Let the games resume. The Illinois High School Association has unveiled a crowded high school sports schedule that crams competition in 25 girls and boys sports into a 20-week sprint…
Thomas Hammock has come home. The 37-year-old Baltimore Ravens assistant was introduced as Northern Illinois University’s new head football coach during a Jan. 18 on-campus press…
A.E. “Gene” Staley’s successful corn manufacturing company in Decatur was already producing starch, glucose, sugar and syrup in 1919 when it added professional football to the…
Batavia has never been a football program that did a lot of hard hitting during practice the week leading up to games, so the Illinois High School Association’s new limits on full…
Aurora University not only moved swiftly to find a new head football coach, it also got a legend in the process. Just days after dismissing Rick Ponx and most of his staff, AU announced…