By Bobby Narang York High School wants to follow the same script Friday night, Sept. 30, in football. Glenbard West is aiming for a rewrite. The Dukes and Hilltoppers hook up for a key midseason West Suburban Silver Conference game in week six. The York Dukes, 5-0, 3-0, have recent
By Woodrow Carroll Saturday’s University of Illinois 11 a.m. football game at Wisconsin will find the Illini in an unusual situation, namely, Illinois has the better won-loss record. Visiting Illinois will arrive in Madison, Wis. with a 3-1 overall record and the Wisconsin 2-2. What was once a spirited rivalry
High school, college, professional. Those are the choices for fans in football, basically Friday night for high schools, Saturday for colleges, Sunday for professional teams. It used to be that neat, clean, and evenly divided. These days a few college and professional games are played Thursdays and the Illinois High
Aurora Christian’s Max Bray, 9, is in a battle with Chicago Christian tacklers Friday, Sept. 24.
Plainfield North High School’s football team prevailed against visiting Yorkville in a match of previously unbeaten teams in the Friday, Sept. 23 game in Plainfield.
IC Catholic Prep’s, No. 88 looms large in back of Aurora Central Catholic High School junior quarterback Kevin Stanislo.
Honoring Aurora’s Ormond family for three generations of service over 80 years, West Aurora School District 129 dedicated Ormond Stadium at West Aurora High School Thursday, Sept. 15. West Aurora’s a capella choir opened the ceremony outdoors on Ken Zimmerman Field at the stadium with the alma mater. Jason Buckley,
Aurora Classic champion: Aurora University’s Kaitlyn Beebe, 7, goes up to block a University of Wisconsin-Platteville hitter Saturday at AU’s annual Jim Coleman Memorial Classic.
By Bobby Narang St. Francis High School in Wheaton and IC Catholic Prep in Elmhurst are on their to a collision course in week nine football. However, Riverside-Brookfield might have something to say in the Metro Suburban Red Conference standings. The Metro Suburban Red Conference has four teams with at
By Woodrow Carroll In the Saturday, Sept. 17 football game against visiting Vanderbilt University, Northern Illinois University could not have started better. The first four drives by the host Huskies resulted in touchdowns. Then the magic disappeared! It was all Vanderbilt, 3-1, the rest of the way and the Vanderbilt
Batavia High School’s Zach Granberg, 19, left, carries behind Ryan Whitwell, 3, Friday, Sept. 16 in a DuKane Conference game.
An official signals a touchdown after West Aurora High School’s Samuel Stone, 1, returned a fumbled punt 10 yards Thursday, Sept. 15.
Thursday, Sept. 22Metro Suburban BlueRidgewood at Wheaton Academy, 7:30 Friday, Sept. 23DuKaneBatavia at Glenbard North, 7St. Charles East at Wheaton Warr. S., 7St. Charles North at Geneva, noonWheaton North at Lake Park, 7DuPage ValleyWaubonsie Valley at Metea Valley, 7DeKalb at Naperville North, 7Neuqua Valley at Naperville Central, 7Fox ValleyJacobs at
Overlapping and elongated seasons continue to expand in professional sports. Delight or detriment depends on a an’s perspective. The Summer sport of baseball, at the major league level, has had its regular season expanded a week until October 5 because of the work stoppage in Spring training which compelled the
Aurora University senior quarterback Josh Swanson, 9, dives against Franklin College defenders Andre Harlan, 22, and Charlie Moore, 48, Saturday, Sept. 10.
By John Schutt Nascar (National Association for Stock Car Racing) Cup Series, Cook Out Southern 500, Darlington Raceway, Darlington, S.C. Sunday, Sept. 3. It had been 55 years since Richard Petty’s No. 43 car won at Darlington, until the race’s 20-lap shoot out with driver Eric Johns in car No.
Thursday, Sept. 15West Suburban GoldMorton at Leyden, 6 p.m.Non-conferenceJoliet Central at Oswego East, 6Joliet West at West Aurora, 7Plainfield East at Yorkville, 7Romeoville at Oswego, 7 Friday, Sept. 168-Player Football North 1Franklin Center at Parkview Christ. Acad., TBDCCL/ESCC GreenChicago St. Rita at Benet Academy, 7:30Niles Notre Dame at Nazareth Acad.,
By Bobby Narang After the first three weeks of the high school football season, the West Suburban Silver Conference is heating up. York, Glenbard West, Lyons, and Downers Grove North, enter the fourth weekend of the season all undefeated along with one Conference victory each. By Saturday, Sept. 17 that
By Woodrow Carroll After defeating the visiting Virginia Cavaliers, 24-3, Saturday, Sept. 10, the University of Illinois football program can lay claim to two touchdown shutouts this season. A touchdown shutout means the other team may have scored by field goal or safety, but, the opponent did not score a
The start of college football and high school football always draws a focus of interest, even with hard times for many of the teams of interest in our northern Illinois sports and with the dominant sport interest for the Chicago Bears in the National Football League. Interest must not necessarily
