Mark Allen, the pitching coach for the Illinois Fighting Illini baseball team, has passed away following a battle with cancer. Allen’s passing was announced by his family Thursday morning and shared ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) - Illinois pitching coach Mark Allen has died at the age of 49, his family announced. He is survived ...

Pitching coach Mark Allen has missed most of the season while fighting cancer, but is still on the minds of his players and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Paul Hoynes put it best during Friday’s podcast when reflecting on the juggernaut 1995 Cleveland Indians: “There’s certain teams, in certain cities that the fans gravitate toward and ...

Though Joens explored many professions over the course of his career, his love for Illinois history has been at the heart of ...

ESPN+, 5:30 p.m. College Basketball Men’s St. John’s at Villanova — FS1, 6 p.m. Colgate at Holy Cross — ESPN+, 6 p.m. Iowa at ...

Dave Joens has led the Illinois State Archives, the government agency tasked with preserving official government documents with historic value. Now, though, Joens is retiring from the post to pursue ...

"Actually, I was born in Illinois," Uecker said in his 2003 Baseball Hall of Fame induction ... an exaggerated version of himself, as Cleveland Indians radio announcer Harry Doyle in the 1989 ...

He was born here, raised here, played his first major-league baseball here and continued ... and played a prominent role as the Cleveland Indians’ alcohol-guzzling broadcaster Harry Doyle ...

Even though they went on to win the Indiana-Illinois-Iowa League championship that year, the team folded after the season, robbing Evansville of professional baseball for the next decade-plus.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Alton's riverfront commerce paused as the Mississippi froze, making ice cutting a vital winter occupation.