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The Illinois State University men's basketball team beat No. 23 Indiana State on Tuesday night. It was the Redbirds' first win over a Top 25 opponent since 2016.
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The Town of Normal has announced plans to use increased revenue from sales and property taxes to fund some projects that town officials say are long overdue, including the town’s skate park.
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Illinois high school basketball teams are grinding through the late parts of their seasons as the state tournament approaches early next month. In this episode of our series McHistory, we learn about the longest-running annual basketball tournament in the state — 112 years and counting.
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Jon Nelson was a boys basketball coach for many years at Tri-Valley. Now, Nelson is making a change that's pretty rare — becoming a referee. He loves the exercise and sees it as “a great way to stay in the game” once he retires from teaching.
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WGLT correspondent Randy Kindred writes about a basketball game in 1940, when Jackie Robinson and the UCLA men tipped off against Illinois State in Normal.
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Now that the City of Bloomington has a new anchor tenant for Grossinger Motors Arena, the city is looking for a new name for the downtown venue.
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The investigation by the Illinois State University Ethics Office was launched following a heated Dec. 9 game at Horton in which Norfolk State coach Robert Jones alleged spectators called one of his players the N-word. [This is according to a since-deleted post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter].
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If you didn’t know Lyle Day, know this: if you were in his softball family, you were family. He cared about you unconditionally. His death last week at age 88 leaves a void in the softball community beyond wins and losses, trophies and championships.
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Grossinger Motors Arena was built for hockey, and professional hockey is set to return, with the newly-named Bloomington Bison joining join the ECHL next season starting in the fall.
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The Bloomington City Council approved a 20-year agreement Wednesday to officially launch a new ECHL pro hockey team at Grossinger Motors Arena. The Bloomington Bison will host three dozen home games, in the season that runs from October to April.
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A pro hockey team has the potential to bring more than $20 million in rent and profits over the next two decades if it plays at the City of Bloomington's Grossinger Motors Arena. That’s according to a proposal coming before the Bloomington City Council on Monday.
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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.