Category Archives: Local Sports
Chiefs cut starting OTs Fisher, Schwartz to save cap space
UNDATED (AP) - The Kansas City Chiefs have released starting offensive tackles Eric Fisher and Mitchell Schwartz as they try to squeeze under the salary cap. The moves Thursday will provide another ob...
Mar 12, 2021
HS Basketball Wrap-Up: Salem completes season Thursday night; Wednesday night results
The Salem Wildcats and Lady Cats wrap up their seasons Thursday night against Breese Central. The Salem boys host State Ranked Breese Central at home in a 7:30 game you can hear on WJBD-FM 100.1. Mean...
Mar 11, 2021
KC Blue Angels win, Blue Devils Fall to SWIC
The Kaskaskia College Blue Devils fell to Southwestern Illinois Community College in Wednesday night play, 79 to 40. KC was led by Traeveion Jones with 21. Chris White added 13, Shomari Tillett 12, an...
Mar 11, 2021
Selmaville, Raccoon, Iuka and Centralia St. Mary's/New Horizon all advance to Junior High regional championship games.
The Selmaville Rockets basketball team has moved into the regional finals and will play Iuka for the championship at six Friday night. Selmaville advanced with a 59 to 24 win over Patoka. Selmaville w...
Mar 11, 2021
College Basketball Round-Up: Boeheim scores 27, hits 6 of Syracuse's 14 3s in ACC tourney
UNDATED (AP) - Conference basketball tournaments continue as teams try to earn automatic berths in the NCAA tourney. The only ranked team in action on Wednesday was No. 25 Oklahoma, which held off Iow...
Mar 11, 2021
Rangers in line to be first team back to full capacity
UNDATED (AP) - The Texas Rangers could be the first team to return to full attendance capacity. The team hopes to have a full house for its home opener next month after debuting a new 40,518-seat stad...
Mar 11, 2021
NHL Wrap-up: Wild fend off Golden Knights
UNDATED (AP) - The Minnesota Wild remain hot since splitting their first 12 games of the season. Joel Eriksson Ek recorded his second career two-goal game and Kaapo Kahkonen stopped 24 shots as the Wi...
Mar 11, 2021
NFL sets salary cap at $182.5 million, down 8% from 2020
UNDATED (AP) - The NFL's salary cap will be $182.5 million per team in the upcoming season, a drop of 8% from 2020. The league's loss of revenues due to the coronavirus pandemic caused the first decre...
Mar 11, 2021
Athletes appeal to NCAA in protest of anti-transgender laws
UNDATED (AP) - More than 500 college athletes have signed a letter to the NCAA Board of Governors asking the organization to refuse to schedule championships in states that have banned transgender par...
Mar 11, 2021
NBA Wrap-Up: Mavs win Texas turf war
UNDATED (AP) - The Dallas Mavericks are looking like a stronger team as Luka Doncic gets used to playing with Kristaps Porzingis. Doncic had a triple-double and the Mavericks closed on a 17-4 run to b...
Mar 11, 2021
