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Stevenson grad Mark Weisman is on the Cincinnati Bengals' injured reserve list so he won't be able to play this season.

Midwest Conference football coaches show little love for Lake Forest

June 16, 2018 at 3:53 p.m.

Though Lake Forest College doesn't begin its football season until next weekend, many of the Midwest Conference's 11 teams start action this weekend. Based on the preseason coaches poll, the...

Waukegan coach Juan Anillo talks with his Bulldogs after they beat North Chicago 40-12 last Saturday.

Week 2 not too early to focus on IHSA football playoffs

June 15, 2018 at 10:01 a.m.

When Waukegan and Zion-Benton square off on the football field Friday night in Zion, there will be way more at stake than neighborhood bragging rights. Not that those rights aren't...

High school sports not the only path to athletic success in college

June 15, 2018 at 9:30 a.m.

With each passing year, it seems more and more that at the high school level, to be the best, you don't necessarily have to beat the best. This would be...

Championships were decided recently in the 9-Hole Ladies Golf League at Bonnie Brook in Waukegan. Jeff Bonato/News-Sun

Pat Campanella has winning formula at Bonnie Brook Golf Course

June 15, 2018 at 9:53 a.m.

The 9-Hole Ladies League at Bonnie Brook Golf Course in Waukegan may have a unique format for crowning its league champion, but there's nothing unique about what it takes to...

Barrington's Rapolas Ivanauskas, 11, has transferred to Brewster Academy, a prep school known for hellping develop future NBA basketball players.

Barrington’s loss of Rapolas Ivanauskas changes March Madness landscape

June 15, 2018 at 10:17 a.m.

Grayslake North might be the area school that benefits most from a key transfer during the summer. Last year, the Knights, Grayslake Central, Grant and Round Lake were shifted from...

St. Joseph's Jarviss Sutton played for the Class 3A state champions last season. This year, he'll play for the College of Lake County.

Chuck Ramsey has College of Lake County basketball program rolling

June 15, 2018 at 10:25 a.m.

When Lake County high school coaching legend Chuck Ramsey took the job as College of Lake County's men's basketball coach, the top two items on his agenda had to be...

Tim Cox of Zion wins non-wing sprint feature at Wilmot Raceway

June 15, 2018 at 10:48 a.m.

Kenosha County Fair week truly was a blast from the past for longtime auto racing fans. First, the stands at Wilmot Raceway, located on the fairgrounds, were jammed for racing...

Zion-Benton coach Bob Moynihan explains techniques to highly regarded linebacker Nick Reed during practice. Mark Ukena/News-Sun

Celebration for start of football season could be a surprise party

June 17, 2018 at 4:07 a.m.

One of the universals of high school football is this: It's what you do before the season starts that makes you a champion. And now that the before-the-season part of...

College of Lake County's Justice Moore is heading to North Dakota to play NCAA D-II basketball at the University of Mary.

Ex-Warhawk Justice Moore to play women’s hoops at University of Mary

June 15, 2018 at 10:21 a.m.

When it comes to basketball, if a player has game, a college will find him or her. The latest example is 2013 North Chicago graduate Justice Moore, who joined the...

North Chicago basketball coach King Coleman doubles as the school's boys cross country coach. The result is that cross country is now one of the biggest sports in terms of participation at the school.

King Coleman becoming Pied Piper of boys athletics at North Chicago

June 15, 2018 at 10:54 a.m.

As a basketball star at North Chicago in the 1970s, he was known as Gerald Coleman. As North Chicago's successful boys basketball coach, he's become King Coleman. And now that...

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