Friday schedule

Posted on May 2, 2019

Scoreboards are sponsored by COUNTRY Financial Representative Eric Lapan

Thursday:

High School Baseball–
Normal Community 3, Normal West 2

Girls High School Soccer–
Normal Community 1, Peoria Manual 0

Friday:

LIVE ON WJBC-AM 1230–
St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs, 12:25 p.m.

College Baseball–
Indiana State at Illinois State, 5 p.m.
Carthage at Illinois Wesleyan, 6 p.m.
Illinois Central at Heartland (DH), 3 p.m.

College Softball–
Illinois State at Valparaiso, 3 p.m.
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Tournament at Illinois Wesleyan–
North Central vs. Carthage, 11 a.m.
Wheaton vs. Illinois Wesleyan, 1 p.m.
Losers 1 & 2, 3 p.m.
Winners 1 & 2, 5 p.m.

High School Baseball–
Central Catholic at El Paso-Gridley, 4:30 p.m.
Limestone at Normal Community, 4:30 p.m.
U-High at O’Fallon/Triad Classic

High School Softball–
Bloomington at Champaign Centennial, 4:30 p.m.
Moline at Normal West (DH), 4:30 p.m.
Central Catholic at Mahomet-Seymour, 5 p.m.

Girls High School Soccer–
Bloomington at Olympia, 4:30 p.m.
Normal Community at Naperville Central, 7 p.m.

Girls High School Track and Field–
Big 12 Conference Meet at Bloomington, 4:30 p.m.

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…