Seventeen departures from last year's 12-1 squad will force new players to step up in 2019 for Argenta-Oreana, our No. 5 team on our preseason Top 10 countdown.
Though Schlarman has been part of a football cooperative with Hoopeston Area and Armstrong-Potomac the last six seasons, the Hilltoppers have solo history to look back on — namely state championships in 1980 and 1981. Matt Blurton gets to head a revival of Schlarman football, as an 8-man gro…
Centennial High School's third Athletic Hall of Fame class is set to include, among others, a former Illinois football quarterback and the current coach of Parkland men's basketball.
Longtime rivalry game moved to Saturday
How does Fisher football — ranked No. 7 by The News-Gazette in its preseason Top 10 poll before the 2019 season starts — plan to follow up its breakthrough season from a year ago?
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Seventeen departures from last year's 12-1 squad will force new players to step up in 2019 for Argenta-Oreana, our No. 5 team on our preseason Top 10 countdown.
Though Schlarman has been part of a football cooperative with Hoopeston Area and Armstrong-Potomac the last six seasons, the Hilltoppers have solo history to look back on — namely state championships in 1980 and 1981. Matt Blurton gets to head a revival of Schlarman football, as an 8-man gro…
Centennial High School's third Athletic Hall of Fame class is set to include, among others, a former Illinois football quarterback and the current coach of Parkland men's basketball.
Longtime rivalry game moved to Saturday
How does Fisher football — ranked No. 7 by The News-Gazette in its preseason Top 10 poll before the 2019 season starts — plan to follow up its breakthrough season from a year ago?
It’s been nearly a year since I wrote about the exploits of the Central Illinois United 2001 boys’ soccer program, so fitting they should be the topic of conversation again.
For the first time ever, Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley tops our all-sports rankings
For the first time ever, Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley topped our annual chart of top programs of the year.
Recent Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley graduate Bryce Barnes helped lead GCMS to a state football title and a trip to state in boys’ basketball.
Saturday's 29th Order of the Eastern Star All-Star game should have offered one last hoorah for Jalen Booker on the football field.
Preps coordinator COLIN LIKAS analyzes each area team’s football schedule before the season kicks off Aug. 30 across the state:
High school football fans across the area, get out your calendars. Schedules for the 2019 season have arrived.
The schedules for the 2019 season are out, with the IHSA releasing them on Wednesday afternoon. Preps coordinator COLIN LIKAS picks one game each week he’s eagerly anticipating before he offers full breakdowns on all 37 area schedules
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