By Woodrow Carroll Years ago, Major League Baseball’s offseason was called the Hot Stove League. The reference was to baseball’s earliest years when talk centered around the prospects of the upcoming season with little real activity prior to Spring training. Today there is no offseason! Each Major League team knows
The East Aurora High School 2020 Hall of Fame Induction ceremony will be Friday, Jan. 31. The reception will be from 4:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the East High cafeteria, 500 Tomcat Lane, Aurora. The induction ceremony will take place following the girls varsity game against Glenbard East The
Neal Ormond, III, West Aurora High School broadcaster, will receive the Distinguished Media Service Award from the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) prior to the boys varsity game against Yorkville Saturday.
By Bobby Narang Everett Stubblefield III is putting together a season to remember. The Willowbrook High School senior is a two-sport, star athlete, who dominates on the football field and then makes a transition to be a high-volume scorer on the basketball court. In the Fall, as a wide receiver,
Marcus Skeete, Waubonsie Valley High School 6-5 senior forward, shoots over Metea Valley’s Alex Moreno Friday.
The high school Winter sports season is slipping away. The first Winter State tournament will be boys bowling January 31-February 1. Fans and players will enjoy the process the rest of the season. There are big games, conference championship showdown games, and shootouts and fests on the horizon. In boys
One of more than 400 contestants returns a ball at the seventh annual Aurora Cup table-tennis tournament in Aurora.
West Aurora High School’s Christian Nieves, right, and East Aurora’s Amarion Savage vie for a rebound.
By Woodrow Carroll Northern Illinois University’s men’s basketball team can end a perplexing trend. Now in his ninth season as men’s basketball head coach at Northern Illinois, Mark Montgomery has yet to see his players finish with a winning record in the Mid-American Conference (MAC). Montgomery has flirted with conference
Preston Larrison, Class of 1998, baseball.
Tuesday Jan. 14 Lakes Naperville Central 58, Nazareth 34 Thursday, Jan. 16 Burlington Central* Burlington Central 64, Johnsburg 32 Friday, Jan. 17 Burlington Central* Lyons 48, Waubonsie Valley 46 Saturday, Jan. 18 Burlington Central* Waubonsie Val. 64, Woodstock N. 44 Burlington Central 68, Marian Cen. 43 Waubonsie Valley 65, Belvidere
By Bobby Narang Batavia High School girls basketball head coach Kevin Jensen wanted to organize an event that would include numerous Batavia area teams and pit them against another conference. That’s how the inaugural MLK Day Conference Challenge that pit the DuKane Conference and Mid-Suburban League was formed. The six-game
East Aurora High School’s Alasha Moore scores in front of West Aurora’s Isabelle Lambert Saturday.
• See MLK tournament results at thevoice.us/high-school-boys-basketball-selected-mlk-tournament-schedule Thursday, Jan. 23 Northeastern Athletic Mooseheart at Harvest Christian, 7 Upstate Eight Glenbard East at Fenton, 7 Larkin at West Chicago, 7 Streamwood at South Elgin, 7 Non-conference Crane at Downers Grove South, 6 Friday, Jan. 24 DuKane Geneva at Glenbard North, 7
Aurora is living up to its reputation for high school basketball excellence and enthusiasm. • The celebration focus will be generated by the East-West girls and boys games at West Aurora Saturday, Jan. 18. The West Aurora Hall of Fame induction will take place between the girls varsity 4 p.m.
The Little Ten Conference held a special meeting at Somonauk High School Wednesday Dec. 4, 2019. All schools were represented at both the athletic directors/principals meeting, followed by the legislative meeting. During that meeting the Little Ten Conference voted to accept DePue Unit School 103 into the conference beginning in
Aurora Christian High School’s Taaj Davis, 13, drives past visiting Bishop McNamara’s Nolan Czako, 25, on his way to setting a single-game school record 56 points Friday.
West Aurora High School’s Axel Motola drives the lane against visiting Joliet Central Friday.
By Woodrow Carroll The college football season came to an end with the National championship game. LSU defeated Clemson, 42-25. With 40 bowl games in all, some are bound to be good, bad, ugly, and exotic. Perhaps a bit overlooked at times is the sponsorship of the bowl games. The
The Oswego co-op boys swimming & diving team continues its amazing 2019-2020 season with a second place finish out of 13 teams at the 65th Annual Riverside-Brookfield High School Invitational Saturday, Jan. 11.
