Sports

The Louisville Slugger Sports Complex on Orange Prairie Road has been honored by the U.S. Sports Specialty Association as it’s National Complex of the Year for 2022.

After a two-year absence, the Cardinals Caravan makes its way back to the Peoria area this weekend. The featured guests include St. Louis pitcher Jake Woodford and highly ranked prospects Masyn Winn and Ivan Herrera.

Partners Sean Tumilty and Kelin Randall were joined by the duo of Brian Southard and Matt Fox in traveling to Appleton, Wisconsin, earlier this month for the 2022 World Axe Throwing Championships.

The Fox Pub in Peoria was standing-room only on a Saturday morning as the Netherlands netted the first goal of their World Cup knockout round game against the United States.

Inside a once-vacant storefront at Eureka’s Lakeview Shopping Center, one of the area’s newest collegiate wrestling programs takes its first steps toward glory.

The downtown entertainment hub opened November with a record-setting weekend headlined by country star Keith Urban and comedian Bill Burr that attracted more than 22,000 guests.

Six years after the Peoria High School football program won its first Illinois High School Association title, the Lions will look to secure another Class 5A trophy Saturday in Champaign.

The issue of inclusion and diversity in sports management and sports media served as a topic for one of the panel discussions during last week's annual Charley Steiner Sports Symposium at Bradley University. The panelists acknowledged there’s no quick fix for better diversity and inclusion in sports.

Sports broadcaster Bob Ley was one of ESPN’s original on-air personalities in 1979, nine years before Bradley graduate Charley Steiner joined the cable network without any previous work in television.

The most accomplished Bradley University men’s basketball team of the past 35 years takes its place in the university's Athletics Hall of Fame this weekend.

In Part One of a lengthy conversation with WCBU reporter Joe Deacon, former ESPN colleagues Charley Steiner and Bob Ley discuss how the sports landscape and sports media industry has evolved over the past half century.

The Peoria Civic Center will host the four-day U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships beginning March 1, featuring 90 teams with about 1,200 attendees.