Mike Clark

Tonight’s notebook features some local teams in far-flung holiday events as well as some rivalry games. First, the road warriors: Brooklyn (N.Y.) South Shore 87, Evanston 76: Ryan Bost scored...

This is always one of the slowest weeks of the basketball season, with most teams gearing up for holiday tournaments that start Saturday or after Christmas. But there were some...

Last January, I went to New Trier and saw one of the most entertaining games of the season as Evanston won in overtime. Evanston’s Lance Jones swished a 3-pointer from...

A major change is coming to high school football in Illinois in 2021, when conference rivalries will be replaced by geographic-based scheduling. The Illinois High School Association on Tuesday announced...

When I tweeted out that I’d be at Homewood-Flossmoor on Friday for the Vikings and Bloom, former Bloom assistant Job Gunderson replied that it was like old times. That’s for...

Here are the Chicago-area boys basketball rankings with records through Sunday, Dec. 16 and last week's rankings in parentheses (NR indicates not ranked). 1. Curie 10-0 (2) 2. Bloom 11-0...

Junior guard Dante Maddox Jr. was prepared for Bloom’s first major test on the road Friday night at Homewood-Flossmoor. “Their crowd ... is really second to none,” Maddox Jr. said....

The Public League’s super conferences are great for fans who want to see great matchups almost every night of the week. But they’re tough to navigate for teams in rebuilding...

The Central Suburban South is going to be fun to watch this season, maybe even more so now that Glenbrook South has made the leap into the Chicago area’s upper...