Bob Sakamoto

Despite injuries to key players, Providence and Joliet Catholic keep rolling along. Providence lost one of its best defensive players, 6-foot-4-inch, 235-pound Matt Eggert to a broken foot during a...

School: Thornton, 1999 Position: Quarterback College: Ohio University As a high school junior, Jackson had the unenviable task of succeeding current Indiana star Antwaan Randle El and wound up with...

Hinsdale South has been running its option offense so well that coach Jim Kirwan has been pulling out his starters by halftime. So the No. 9 Hornets (7-0) should be...

The future of new Northern Illinois coach Rob Judson's basketball program looks brighter with the oral commitment earlier this week of 6-foot-7-inch Curie center Rome Sanders. Sanders, who averaged 16...

1. Joliet Catholic Comment: Who's going to stop 6-foot-3-inch, 225-pound All-Stater J.R. Zwierzynski running behind Mike Kolodziej (6-8, 285), Steve Douglas (6-4, 275) and Kris Anastopoulos (6-6, 300)? The two-time...

Troy Jackson is hoping to perpetuate a high school basketball legacy as the new coach at Proviso East. Jackson's appointment was approved Monday night by the Proviso school board. He...

Athletes in high school are so often measured by results that it's easy to forget they're simply students struggling through the teen years. On an early December Friday night in...

Lockport senior Drew Pierson shot a 3-over-par 75 and sank a 5-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole of the final round to clinch the Class AA state individual title....

Former Proviso East boys basketball coach Andrew Johnson is expected to succeed Wayne McClain at Peoria Manual, with an announcement coming as soon as this week. Johnson will be named...

Jackie Diekemper did it all Thursday, and that's no exaggeration. First of all, the 6-foot-1-inch junior pitcher fired a three-hitter in leading Naperville North to a 5-1 victory over Naperville...