and the Shockers held on for a 70-62 Missouri Valley Conference win Sunday evening at Charles Koch Arena.… MORE
Throughout the FCS playoff run, Illinois State football fans, alumni and friends have gathered at watch parties around the state and country to cheer for the Redbirds.… MORE
Southern Illinois defeated Illinois State in the Redbirds' Missouri Valley Conference opener, 65-56, Sunday at Redbird Arena.… MORE
To say the fall sports season has been a success for Illinois State University athletics would likely be an understatement.… 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…