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Namely the defense’s inability to get off the field on third down on a regular enough basis. The Illinois defensive ...

Mahomet-Seymour beat Bartonville Limestone 2-1 to take the Class 3A state championship volleyball match at CEFCU Arena in ...

Bela Karolyi, the charismatic if polarizing gymnastics coach who turned young women into champions and the United States into an international power, has died. He was 82.

Player of the game Illinois wide receiver Pat Bryant. Yes, Illinois running back Josh McCray scored a game-high three ...

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Monticello football holds on for dramatic overtime win against Benton in Class 3A state quarterfinals and will host Unity ...

China’s leader Xi Jinping met for the last time with U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday but was already looking ahead to President-elect Donald Trump and ...

More than 50 contestants turned out in a Chicago park to compete in a lookalike contest to portray actor Jeremy Allen White — star of the Chicago-based television series, “The ...

Scott Richey covers college basketball for The News-Gazette. His email is [email protected], and you can follow him on ...

Jake Paul believes he can fight for a championship belt within two years. Mike Tyson might be finished in the ring after the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion’s first sanctioned pro ...