Illinois State’s Sara Stankoskey has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Women’s Soccer Defensive Player of the Week, following standout performances last week at home against Kansas State and at Evansville, where ISU clinched the regular season conference title.… MORE
For coach Brock Spack and the Illinois State football team, “it’s been one of those seasons.”… MORE
The Illinois State women’s basketball team has been selected to finish eighth in the 2016-17 Missouri Valley Conference Preseason Poll, it was announced Tuesday by the league prior to the start of the league’s Media Day at the St. Louis City Center Hotel. … MORE
Illinois State senior guard Paris Lee and junior forward MiKyle McIntosh are both 2016-17 Missouri Valley Conference Preseason First Team selections, and the Redbirds are picked to finish second in the league, according to the MVC Preseason Poll as compiled from votes by MVC sports information directors, media and coaches.… MORE
Illinois State’s Courtney Pence has been named the Missouri Valley Conference’s Defensive Player of the Week, the league announced Monday.… MORE
Illinois State basketball forward Deontae Hawkins is suspended indefinitely for a violation of team rules. … MORE
For the second time this season, Illinois Wesleyan senior running back Maurice Shoemaker-Gilmore has been named the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin “Offensive Football Player of the Week.”… MORE
WJBC Radio, in conjunction with Meatheads of Bloomington-Normal, Clay Dooley Tire and Auto and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… MORE
WJBC Radio, in conjunction with Ron Smith Printing, is proud to present the Intercity Football Player of the Week.… MORE
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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…