The Bloomington Edge has partnered with the Bloomington-Normal Athlete factory to host a free high hchool football coaching clinic in conjunction with the Central Illinois High School Recruiting Showcase.… MORE
Category Archives: Bloomington Edge
Bloomington Edge educates public on football concussions
The Bloomington Edge is trying to inform the public about athletic related concussions.… MORE
Ex-Redbird Avaloy signs with Bloomington Edge
The Bloomington Edge has announced the signing of former Illinois State offensive linemen Kyle Avaloy.… MORE
Bloomington Edge to rejoin IFL
The Bloomington Edge has announced it will be rejoining the Indoor Football League, the league in which it competed from 2009 to 2012.… MORE
Longtime Edge, IWU assistant Ruud promoted to Edge head coach
Nick Ruud has been an offensive lineman and assistant coach for the Bloomington Edge and, previously, the Extreme for all but one year of the team’s existence.… MORE
Bloomington Edge to partner with youth football program
The Bloomington Edge indoor football team has entered into a partnership with the Bloomington Knockers youth football team.… MORE
GM Welde gets contract extension with Edge
The Bloomington Edge has announced a two-year contract extension for general manager Charles Welde.… MORE
Bloomington Edge releases 2017 schedule
The Bloomington Edge has released its schedule for the 2017 season… MORE
Edge name former linebacker Ismail new coach
Former Edge linebacker Ameer Ismail has been named as the team’s new head coach, the team announced earlier today.… MORE
Edge, coach part ways due to health reasons
The Bloomington Edge and head coach John Johnson have mutually decided to part ways effective immediately.… MORE
Blogs
WJBC Voices: The safe, legal and rare fraud
At one time, Hillary Clinton’s mantra about abortion was that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.” I suspected then that she really meant only the “legal” part, and time has borne out that suspicion.
WJBC Voices: Rauner’s Toyota claim a misleading, false promise
On September 27, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner told the Pantagraph that Bloomington-Normal was in serious contention for a Mazda-Toyota auto plant, but the existence of unions and Illinois laws lost the potential jobs to Alabama.
WJBC Voices: “Progressive” has nothing to do with progress
One of the gubernatorial candidates is advocating a progressive income tax as the solution to the state’s economic problems.
WJBC Voices: Celebrating local workers
By Mike Matejka Labor Day is perhaps the most mis-understood holiday in the nation’s calendar. Traditionally viewed as a summer’s end celebration, its real roots are in worker protest, trying to claim and celebrate their role in society. In Bloomington, local unions organize and march together, along with community groups and aspiring politicians, in Monday’s…