high school sports

An announcer for a live stream of an Oklahoma girls high school basketball game cursed and called one team by a racial epithet as the players kneeled during the national anthem

As high school sports resume in the state of Illinois, parents and student-athletes are hoping that it isn’t too late to help their recruiting status as they seek spots at the next level of competition. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey has more.

As Illinois regions continue loosening restrictions, the state has released new guidance for youth and recreational sports. NBC 5’s Patrick Fazio reports.

Michigan high school winter sports will start on time in November. Face coverings are required for athletes practicing and competing in basketball, competitive cheer, ice hockey and wrestling, the Michigan High School Athletic Association said Friday. They are not required for athletes in bowling, gymnastics, skiing and swimming unless the players are on the sideline and not actively participating. Sport-specific…

The executive director of the Illinois High School Association said Friday the content of a letter he sent to Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Deputy Gov. Jesse Ruiz this week “has been greatly misconstrued on social media in a short amount of time.”

Twenty counties in Illinois are now at a “warning level” for coronavirus, the state’s health department said Friday.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivers a coronavirus update from Chicago on Aug. 19.

With Will County among 14 Illinois counties at a “warning level” for coronavirus, area contact tracers are reporting a “disturbing mixed bag of attitudes” when it comes to the virus.

Fourteen counties in Illinois are now at a “warning level” for coronavirus, the state’s health department said Friday.

Illinois’ mask mandate applies “even outside,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday, noting that residents should still be wearing masks even if they’re just walking down the street.

Thirteen counties in Illinois are now at a “warning level” for coronavirus, the state’s health department said Friday.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Friday that the Illinois Department of Public Health will file emergency rules aimed at helping local health and police agencies enforce the state’s mask mandate and social gathering restrictions.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is scheduled to discuss the coronavirus response Tuesday from one of 11 counties state health officials say is at a “warning level” for the spread of COVID-19.

NOTE: Pritzker’s 11 a.m. press conference will be streamed live in the player above Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker will launch a new public awareness campaign Monday aimed at “reducing the spread of COVID-19.” The governor is set to speak publicly at 11 a.m. at the IEMA state Emergency Operations Center in Springfield. The campaigns launch comes as 11 counties...

Eleven counties in Illinois are now at a “warning level” for coronavirus, the state’s health department said Friday.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike on Thursday issued another warning that the state is “heading in the wrong direction” with its resurgence of coronavirus cases.

An infectious disease expert at University of Chicago Medicine said Thursday that the coronavirus pandemic isn’t “a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing” and preparations should be made for future pandemics. “I’m really worried that five years after this pandemic people are going to be like, ‘Well, that’s over and we’re probably not going to have one for another 100 years,’”...

Most of Illinois’ 11 healthcare regions are seeing increases in coronavirus metrics as the state reaches what Gov. J.B. Pritzker called “a danger point.” Speaking from a county now at a “warning level,” Pritzker said “things are not heading in the right direction.” “We do not want the state or any region in the state moving backward so I’m...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is set to deliver two coronavirus updates Thursday, both in counties said to be at “warning levels” in the state. Watch them live here.

The Illinois High School Association announced its plan for the 2020-21 school year Wednesday, moving some fall sports to the spring and allowing others to continue as planned with restrictions.