Week 8 Game of the Week: No. 6 Palatine at No. 7 Barrington
Regular-season games of this magnitude are rare in the Mid-Suburban League because it's rare for the MSL to have one team ranked this high, let alone the two required for...
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Preps Plus/WGN-9 Athlete of the Month: Brother Rice’s Ricky Smalling
How Ricky Smalling was still standing defied explanation. The Brother Rice senior receiver caught a slant across the middle against Mount Carmel on Sept. 30, took two steps and lowered...
Week 7 bits: New Trier wins one for the ages
Clay Czyzynski distinctly remembers two of the goals Brian Doll wrote on the chalkboard during his first meeting as New Trier's coach prior to the 2014 season. They were old...
No. 12 Hinsdale Central keeps rolling with win against No. 9 Lyons
When it started looking easy, that's when it got hard. Josh Bean was steady all the way through. It's been that way all fall, really, which is why No. 12...
Saturday’s matchup, prediction: Northern Illinois at Western Michigan
TV/radio: 2:30 p.m. Saturday, CBS Sports Network, WIND-AM 560. Line: Western Michigan by 20. Records: NIU 1-4, 1-0 MAC; WMU 5-0, 1-0. Last meeting: Joel Bouagnon and Kenny Golladay scored...
Week 7 Game of the Week: No. 12 Hinsdale Central at No. 9 Lyons
If beating Glenbard West was the 4-minute mile, Lyons was Roger Bannister. Bannister broke what some considered an unbreakable barrier in 1954. By the end of 1957, he was one...
Week 6 football bits: Power shift in West Suburban Silver
Glenbard West once lost a total of two conference games in seven-and-half seasons. It was recently, actually just before its 32-game West Suburban Silver winning streak was snapped by Lyons...
No. 5 Neuqua Valley tops No. 13 Naperville North for DVC lead
It was as if the ball was waiting for Isaiah Robertson to run all the way upfield to greet it, slipping in and out of hands until the Neuqua Valley...
Mike Helfgot blog: West Suburban Silver a gold standard
More than halfway through the regular season, three of the seven teams in the West Suburban Silver have yet to lose a game. Not particularly unusual. It typically means the...
Northern Illinois QB Anthony Maddie finally a starter in final season
Anthony Maddie was as likely to become Northern Illinois' starting quarterback this season as the Huskies were to lose their first four games. Maybe less. The jig was up. The...