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Ty Taylor is joined by IHSA Assistant Executive Director Sam Knox, who oversees football, to discuss this week's announcement of the IHSA football playoffs expanding and the season moving up a week. They discuss what the addition of 128 teams to the postseason aims to fix, if it will be successful in doing so, why the proposal passed, the feedback the IHSA has initially received, the impact the Sp...

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor were joined in-studio by Sherrard boys basketball coach Alex Johnson and Mike Hutchins Holiday Classic Tournament Director Eric Hutchins to preview this year's field and reveal the bracket for the 2025 event. Then, Ty talks with Byron boys basketball coach Matt Huels (44:23), Princeton boys basketball coach Jason Smith (55;19), and Annawan boys bas...

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor (appearing from Chicago), opened the show recapping the first night of TRAC West boys basketball on Friday and discussed longtime Orion High School football coach Chip Filler's decision to step away from the program. Then, Filler joins the show in a conversation recorded Friday night just a few hours after he made the decision to resign (30:52). La...

On Sportsline this week Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor open the show recapping the 1A-4A IHSA football state championship games and the opening week of local boys high school basketball. Then, talk through the 12 by-law amendment proposals that IHSA member schools will be voting on this month (49:46). Orion High School assistant boys basketball coach Travis Anderson, a 2011 graduate of the school, joins...

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor open the show discussing the IHSA football semifinals and react to the first week of the local girls basketball season. Then, they dive into a preview of the TRAC West boys basketball season. Guests this week: Orion boys basketball coach Larry Anderson (1:04:52) Rockridge boys basketball coach Jordan Harris (1:22:28) Mercer County boys basketball c...

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor open the show by looking back at Rockridge's season-ending second-round playoff loss to Tri-Valley last week and previewing the Class 1A-3A quarterfinals. Then, they discuss Sherrard football coach Dan McGuire retiring and Sherrard girls track and field coach Todd Volkert earning a selection into the ITCCCA Hall of Fame. Ty and Jim close the openin...

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor open the show by previewing Saturday's IHSA 2A second-round playoff match-up between Rockridge and Tri-Valley, before looking around at the rest of the 2A and local matchups. They then discuss Riverdale's wild sectional championship volleyball win on Thursday, which saw the Rams win the second and third sets after two coaches were ejected. They clo...

WRMJ's play-by-play broadcast of Rockridge's 56-12 win over Illini West in the first round of the 2025 Class 2A playoffs.

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor preview Rockridge vs Illini West in the first round of the Class 2A IHSA football playoffs. Then, Mercer County High School Athletic Director Dustin Murray joined the program to discuss Roxana High School's proposal to regionalize football scheduling and expand the football postseason. (28:40)

Ty Taylor, Jim Taylor and Monte Smith break down the IHSA football brackets and speak with local coaches on the 2025 WRMJ Pigskin Playoff Preview . Ty talks with the following local coaches: Rockridge's Sam Graves Illini West's Jacob Calvin Monmouth-Roseville's Jeremy Adolphson Newman's Mike LeMay Farmington's Toby Vallas Erie-Prophetstown's Tyler Whitebread Riverdale's Guy Dierikx Princeton's Rya...

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor open the show discussing Week 9 of the high school football season in the TRAC and look ahead to the playoffs. Then, Friday Night Drive's Steve Soucie joins the show to give the latest bracket projection breakdown in the 1A, 2A and 3A fields. (39:49)

In a special Sportsline interview, Ty Taylor speaks with Roxana High School Athletic Director Mark Briggs and Assistant Principal Adam Miller about a proposal they authored to the IHSA that would expand the high school football playoffs from 256 qualifiers to 384 qualifers and alter regular season scheduling to a "flexed regional" format. For an overview of the proposal, click here .

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor open the show recapping Rockridge's 48-12 win over Monmouth-Roseville this week. Later in the show, they discuss the rest of the games around the conference and look ahead to the playoff picture. (33:42) At the end of the show this week, they talk about a proposal that will likely be voted on this year that would change IHSA football to a regional-...

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor recaps Week 7 of the high school football season around the TRAC. Guests on the show this week: Mercer County head coach Fred Lucas (22:59) Rockridge head coach Sam Graves (35:30) Monmouth-Roseville head coach Jeremy Adolphson (46:40) Sherrard head coach Dan McGuire (59:15) Orion head coach Chip Filler (1:10:57)

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor recaps Week 6 of the high school football season around the TRAC. Guests on the show this week: Rockridge head coach Sam Graves (21:28) Orion head coach Chip Filler (32:42) Erie-Prophetstown head coach Tyler Whitebread (43:57) Sherrard head coach Dan McGuire (52:58)

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor recaps Week 5 of the high school football season around the TRAC. Guests on the show this week: Rockridge head coach Sam Graves (26:50) Sherrard head coach Dan McGuire (41:01) Orion head coach Chip Filler (51:27) Monmouth-Roseville head coach Jeremy Adolphson (1:02:37) Mercer County head coach Fred Lucas (1:15:34)

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor recaps Week 4 of the high school football season, which marked the first week of divisional games in the TRAC. Guests on the show this week: Mercer County head coach Fred Lucas (23:22) Rockridge head coach Sam Graves (33:26) Newman head coach Mike LeMay (44:09) Sherrard head coach Dan McGuire (54:46) Orion head coach Chip Filler (1:04:30)

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor recaps Week 3 of the high school football season, which marked the first week of divisional games in the TRAC. Guests on the show this week: Mercer County head coach Fred Lucas (25:34) Orion head coach Chip Filler (37:57) Monmouth-Roseville coach Jeremy Adolphson (50:29) Rockridge head coach Sam Graves (1:01:14) Sherrard head coach Dan McGuire (1:15:15)

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor recaps Week 2 of the high school football season around the TRAC. Guests on the show this week: Mercer County head coach Fred Lucas (23:37) Rockridge head coach Sam Graves (37:55) Riverdale head coach Guy Dierikx (52:13) Sherrard head coach Dan McGuire (1:05:20) Orion head coach Chip Filler (1:17:19)

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor recaps Week 1 of the high school football season around the TRAC. Guests on the show this week: Mercer County head coach Fred Lucas (21:22) Sherrard head coach Dan McGuire (34:47) Rockridge head coach Sam Graves (43:18) Newman head coach Mike LeMay (57:00) Orion head coach Chip Filler (1:08:07)

On the first Sportsline of the 2025-26 school year, Ty Taylor opens the show previewing the upcoming season in the Three Rivers Athletic Conference, which is expected to be extremely competitive. Then, Ty talks with Orion head coach Chip Filler (28:00), Sherrard head coach Dan McGuire (43:22), Rockridge head coach Sam Graves (57:07), and Mercer County head coach Fred Lucas (1:14:24) to preview the...

On the final Sportsline of 2024-25, Ty Taylor opens the show reacting to Sherrard naming Dan McGuire its next varsity football coach, recaps the season-ending losses for Sherrard in the softball and baseball sectional semifinals this week, and touches on results from the IHSA State Boys Track and Field Meet. New Sherrard football coach Dan McGuire joins the show to discuss taking over the program...

WRMJ's play-by-play broadcast of Sherrard's 5-4 walk-off win over Rockridge in the championship game of the 2A Monmouth-Rosevilel Regional on May 24, 2025

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor opens the show recapping Sherrard's 2-1 thrilling regional championship softball win from Friday and looks ahead to Saturday's Sherrard-Rockridge regional championship baseball match-up on Saturday. Sherrard baseball coach Nick Basala (23:57) and Rockridge baseball coach Justin Chisholm (34:01) join the show to preview the game. Then, Ty speaks with new Mercer Co...

WRMJ's play-by-play broadcast of Sherrard's 2-1 win in eight innings over Rockridge in the championship game of the 2A Farmington Regional on May 23, 2025.