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Dale Coyne, celebrating his 40th anniversary in the open-wheel racing business this year, usually has two cars, sometimes three, in the Indianapolis 500. Not this year. His one shot for his Plainfield-based racing team is Katherine Legge.
Most 17-year-old boys making their first visit to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway end up in the Snakepit, where rock bands vie with girls in bikinis for their undivided attention. Evan Cooley, of Frankfort, had a different destination in mind: the pit area.
There was a common denominator running through the wins of Antron Brown in Top Fuel and Matt Hagan in Funny Car during Sunday’s finals of the NHRA Gerber Collision and Glass Nationals at Route 66 Raceway.
Joliet Central’s new track and the best running day of the year conspired to send a battalion of runners, jumpers and throwers to next weekend’s 3A state championship.
John Force, daughter Brittany and fellow team driver Austin Prock made the rounds the last two days promoting this weekend’s appearance of the NHRA National Series at Route 66 Raceway.
Minooka was the team runner-up at a Class 3A Minooka Sectional that saw plenty of area advancers to next weekend's IHSA State Finals.
Lincoln-Way East ran to an easy victory in the team competition with 217 points to Lincoln-Way West’s 152. Joliet West was third with 140 points. But the major object of this meet, rescheduled from Friday because of rain, was as a litmus test for May’s major meets.
LIV Golf will hold a tournament at Bolingbrook Golf Club on Sept. 13-15.
A look at the 2024 outdoor boys track and field season across the Herald-News coverage area as things get running.
Here's a look at the 2024 outdoor girls track and field season across the Herald-News coverage area as things get running.
Lemont's Quinton Peterson won the Class 3A 60-meter hurdles, Lincoln-Way East's Dedrick Richardson the Class 3A long jump and Joliet Catholic's Symone Holman the Class 2A long jump on Saturday at the Illinois Top Times meet in Bloomington.
The Providence girls basketball team hung with Butler Prep early in Tuesday's sectional semifinal but ultimately lost 65-34.
Lincoln-Way Central climbed from 10 points behind in the final 11 minutes, 30 seconds to score a 36-33 victory over Stagg in the Class 4A Andrew Regional championship game.
Providence built a huge early lead and cruised to a 61-43 win over Southland Prep on Senior Night.
Tierra Abner came off the bench to score a season-high 18 points, and Plainfield South ended the first half on a 13-point run and went on to a 68-43 win over Joliet Catholic.