WRMJ Sports

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor open the show discussing conference championships this week, won by Sherrard (girls track), Rockridge (baseball), and Riverdale (softball), react to the postseason softball brackets, touch on Rockridge's classification enrollment for next school year, hit on some local basketball notes, and react to Pat Rangel returning to Alleman to take over the boys basketball program.Then, Sherrard girls track and field coach Todd Volkert (1:10:45) and Rockridge baseball coach Justin Chisholm (1:22:16) join the program.Ty and Jim close the show with a local baseball sub-sectional seeding projection and look ahead to the theme for next week's show. (1:32:29)

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor open the show discussing the past week of local sports results and dive into discussion items from the most recent IHSA Competitive Balance Committee meeting.Then, Mercer County High School girls track and field coach Lara Swanson joins the program with the Golden Eagles hosting the annual Mick Louck Invite on Tuesday. (47:00)

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor open the show discussing the newly formed IHSA competitive balance committee, which seeks to address disparities between public and private schools in interscholastic competition. Then, they recap the opening week of TRAC West baseball and softball conference games, including the two WRMJ softball broadcasts between Sherrard and Rockridge this week.Then, IHSA Executive Director Craig Anderson joins the show to dive into what the main goal of the competitive balance committee is. He touches on feedback the IHSA has received to its new enrollment classification policy, the challenges in finding a solution, what the outcome of the committee meetings could be, how transfers are impacting IHSA-sanctioned athletics, the impact school choice could have on the IHSA if it comes to Illinois, and more. (41:37) Ty and Jim close the show with some final thoughts following the interview, including a short discussion on a decision coming this week to determine if Annawan and Wethersfield High Schools will co-op in girls basketball moving forward. (1:25:58)

On Sportsline this week, the program's focus takes a rare shift to focusing on collegiate athletics as Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor open the show discussing the magnitude of Illinois and Iowa meeting in the Elite 8 on Saturday night. Then, they hit on some of the local spring sports headlines from the week.Fighting Illini Sports Network play-by-play voice Brian Barnhart joins the show from Houston this week to preview Illinois-Iowa. (40:45)

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor broadcast live from the State Farm Center during the final day of the 2025-26 IHSA boys basketball season.They are joined by IHSA Assistant Executive Director and Boys Basketball Administrator Chris Schwarz (10:42) and IHSA Associate Executive Director Matt Troha (42:16).Schwarz and Troha discuss the IHSA basketball state finals schedule, the future of the 3rd place games, potential changes to postseason seeding procedures, and more.

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor recap Sherrard and Orion's season-ending regional championship losses from Friday and look back at the season as WRMJ's basketball coverage has come to a close.Then, former Sherrard High School boys basketball Brian Hutton joins the show to discuss the Tigers' 2001 upset of Alleman 25 years later. (40:30)

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor open the show reacting to the vote from IHSA member schools that approved moving the start of football practice up to Aug. 5. They also discussed the newly released IHSA boys basketball pairings, preview the girls basketball postseason, and recap Friday's TRAC West boys basketball games.Then, IHSA Executive Director Craig Anderson joins the show to speak about the start of football practice moving up, SMAC's role, the IHSA using an RPI ranking system for boys volleyball postseason seeds this spring, if that could happen in other sports, the potential use of replay reviews at the IHSA State Finals, IHSA transfer rules, and more. (46:40)

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor open the show reacting to Friday's 61-51 Sherrard win over Orion in boys basketball to take control of the TRAC West race. Then, they discuss the voting process that's ongoing for IHSA member schools to decide whether or not to move the official start of football practice up to Aug. 5.IHSA Assistant Executive Director Sam Knox joins the program, in a conversation recorded last month, to talk about the changes coming to the 2026 IHSA football season. (1:00:46)Ty and Jim close the show reacting to the local girls basketball results this week and give a seeding projection for the local IHSA girls basketball 2A sub-sectional. (1:04:24)

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor open the show reacting to Friday's battle between Sherrard and Mercer County and the rest of the TRAC West basketball results from the week. They also touch on WRMJ's wrestling broadcast from Thursday.Then, Scott Verstraete joins the program to discuss this weekend's Brickhouse Shootout (47:39).In the final segment, Ty and Jim react to the upcoming vote to move the start of the IHSA football calendar to Aug. 5.

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor are joined in studio by former Orion High School football Chip Filler, who looks back at his career.

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 Sports Advisory Committee (SMAC's) non-endorsement had on the propsal still being able to be voted on, if this is a step to all schools qualifying for the playoffs in the future, the possibility of doing away with a north/south split in the playoff brackets, if there will be change to the postseason seeding procedure, and more.

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).Later in the program, Ty looks ahead at the 2025-26 wrestling season with Rockridge head coach Lucas Smith (43:05), Sherrard head coach Jeff Garrett (58:50), and Mercer County head coach Jeremy Finch (1:09:19).

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 coach Tim Sedam (1:36:34)Sherrard boys basketball coach Alex Johnson (1:48:22)