The Illinois High School Association has announced the match-ups for next weekend’s first round of the football playoffs. … MORE
Category Archives: Local Sports
High school football: NCHS sweeps Big Twelve, LeRoy grabs playoff spot
As the high school football regular season ends this weekend, teams wait for Saturday night’s announcement of the 256 playoff teams.… MORE
High school football regular season closes with playoff seeds on line
Regular season finales this weekend will determine where teams will be placed in postseason brackets.… MORE
Redbird men 2nd, women 5th in preseason MVC polls
Illinois State men’s basketball is picked to finish as runner-up in this season’s Missouri Valley Conference race while the Redbirds are selected to finish fifth on the women’s side.… MORE
Redbird football dominates SIU on Homecoming
Illinois State racked up over 400 yards on the ground against Southern Illinois, as the No. 12 Redbirds (5-1, 2-1 MVFC) ran away from the Salukis (1-5, 0-3 MVFC) by a score of 51-3 on a sunny afternoon at Hancock Stadium on Homecoming in front of 11,247 fans.… MORE
State golf: Saints, Schrock, Barger take titles
Top state hardware is headed to local trophy cases after Saturday’s state high school golf championships.… MORE
Week 8 football: Bloomington clinches playoff spot, West snaps 2nd place tie in Big Twelve
A shootout in Peoria and a battle between the teams tied for second in the Big Twelve Conference highlighted Week 8 high school football on Friday night. … MORE
Week 8 high school football: West hopes to grab Big Twelve 2nd place alone
A match-up of teams tied for the runner-up spot in the Big Twelve Conference highlights the Week 8 WJBC Friday Night High School Football Extravaganza. … MORE
Week 7 high school football: Bloomington, West, NCHS victorious
Normal Community remained on top of the Big Twelve Conference, Normal West solidified a playoff berth and Bloomington led wire-to-wire in Friday night’s high school football action.… MORE
Bloomington, PND highlight Week 7 Extravaganza
Week 7 of the high school football season presents a match-up of 4-2 teams driving toward possible playoff berths. … 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…