Interview with Coach Fisher on tonight's KHQA-TV-7 Sports with Nico Haeflinger. Nico is a 2014 Western grad. http://khqa.com/sports/content/dress-rehearsal-wiu-preps-for-the-bruce-craddock-spring-game Defense Wins the Bruce Craddock Memorial Spring Game 41-29. http://www.goleathernecks.com/news/2017...

Western won Friday's game 7-4.

Attendance at IPFW = 102.

Game 2 will be Saturday at 1PM.

April 20 was a bad day for the Regionals. SIU and Western now join EIU, NEIU, and GSU in junk bond territory. The state now has 5 universities in junk bond status with others facing downgrades. From Reuters: Illinois' budget crisis dragged down the credit ratings of six state public universities and...

Spring game highlights big weekend for WIU football.

From Friday's McDonough County Voice:
http://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/sports/20 ... u-football

Spring Football Game is Friday at 7PM.

Tailgating starts at 5PM.

Weather for Friday:
Mostly cloudy.
High of 59 in the afternoon, falling into the 40's in the evening.
Winds: NE at 10-15 mph.

Illinois Comptroller Warns of a State University Collapse. From KMOX Radio, St Louis: The Illinois Comptroller warns the state university system could fall apart, unless Governor Bruce Rauner stops refusing to support a state budget. Comptroller Susana Mendoza spoke with campus administrators at SI...

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Current Summit League standings:
Oral Roberts 14-1
North Dakota State 9-6
Western Illinois 8-7
South Dakota State 8-7
Omaha 5-10
IPFW 1-14

Western won the game 21-4. The game was ended in the 7th inning via the "mercy rule".

Weather: 73, partly cloudy.

Attendance = 153.

Western will be at IPFW over the weekend. Game 1 will be Friday at 2PM.

With no end in sight, Illinois' unprecedented budget impasse has cut off critical state funding to the state's public colleges and universities, which received only infrequent and unpredictable funding last year and no money so far this year as Rauner and the Democrat-controlled legislature have bee...

We have to hope that this report is not true. While reading a story about Northeastern Illinois University and its downgrade by Moody's on the Chicago Tribune website, the following appears in the "Comments" section: I'm hearing that Western Illinois is finished and will not re-open in the...