By Eric Stock TOKYO – The Illinois Wesleyan football team can soak up the sights and sounds of Tokyo while celebrating a 33-6 win over Waseda University on Sunday in the Global Bowl Tokyo 2017 at Amino Field in Chofu, Japan. “It was a fun ball game, it was a great win,” IWU football coach…… MORE
First-year Illinois Wesleyan softball coach Tiffany Prager admits a sense of relief in getting her Titans to the College World Series.… MORE
Illinois Wesleyan will get a taste of football in the Far East next month.… MORE
Illinois Wesleyan softball coach Tiffany Prager feels her predecessor’s presence is still being felt on a team that’s one the verge on a return trip to the College World Series.… MORE
Illinois Wesleyan football’s recruiting class of 36 newcomers includes six transfers, a program high for coach 31-year coach Norm Eash.… MORE
Illinois Wesleyan head women’s basketball coach Mia Smith has been selected to serve as an at-large representative on the national USA Basketball committee to select coaches and athletes for various USA Basketball teams for the 2017-2020 quadrennium.… MORE
Illinois Wesleyan senior Meg Stanley became the school’s first-ever national swimming champion when she touched the wall first in the 500 freestyle at the NCAA Division III Championships on Wednesday at the CISD Natatorium in Shenandoah, Texas.… MORE
Illinois Wesleyan assistant football coach Travis Rundle has been named the new head football coach at Sewanee University, a Division III school in Tennessee.… MORE
For the first time since winning the title in 2012, the Illinois Wesleyan women’s basketball team (18-9) will play in the NCAA Division III championships, playing No. 17-ranked Trine University (24-2) on Friday, at the regional hosted by Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio.… MORE
Illinois Wesleyan junior guard Brady Rose was named to the first team and senior center Trevor Seibring earned second team honors Wednesday as the 2017 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin all-conference men’s basketball squads.… 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…