Lori Nickel

It was a breakthrough game, a breakthrough moment for Katie Coleman. Two weeks ago against Northwestern, the freshman from Long Grove was called upon to fill in at the depleted...

Lake Forest had rallied from an eight-point deficit to pull within one point of No. 13 Warren when Molly Greene's steal with 10 seconds left presented the Scouts with one...

Scoring its highest point total of the year, the Homewood-Flossmoor girls gymnastics team won the Lincoln-Way regional Monday night, the first regional title in school history. Homewood-Flossmoor junior Kara Smith...

Lockport's Tim Kregul couldn't make a long-distance shot for his life when he played teammate Jeff Blaesing in a game of horse at Wednesday's practice. But in Friday night's SICA...

It doesn't make any sense. Michigan State (14-3, 6-1) sits atop the Big Ten and Illinois is in second with a 6-2 conference record. Yet Wisconsin--tied for third place with...

Theresa Grentz was having dinner with her husband, Karl, on New Year's Eve when they got on the subject of getting fans in the stands. The Illinois coach vowed that...

Coach Rufus Calhoun has a simple request for his Bowen basketball team. "All I want is for them to hustle and scrap, and that's what they did tonight, a total...

It was New Year's Eve, and DePaul coach Doug Bruno spent it at the hospital, looking after two of his players. Sophomore Fuchsia Forrester, a starting guard, tore her anterior...

It has been done before, but it is still rare, especially for a whole game: Against No. 20 Wisconsin last Friday, Rene Portland, coach of 22nd-ranked Penn State, used her...

St. Joseph's junior forward Chauncey Dampier is very thankful. After giving St. Joseph a much-needed spark off the bench , Dampier took an ill-advised shot Wednesday night as the Chargers...