Randy Kindred
CorrespondentRandy Kindred spent 42 years as a sportswriter at The Pantagraph, including eight as sports editor. A native of Atlanta, Illinois, and an Illinois State graduate, he covered a wide range of sports as a reporter and columnist.
Kindred retired from full-time duty in March 2020, but continued to write columns for The Pantagraph. His byline appeared in the newspaper for 45 years.
Randy joined WGLT as a part-time correspondent in 2023. You can reach Randy at rkindred58@gmail.com.
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Tom Lamonica is being inducted into the Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame. His passion for helping others is what made him this year’s choice for the Paul Morrison Award.
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A Zeleznik has been LeRoy’s high school football head coach for all but two seasons since 1979. While a young BJ didn’t see that coming, perhaps he should have.
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You had to hear Horton Field House, not hear about it. The noise generated was otherworldly, and not a single decibel could escape Horton’s clutches.
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Alex Tosi will receive a paycheck this month. He’ll get one in December, too. This is new territory for Tosi, a former Illinois Wesleyan pitcher who just completed his first full season in the Major Leagues … not throwing balls and strikes, but calling them.
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Brock Spack saw potential at Illinois State University. Fifteen years and 100 wins later, he’s seen it play out. No. 100 came Saturday for the winningest coach in school history, lifting Spack’s career record to 100-69.
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Amber May routinely shattered records on the softball field, starring in the pitcher’s circle for Normal Community High School, Heartland Community College and Eastern Illinois University. Now May is at it again, setting a standard on – of all places – the football field.
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Laura (Benton) Doornbos saw her athletic career take flight playing volleyball at Illinois State from 2002-05. She's still doing a lot of flying today.
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Golf has given Stacey Miller a college education, life lessons, lasting friendships and now this: a place in the Illinois State Athletics Percy Family Hall of Fame.
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Sportswriter Dave Kindred's new book tells the story of how writing about the Morton High School girls basketball team, and the players and coaches he came to know, sustained him through a dark period in his life.
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Mark Johnson, former play-by-play man for Illinois State University football and basketball at WJBC Radio, is front and center for Colorado’s gridiron revival as the “Voice of the Buffaloes.”