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ROCKFORD -- Youth and teen athletes will be showcasing their skills and competing for championship as one of the area’s largest soccer tournaments returns to the region. The 2021 Puri Cup College Showcase will happen Friday, Saturday,…

ROCKFORD -- The University of Northern Iowa Panthers captured the WNIT Rockford Regional Championship Monday by knocking off the St. Louis University Billikens 58-50 at the UW Health Sports Factory. Unlike the high-scoring affairs in the…

ROCKFORD -- The schedule is set for the 2021 WNIT Rockford Regional that tips off Friday at the Health Sports Factory, 305 S. Madison St., downtown. Teams competing in Rockford are Bowling Green, Creighton, Dayton, DePaul, Drake,…

ROCKFORD -- After waiting 38 years in between Big Eight/NIC-10 boys basketball titles, East grabbed its second in three years last Friday with a 59-50 win over Harlem. Because of the coronavirus-shortened season, NIC-10 athletic…

ROCKFORD – East sophomore Camden Taylor rewrote the NIC-10 swimming records last weekend, literally. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, there were no relays in the annual NIC-10 swim meet and swimmers were allowed to enter four…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Goaltender Matt Tomkins recorded a career-high 42 saves and forward Dylan McLaughlin scored the game-winning goal Rockford IceHogs skated to a 2-1 overtime decision against the Grand Rapids Griffins at Van Andel Arena…

ROCKFORD -- Rockford's UW Health Sports Factory has been selected as one of our regional sites for the 2021 Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT). The 2021 WNIT will feature a field of 32 NCAA Division I women’s basketball…

NASHVILLE -- Responding to a bill in the Tennessee Legislature that would ban transgender individuals from participating in girls' middle school and high school athletics, Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday that trans participation would “destroy…

CHICAGO -- A former RPS 205 bowler is in the national legal spotlight. Keenan Saulter, who competed on Auburn High School's bowling team in the 1990s, is the attorney representing Anjanette Young, whose home was wrongly raided in 2019 by…

ATLANTA  — Hank Aaron, one of the greatest hitters in Major League Baseball history, has died. Aaron died in his sleep Friday. No caused of death has been released. He was 86. Known as "Hammerin' Hank," Aaron began his professional…