Derek Bayne
Sports Anchor at WREX-TV (Rockford, IL)
TV Sports Anchor at WREX, Hip Hop aficionado, basically chill dude
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wrex.com | Derek Bayne
BYRON (WREX) — Whether he was leading his line out of a hog trailer, or pushing around the hogs of the Big Ten, Tyler Elsbury takes pride in leading the way. "Protecting your buddies," Elsbury said. "You got a guy running behind you and he's relying on you to do your job and move your guy out of the way for him. And that's what I hang my hat on being an O-lineman.
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wrex.com | Derek Bayne
BELOIT, Wis. (WREX) — The Beloit Sky Carp hosted a sports business seminar for high school students Tuesday as they opened up a new series with the Quad Cities River Bandits. Almost 300 students participated, checking out all aspects of how to run a sports organization, from sales to food to merchandise to gameday operations. It's a chance to expose the students to career paths they might not otherwise have thought about in the sports industry.
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2 weeks ago |
wrex.com | Derek Bayne
ROCKFORD/PECATONICA (WREX) — Coffee has a way of bringing people together. "You can either look at it like it's just a cup of coffee and I can go anywhere and get a cup of coffee," said Rosie's Coffee Co. owner Meghan Thayer. "Or you can look at the community aspect of each individual coffee shop has something unique.
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wrex.com | Derek Bayne
ROCHELLE (WREX) — Ten years ago, the Thiravong family was at a school function when they had to hustle to the school's basement. A tornado was making its way through Rochelle. "A neighbor told me, 'I don't think you have a home,'" Watsana Thiravong says. The family lives in Minnesota now, but was relatively new to Rochelle when the tornado ripped through the community. Thiravong says the community really came together during that time and showed its spirit.
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wrex.com | Derek Bayne
BELVIDERE (WREX) — Summerfield Zoo owner Rick Anderson loves his animals. He knows that day ten years ago could have been a lot worse. "We were really lucky," Anderson said. "The only thing we lost were two birds out of all the animals we have here. So that was pretty amazing."One of the Arctic wolves still at the zoo survived the April 9, 2015, storm. "They had a little minor damage to their enclosure but they were still in it," Anderson said.
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Ugh hate to see this for Juju.
