High School Sports

The Rockford Park District says that our current temperatures are what's forcing the postponement of the Illinois Snow Sculpting Competition this month at Sinnissippi Park.

Located about an hour southwest of Rockford down Route 2 you'll find one of the best high school gyms in the state if not the entire country at Sterling High School.

As you're probably aware, there's been a huge amount of discussion and anticipation regarding the Chicago Bears potentially relocating to a as-yet-to-be-built stadium complex in Arlington Heights--but it's important to remember that it's not a done-deal quite yet.

As of this writing (Thursday morning, 9:30), two hundred skydivers are still trying to set the World’s Largest Vertical Formation record at Skydive Chicago that they began trying to set earlier in the week. Considering what they're attempting, I can understand why it hasn't happened yet.

There are flags all over the field! It looks like it's going to be a penalty on the Chicago Bears. The referee has conferred with the other on-field officials, and here he comes to announce the call:

Parents looking to save some money on restocking their kids' school supplies are getting a break in the form of a limited time "sales tax holiday" that begins today, Friday, August 5th--but it's a very short break that you'll want to take advantage of before it completely disappears.

If you have been paying any attention to high school sports over the last decade, and especially 5 years, you probably could have guessed this was coming.

The Chicago Bears and the Rockford Park District are teaming up to expand the Bears' girls high school flag football program to the Rockford area.

Maybe this news hits you as a bit of a surprise, as it did our own Joe Dredge when I told him about the Chicago Cubs' price structure. Joe, like several others I spoke with all said the same thing: "I thought it would be the Yankees."

Over 18,000 votes were cast for our season-end Winter Team of the Year Poll. A huge thanks to everyone that logged on to cast a vote.