Mac On Sports

The Illinois High School Association Board of Directors met this morning (Tuesday, April 21) by conference call where the board made some major announcements, regarding cancellation of all spring sports and summer contact days.    Following is the IHSA complete statement:    “The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Board of Directors met for their April…

        It didn’t take Mount Zion long to find a new Thanksgiving Tournament in which to compete. The Braves become the 12th team of the recently expanded Cerro Gordo Turkey week tournament, Broncos athletic director and basketball head coach, Brandon Willard, put together.      A sports editor, who shall remain anonymous except to…

Shortly before 3 this afternoon (Friday, April 17), the Illinois High School Association released this statement to the media.    At that meeting, the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Board of Directors is scheduled to meet via video conference on Tuesday, April 21.    “The Board will make a final determination on the IHSA’s spring…

   There will NOT be any college football until students are allowed on campus.    That’s what the Power Five and Group of Five, plus Notre Dame, told Vice President Pence in a conference call today (Wednesday, April 15).    Vice President Pence was on a conference call with the College Football Playoff Management Committee…

             Kyle Tutt is the new Streator Bulldogs football head coach.      Tutt has been quarterbacks coach for Josh Jostes’s Maroa-Forsyth Trojans since 2015 where he has helped guide them to three consecutive championship game appearances in 2016, 2017 and 2018.      Jostes says, “between Luke Hockaday, Ryan Wilkey, Aaron Ennis and myself we are fine…

         The NCAA has established a Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) Playing and Practice Seasons Working Group to address potential challenges that college football and other fall sports could face this year due to the coronavirus outbreak.      According to a statement sent to administrators by the NCAA today (Friday, April 10), the internal working group will assist…

Darius Burford of Bolingbrook, D.J. Williams of Harvey Thornton and Connor Heaton of Central A&M were among the candidates for the Chicago Tribune’s Mr. Basketball award. Williams helped Harvey Thornton get past Burford’s Bolingbrook team for the championship of the 50th annual Caterpillar Decatur Thanksgiving tournament last November. Heaton led Central A&M to the super-…

    Stephen Decatur Runnin’ Reds basketball standout, Larry Phillips, passed away recently in Decatur Memorial Hospital. The 72-year-old Phillips was a member of the 1964 third place Runnin’ Reds and fourth place 1966 team. He didn’t score in the ’64 state tournament, but in the ’66 event he totaled 21 in the four games…

   There will be spring sports for Illinois High School Association members, if Governor J.B. Pritzker removes the shelter-in-place order April 30 and schools reopen May 1st.    The Illinois High School Association this afternoon (Wednesday, April 1), released this statement:    “First and foremost, the IHSA continues to encourage all Illinois residents to heed…