Colin Bonnett scored 15 points to lead three Titans in double figures in scoring as Illinois Wesleyan used air-tight defense to win at Millikin, 65-56, to maintain a one game lead in the final week of the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin race. … MORE
fter the Illinois State Redbirds closed a seven-point second-half deficit to just two, the Valparaiso Crusaders opened a 16-2 run to push ahead by 16, and never looked back in a Sunday afternoon 74-58 Crusader victory.… MORE
Despite Paige Saylor’s perfect game, Illinois State Women’s Basketball fell to the Missouri State Bears 75-58.… MORE
Brady Rose led four Titans in double figures with 17 points as Illinois Wesleyan maintained its standing atop the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin with a 70-61 win over Carroll at Shirk Center. … MORE
Illinois State Women’s Basketball secured a 39-36 victory over the Salukis to take the two-game series.… MORE
Three players – Elijah Clarance, William Tinsley, and Daouda N’Diaye – each recorded new career-highs with 15, 14, and 13 points, each, as the Illinois State Redbirds used overtime to topple the Southern Illinois Salukis by a 76-68 final score on Thursday evening.… MORE
Illinois State football coach Brock Spack has finished this year’s recruiting class with 10 signess, to bring the total to 31 new players.… MORE
Aston Francis scored 36 points with signature array of highlight reel three-point shots as Wheaton outscored No, 17 Illinois Wesleyan, 107-95, in a Shirk Center game that further complicates an already crowded College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin race.
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The Bloomington Edge indoor football team says it will play an independent schedule this year after its former league filed legal action.… MORE
Illinois state junior guard Keyshawn Evans is expected to miss one to three weeks with a bone bruise, coach Dan Muller confirmed on Monday.… 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…