Saturday's SIU game is the annual Blackout Cancer game.  SIU coach Nick Hill spoke with media on Tuesday and discussed with Matt Varney the struggles his team has recently faced and how Illinois State poses a challenge this week.

As girls soccer gets in to full swing at the prep level, the boys teams are starting to prepare for the upcoming fall.  Wednesday, Matt Varney and Harrisburg coach Jared Butler met and discussed the 2021-22 season and the bright future for the upcoming 2022-23 season:

Matt Varney met with new John A. Logan College women's basketball coach Charlie Jones Wednesday morning and discussed with Coach Jones his journey to becoming Logan's women's basketball head coach, breaking barriers at JALC, what he thinks he has in the current roster, and more: