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Franklin Park will open up on Thursday night hosting the one night regional. The top seed will take on Olney at 5pm followed by Mt Carmel and Flora. The winners play at 7pm for the trip to state. Cent...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Ryan Graves scored 2:17 into the game and the Pittsburgh Penguins never trailed Thursday night in a 5-3 win over the St. Louis Blues. Graves' goal was his first of the season, and Co...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Kylan Boswell scored a career-high 24 points and four other Illinois players finished in double figures as the 24th-ranked Fighting Illini beat Iowa 106-94 in a wild second-round B...

CHICAGO (AP) - Coby White scored 31 points, and the Chicago Bulls beat the Brooklyn Nets 116-110 on Thursday night. White extended his streak of 20-point games to a career-best seven, helping the Bull...

Believe It or DON'T On this day in 1781, William Herschel discovered Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. Uranus was the first planet to be discovered with the aid of a telescope. Believe It or DO...

The Salem Wildcats will be in a new conference for the 2026-27 school year. The school was invited and has voted to accept the invitation to join the Southern Illinois River to River. Without specific...

Eighth-seeded Kaskaskia defeated number five seed Lincoln Trail, 63-57, to reach Friday's championship game of the NJCAA Central District Region 24 tournament at Rend Lake. The Blue Devils got a 12-fo...

The IHSA State Tournament opens today at the State Farm Center in Champaign. The day begins with the 1a semifinal at 9:30 featuring the St Anthony Bulldogs against the Hope Academy Eagles. The Dawgs a...

The Centralia Orphans and Mt Vernon Rams were well represented on the South 7 All Conference Basketball Team. The first team consisted of Centralia's Dustyn Collins and Archie Goewey along with Mt Ver...

The Illinois High School Association is excited to announce the 26 members who were selected to be a part of the 2025 IHSA All-State Academic Team. Honorees will be recognized at a banquet in Blooming...