The Illinois State football program is ranked right where it was at the end of the historic 2014 campaign, as the Redbirds were picked No. 2 in the preseason FCS Coaches Poll announced Wednesday.… MORE
Category Archives: Illinois State Redbirds
Coprich apologizes for arrest earlier this year
Illinois State’s star running back wants to focus solely on football season and not on the arrest that sidelined him briefly in April.… MORE
ISU football adds Wyoming transfer defensive back
Illinois State football head coach Brock Spack added a late piece to his roster just before the start of training camp, with the signing of Wyoming transfer defensive back Ryon’e Winters Tuesday.… MORE
Ex-ISU, CCHS star Highland looks to make New Orleans Saints’ roster
First he made it to training camp, now he’s trying to make it a career in the National Football League.… MORE
Lefty’s Corner: Sight-seeing, basketball on ISU’s basketball agenda
Outside of basketball, what is senior forward DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell looking forward to when the Illinois State men’s basketball team takes a 10-day trip to history-rich Spain to play four exhibition games?… MORE
Highland signs contract with New Orleans Saints
Another former Redbird has found a home in the NFL.… MORE
Coprich, Roberson named to CFPA Player of the Year watch list
Illinois State seniors Marshaun Coprich and Tre Roberson combined to become one of the best backfield tandems in FCS football in 2014 and head into the 2015 season on the national stage, as each was named to the College Football Performance Awards (CFPA) 2015 FCS National Performer of the Year Trophy Watch List.… MORE
Lefty’s Corner: ISU football second in Valley poll
As expected, Illinois State’s football team was picked second in the Missouri Valley Conference preseason poll behind four-time reigning national champion North Dakota State in a vote of coaches, media and sports information directors released Monday.… MORE
Redbird Arena to get new scoreboard
Basketball games will be a different experience next season at Redbird Arena.… MORE
ISU, MVC to add student production to ESPN deal
ESPN and the Missouri Valley Conference have announced a 10-year extension to their current media rights agreement that will provide increased coverage of conference events across ESPN platforms through the 2023-24 academic year.… 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…