By John Schutt NASCAR Cup Series, Verizon 200 at the Brickyard, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course, Indianapolis, Ind., Sunday, July 31. The race was held at the Indy 500 track, however, used the road course which was part infield and part of the large track to create some exciting racing.
Every month in the sports world has its distinctive design. In August we understand the football season is on the horizon with preparations, the baseball season offers approaching pennant races, and Summer activities such as golf and tennis offer timely tournaments. Hopes for Big Ten Conference football success revolve around
By Woodrow Carroll In the 1947 Rose Bowl, the University of Illinois surprised favored UCLA, 45-14, to start a 13-year run, 1947-1959, of Big Ten Conference team victories in the Rose Bowl 12 times. The outlier was Wisconsin’s 7-0 defeat at the hands of Southern California in the 1953 Rose
Major League Baseball (MLB) continues to prove that teams are tied closer to .500 than in other sports and that teams go from losing streaks to winning streaks rather easily. The Chicago Cubs defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-2, Tuesday afternoon this week to jump ahead of the Bucs in the
By Bobby Narang The Oswego High School boys basketball team endured a rocky offseason full of changes. But the return of senior guard Max Niesman, a three-year starter, provided some stability. The six-footer is slated to be the most experienced player on the team after Deakon Tonielli, a University of
By Woodrow Carroll Former University of Illinois head football coach Gary Moeller died last week at the age of 81. Described as the former Illinois coach is not how Moeller would like to be remembered. Moeller was the Illinois head coach for three seasons, 1977-1979. Those three seasons in Champaign
Naperville Park Board vice president, Leslie Ruffing, presented a certificate of honor to Alex Barger, right, recently named Gatorade Illinois Boys Soccer Player of the Year.
Sports out of season can build tradition and become part of the mainstream. Examples include the abbreviated National Basketball Association Summer League recently concluded, and the high school lineman competition and training, the Battle of the Big Butts. Just the name of the latter is telling for 25 high schools
Look out below: The Chicago Cubs have played competitive baseball in the last five weeks, however, Cincinnati has been playing better baseball recently. Through Monday this week the Cubs were only two game ahead of Cincy’s Reds. The Cubs were 18 games under .500 and Cincinnati was 22 games under
By Bobby Narang The Riverside-Brookfield High School boys basketball program has been a consistent winner over the past few decades. A program built on the pillars of a solid team chemistry, defense, and sharing the ball, the Bulldogs enter the upcoming season with several question marks. The Bulldogs lost four
By Woodrow Carroll The defending World Series champion Atlanta Braves have an opportunity to test themselves this week. Three games the early part of the week with the New York Mets will be followed by four games with the Washington Nationals. Results should reveal Braves’ pennant position. Brian Snitker, 66,
By Bobby Narang Yorkville Christian High School senior guard David Douglas, Jr. is a player on the rise this Summer. Douglas learned all the ins and outs of becoming an elite player last season. He watched former teammate Jaden Schutt become one of the top players in the country last
By Woodrow Carroll The media and concerned others were recently informed that Sandwich High School would not be fielding a varsity football team in the Fall. The stated reason was the poor turnout among junior and senior class students to leave the football program short of numbers. In the past,
Sports covers all seasons all the time: • Women’s professional basketball with the first-place Chicago Sky is in the middle of its season, led by Candace Parker a Naperville Central High School graduate and polished profession in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). • Another Winter sports in July: Although
The League champion Plano “Lady Reapers” 12U softball team was honored by Plano mayor Mike Rennels at the City’s inaugural Midweek Music concert event Wednesday, June 29.
East Aurora School District 131 was well represented recently at the Special Olympics State Tournament at Illinois State University. Eight gold, five silver, two bronze medals, and a sixth-place certificate were awarded to Tomcats. Senior Alex Mota was a gold medalist for all events he competed in, squat, bench-press, and
West Aurora High School’s Battle of the Big Butts, strength, speed and endurance contests for high school football linemen, will be held Thursday, July 14. The 22nd annual event will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, July 14, at West Aurora High School, 1201 W. New York Street in Aurora.
By Bobby Narang Oswego East High School boys basketball head coach, Ryan Velasquez, wanted to gather his team for one final Summer pep talk Sunday afternoon. The Wolves had wrapped up the June team camp season by playing two games at the Ridgewood Shootout Sunday, June 26. The three-day shootout
By John Schutt NASCAR Cup Series, Toyota / Save Mart 350, Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, Calif., Sunday, June 12. Daniel Suarez made history when he won his first NASCAR Cup race and was the first Mexican-born driver to win a Cup Series race. Following in second place was Chris Buescher, Mike
By Woodrow Carroll Were it not for a 4-3 victory over the visiting Baltimore Orioles Sunday, June 26, the Chicago White Sox would have been swept by a team that has been a Major League Baseball (MLB) punching bag much of the past decade. In Chicago for a four-game series
