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The first-ever Polar Plunge will be held in the rear Centralia High School parking lot on Friday, March 10th. The Polar Plunge like the ones at Rend and Carlyle Lake will help raise money for Special ...

MOLINE, Ill. (AP) - Here are the Illinois Associated Press Class 1A-4A All-State girls' basketball teams as voted on by a statewide panel of newspaper sports writers/editors, TV/radio broadcasters, an...

Roderick Gatewood Jr recently scored his 2000th career point at Meridian High School. The 3 biggest points of his career came last night as he hit a three in the corner as time expired while being tri...

The 1a/2a girls final four semifinals will be held today at Redbird Arena in Normal. First at 10, the Okawville Lady Rockets take their 32-4 record to the court against Gelena who is 34-1. The Lady Pi...

The Winter Athletic Awards were handed out at SCHS this week. In boys basketball, Seth Bailey had high free throw percentage and Most Valuable, Connor Tennyson was the rebounding award winner and offe...

The Franklin Park Lady Bobcats take their 13-3 record on the road at Wesclin tonight. The JV will try to improve on their 13-0 record. Raccoon won their varsity match with Casey Mount Vernon 25-27, 25...

Antoine Davis is on the verge of breaking a scoring record once considered untouchable - and, in some ways, remains so. Detroit Mercy's star guard needs just 26 points to surpass Pete Maravich as the ...

DETROIT (AP) - Zach LaVine scored 41 points and the Detroit Pistons called one too many timeouts, helping the Chicago Bulls hold on for a 117-115 win Wednesday night. The Pistons were trailing by two ...

Believe It or DON'T On this day in 1962, Wilt Chamberlin set the single game NBA scoring record when he scored 100 points against the New York Knicks. Believe It or DON'T On this day in 1983, CD playe...

Wise World of Wellen presented by Salem Eye Clinic 1. The ratio of cookie to cream in an Oreo cookie is 71% cookie, 29% cream. 2. John Chapman . . . a.k.a. Johnny Appleseed . . . didn't plant apple tr...