Terry Bannon

The Illinois football team has sustained its first major injury of the season. Senior defensive tackle Sirod Williams, who was practicing with the first unit, is out for the year...

Illinois basketball is moving outdoors and into a football stadium, at least for a day. The men's and women's basketball teams will have what the school is billing as "The...

Penn State defensive tackles Chris Baker and Phil Taylor, two of a handful of players with off-field troubles over the past year, have been kicked off the team by coach...

Illinois has received a commitment from quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase, who led Rockhurst High School in Kansas City to the Class 6 Missouri state championship last season. Scheelhaase, ranked No. 7...

In one of her last acts before leaving her post as president of Chicago State University, Elnora Daniel fired athletic director Wayne Baskerville, whom she hired less than two years...

Former Illinois football player Jody Ellis pleaded guilty to felony theft Tuesday in Champaign County Circuit Court and was sentenced to 120 days in jail and 30 months of probation....

Former University of Illinois running back and recent Pittsburgh Steelers first-round pick Rashard Mendenhall was robbed at gunpoint along the Chicago lakefront early Monday morning, police and a relative said....

The odds are against Rashard Mendenhall becoming a Bear, but the team wants to get to know the Illinois running back better anyway. So he'll visit Halas Hall on Thursday...

Illinois coach Bruce Weber, who already has two commitments from the Class of 2010, has offered a scholarship to another high school sophomore: Lenzelle Smith of Zion-Benton. Smith, a 6-foot-3-inch...

Chicago State's divorce from the Mid-Continent Conference (now the Summit League) came as the Cougars were barely meeting the letter of the law to remain a Division I school. The...