He was born Oswaldo Jose Guillen Barrios, but he is better known to baseball fans as Ozzie Guillen, and love him or hate him, there is no doubting his baseball track record.

Eclipse Soccer Club's U-17 Select 91-92 girls team won a U.S. Youth Soccer Region II championship with a 4-0 win over Internationals Soccer Club of Ohio Wendesday in Siox Falls, South Dakota.

JuniorRANK.com will hold its first youth football combine Saturday, June 27, at Lake Barrington Field House in Lake Barrington.

J.R. Kabba is a talented track star from Batavia with a state title. He's also a top-notch football player. But his most remarkable trait may be his ability to relate to people of all ages, including track head coach Dennis Piron's children Alex, Tyler and Peyton. When school resumes in the fall Kabba will be focusing on track and academics at the University of Illinois. PLUS, meet the 2009 spring sports all-area team.

North American Youth Sports still has openings for its annual national championship youth basketball tournament in Bolingbrook.

The Wonderlic Test is famously administered to college football players to assess their general intelligence prior to the professional draft.

Bartlett's softball team avenged two regular season losses to Upstate Eight Conference foe St. Charles to capture the Lake Park sectional championship with a 2-1 win over the North Stars on Saturday.

Second chances don't come around often, so when Bartlett's softball team got one during Thursday's Class 4A Lake Park sectional semifinal game against Glenbard North, it took advantage.

Lemont's long quest for a trip to state in girls soccer ended quickly Tuesday.

Karys to be Hawks’ lone representative this weekend in Charleston

Cronin’s decision to join track team this year results in state-meet medal

Ask Dan Karys for his favorite movie and instantly you get “Top Gun.” He estimates he’s seen it hundreds of times.

Frank Jemsek’s checklist of accomplishments in 2009 alone reads more like an impressive lifetime resume.

Golfers returned to Cog Hill’s nationally renowned public course in Lemont last week after a $5 million renovation. The new design could put No. 4 Dubsdread on the fairway to a U.S. Open.

University of Illinois fans have an opportunity to meet football head coach Ron Zook, women’s basketball head coach Jolette Law and men’s basketball assistant coach Jerrance Howard at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 20 at the Oak Brook Marriott.