Mike Helfgot

Brandon McCoy liked to fight as a child on the West Side. He remembers three in particular, and for the record, he won them all. "I was a boxer," McCoy...

NOJEL EASTERN School: Evanston. Class: Senior. College: Purdue. Position: Guard. Height: 6-6. Team highlights: Evanston (28-4) ascended to the No. 1 spot in the Tribune Top 20 by beating Simeon...

TAYLOR BRUNINGA School: Glasford Illini Bluffs. Class: Senior. College: Undecided. Height: 6-9. Position: Forward. Team highlights: Illini Bluffs went 25-6 and won the Tomahawk Conference. Individual highlights: Bruninga averaged 33.4...

2017 baiduhai boys basketball All-State special mention Player, school, height, class, position (college) Tai Bibbs, West Chicago, 6-3 sr. G. Malik Binns, Bolingbrook, 6-6 sr. F. Jeffrey Boyd, Homewood-Flossmoor,...

NANA AKENTEN School: Bolingbrook. Class: Senior. College: Nebraska. Position: Forward. Height: 6-6. Team highlights: Bolingbrook (30-2) won its first 23 games and spent three weeks atop the Tribune Top 20...

Just 14 years old, Mark Smith could throw a baseball 89 miles per hour. At 15, the radar gun registered at 91. At 16, the ball started going where he...

While Simeon blitzed through the postseason with one dominant performance after the next, Young handled its business but perhaps was not taken very seriously as a state championship contender. The...

The stars were seated, the freshmen were money and the overtime drama was everything anyone could hope for out of a state championship game. Neither team did a particularly good...