The Unit 5 high schools square off in the annual Chili Bowl in the featured game of Week 2 of the WJBC Friday Night High School Football Extravaganza. … MORE
Category Archives: Local Sports
CornBelters place 4 on Frontier League end-of-season All-Star squad
The CornBelters have placed four players on the Frontier League All-Star team for the 2018 season.… MORE
ISU football to play at Illinois and Iowa
It will be a gridiron battle two years from now between the Illinois State University Redbirds and the University of Illinois Fighting Illini, and four years later ISU will take on the Iowa Hawkeyes.… MORE
New coaches celebrate 1st wins in opening week of high school football
Out of four new head coaches of the five Intercity high school football programs, three earned wins in their first games leading their programs. … MORE
High school football season kicks off
The WJBC Friday Night High School Football Extravaganza opens the 2018 season with live coverage of six games. … MORE
IWU football returns plenty of experience from CCIW co-champs
By Greg Halbleib BLOOMINGTON – Illinois Wesleyan football met the media this afternoon at Tucci Stadium. Norm Eash (ESH) enters his 32nd season at the helm of the Titans. He likes the mix of experience and youth on this year’s squad: Illinois Wesleyan football coach Norm Eash has high expections with plenty of returning players…… MORE
Cirone to be inducted into Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame
The all-time leading scorer in Illinois State women’s basketball history is going into the Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame.… MORE
Martin to step down as CCIW commissioner in 2019
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Commissioner Chris Martin says he will step away from that role at the end of the current academic year.… MORE
Redbird volleyball picked to finish 3rd in MVC, Pence named to preseason Valley team
Illinois State volleyball has been picked to finish third in the Missouri Valley Conference.… MORE
Illinois Wesleyan to visit Illinois in men’s hoops exhibition
Titans and Illini will meet on the basketball floor this fall.… 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…