It’s been a year of tears for those affected by the devastating airplane crash that claimed the lives of Illinois State deputy athletics director Aaron Leetch; ISU associate head basketball coach Torrey Ward; Redbird boosters and Bloomington-Normal businessmen Terry Stralow, Jason Jones, Andy Butler, Scott Bittner and pilot Tom Hileman.… MORE
Annie Heineman hit a ground ball to first and Lauren Prader raced home from third to score the game-winning run as the Illinois State softball team snapped a six-game losing streak Sunday, beating Wichita State, 9-8.… MORE
Xavier scored four runs each in the third and fourth innings and the Illinois State baseball team was never able to recover Sunday as the visiting Musketeers earned an 11-5 win to take two out of three games in the series with the Redbirds.… MORE
The Illinois State baseball team snapped a 10-game losing streak with a come-from-behind win over visiting Xavier Saturday at Duffy Bass Field.… MORE
Redshirt junior forward Nick Banyard plans to graduate from Illinois State this summer and will not return to the ISU men’s basketball program for his senior season, head coach Dan Muller announced Friday.
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The Illinois State softball team’s home opener against DePaul scheduled for Wednesday has been canceled due to rain.… MORE
The Illinois State baseball team scored a run in the bottom of the first inning but could do no more in what turned into a pitchers’ duel against Eastern Illinois Tuesday at Duffy Bass Field. The visiting Panthers won, 2-1.… MORE
The Illinois State baseball team dropped both games of Saturday’s doubleheader to Tulane, 3-2 in game one and 9-3 in game two, at Turchin Stadium.… MORE
Riley Strandgard recorded two hits, but the Illinois State softball team was shutout for the second time this weekend, losing 5-0 to Southern Illinois Saturday afternoon in Carbondale, Illinois. SIU outscored the Redbirds 10-1 over the course of three games. … MORE
The Illinois State baseball team was shut out, 13-0, by Tulane behind seven strong innings from the Green Wave’s Ross Massey Friday evening at Turchin 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…