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Kloe Froebe entered this week’s East Peoria Sectional with 3,135 career points, eighth-most in Illinois High School Association history. She has the type of well-rounded game that has made Caitlin Clark a national phenomenon.
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The Picklr, a chain of indoor pickleball facilities, says it’s planning to open a franchise in Normal in fall 2024. The nine-court, 30,000-square-foot location will be inside the College Hills Plaza, near Towanda and College avenues.
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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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The Missouri Valley Conference has chosen two Illinois State University sports figures for 2024's Hall of Fame induction: former football great Boomer Grigsby, and former sports information director Tom Lamonica.
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Norfolk State coach Robert Jones said during a media availability on Monday that society has come a long way over the decades but there is still a small pocket of people in the country where racism exists.
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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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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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The Major League Baseball playoffs are once again making October a special time. But baseball was not always here to root for and entertain us.
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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.”