By WJBC Staff Illinois State football coach Brock Spack joins WJBC’s Dick Luedke and Ted Schmitz in the Schooners beer garden tonight for the Brock Spack Show. The No. 5 ranked Redbirds visit Eastern Illinois on Saturday in the 104th annual Mid-America Classic in Charleston. The show is presented by Country Financial representatives Melissa Isenburg…… MORE
The Illinois State volleyball team upped its winning streak to eight with a 3-1 win over Illinois-Chicago Tuesday night at Flames Athletic Center.… MORE
The St. Louis Cardinals will open a three-game series at Miller Park in Milwaukee tonight.… MORE
The Illinois State Athletics Department revealed Redbird Remembrance in a private ceremony over the weekend to honor the seven men who were killed in plane near Bloomington in April.… MORE
The Illinois State soccer team fell behind, 4-0, to Navy and a late comeback attempt was not enough as the Redbirds lost, 4-2, Sunday in Annapolis, Maryland.… MORE
The Illinois State Redbirds delighted an over capacity crowd of 13,391 to a 67-14 victory over Morgan State in their home opener at Hancock Stadium Saturday night.… MORE
By ISU Sports Information NORMAL – The Illinois State volleyball team won its third match in two days to complete a perfect weekend at the Country Financial Redbird Classic Saturday with a 3-1 win over Toledo in the final match of the tournament. The Redbirds won the match by scores of 25-13, 25-19, 18-25, 25-15.…… MORE
The Illinois State football hosts its 2015 home opener on Saturday, and ISU head coach Brock Spack will talk about his team’s game against 2014 MEAC champion Morgan State on The Brock Spack Show tonight at 6 p.m. at Schooners in Bloomington.… MORE
As Illinois State football coach Brock Spack examined his team’s season-opening 31-14 at Iowa last Saturday, the sixth-year coach came to this conclusion.… MORE
Illinois State senior outside hitter Ashley Rosch has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week, the league announced Tuesday.… 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…