Bears tackle Teven Jenkins made his return to practice and several key wide receivers are now sidelined by injuries. Following Saturday's developments, the depth chart is more muddled than ever at those positions, writes Hub Arkush.

The upcoming volleyball season brings with it many questions for a lot of teams in the area, with lots of last year’s star players having graduated all around the Sauk Valley. Here are some storylines to watch this fall.

Here are our grades from Saturday's Bears practice. The offense was without several starting wide receivers and linemen. The defense has several players missing in the secondary.

Bears offensive tackle Teven Jenkins returned to practice on Saturday for the first time since July 27. Jenkins had been sitting out with an undisclosed injury. He was a very limited participant Saturday.

Monday, Aug. 8 has been circled on the calendar for football players and coaches alike across the state of Illinois. It’s the first day of the fall practices and Bureau County teams will be getting ready for some football.

Streator High School has hired new coaches this summer to try to rebuild its wrestling and girls basketball programs.

Jackson Lyons has been through it all to prepare himself to become the next starting quarterback for Woodstock and now the senior is ready to lead the Blue Streaks offense this fall.

St. Matthews regained its perch atop the Princeton Fastpitch Church League by defeating Malden Methodist, the defending champion, 12-2, in six innings Friday night at Westside Park.

Rock Falls native Jakob Junis had mixed results in his last two outings for the San Francisco Giants, suffering a loss to the Dodgers on Thursday night after a strong start against the Cubs last Saturday.