Randy Kindred is a correspondent at WGLT. With 42 years of experience as a sportswriter at The Pantagraph, including eight years as sports editor, he has covered a diverse range of sports, focusing on both team and individual disciplines. His work has been featured in various outlets including The Pantagraph, JG, WSIU Public Broadcasting, WVIK, Quad Cities NPR, and WCBU.
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Randy Kindred predominantly covers local sports events, with a particular focus on profile features. If you have compelling human interest stories related to local athletes, coaches, or sporting events in the United States, Illinois, and Bloomington Normal area - Randy is likely to be interested.
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By: Randy Kindred
A 2017 Normal West High School graduate, Kinley has been around a lot of winning in his young career as a television sports director. While at KSNT in Topeka, Kansas, he covered a Kansas men's basketball national championship and two Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl wins.
By: Randy Kindred
He called it “a great week, a great experience,” and here is what we know: Holtz learned a great deal in his time at the famed Augusta National Golf Club.
By: Randy Kindred
Antonacci blossomed into the 2023 NJCAA Division II National Player of the Year by his sophomore season, leading Heartland to a 57-5 record and the national championship . That led to an opportunity at Division I baseball power Coastal Carolina, where after a stellar junior season in 2024, Antonacci was drafted in the fifth round by the Chicago White Sox.
By: Randy Kindred
Don't remember Chaia Meier's basketball career at University High? It's OK. She understands. She was Chaia [pronounced KY-ya] VanGoethem back then.
By: Randy Kindred
Chiodo will be celebrated Saturday when the trophy case at U-High is named in his honor. A bronze plaque detailing Chiodo's Hall of Fame career will be displayed permanently in the trophy case near the entrance to the U-High gymnasium.
By: Randy Kindred
The World Cup is among many major sporting events on Hardiman's Levy calendar. He was at the Kentucky Derby in May and in New York for Saturday's Belmont Stakes. He was in Oklahoma City recently for the NBA Western Conference Finals and works a number of top-level tennis tournaments, including the U.S. Open.
By: Randy Kindred
So in 2023, in his second year as head football coach at Watseka High School about 80 miles east of Bloomington-Normal, Fransen began a one-day football camp called Tackling Disabilities. It pairs campers with physical and/or intellectual disabilities with high school football players for skill stations, drills, etc.
By: Randy Kindred
The expectation was this day would feel better. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, prominent faces from baseball’s steroid era, failed again to make the Baseball Hall of Fame.
By: Randy Kindred
In an era of NIL and the transfer portal, Abbs is a throwback … a student-athlete as invested in academics as athletics.
Maddie Deti has grown up with football as the family business. Her father, Cody Deti, is in his 16th year as an Illinois State assistant coach, mentoring the Redbirds' defensive backs.
