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The KC Blue Devils dropped their game to 3rd ranked John A Logan 67-63. In the loss, Jylen Petty and Traeveion Jones finished with 17 each. Shawn East led the Volunteers with 21. The Blue Devils fall ...

Tonight is the Class L SIJHSAA boys basketball championship with undefeated Olney taking on Marion at 7:30 at Hummer Waugh Gym at Rend Lake College. Olney advanced by knocking off Casey Mt Vernon in t...

The Franklin Park 7th Grade Bobcats finished off an amazing season in a disappointing way as they fell in the championship at the Woodlawn JV Tournament to an amazingly talented host Warriors squad 66...

In middle school volleyball, Selmaville beat Raccoon on the road 25-18, 25-21. Morgan Kurwicki had 8 service points in the win. The JV was winners 25-18, 25-21 as well. Alana Finney finished with 10 p...

Salem Soccer will be hosting tryouts this weekend. Saturday at the FCC Fields from 3-4 is the 7th/8th grade tryouts and then the 5/6th grade girls will go from 4-5. If you are a 7th grade girl and wan...

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) - Zach Edey had 14 points and eight rebounds, and No. 5 Purdue moved into first place in the Big Ten with a rugged 70-64 victory over Northwestern. Capping a stretch of eight games...

CHICAGO (AP) - DeMar DeRozan scored 38 points and broke an NBA record set by Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain, and the Chicago Bulls beat the Sacramento Kings 125-118. DeRozan, who made 16 of 27 field g...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) - Cliff Omoruyi had 15 points, 13 rebounds and a reverse alley-oop dunk in Rutgers' game-breaking run as the Scarlet Knights beat No. 12 Illinois 70-59 for their fourth straight ...

BEIJING (AP) - There will be no gold medal for the U.S. women's hockey team, and no medal of any kind for Mikael Shiffrin at the Beijing Olympics. Canada claimed its fifth gold medal in seven women's ...

UNDATED (AP) - A pair of NBA streaks have ended in Boston. Jerami Grant hit the winning basket and scored 24 points in leading the Detroit Pistons past the Celtics, 112-111. The Pistons ended an eight...