The Illinois State women’s basketball team saw its comeback against Evansville fall short, 60-56, Sunday in Missouri Valley Conference action Sunday inside Ford Center.… MORE
Category Archives: Illinois State Redbirds
ISU earns number one seed in Arch Madness
The Illinois State University men’s basketball team has clenched the number one seed in Arch Madness next weekend.… MORE
ISU sets three school records at day one of MVC championships
The Illinois State track and field teams recorded two new school records and tied one school record on day one of the two-day 2017 Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Track and Field Championship.… MORE
Redbirds fall to Memphis in extra innings
The Illinois State baseball team built an early 11-run lead but it wasn’t enough as Memphis rallied back to force extra innings and won it in the 11th inning when Colton Neel drew a bases-loaded walk to lift the hosts to a 12-11 victory at FedEx Park.… MORE
Illinois State downs UNI, claims share of Valley title
For the first time since 1998 and the sixth time in Illinois State men’s basketball history, the Redbirds are Missouri Valley Conference regular-season champions.… MORE
Illinois State routs IUPUI in walk-off fashion
Scoring in every inning, the Illinois State softball team defeated IUPUI in five innings with Alyssa Wiebel’s three-run home run clinching the 10-1 walk-off win, in the final game of the Hilltopper Spring Fling.… MORE
Redbirds’ rally not enough at Western Kentucky
Despite cutting the deficit in half in the sixth inning, the Illinois State softball team dropped a six-run decision at Western Kentucky on Thursday in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Hilltoppers posted four runs in the bottom of the sixth to earn the 8-2 over the Redbirds.… MORE
Road contest at Colorado State added to 2018 ISU football slate
For the third time in four seasons, the Illinois State football program will step up a level to play a Football Bowl Subdivision opponent, when the Redbirds travel to Fort Collins, Colorado, to take on the Colorado State Rams on Sept. 22, 2018. … MORE
Redbirds add two SEC transfers to roster for 2017
Illinois State football head coach Brock Spack added a pair of transfers from the Southeast Conference (SEC) to his roster for 2017, as he announced the additions of former Vanderbilt safety Jalen Banks and former Missouri running back Ryan Williams to the Redbird football program Thursday.… MORE
Redbirds unbeaten at home with win over SIU
The Illinois State men’s basketball team held off Southern Illinois, 50-46, Wednesday to seal an undefeated, 15-0, regular-season home record.… 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…