Here are the Illinois Associated Press Class 1A and Class 2A All-State girls’ basketball teams as voted on by a statewide panel of sports writers and broadcasters.
On Saturday, VanVleet spoke honestly about the trade-off the league and its players have made by having a grueling, truncated season during a pandemic.
This week alone, Belvidere North, Guilford, North Boone, Oregon, and Rock Falls all have had to cancel their upcoming games this weekend due to COVID-19 concerns.
Carlos Rodón threw the second no-hitter of the young baseball season Wednesday night, losing his bid for a perfect game on a hit batter with one out in the ninth inning, and the Chicago White Sox cruised to an 8-0 victory over the Cleveland Indians.
Fans will have the opportunity to bid on the naming rights through MILB auctions leading up to each game in 2021 at the stadium with a minimum bid of $500.
The Guilford High School football team has finished their already condensed football season early due to the team being under quarantine from a COVID-19 exposure.
Just like the girls a week ago, there were plenty of area talent selected to this year’s Illinois Basketball Coaches Association All-State boys’ teams.
The Pecatonica sophomore found a tumor on his scrotum last May. A week after surgery to remove the tumor, he was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare form of testicular cancer.
The Illinois Basketball Coaches Association released its girls’ All-State teams for all four class levels, and there is plenty of players earning recognition.
Cooper was honored by the Bears Outreach program as its high school all-star for his Week 2 performance against Freeport. Cooper threw for three touchdowns and ran for three more in the victory.
The 26-year-old appeared in 106 regular season games with Chicago from 2015-18, tallying 13 goals and 26 assists. He also skated in one postseason contest for the club in the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
It’s a comeback story that’s grabbed the villages of Durand and Pecatonica as a 15-year-old athlete battled with a chronic disease and continued to do what he loves, playing sports.
The Northwest Upstate Illini Conference (NUIC) asked the Royal Lions to fill-in for Ashton-Franklin Center, after the Raiders switched to 8-Man just before the year started.
James “Jimmy” Shea made his first court appearance Monday on one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and two counts of sexual battery. The incidents occurred in 2020, court documents show.
Rock Valley’s Tyler Ingram struck out ten batters in six innings, giving up just one run as the Golden Eagles beat Highland 5-3 in the first of a double-header in Freeport on Monday.
