Jim Rossow

4 days ago | news-gazette.com | Jim Rossow

To subscribe, click here. To submit a letter to the editor, click hereTo pitch a ‘My Turn’ guest column, email [email protected]. Want to purchase today’s print edition? Here’s a map of single-copy locations. Sign up for our daily newsletter hereAs impressed as they were with the renovations at Champaign Central, it was our photo shoot inside historic Combes Gym that got the Class of ‘75 Maroons really going.

6 days ago | bnd.com | Jim Rossow

In the 18 years he's been handing out monthly awards for proper display of the American flag, Champaign American Legion Post 24's Chuck Zelinsky never experienced a reception like the one at Champaign Central High School. There to honor the Maroons for maintaining Old Glory at their new athletic complex along Church Street, Zelinsky walked into an all-staff assembly led by retiring Principal Joe Williams.

1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Jim Rossow

Jun. 19—A week from today, girls' basketball teams from St. Joseph-Ogden and Unity will square off at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. As fun as that will be, the chance to watch Caitlin Clark and the Fever later that night just might top it. When he coached the boys' team at SJ-O, Brian Brooks worked with the Pacers to play a game on the NBA court. Back as girls' coach for the upcoming season, he reached out to the WNBA'S Fever to see if a similar opportunity existed.

1 week ago | news-gazette.com | Jim Rossow

OMAHA, Neb. — Champaign's Delroy Robinson has fixed a lot of baseball gloves over the years — but never on a stage so big. During Tuesday's College World Series game between Louisville and Oregon State, ESPN cameras focused on Robinson re-lacing the glove of Cardinals first baseman Tague Davis. The NCAA took to social media to show Robinson at work, posting on X: "Any place.

1 week ago | news-gazette.com | Jim Rossow

OMAHA, Neb. — Champaign's Delroy Robinson has fixed a lot of baseball gloves over the years — but never on a stage so big. During Tuesday's College World Series game between Louisville and Oregon State, ESPN cameras focused on Robinson re-lacing the glove of Cardinals first baseman Tague Davis. The NCAA took to social media to show Robinson at work, posting on X: "Any place.