Thursday, March 9IHSA State Tournament Class 1ASemifinalsGibault vs. Cornerstone Christ., 10 a.m.Tuscola vs. Scales Mound, 11:45 a.m.Third Place, 7IHSA State Tournament Class 2ASemifinalsTeutopolis vs. DePaul, 2:30Rockridge vs. Bloomington Cath., 4:15Third Place, 8:45Friday, March 10IHSA State Tournament Class 3ASemifinalsSt. Ignatius vs. Simeon, 10 a.m.Metamora vs. East St. Louis, 11:45 a.m.Third Place,
125 Pounds: Spencer Lee, Iowa, over Liam Cronin, Nebraska, Dec 8-2133 pounds: Roman Bravo-Young, Penn State, over Aaron Nagao, Minnesota, Dec 5-2141 Pounds: Real Woods, Iowa, over Brock Hardy, Nebraska, Dec 2-1149 Pounds: Sammy Sasso, Ohio State, over Michael Blockhus, Minnesota, SV-1 7-5157 Pounds: Levi Haines, Penn State, over Peyton
Wednesday, March 8 (First Round)Game 1: Ohio State vs. Wisconsin, 5:30 p.m., BTN Game 2: Minnesota vs. Nebraska, 8:30 p.m., BTN Thursday, March 9 (Second Round)Game 3: Rutgers vs. Michigan, 11 a.m., BTNGame 4: Game 1 winner vs. Iowa, 2 p.m., BTNGame 5: Penn State vs. Illinois, 5:30 p.m., BTNGame 6: Game
Wednesday, March 1 (First Round)Game 1: Penn State 72, Minnesota 67Game 2: Rutgers 63, Northwestern 59Thursday, March 2 (Second Round)Game 3: Michigan State 67, Nebraska 64Game 4: Michigan 63, Penn State 61Game 5: Purdue 57, Wisconsin 55Game 6: Illinois 81, Rutgers 55Friday, March 3 (Quarterfinals)Game 7: Indiana 94, Michigan State
By Bobby Narang Lenee Beaumont entered the final weekend of the girls high school basketball season with one goal left to accomplish. The Benet Academy senior point-guard already had etched her name among the best in the State, and in program history, with a prolific career. The Indiana University recruit
By Woodrow Carroll For a team that lost three of its final four regular-season games, Northwestern University’s men’s basketball team ended up very well. Faced with a four-game losing streak entering this week’s Big Ten Conference tournament, Northwestern closed out regular-season play with a 65-53 victory at Rutgers Sunday, March
High school Winter sports are on their way to conclusions with only boys basketball champions remaining to be decided in four classes by enrollment. Big Ten Conference, with 14 schools, determined wrestling champions last weekend in 10 weight classes. It is busy times for both participants who have worked hard
By John Schutt NASCAR Cup Series, Pala Casino 400, Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 26. The race was won by a driver, Kyle Busch, who has won a race there for three teams He won in the No. 8 Chevy and driving for Richard Childress Racing. Following in
By Bobby Narang The final four is set in girls high school basketball in Illinois. The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) starts the second year of its new format for girls basketball, which includes playing the third-place game on the same day of the semifinals. That forces some teams to
By Woodrow Carroll Because Eastern Washington University lost, 71-63, to Idaho State in a Big Sky Conference game Saturday, Feb. 25, there is one remaining undefeated Div-I men’s basketball team in league play, Oral Roberts University. The Golden Eagles closed their league play Saturday, Feb. 25 with a 69-65 road
Neuqua Valley High School’s Nicolas Lendino, 44 is in a battle with Lincoln-Way East’s Mac Master for a rebound in the Class 4A East Aurora Regional tournament championship game, Friday, Feb. 24.
Change is the steady framework in sports in all manner of methods, in personnel, conference affiliation, and rivalries. The West Suburban Conference, Silver and Gold, are dominant in football and often in basketball. That’s steady. The once flaming-hot football rivalry between East Aurora and West Aurora is non-existent because of
February 15, 2023Dear editor; Even as the world may be going to hell in a hand basket, as Grandma used to say, and at the risk of sounding frivolous, millions of Americans will share at least a temporary respite March 30 when Major League Baseball’s Opening Day takes place across
By Bobby Narang The Illinois High School Association individual boys State wrestling tournament featured several marquee match-ups last weekend. The three-day tournament on the University of Illinois campus in Champaign, pitted the best in the State, including two nationally-ranked wrestlers from Kane County. St. Charles East junior Ben Davino and
By Woodrow Carroll The always-popular NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) men’s postseason basketball tournament is getting close. The tournament Selection Show will be Sunday, March 12. We take a look at a team that came ever-so close to winning the tournament championship, only to falter at the finish, the very
March Madness is on the horizon in basketball and for more sports, high school, college, and professional. For some fans the madness has been here during the regular season without a neat order and uncommon results. Why have neat and clean? An examples is the Big Ten Conference in men’s
Thursday, Feb. 16Fox ValleyCrystal Lake Central at Jacobs, 7Metro Suburban BlueAurora Christ. at Wheaton Acad., 7:30West Suburban SilverOak Park-R.F. at Downers Grove N., 7:30Non-conferenceCoal City at Joliet Catholic, 7Lincoln-Way W. at Hinsdale S., 6:30Plainfield Central at Willowbrook, 6 Friday, Feb. 17Chicago Catholic League BlueSt. Ignatius at St. Rita, 7Fox ValleyBurlington
By Bobby Narang The 2022-2023 girls high school wrestling season is reaching the final stages. The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) individual State meet is less than two weeks away, but this season has proven to be a smashing success for the sport. One year ago, the IHSA’s inaugural individual
By Woodrow Carroll Storming the court has become quite fashionable in college basketball when the home team produces a victory over a high-ranking team, or fierce rival. That was the case for the Northwestern University’s men’s basketball team after the Wildcats beat the Nation’s No. 1-ranked team, Purdue, 64-58, in
The Super Bowl game this year in the desert of Arizona was Super! Nearly an overtime ending, Kansas City defeated slight favorite of the odds-makers, Philadelphia, 38-35. It has been 37 years, more than one-third of a century (ouch, written that way) since the Chicago Bears captured the 1986 Super
