The Illinois State volleyball team has been picked to finish fifth in the Missouri Valley Conference in a preseason poll of league coaches, while Redbird junior Jaelyn Keene was named to the league’s preseason all-conference team, the Valley announced Wednesday.… MORE
The 2016 Illinois State football team enters the season with a deep and athletic defense.… MORE
Illinois State head men’s basketball coach Dan Muller announced the hiring of Darshawn McClellan as the program’s video coordinator Monday.… MORE
Numbers can be deceiving. Just as Illinois State football coach Brock Spack.… MORE
The Illinois State football team joins three other Missouri Valley Football Conference teams ranked in the Top 10 of the FCS Coaches Poll, as the Redbirds were picked No. 8 in the first poll of the 2016 season.… MORE
Former Illinois State basketball star and Olympian Charlotte Lewis was selected as one of six inductees in the 20th Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame class, revealed by MVC Commissioner Doug Elgin Wednesday.… MORE
Illinois State football coach Brock Spack’s message was clear and to the point Wednesday at the team’s annual media day festivities at Hancock Stadium.… MORE
The New Orleans Saints are giving former Illinois State long snapper Chris Highland a second shot.… MORE
The Illinois State football team is once again ranked nationally heading into a new season, as the Redbirds were ranked No. 10 Monday in the STATS FCS Preseason Top 25.… MORE
With back-to-back Missouri Valley Conference championships and two straight trips to the FCS playoffs in its rear view mirror, Illinois State’s football team begins its journey for a third title and another to trip to the FCS national championship game when the Redbirds begin fall training camp Sunday at Hancock Stadium.… 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…