Just one game into the Illinois State football season and the Redbirds already have their bye week.… MORE
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Just one game into the Illinois State football season and the Redbirds already have their bye week.… MORE
Illinois State football scored for the first time in the first seconds of the second quarter, but never took their foot off the throttle afterwards for a 45-0 season-opening win on Saturday night at Hancock Stadium.… MORE
If there’s one thing Brock Spack doesn’t want to see from one of his players on the field it’s ‘palms up.’… MORE
By Greg Halbleib NORMAL – Illinois State has signed men’s basketball coach Dan Muller to a seven-year contract extension through the 2023-24 season. Muller enters his sixth season as Redbird hoops coach. He led the Birds to a share of the Missouri Valley Conference title with a program-best league record of 17-1. His Redbirds also set…… MORE
Illinois State’s Courtney Pence was recognized as the Missouri Valley Conference Defensive Player of the Week in the league’s first weekly awards announcement of the season Monday.… MORE
Machayla Leonard considers herself solid as a rock when it comes to helping a team keep its composure on the volleyball court.… MORE
The Illinois State women’s soccer team received seven first-place tallies and 63 total points when voted as the top team in the 2017 Missouri Valley Conference Preseason Poll, as announced by the league Monday.… MORE
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Brendan Mullins, a suburban Chicago native who most recently worked as an assistant men’s basketball coach at UIC for two seasons, is staying in-state to serve as Illinois State’s new assistant coach.… MORE
Former Illinois State All-American and NCAA champion Christian Goy was selected as one of six inductees in the 21st Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame class.… 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…