Section: Sports

Major League Baseball has ordered the St. Louis Cardinals to forfeit their top two picks in this year’s amateur draft and pay Houston $2 million as compensation for hacking the Astros email system and scouting database.

Two high schools in Champaign have created archery programs after the success of the sport at a local middle school.

Southern Illinois University is cutting its men’s and women’s tennis programs and reducing scholarships for the men’s swimming and diving teams.

Illinois high school sports officials say more girls are entering competitive wrestling.

A bus carrying a minor league hockey team has been involved in a rollover crash and three people are in serious condition.

The World Series champion Chicago Cubs have accepted President Barack Obama’s invitation and will visit the White House on Monday.

The St. Louis Cardinals have signed free agent center fielder Dexter Fowler to a five-year deal.

The Chicago Cubs’ World Series trophy is hitting the road, and Springfield is included.

Sale goes to Boston.

Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler will have season-ending surgery on his right shoulder.