After an 0-9 season, most coaches would be happy to get that elusive first win the next season.

Last year, Nazareth Academy’s football team may have snuck up on some people in going 6-3 in the regular season.
This year, though, the Roadrunners are proving to be part of the cream of the crop in the East Suburban Catholic Conference.

On the brink of elimination from the IHSA Class 8A playoffs, Lyons Township's football team turned in its best outing of the season in a 41-12 win over host Proviso West Saturday in a West Suburban Silver showdown.

Playing in front of its homecoming crowd along with the anticipation of hosting the No. 91 ranked team in the country a week from this Saturday became two distractions for Fenwick on Friday night in Berwyn.

After a 2-0 start, St. Joseph's football team dropped its fourth straight decision Friday night to host St. Patrick.

Get coverage from Friday night action, including scores, stories and photos.

Instead of going green, a group of area high school girls volleyball teams will be thinking pink as they “Volley for the Cure” this fall.

Taking his love of baseball to the next level, University of Illinois graduate Tim Dierkes developed the Web site mlbtraderumors.com, which pulls together relevant baseball rumors concerning upcoming trades or free-agent signings.

Nazareth Academy’s football team had no problem moving the ball up and down the field Friday night against Benet in Lisle in an East Suburban Catholic Conference matchup.
Unfortunately for the Roadrunners, despite running 81 plays for 342 yards, they were almost their own worst enemy, committing 11 penalties for 95 yards. Nazareth was able to overcome those miscues to top the host Redwings 24-7, though.

The Athlete Within Basketball School will host tryouts for its traveling teams for kids in fifth through eighth grades.

The McCook Badgers traveling basketball team will hold tryouts in the coming week for its 2008-2009 team.

There’s a saying that one has to learn to crawl before he learns to walk.
That saying is a perfect analogy for St. Joseph’s football team this season

After dropping a heartbreaker last week to Marian Catholic, St. Joseph's football team dropped another heartbreaker Saturday, falling 7-0 to visiting Notre Dame.

The York football team found yet another way to come from behind and pull out a victory. For Lyons Township, it was another game ended with the thought of what could have been.

 In literally a matter of seconds, Downers Grove North went from reeling to rolling Friday in its 19-7 win over Proviso West.