U-High has earned another state golf championship.… MORE
Category Archives: Local Sports
Illinois Wesleyan blasts Carroll
The Illinois Wesleyan football team scored the most points in a game since the 1996 season in posting a 62-10 win over Carroll University at Schneider Stadium in Wasukesha, Wis., on Saturday, Oct. 15.… MORE
Sports On Air
WJBC 1230 AM Football – 1 p.m. – IWU at Carroll Game Day – 4 p.m. Football – 5 p.m. – ISU vs. Southern Illinois WJBC.com Hockey – 7 p.m. – Bloomington Thunder at Green Bay Listen live here… MORE
Central earns final Corn Belt title
Central Catholic High School’s football team won the final Corn Belt Conference championship, while Normal West and Bloomington kept their playoff hopes alive Friday night.… MORE
Steel strike early to top Thunder
The Chicago Steel scored the first two goals of the game and held off Bloomington in the third period to top the Thunder 4-1 on Friday night at U.S. Cellular Coliseum.… MORE
Redbird volleyball drops 5-set match to Missouri State
Courtney Pence recorded the 1,000th dig of her collegiate career and Aly Dawson tallied a career-high 27 kills, but it wasn’t enough as the Illinois State volleyball team fell to visiting Missouri State in five sets Friday night at Redbird Arena.… MORE
Lefty’s Corner: Grind continues for ISU gridders
Find a way could be the theme for Illinois State’s football team these days.… MORE
Final Corn Belt football title on line in Week 8
The final Corn Belt Conference title will be decided in the highlight of Week 8 of the WJBC Friday Night High School Football Extravaganza.… MORE
Central Catholic promotes assistant to head softball coach
A former assistant for Central Catholic High School softball is the program’s new head coach.… MORE
Lefty’s Corner: ISU volleyball facing tough opponents
Illinois State’s volleyball team concludes its first half of Missouri Valley Conference play this weekend when it entertains Missouri State and league-leader Wichita State.… 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…