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Great tourney and atmosphere in Mapleton this weekend at the 14U State Tourney. Well run and organized, after it was moved from Pekin, after I was told that officials there wanted late minute changes made in order to host tournament. I had never heard of Butler-Haynes Park until this weekend. A fine...

Right or wrong, this is going to be a domino effect as every high school and college in the nation will be pressured to change their name. Of course, FSU will be exempt.

Great article in today’s PJS on Health experts revising the rules again. I am in agreement with Washington head coach. You need to give it more than two days with this age group. Must be real frustrating for any coach. What health experts don’t look at is what these kids are doing if they don’t have...

This ones on Joe. A trade that was great until Joe overused him, after Theo warned him not to.

And everyone who knows me that is not the case. In today’s world you have to watch what you wear, you can’t support your flag, for fear of retaliation. Just what is next. I put on a simple white shirt today that has the logo and symbol for Hurley on it. I actually went in the internet and looked Hur...

No guts Gundy, just like Drew Brees.

I really don’t know. My wife said it was posted on her Facebook page, but there wasn’t a link. She said she could not find the post again.

Rumors that NASCAR looking at canceling pregame prayer and national anthems at future events?!

From reading the PJS today, I get the feeling that the IHSA didn’t really like Peoria trying the take all approach in bidding for both girls and both teams. Greed perhaps? The girls wasn’t going anywhere, so they might have pushed the envelope too far. But the fact that Brad Underwood was behind the...

If teams didn’t bring fans to Peoria, why would they bring them to Champaign? My prediction is you will still have a half empty arena. It just will be 8,000 versus 5,000. However, I did enjoy the years it was in Champaign before and after the Assembly Hall was built. Crammed in Huff Gym watching gre...

After reading the damaging article in Tribune, blaming Caterpillar for leaving Peoria after committing to downtown renovations they bailed it was a foregone conclusion. But sometimes change is for the better. The Civic Center is nearly 40 years old needs a new look, with money no one has.

Baseball is always behind the 8 ball, even when they virtually owned the sports during the summer months. Now competing in the fall with the NFL will be a disaster for ratings.

All of these Illinois teams are thrilled to be playing ball and eating INSIDE.

An interesting aspect of summer ball when crossing state lines into Iowa. Our granddaughter plays for a team from Washington and this was their first game. There are two Quad City teams in this tourney. Rules are if you have at least 3 girls from Iowa on your team, you are allowed to be Iowa based, ...

A lot of hype over Luke Little. Resembles Randy Johnson and has a timed fastball at 105 mph.

I really felt the the IHSA would move boys back to Champaign when they released the new format, making a complete changeover. However, when the virus canceled everything, leaving Peoria with a large financial hit. I believe that it gave Peoria another chance. Slugger has the ideal place to host the ...

Sorry Blue, but when I referred to the Governor’s guidelines, it states that in the first line of the edict.

Now this really really good stuff. I was telling my son this story as we passed the billboard when we were headed to a Bama game. Now we are frequent visitors at the 17th Street BBQ in Benton. A great diversion!!!

The IHSA is following the strict guidelines set by our Governor. Meanwhile I still should not play catch with my grandson, and kids are going out of state just to play summer sports. Be sure to stay six feet apart, but you can be arm in arm if you want to protest. I never thought I would see our soc...

Meanwhile all of the neighboring states sports get the green light. We won’t start here until Chicago is given the ok, which will probably be never. Sad day for Illinois sports.

I want to ask why? In essence he said that he supports the American Flag and would never disrespect it by kneeling. I served my country and consider using the flag for airing grievances is offensive. So once again, even though I miss sports, I don’t need the NFL.

Hey squirrel, who is Richard Keene? A BU grad? I watched the video of his son and he is a quicker version of Nate Kennel and a lot of potential to grow. A good fit if BW can recruit Texas.

Jim MacDonald at Deemack was approached after he retired to name the football field after him. He declined as he felt it was too early and he Also felt that his dad needed the honor before him. I believe his dad received that honor at Rock Falls shortly after. Mac knew his day would come and it a co...

I was there with GBG at that game sitting in the top row of small set of bleachers when he made a pork chop run. Randy, the officer was standing directly behind me and we were visiting shortly before. That all happened so fast that all of us didn’t know anything was wrong until GBG told us! I’m not ...

Pennsylvania Governor not ready to tell NASCAR whether they can race in late June. My advice to NASCAR, tell Governor we will move forward without Pocono. Chicago couldn’t make a decision either and lost out. Although I would much rather see fans, at least it is a sport that could sustain without fa...