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College Achievers: Huber, Boldt help Illinois Wesleyan to dual CCIW wins

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March 9, 2025

College Achievers: Huber, Boldt help Illinois Wesleyan to dual CCIW wins

Illinois Wesleyan junior Nathan Boldt, a graduate of Barrington High School, operates in the post during a game earlier this month against Carroll University.
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Familiar faces at Illinois Wesleyan University helped the Titans win the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin women’s and men’s basketball tournaments.

Beating Carthage 79-60, the men’s team won the tournament for the first time since it was held in 2003. Nathan Boldt (Barrington High School), a 6-foot-10 junior forward, came off the bench to grab a season-high 8 rebounds to go with 5 points. Starting senior guard Hakim Williams (Round Lake) and senior forward Marko Anderson (Maine South) were top contributors, and readers may also recall key Titans guards Josh Fridman out of Glenbrook North and Karlo Colak of New Trier.

Junior swingman Griffin Daun (Wauconda) and Carthage saw their season end Friday in an NCAA Division III tournament loss to St. Norbert College, 92-89.

Ranked ninth nationally by D3hoops.com, Illinois Wesleyan (24-5) on Saturday advanced into the tournament’s Sweet Sixteen with a 75-73 win over St. John’s University (Minn.) at the University of Chicago’s Ratner Athletic Center. Colak scored on a putback with 0.3 seconds left. The Titans will visit No. 5 Wisconsin-LaCrosse on Friday.

The Illinois Wesleyan women beat Carroll University (Wis.) 95-86 to win their 11th CCIW tournament title. Star senior guard Lauren Huber’s (Glenbard East) season-high 28 points and game-high 11 rebounds led the effort but she got plenty of help from juniors Sawyer White (Montini) with 17 points and 3 steals and Ava Bardic (Stevenson) with 13 points. Senior Kate Palmer (Geneva) scored 8, and when Carroll pressured early, junior Sara Balli (Lake Park) hit a big 3.

Ranked fourth nationally, Illinois Wesleyan’s women (28-1) advanced to the women’s Division III Sweet Sixteen. On Saturday the Titans beat Trine University (Ind.) 82-50 behind Bardic’s five 3-pointers and 26 points. Wesleyan will host Wisconsin-Oshkosh on Friday at the Shirk Center.

Take the Hintz

A former East Suburban Catholic Conference baseball pitcher of the year, University of Arizona junior Casey Hintz (St. Viator) earned a win in dramatic fashion against then-No. 1 Texas A&M on Feb. 28 in Houston. Hintz pitched 5 innings of relief and got the win when Arizona scored twice in the top of the ninth inning. In the bottom of the ninth with two outs, he allowed the tying runner to reach base before getting a swinging strikeout to end the game. Entering Friday, Hintz had a 2-0 record with a 2.13 ERA and 14 strikeouts in 12⅔ innings pitched.

Back to the Garden

The Great Lakes Valley Conference named Lewis University senior Delaney Garden (Jacobs) its softball pitcher of the week for a second straight week and for the fourth time overall. On the season the left-hander is 7-4 with a 1.59 ERA, 3 shutouts, and in 70⅓ innings has allowed 46 hits while striking out 90 batters. She was also second on the Flyers with a .434 batting average and led the team in runs and total bases while going 11 of 11 in stolen base attempts.

MVFC MVPs

To commemorate its 40th season, capped by North Dakota State’s Football College Subdivision title early in 2025, Missouri Valley Football Conference fans voted for the league’s 40th Anniversary Team.

The results included the following players from Daily Herald turf: quarterbacks, South Dakota State’s Mark Gronowski (Neuqua Valley) and Western Illinois’ Russ Michna (Conant); Southern Illinois running back Tom Koutsos (Marmion), and Western Illinois receiver Don Beebe (Kaneland); tight ends, North Dakota State’s Tom Babicz (Barrington) and Illinois State’s James O’Shaughnessy (Naperville North); and North Dakota State punter Ben LeCompte (Barrington).

Smartie

Speaking of the Missouri Valley, Drake guard Mitch Mascari (Geneva), a graduate student featured previously for his 3-point shooting, made the MVC Scholar-Athlete first team and third-team all-conference. He had a 3.98 grade-point average in finance as an undergrad and now owns a 3.80 GPA in graduate accounting.

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2025 FCS football championship: Bracket, schedule, scores

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3 hours ago

December 13, 2025

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2025 FCS football championship: Bracket, schedule, scores

The 2025-26 FCS playoffs consist of a 24-team bracket with play starting on Saturday, Nov. 29 and concluding on Monday, Jan. 5. The top 16 teams seeded and the top eight seeds receive automatic byes to the second round, while the rest of the 24-team field (the remaining 16 teams) play in the first round.

Here’s everything you need to know for the Division I Football Championship postseason.

FCS championship bracket

Click or tap here to view the bracket

FCS championship schedule

All times Eastern

Quarterfinals

Friday, December 12
Saturday, December 13

Semifinals

Saturday, December 20
- Semifinal 1 | 4 p.m. ET | ABC
- Semifinal 2 | 7:30 p.m. ET | ESPN2

National Championship

FCS championship rounds, dates

Selection show: 12 p.m. ET Sunday, Nov. 23 on ESPNU
First round: Saturday, Nov. 29
Second round: Saturday, Dec. 6
Quarterfinals: Friday, Dec. 12 through Saturday, Dec. 13
Semifinals: Saturday, Dec. 20
National championship: Monday, Jan. 5 on ESPN at 7:30 p.m. ET

FCS selections

The bracket selections for the 2025-26 FCS Championship was on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. The bracket was be revealed via a selection show on ESPNU at 12 p.m. ET and a selections release.

Eleven conferences (or conference partnerships/alliances) earn automatic bids to the playoffs. The FCS Championship Committee selects the remaining 13 at-large bids.

AUTOMATIC BIDS: Click or tap here to see all 11 of the clinched auto-bids

FCS championship history

North Dakota Dakota State is the reigning national champion, winning its 10 title in 2024 with a 35-32 win over Montana State. Here’s every FCS champion and runner-up from the past decade:

Year	Champion	Coach	Score	Runner-Up	Site
2024	North Dakota State	Tim Polasek	35-32	Montana State	Frisco, Texas
2023	South Dakota State	Jimmy Rogers	23-3	Montana	Frisco, Texas
2022	South Dakota State	John Stiegelmeier	45-21	North Dakota State	Frisco, Texas
2021	North Dakota State	Matt Entz	38-10	Montana State	Frisco, Texas
2020	Sam Houston	K.C. Keeler	23-21	South Dakota State	Frisco, Texas
2019	North Dakota State	Matt Entz	28-20	James Madison	Frisco, Texas
2018	North Dakota State	Chris Klieman	38-24	Eastern Washington	Frisco, Texas
2017	North Dakota State	Chris Klieman	17-13	James Madison	Frisco, Texas
2016	James Madison	Mike Houston	28-14	Youngstown State	Frisco, Texas
2015	North Dakota State	Chris Klieman	37-10	Jacksonville State	Frisco, Texas

Click here for a full list of every champion since 1978.

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Another Winter Storm Targets Central Illinois

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December 13, 2025

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Another Winter Storm Targets Central Illinois

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS) — After a brief lull in the weather on Friday, now another winter storm is setting its sights on central Illinois. Come Saturday, our next round of Winter is set to arrive. A new weather maker sweeps across the Upper Midwest, causing more snow to develop by mid-morning on Saturday. A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued from 7AM Saturday through 8 PM Saturday evening. The snow will pick up intensity by late-morning and last through the afternoon into the early evening hours before ending. This new weather system will follow a path very similar to the previous storm system and spread a swath of moderate to locally heavy snow. Before the snow wraps up Saturday evening, expect another 2″-4″ for much of central Illinois, with afternoon high temperatures bitterly cold in the mid-teens.

But the worst blast of cold air comes in Saturday evening into Sunday. Frigid Arctic air surges down from Canada causing temperatures to really tumble, driving in the coldest weather we’ve had in a long time and certainly the coldest so far this season. A Cold Weather Advisory is issued from 8 PM Saturday through Noon on Sunday. Sunday morning will be dangerously cold with wind chills around 20 to 25 BELOW ZERO. With wind chills this extreme, it doesn’t take long to suffer from frostbite or hypothermia. Please stay inside to keep warm, but if you do need to venture out, limit the time you spend outdoors, and make sure to cover up all exposed skin by wearing a hat, scarf, and gloves. Sunday afternoon features lots of sunshine, but despite the sunshine, temperatures will be brutally cold and frigid with high temperatures stuck in the low single numbers while wind chills remain well below zero.

Expect more extremely chilly weather on Monday with wind chills still ranging from 5 to 15 BELOW ZERO in the morning and afternoon highs only reaching into the 20s. Then temperatures will finally start to warm up, and we should climb out of the deep freeze with highs in the mid to upper 30s on Tuesday.

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Illinois is newest state to allow medical assistance in dying after Pritzker signs bill

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December 12, 2025

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Illinois is newest state to allow medical assistance in dying after Pritzker signs bill

Updated on: December 12, 2025 / 11:49 AM CST
/ CBS Chicago

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new law Friday making Illinois the newest state allowing medically assisted dying in terminally ill residents.

Known as “Deb’s Law,” it allows eligible terminally ill adults with a prognosis to live six months or less to request a prescription from their doctor that would allow them to die on their own terms.

The legislation was narrowly approved by the Illinois Senate in October after the Illinois House passed it in May.

People on both sides of the debate over the controversial legislation lobbied the governor up until the last minute. Medical aid in dying, also called assisted suicide or dying with dignity, is already legal in 12 states. Eight more are considering similar legislation.

“I have been deeply impacted by the stories of Illinoisans or their loved ones that have suffered from a devastating terminal illness, and I have been moved by their dedication to standing up for freedom and choice at the end of life in the midst of personal heartbreak,” Pritzker said in a news release after signing the bill.

Pritzker’s signature makes Illinois the first state in the Midwest to allow medically assisted death.

Advocates for the law say it allows adults to die on their own terms when survival is already not an option. Opponents say the bill legalizes “state-sanctioned suicide.”

The law requires two doctors to determine a patient has a terminal disease and will die within six months. The medication provided would need to be requested both orally and in written documentation, and will have to be self-administered. The law also requires all patients opting into medical assistance in dying to have been full informed about all end-of-life care options, including comfort care, hospice, palliative care and pain control.

The law is named for Deb Robertson, a former social worker from Lombard who had an aggressive case of neuroendocrine carcinoma. She began advocating for medical aid in dying in 2022 and has been a central figure in the movement.

Please note: The above video is from a previous report

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