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This is Alan Look Photography's 14/15th year at being the Best Look in Bloomington Normal Sports Photos .  Alan begin this career shooting for the Normalite in December of 1999. Over the past years he has licensed many sports images to clients locally, nationally, and internationally.  He's also captured many memories from some great local high school events.  Check out what he has to offer and check back each week to see more of the best in sports action photography in McLean County .  Look him up on FaceBook and find out how to get a discount on your next order of $15 or more. Find all the latest high school sports action here !  - Chimper -

Friday night, August 29th, The Normal West Wildcats opened their 2014 season against a new opponent - the Belleville West Maroons.  After storming the football field through a tunnel of band members and cheerleaders (resulting in one media casualty from a local television station) the Wildcats began their attack on the Maroons.  One down, 8 more to go for the Wildcats! Bloomington - Normal's best look in Sports Action Photography .  Check out Best Look Magazine each quarter for more images and stories. 20140829 Belleville West Maroons at Normal West Wildcats football photos - Images by Alan Look  - Chimper -

Mike Devine pitched 6 innings on August 23rd at the CornCrib against the Beach Bums of Traverse City in baseball action of the Frontier League.  The 'Belters used a huge 1st inning with the line up completing a revolution and ended with 5 runs at the 3rd out.  They scored 4 more while limiting the Bums to less than half that the remainder of the game.  In the Veggie Race, it was the Taco out gassing the other 4 contestants. See Alan Look Photography for all your Bloomington Normal Sports Photos 20140823 Traverse City Beach Bums at Normal Cornbelters Frontier League Baseball photos - Images by Alan Look

The 2014-15 school calendar sports season in Bloomington - Normal started off on a day that seemed cooler than it was and with a mist that so reminds us that fall isn't far off.  The cool temps were welcome on top the turf of Hancock Stadium and the mist probably kept a few away, but the band, team, fans, cheerleaders, dancers and media did get a feel for all of the elements that return every year.  The Band playing the alma mater, the lights of the one year old renovation, the droning voice on the public address system...  but wait, something is new... at the north end of the field, a new video board only slightly uglied by the renovation of the nearby water tower in the background. Four quarterbacks are competing for the starting spot this season, including last seasons starter, Blake Winkler.  Lots of new names and faces also on hand as the freshman recruiting class comes in.  Marshaun Coprich scored the first TD.  One thing missing - the voice of the ...

With Selig freshly out of the chair, will Charlie Hustle be seated in the Hall?  With out a doubt, Pete Rose is one of the all time greats.  He was always talked about in the 1970's - seemingly at every game whether it was a Reds game or not.  He held many records, some of them still standing today and some that took a long time to be broken. The way Pete hit the field, ran to first on a walk, dove into home as the ball was arriving to the catcher, interacted with his team mates, moved to player/coach position (maybe the first one in the MLB), then to coach.  He had a well rounded exciting career that kept fans attending and viewing. The punishment he received all those years ago is extremely harsh an unjust when viewed in today's environment and what is being handed down for other serious infractions.  Even viewing from the criminal law world, he's got a life sentence with no chance of parole.  Criminals that get that sentence get re-evaluated on a da...

The long ball was in play several time for the CornBelters v the Crushers on Saturday night 7-26-2014, but in the end the 'belters needed to belt 3 more for the win.  Crushers 8, CornBelters 6 at the last out. Coverage from the 1st half of the season will be coming in the August edition of Best Look Magazine .  Expect it to be available on the 15th. 20140726 Lake Erie Crushers at Normal CornBelters baseball photos - Images by Alan Look  - Chimper -

Normally (no pun intended) natives and transplants alike in Bloomington Normal think that not much interesting at all happens here.  I'm in that group some of the time, but truth is I'm usually just not looking hard enough.  When I heard that IWU product John Worley made the top 20 on the NFL draft prospect list for linebackers I decided it was time to check out the whole list.  I usually do it every year, but had just been putting it off.  I was surprised when I found what seemed like a pretty long list.  Sifting through the list by university name of games I covered, I found only one or two of them that didn't have a name on the list.  I think the most was 9. So, who played in Bloomington - Normal that may get drafted?  I didn't keep the whole list, but you can see the 21 that I have images of in the slideshow below. 2015 NFL Draft Prospects photos - Images by Alan Look See ya on the sidelines!  - Chimper -