Category Archives: (Mattoon Radio) Local Sports

Chip Ganassi Racing has picked former NASCAR Cup Series champion Matt Kenseth to move to the number 42 Chevrolet for the rest of the 2020 season. The move comes after Chip Ganassi Racing ended its rel...

For Immediate Release Dave Johnson named IBCA Co-Head Coach of the Year The Illinois Basketball Coaches Association named Lake Land College Women's Basketball Head Coach Dave Johnson Collegiate Co-Hea...

U Of I Summer Sports Camps Canceled (Champaign County, IL) — The University of Illinois is canceling all of its summer sports camps. The camps have run for 50 years without interruption until no...

For all the changes, NFL draft kind of looked, well, normal For all the uniqueness of this NFL draft, including the angst over a potential communications fiasco, things looked and sounded pretty norma...

The Boston Red Sox were stripped of their second-round pick in this year’s amateur draft by Major League Baseball for breaking video rules in 2018 and former manager Alex Cora was suspended thro...

The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Board of Directors met for their April meeting via a video conference call today, where the Board of Directors announced its decision to cancel all IHSA spr...

Ionescu Selected First Overall, Gianna Bryant Honored At Draft (Undated) — Call her Lady Liberty. The New York Liberty made it official by drafting Sabrina Ionescu first overall in the WNBA Draf...

Bulls Documentary ‘The Last Dance’ Debuts On ESPN (Undated) — ESPN’s much anticipated ten-part documentary about Michael Jordan and the 90’s Bulls is finally here. The fi...

"The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Board of Directors is scheduled to meet via video conference on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. At that meeting, the Board will make a final determination on the ...

Future Illini star Adam Miller has been named Illinois Mr. Basketball. The four-star Chicago Morgan Park guard, who verbally committed the U of I in November, averaged 23.9 points, 6.5 rebounds and 5....