Glenn Kinley

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – Illinois football held its 2026 media day in Champaign on Friday. The Illini are entering the 2026 season having won 19 combined games in the last two years. Now, they’re tasked with replacing an impressive senior class from last fall. Illinois head coach Bret Bielema opened up the local media day […]

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – Illinois football held its annual media day in Champaign on Thursday. The Illini have 30 freshmen on their 2026 roster, including multiple guys expected to play right away. WCIA spoke with several of these newcomers during Thursday’s open locker room media availability. Check out some player-features, including quotes, from Illinois freshmen, […]

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – No one on Illinois football’s 2026 team has score more touchdowns in an Illini uniform than Kaden Feagin. The rising senior has found the end zone 15 times through his first three years of college ball, 12 on the ground and three receiving. Aidan Laughery has the second most with eight. […]

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – Illinois football held its 2026 media day in Champaign on Friday.

DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) – Millikin football took a step in the right direction during its first year with Billy Riebock as head coach. Riebock, a Decatur native and St. Teresa High School graduate, helped the Big Blue to three wins in 2025, after the program went winless in both 2023 and 2024. Now, he hopes […]

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – Illinois running back Ca’Lil Valentine was named to the Doak Walker Award watch list on Tuesday. Valentine, entering his third year of college football and having spent his entire collegiate career thus far at Illinois, is one of 62 players on the preseason watch list. The Doak Walker Award is given […]

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – Champaign Central football is in search of its first winning season since 2018. The Maroons waste no time getting into the thick of Big 12 play, hosting Danville in week one. It will be an early litmus test for Luke Harding, who moved from wide receiver to quarterback during the offseason […]

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – It was July of 2021 when Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley running back Aidan Laughery announced his commitment to play football at the University of Illinois. Fast forward five years, and Laughery was voted a team captain for Illini football, the team announced on Wednesday. “It’s crazy,” Laughery told WCIA. “When I was [a […]

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – It was July of 2021 when Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley running back Aidan Laughery announced his commitment to play football at the University of Illinois.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – Illinois head football coach Bret Bielema spoke with reporters on Thursday as his team nears the end of their third week of fall training camp. Bielema had plenty to discuss, as evidenced by a 5.5 minute opening statement which touched on a wide variety of topics. His comments ranged from new […]