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Girls track and field: Prospect dominates Glenbrook South sectional

With temperatures in the low 80s, the heat was literally and figuratively on Wednesday afternoon at the Class 3A Glenbrook South girls track and field sectional. And defe...

Jon Rahm, of Spain, speaks during a news conference at the PGA Championship golf tournament at the Quail Hollow Club, Tuesday, May 13, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt York)

The PGA Championship’s identity might be that it has no identity at all

The PGA Championship has long been the major that has struggled to find an identity outside of getting the top 100 players in the world. The Masters is at Augusta National every year. The U.S. Open is known as the toughest test. The British Open is links golf.

Sarley: How to master setting the hook while topwater fishing

Let me start my follow-up story on topwater fishing with an apology. Eagle-eyed reader Craig Chisholm caught my error in recommending a lure called the Pop-R manufacture...

Baseball: Fremd clinches MSL West behind big games from Nelson brothers

Nelson Brothers deliver. Chase and Cooper Nelson anchor the middle of the Fremd infield with Chase at second and Cooper at short. They have combined for 28 double plays t...

Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese greets the crowd after a WNBA exhibition basketball game against Brazil in Baton Rouge, La., Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

As WNBA popularity soars, player salaries remain a big hurdle for the league to address

Breanna Stewart will start her ninth WNBA season in a few days. The New York Liberty All-Star and WNBA champ has been around the league long enough to watch her peers fight for visibility. She's seen a small uptick in player salaries over the years and watched the WNBA's meteoric rise in popularity.

St. Charles North's Jordyn McBride (5) is meet at home plate after hitting a home run against St. Charles East on Wednesday May 14,2025 in St. Charles.

Softball: McBride, Murray pace St. Charles North to shutout victory over St. Charles East

St. Charles North designated player Jordyn McBride plays with a slight disadvantage at the plate. The sophomore wears a pair of prescription sunglasses whenever she takes...

FILE — Alysheba, with Chris McCarron up, leads Bet Twice, right, at the finish to win the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, May 16, 1987. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)

The 150th Preakness is the last at old Pimlico before demolition. Winners share their top memories

The wrecking ball is just about hovering over Pimlico Race Course, with a complete knockdown and rebuild of the grandstand and other facilities coming. But first comes the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes. Without Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty in the field, the event this year is about the history of the middle jewel of the Triple Crown and the last at the Pimlico track that has been around since 1870.