Friday May 23rd, 2025 11:05AM

Sports

Hamlin earns pole with late charge on Chicago streets
On his final attempt late in Saturday’s final round of time trials, Denny Hamlin knocked three-time Australian SuperCars champion Shane Van Gisbergen off the provisional pole...
5:04PM ( 1 year ago )
Girls basketball: With summer practice concluded, expectations high for several area teams
The beginnings of the 2023-24 prep basketball season just concluded with June practices, and several area girls programs look ready to expand on their 2022-23 seasons...
9:02AM ( 1 year ago )
VanVleet to Houston; many big names stay put as NBA free agency opens
Fred VanVleet bet on himself, and the Houston Rockets are the beneficiaries...
8:44AM ( 1 year ago )
Soroka wins first home start since 2020; Braves rout Marlins
Michael Soroka won his first home start in nearly three years, Matt Olson homered twice and drove in five runs and the National League-leading Atlanta Braves won their sixth straight game with a 16-4 rout of the Miami Marlins on Friday night...
11:49PM ( 1 year ago )
Gray scores 26, Dream beat Mystics for second home victory
Allisha Gray scored 26 points, Rhyne Howard had 14 points and eight assists and the Atlanta Dream beat the Washington Mystics 94-89 on Friday night...
10:14PM ( 1 year ago )
Mic'd Up: Series returns with West Hall's Montgomery and Hale
Krofton Montgomery is back for his sixth season at The Hot Gates and is hoping the 2023 season will be one in which the Spartans are ready to make a move in Region 7-3A...
1:22PM ( 1 year ago )
IRS could throw huge monkey wrench in collectives paying college athletes while claiming nonprofit status
The rapidly expanding landscape of nonprofit, donor-backed collectives paying college athletes to promote charities has been hit with a potentially seismic disruption...
1:10PM ( 1 year ago )
American Frances Tiafoe heads to Wimbledon with a career-high ranking, high hopes
There is a behind-the-scenes moment captured during a recently released episode of the Netflix docuseries “Break Point” where Frances Tiafoe is warming up in a nearly empty Arthur Ashe Stadium hours before his fourth-round U.S. Open match against 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal.
1:07PM ( 1 year ago )
PODCAST: Hard Left Turn EXTRA - Early racing history from Greg Fielden
Over the years, there have been many books written on the history of NASCAR - but hardly anything has been printed on the history of stock car racing prior to 1948. Until now.
1:00PM ( 1 year ago )
On eve of Wimbledon, Swiatek withdraws from Bad Homburg Open
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek withdrew from the Bad Homburg Open on Friday with a fever and possible food poisoning, three days before the start of Wimbledon...
11:24AM ( 1 year ago )