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A Pipeline Everyone’s Happy About: Peoria's Basketball Pipeline

Details: Published on Monday, 11 February 2013 10:58; Written by Dr. Tim Cundiff

IllinoisLogo bigten1 Peoria is synonymous with basketball. Basketball is synonymous with Peoria. Because of this, there is an unofficial pipeline between Peoria and our state’s university in Champaign. On this week’s “The Journey” – a feature program on the Big Ten Network – this pipeline is highlighted.

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Girls Sports Seeing Growth in Participants and Booster

Details: Published on Monday, 03 September 2012 11:22; Written by Paul Gordon

You won't find thousands of cheering fans at a volleyball game at any high school in central Illinois. The girls on the team don't crash through a paper breakaway banner before each contest.

A few hundred might show for a girl's basketball game, if the team is good or has a star player of potential future pro caliber.

Those are just the facts, ma'am. Girls' sports have come a long way in recent decades, but they still have...

High School Sports Rule

Details: Published on Monday, 03 September 2012 09:38; Written by Paul Gordon

Did you hear about the $60 million football stadium being built in Texas? Oh, it's not for the Dallas Cowboys or the Texas Longhorns. It is an 18,000-seat stadium for a Dallas suburban high school.

So there are obviously some fans of high school sports that are more fanatical than those in central Illinois. But around here, there are an awful lot of people who believe their high school sports trumps anything else from the end of August...

Here's To The Winners...

Details: Published on Monday, 03 September 2012 10:34; Written by Bill Liesse

And the secret to their success

The proverbial references are about water, or blood. As in, "There must be something in the water in that town." Or, "Basketball (or football, or pick your sport) is in that school's blood."

But something — or more often, someone — has to get the juices flowing to create a high school sports dynasty, a perennial power, the kind of program that competes for, and wins, state...