Category Archives: Local Sports

UNDATED (AP) - Barcelona has announced that Lionel Messi will not stay with the club. The clubs says the Spanish league's financial regulations made it impossible to sign the Argentina star to a new c...

The Whippoorwill Rodeo drew a large crowd to the Marion County Fairgrounds Wednesday night. The bull riding champ was 15-year-old Tucker Murphy of Freeburg. Kelsie Siebert of St. Genevieve, Missouri w...

Franklin Park girls basketball coach Melissa Fehrenbacher has been awarded the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Basketball Coach of the Year for our region. The banquet will be held August 28th...

Atlanta Braves (54-54, third in the NL East) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (53-54, third in the NL Central) St. Louis; Thursday, 8:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Touki Toussaint (1-2, 4.77 ERA, 1.0...

Chicago Cubs (52-57, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Colorado Rockies (47-61, fourth in the NL West) Denver; Thursday, 3:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Jake Arrieta (5-10, 6.20 ERA, 1.61 WHIP, 69...

TOKYO (AP) - Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd each scored a pair of goals and the United States won the bronze medal in women's soccer at the Tokyo Olympics with a 4-3 victory over Australia. It was argu...

UNDATED (AP) - Javier Bez hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning after scoring on a nifty slide in the second, and the New York Mets snapped a three-game losing streak with a 5-3 victory over th...

UNDATED (AP) - Major League Baseball will open the 2022 season on March 31 and will try for the fourth time to have every team play its first game on the same day for the first time since 1968. The le...

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) - Beginning this weekend at Watkins Glen International, NASCAR will require all personnel to wear a face mask in enclosed areas at all times, regardless of vaccination status. ...

MARION - Marion capped off its run to a second straight Colt World Series title Tuesday night. A stellar outing by starting pitcher Charlie Hunter and some timely offense pushed Marion to the champion...