Bob Asmussen is a college football reporter and columnist for The News-Gazette. He can be reached at 217-393-8248 or asmussen ...

Illinois has the makings of a solid nonconference schedule for the 2025-26 season, with neutral site games scheduled (so far) ...

Democratic state attorneys general are seeking to block President Donald Trump’s proposal for an overhaul of U.S. elections in a case that tests a constitutional bedrock — the separation of ...

A lackluster prologue explains her character Eve’s raison d’etre. Having witnessed her father die at the hands of a group of ...

Approving the bad idea of sweetening Tier 2 pensions for state employees hired after Jan. 1, 2011, would only have driven the state’s horrendous public-pension debt deeper into the hole. At the same ...

Zach Piatt covers high school sports at The News-Gazette. His email is [email protected].

Isbell — currently serving as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — will ...

Growing up playing sports in my hometown of Eureka — and with my alma mater playing this weekend at Illinois Field in ...

Mahomet-Seymour senior Mason Orton pitches in the first inning of Thursday’s Class 3A sectional semifinal baseball matchup ...

The most succesful season in Champaign Central softball history drew to a close on Thursday afternoon in Chatham ...

A by-the-numbers look before eight Class 1A and 2A high school baseball teams take to Illinois Field and try to win state titles this weekend ...