Our area saw some impressive and inspiring sports stories throughout 2025. It was tough to narrow down and we had to leave ...

With holiday tournaments and much of the non-conference schedule out of the way, it is time for high school basketball teams ...

State championships. Easier access to state championships. State championships in DeKalb. Long winning streaks. Long losing ...

Stillman Valley head football coach Mike Lalor steps away from the game after 28 years as head coach, 32 years as a coach, ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Young athletes from the Rockford region will get the spotlight Saturday during the NFC Wild Card game ...

Iowa State is third, Iowa sits in fourth and University of Northern Iowa is No. 17 in the latest National Wrestling Coaches ...

Edmund Ewoldt taught biology at Wheaton Community High School, which became Wheaton Central High School, for nearly 30 years. He also was the school’s wrestling coach and then spent a decade as its ...

Illinois announced Friday that head wrestling coach Mike Poeta was placed on indefinite administrative leave. In a statement, athletic director Josh Whitman said Poeta will “remain away from the ...

The Ohio State Buckeyes (7-1, 1-0 Big Ten) will look to extend a six-game home win streak when they square off against the No. 13 Illinois Fighting Illini (7-2, 0-0 Big Ten) on Tuesday, December 9, ...

PEORIA — Illinois State University football is unranked, unseeded and still unequaled in the 2025 FCS playoffs. The Redbirds upset No. 8 UC Davis on the road Saturday in the quarterfinals, 42-31, to ...

MACHESNEY PARK ― Hononegah continues to use the big meets to show what it's made of. On Sunday, although three of them were not quite able to finish the job, Hononegah boosted four wrestlers into the ...

ROCKFORD, MI - Just weeks after it was included on a list of projects that had state funding cut, the city of Rockford’s Krause Memorial Library has received $1 million from the federal government to ...