Category Archives: Local Sports

(New York, NY) -- The NFL is finally getting full-time officials. The NFL Referees Association says the league plans to hire 24 full-time refs for the 2017 season. Full-time officials will be hired at...

Umpire West Suspended For Criticizing Beltre (New York, NY) -- MLB umpire Joe West is being hit with a three-game suspension for criticizing Rangers slugger Adrian Beltre. Tuesday's announcement came ...

MLB Releases Postseason Schedule (Undated) -- The Major League Baseball postseason schedule is out. The playoffs begin with the American League Wild Card game on October 3rd. The National League Wild ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Making progress. That's how Indianapolis Colts coach Chuck Pagano is rating his team's first week of training camp practices. "You know, I think this is pretty much standard. I think t...

High School Football Season Begins (Bloomington, IL) -- We're still a few weeks from Friday nights under the lights, but high school football season is in full swing in Illinois. Teams started practic...

Javier Baez hit a two-run, inside the park homer to help the Cubs beat the Giants 5-3 in San Francisco. Anthony Rizzo had three hits and an RBI for Chicago, which led 5-0 in the fifth inning. Jake Arr...

Former Baseball MVP Don Baylor Dies At Age 68 (Austin, TX) -- Former baseball great Don Baylor has died at the age of 68 of cancer. He passed away at Saint David's South Hospital overnight in Austin, ...

Jay Cutler Gets New QB Job (Miami, FL) -- Chicago Bears fans will have something in common with Miami Dolphin fans this year: They both want to see what Jay Cutler has left. The former Bears quarterba...

Matt Wieters drilled a go-ahead grand slam in the eighth inning as the Nationals surged past the Cubs, 9-4, at Wrigley Field. Willson Contreras had two solo homers and Kyle Schwarber also went deep fo...

The Coles County Veteran's Support Coalition would like to thank you for your service in a very special way! It's the Grand Slam Getaway to Chicago, where you'll see the arch rival Cubs take on the Ca...