Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis heaped praise onto the Manual Rams boys basketball team, with finished 2nd in the state at the tournament held this weekend at the Peoria Civic Center. Coach Derrick Booth praised his players, coaching staff and school administrators. He noted that many members of his team are in the top 10 of [...]

Bradley University just doesn’t get it. If you want to be a top basketball school that perennially sends teams into the NCAA tournament, you have GOT to overlook the little things, such as when your star player gets his sorry ass arrested for domestic battery. In fact, you’ve got to have a local police department [...]

The Woodruff Warriors are 3-0.

The city’s basketball hoop ordinance was supposed to help residents reclaim their streets from the toughs and punks. But too many people are telling me the ordinance isn’t enforced nearly enough. I was visiting a friend on East Thrush Street this morning. There’s a mobile basketball hoop set out in front of the house at [...]

Registration is going on now at the Peoria ParkDistrict Pavilion in Glen Oak Park for the Junior Hoops Basketball Skills Camp. The district offers two skills classes for both boys and girls in grades 1-2 and grades 3-4. The skills classes begin the week of September 27 (previously September 13) and will be held at [...]