Category Archives: Local Sports

The Salem Wildcats won a pair of games yesterday to put them in today's consolation championship at the 15th annual Duster Thomas. Salem opened the day with a 42-26 win over Steeleville. Connor Tennys...

CHICAGO (AP) - DeMar DeRozan compared the Chicago Bulls' success this season against the Eastern Conference's best teams to being chased by a dog. They know they they have to keep going and can't slow...

Duster Thomas: The Salem Wildcats will open up the 15th annual Duster Thomas Hoops Classic in Pinckneyville tonight with an opening round game against the host Panthers. Pinckneyville is 10-1 on the s...

The Christ Our Rock Winterfest Girls Tournament opens today. The first game at 9:30 is Greenville and Sandoval followed by Hamilton County and Chester at 11, Johnston City and Dupo at 12:30, Staunton ...

At the Waltonville Junior High Boys Tournament, South Central opened up with a 58-23 win over North Wamac/Irvington to improve to 12-4 on the season. Westin Neilson and Sebastian Kruger had 16 each fo...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Sonny Dykes says he thought about changing careers five years ago when he was finishing a season as an off-field offensive analyst at TCU after being fired at California. Inst...

CHICAGO (AP) - Kevin Porter Jr. scored a season-high 36 points and the Houston Rockets used a 17-1 run in the third quarter to beat the Chicago Bulls 133-118 on Monday night, snapping a five-game losi...

Matt Eberflus insisted the Chicago Bears won't shut down quarterback Justin Fields for the remaining two games. Fields was hobbling at the end of Saturday's 35-13 loss to the Buffalo Bills after someo...

Holiday Tournaments tip-off today around the area. At the 50th annual Vandalia Holiday Tournament, Greenville opens the day at 9:30 with Shelbyville, Nokomis and Okaw Valley at 11, Christ Our Rock ope...

Tom Brady, Buccaneers rally to beat Cardinals 19-16 in OT GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers maintained control of the NFC South, overcoming a 10-point deficit in the fourth...