Tailgating before the Illinois/Kansas football game at Memorial Stadium in Champaign on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024.

Illini cheerleaders run out at beginning of an NCAA football game at Memorial Stadium in Champaign on Thursday, August 29, ...

Zach Piatt covers high school sports at The News-Gazette. His email is zpiatt@news-gazette.com.

Urbana High Principal Jesse Guzman's professional role model? Champaign Central Principal Joe Williams. "He was the first ...

Aryna Sabalenka got past Jessica Pegula 7-5, 7-5 in a rollicking U.S. Open women’s final Saturday to win her first championship at Flushing Meadows and third ...

Aryna Sabalenka has taken the first set of the U.S. Open women's final 7-5 against Jessica Pegula on Saturday.

A wave of odd-colored lobsters has showed up in fishers' traps, supermarket seafood tanks and scientists’ laboratories over the last year. The funky-colored crustaceans inspire headlines that trumpet ...

Former Illinois basketball player Terrence Shannon Jr. meets with fans before an NCAA football game at Memorial Stadium in ...

Huge numbers of Israelis have again turned out to protest the government's failure to secure the return of remaining hostages in Gaza. Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip have ...

Bob Asmussen is a college football reporter and columnist for The News-Gazette. He can be reached at 217-393-8248 or asmussen ...

Stumbling out of the gate, Tim Burton’s long-awaited “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” eventually rights itself and delivers the ...