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

When the former president of Spain's Football Federation kissed a player from the national team who had just won the 2023 Women's World Cup, it sparked widespread ...

America’s national bird, the bald eagle, is having a moment. The eagles find themselves in a sort of environmental updraft since the early 2000s, when the federal government took the ...

Illinois forward Morez Johnson Jr. (21) and Ohio State's forward Aaron Bradshaw (4) in a NCAA basketball game at the State ...

A lawsuit alleging for the first time that people died because of the disastrous 2023 East Palestine train derailment has been filed ahead of Monday's second anniversary of the toxic ...

It’s time once again to dive into another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about ...

Iroquois West girls’ basketball player Amelia Scharp takes a selfie with her teammates at Friday’s practice after earning The ...

Illini made a commitment to taking the basketball to the hoop instead of chucking three-pointers to rally past Ohio State.

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Susan and Bill McLane with a small part of the display Bill created about Susan McLane’s father, Dale Von Linger, who was ...

Now comes the all-too-frequent agonizing reappraisal.Brad Underwood’s Illini men’s basketball team, once seen by national ...

Champaign County Crime Stoppers is asking for the public's help identifying suspects in a theft of over $1,000 in merchandise ...