This time of the year our sports overlap into start-out optimism, drive into high gear of success, and ending in disappointment. Through more than half the season in the National Football League, the Chicago Bears are four games under .500. Finding a combined optimism and accelerated determination remains the objective
By John Schutt NASCAR Cup Series championship, Phoenix Raceway, Phoenix, Ariz, Sunday, Nov. 5. The final four included Joe Logano, Ross Chastain, Chris Bell and Chase Elliott. Only one of those four could be the champion and Joe Logano won his second NASCAR (National Association of Auto Car Racing) championship.
Class 8A Game 25: Warren at Lincoln-Way East, Sat., Nov. 12, 1 p.m.Game 26: Glenbard West at Maine South, Sat., Nov. 12, 6 p.m.Game 27: Palatine at York, Sat., Nov. 12, 1 p.m.Game 28: Lyons at Loyola Academy, Sat., Nov. 12, 1 p.m. Class 7A Game 25: Chicago Brother Riceat
By Bobby Narang York High School head football coach Mike Fitzgerald wondered how his team would handle adversity in the second-round playoff Saturday, Nov. 5. The Dukes, a relative newcomer to big-time football, were playing at State powerhouse Marist in Chiago, but had to overcome unusual heavy winds that hampered
By Woodrow Carroll The University of Illinois football team’s new course is recovery in the final three games in the Big Ten Conference regular season. Illinois, 7-2 overall and 4-2 in the Big Ten West, will play its final home game at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 12 against Purdue, 5-4,
Aurora University quarterback Josh Swanson, 9, carries the ball Saturday, Nov. 5. Aurora won, 68-0.
The sports seasons truly cross now and bring in the opposite ends of the spectrum. World Series baseball ended Saturday, Nov. 5 with the championship of Houston over Philadelphia, and, although professional basketball started in late October, college basketball started earlier this week and high school basketball will be a
Batavia High School’s Tyler Jansey, left, and Drew Gerke, 11, tackle Hersey’s Charles Meister, 20, in the second round of the Class 7A playoffs at Batavia.
Joshua Gettemy, 3, moves past a visiting Moline defender in the four-overtime second-round Class 7A playoff game Saturday, Nov. 5.
Rosary captions third place in the Class 1A State cross country meet.
By Bobby Narang The West Suburban Silver Conference is showing its strength in the playoffs this season. Filled with big schools with the capability to be among the best in the State, the West Suburban Conference (WSC) Silver is led by the strong play of York and Glenbard West High
By Woodrow Carroll At the beginning of the Division I college football season, focus on the University of Illinois program was if the Fighting Illini would win six games and make it to a postseason bowl game. The 2021 Illini ended with a 5-7 record under first-year head coach Bret
Basketball is upon us. The men’s college basketball games can begin Monday, Nov. 7 in all Division I top level play. The other divisions will be gin at approximately the same time. The women’s high school basketball games can begin Monday, Nov. 14 and the men’s high school basketball games
Aurora University’s Trey Madsen makes the game-winning catch in Lisle Saturday, Oct. 29 against Benedictine University.
Host Kaneland High School quarterback Troyer Carlson, 10, celebrates his 15-yard first-quarter touchdown run Friday, Oct. 28 with Dom DeBlasio, 11, and Johnny Spallasso, 2. Kaneland won, 35-14, in round one of Class 6A playoffs against Riverside-Brookfield.
Yorkville defense crucial: Yorkville High School punt-rushers, Kyle Gettemy, 4, and Luke Zook, 23, take aim at the Libertyville punter in the Class 7A first-round high school football playoff game Friday, Oct. 27.
Bria Bennis of York High school captures individual first place in the Waubonsie Valley High School Class 3A Sectional meet Saturday, Oct. 29 in the time of 16:59.2.
With East High Football Oldtimers Association dinner committee members standing by, Janet Kenyon, right, announces her Tomcat challenge coin at the 77th annual Old Timers’ dinner meeting October 20 at the Gaslite Manor in Aurora.
Andrew Laurich, 9, of Yorkville High School, seeks to pull away from Oswego defenders in the teams’ Friday, Oct. 21 Southwest Prairie Conference West Division game.
By Bobby Narang The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) football playoffs are finally here. For the second straight season, the playoffs are a welcome return to normality in the Fall. The IHSA released the eight-class football pairings Saturday evening, with Lincoln-Way East, 9-0, as the No. 1 seed in largest
