(Shelbyville, IL) -- A Shelbyville man is going to prison for a long time after pleading guilty to murdering his pregnant girlfriend. Deven Barger pleaded guilty Monday to charges of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter of a family member in connection to a July 2019 killing of Samantha Cushing. Barger was...

NFL= The surprise pick of Day 2 in the 2020 NFL Draft was made by the Eagles, who took Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts with the 53rd overall selection despite the presence of starter Carson Wentz. A pair of receivers were the first to come off the board in the second round, as the Bengals grabbed Clemson's Tee Higgins...

>>MLB Navigating Coronavirus Instead Of Opening Day (Undated) -- On what would have been Opening Day, Major League Baseball is instead navigating through a pandemic. ESPN reports MLB is working with teams and the union to advance a portion of player salaries. MLB also wants all non-player employees to be paid...

>>IOC Officially Postpones Tokyo Olympics. (Tokyo, Japan) -- The 2020 Olympics are officially postponed. The Tokyo Games are being pushed back to no later than the summer of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Olympic Committee made the decision on Tuesday with more and more athletes and coun...

>>U.S. Olympic Committee Recommends Postponing Tokyo Games (Undated) -- The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee is recommending that the 2020 Tokyo Games be postponed. USOPC Chair Susanne Lyons and CEO Sarah Hirshland put out a joint statement Monday evening that the Games should be postponed until ...

>>IOC Sets Deadline For Olympic Decision (Tokyo, Japan) -- The International Olympic Committee will decide on whether to hold the Tokyo Olympics over the next four weeks. The deadline was set yesterday after a meeting. Canada has already announced plans to not send athletes to the Olympics. Cancellation is n...

OLYMPICS= A group representing Olympic hopefuls across the world has joined the chorus of voices lobbying to have the Summer Olympics postponed until the coronavirus pandemic is under control. Many individual athletes have already said they disagree with the current plan to start the Tokyo Games as scheduled on July 24...

(Undated) - According to reports, the NBA has no intention of canceling the 2019-2020 season. New Orleans Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin said that the league's focus is on getting back to play. He spoke on the Pelicans Playback social show and said cancelation isn't on anyo...

Our Pro Wire Athletes of the Week for the week of March 21st are Wyatt Criner of Mulberry Grove and Andy Goldsborough of St. Elmo-Brownstown. Both Wyatt and Andy were named the Co-MVP's of the Egyptian Illini Conference from the boys basketball season. Our Athlete of the Week is brought to you by Pro Wire. www.prowire...

There will be two classic NCAA Tournament Games today on WPMB. Game One will be the 2008 tourney game between Davidson and Gonzaga--Steph Curry's break out game. Game Two will be the 2008 National Championship Game between Kansas and Memphis. Coverage begins at 11 am this morning on 104.7 FM/102.7 FM WPMB.

Our "Great Games in NCAA Tournament History" continues tonight on WPMB. Tonight's game will be the 2018 upset of all upsets----#16 UMBC upsetting #1 seed Virginia, becoming the one and only to pull of that feat. Game time is 7 pm on 104.7 FM/102.7 FM WPMB.

>>NBA Closing All Team Facilities (Undated) -- The NBA is closing all team facilities and practice courts starting today to combat the coronavirus. The league had been allowing players to hold individual workouts in team facilities since play was suspended last week, but is now banning that too. The NBA is al...

(Champaign, IL) -- Illinois is ranked number-22 in the final Coaches Poll of the men's college basketball season. The Fighting Illini finished the regular season 21-and-10 overall and 13-and-7 in the Big Ten before the postseason was canceled last week due to the coronavirus pandemic. Illinois vastly improved this ...

>>Jaguars Trading Foles To Bears (Jacksonville, FL) -- One year after signing the richest contract in franchise history, Jaguars quarterback Nick Foles is now on the move. Multiple reports say the Jags are trading him to the Bears for their fourth-round compensatory pick, the 140th overall. Jacksonville now ...

>>Brady Signing With Buccaneers (Tampa, FL) -- The Tom Brady era is over in New England. NFL Network reports the 42-year-old, free-agent quarterback will sign with the Buccaneers. The six-time Super Bowl champ has spent his entire 20-year career with the Patriots, but said goodbye to the team on social media ...