In preparing to defend its Missouri Valley Conference title, the Illinois State men’s basketball team will play games against at least six 2017 Division I postseason qualifiers – including three NCAA Tournament teams – and five opponents who won 20 or more games last season as part of the Redbirds’ 2017-18 nonconference schedule, sixth-year head coach Dan Muller announced Wednesday. … MORE
Jake Kolbe showed up to training camp this week 20 pounds stronger.… MORE
Two the 116 teams competing at the National Fastpitch Championship in the Twin Cities this week won’t need to stay at a hotel.… MORE
Illinois State senior defensive back Davontae Harris was named to the STATS FCS Preseason All-America Team on Monday.… MORE
A second assistant coach on Dan Muller’s Illinois State men’s basketball staff is leaving to take a job at Michigan.… MORE
As the Illinois State football teams begins preseason camp this week, coach Brock Spack is facing the challenge of navigating the NCAA’s new practice rules which include a ban on two-a-day practice.… MORE
Hall of Famer Lou Brock is celebrating the latest prognosis from his doctor. The St. Louis Cardinals legend is cancer free.… MORE
The Illinois State men’s basketball team will play 2017 NCAA Final Four team South Carolina, in the first of three games at the Puerto Rico Tip-Off, Nov. 16-19, according to the tournament bracket unveiled Wednesday.… MORE
On November 4, longtime in-state foes Illinois State and Western Illinois will meet for the 100th time in the longstanding series between the two Missouri Valley Football Conference programs. … MORE
The Illinois Fusion 00 Girls Premier team ended its wild season in an inconceivable fashion last week.… 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…