The Starting Lineup 98.9

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys talk about local sports results from yesterday and take a look the schedule for today, MLB postseason begins, NFL clunker of Monday night games,  Nascar and Nascar Pick'em!!

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys recap the week of high school football all the highs and lows of Friday are covered, How Do You Like Me Now, Beast Mode, Over reactions and Football Pick recap, MLB regular season is over Cubs sweep the Cardinals and all the Wild card Series are set, NFL Sunday ends ina tie and more!!

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys talk local sports results and upcoming schedule, MLB heading into the final weekend of the regular season, Travis is finally ready to discuss Illini football lost to IU on Saturday, on to big game against USC, Football Pick'em and Nascar and Nasc Pick'em!!

Join Travis on the inside the headset portion of the progrem. Travis catches up with Coach Hefner of the Effingham Hearts to discuss the Charleston game last week and take a look at this week's matchup against Taylorville, it's also homecoming for Effingham which adds another layer to the festivities 

Join Eric on the inside the headset portion of the progrem. Eric catches up with Coach Watkins of the Cumberland Pirates to talk about the performance against tri County and a look at this week's matchup with new Co-Op Arcola / Cerro Gordo

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys talk local sports results and schedule, preview the matchups for HS FB Week 5, official classification numbers impacting basketball and spring sports season, MLB, and the much to be said about the St. Louis Cardinals!

Join Travis & Eric on the show today local sports from yesterday and a look at the light local schedule for today, MLB from last night with the playoff picture becoming into focus, and speaking of playoffs the guys look at a very early look at the High School Football Playoff Outlook!!

Join Travis & Eric on the show today local sports from Monday and the local schedule for today, little time left in the MLB regular season, Monday Night Football, Nascar at New Hampshire, Nascar Pick'Em

Join  Eric & Travis is back on the show today the guys recap of Week 4 of high school football, Pick'em recap, How Do You Like Me Now, Beast Mode Of The Week, Week 4 Overreactions, Wacky NFL Sunday, MLB and more 

Join Eric on the inside the headset portion of the progrem. Eric catches up with Coach Watkins of the Cumberland Pirates  to talk about Cumberland big game with Arthur and how the Pirates can move on from a big game loss, Cumberland opponent this week is Tri County as Coahc will discuss!!

Join Travis on the inside the headset portion of the progrem. Travis catches up with Coach Hefner of the Effingham Hearts to discuss the wild and wacky plays from an interesting game against Mater Dei, all is well and that ends well with a W for Effingham, Hearts will look to clean some things up and focus on the first Apollo game against rival Charleston!!

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys preview High School Football Week 4 all the matchups in the conferences from the area, Football Pick'Em is also on tap, the guys also look at the HUGE matchup between Illinois and Indiana football on Saturday night, also MLB from yesterday and the Cubs are going back to the playoffs!

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys discuss local sports from yesterday and the light local schedule for today, MLB from last night, and the Nascar Playoff Round 2 Re Draft and Nascar Pick'em for this week in New Hampshire

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys local sports from yesterday and the local schedule for today, MLB from last night, Monday Night Football, Nascar and Nascar Pick'Em!!

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys recap Week 3 of the high school football season, tones of great matchups around the area to talk about, how do you like me now for week 3 and beast mode of the week, week 3 over reactions and Pick'em recap plus some NFL to talk about as well!!

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys talk about the local action from yesterday and look at a jam packed sports weekend, Illinois Football win over Duke and its on to Western Michigan, Football Pick'Em, NFL, College Football, Nascar and Nascar Pick'em!! 

Join Eric on the inside the headset portion of the progrem. Eric catches up with Coach Watkins of the Cumberland Pirates  to discuss the Week 2 win over Argenta and talks about this weeks preparation for this week's important game against ALAH 

Join Travis on the inside the headset portion of the progrem. Travis catches up with Coach Hefner of the Effingham Hearts to discuss the first win of the season against Mt. Carmel, EHS with some great individual performances discussed as well, also discussed is the upcoming game with Breese Mater Dei!  

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys preview week 3 of High School Football, all the intriguing matchups from the area conferences, look at the week AP Polls and where our area teams rank, other local sports from yesterday and today, MLB as well, College Football and NFL too!! 

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys talke about local sports from around the area including HS Baseball from around the NTC yesterday, and take a look at the local schedule for today, been awhile since we took a whip around MLB, Anthony Rizzo retires and Eric is alll up in his feelings about rich person donating a large sum of money to a university and then having said person name being ADDED to the stadium name.  

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys discuss local sports from around the area and the local schedule for today, Monday Night Football happened and why would we ever excpect anything different from the Chicago Bears, O Line, Caleb Williams need to be better, JJ McCarthy led his team back and #18 did not finish the Vikings off, recap of Football and Nascar Pick'em, as well as recap Nascar at Gateway and the playoff positions heading into Bristol!

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys recap week 2 of the high school football season, all the performances you need to know, who went Beast Mode and puts up the points this week, How Do You Like Me Now for week 2, Eric's Overreactions for the week, Bears part of Pick'Em and the NFL first Sunday in the books!!

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys talk about other local sports from the area, NFL from last night and this opening weekend, College Football for the weekend plus Illinois vs Duke, Football Pick'em, Nascar Pick'em!!

Join Travis on the inside the headset proton of the progrem. Travis catches up with Coach Hefner of the Effingham Hearts to discuss the season opening game against Breese Central & how the Hearts can bounce back at Mt. Carmel

Join Eric on the inside the headset proton of the progrem. Eric catches up with Coach Watkins of the Cumberland Pirates  to discuss the season and the Pirates Week 1 opponent Villa Grove

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys preview the Week 2 slate of games for High School Football, opening kickoff of the NFL is tonight so the guys make their picks for the playoffs and Super Bowl, nostalgia and random news and notes!

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys hit up on some local sports from yesterday and look at the schedule for today, some random news and notes, recap of Nascar in Darlington and recap of Nascar Pick'Em1

Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys after an extended holiday weekend recap HS Football Week 1, Cumberland with the W, Effingham shaken up with a loss, the full slate of games are covered, Week 1 How Do You Like Me Now, Beast Mode, Pick'Em, and OverReactions!!

 Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys talk about some new and notes from Thursday, Illinois Football Preview, Travis thinks the hype is real Eric (not surprisingly) is not so sure Only time will tell, also the guys continue Nascar Pick'em with the playoff re draft, also all the courtroom drama with the biggest lawsuit in Nascar. 

Join Eric on the inside the headset proton of the progrem. Eric catches up with Coach Watkins of the Cumberland Pirates  to discuss the season and the Pirates Week 1 opponent Villa Grove

Join Travis on the inside the headset proton of the progrem. Travis catches up with Coach Hefner of the Effingham Hearts to discuss the season and the Hearts Week 1 opponent Breese Central

 Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys continue their preview of the area HS football conferences, today the guys cover two conferences: the super sized Heart Of Central Illinois and South Central, the guys also preview of Week 1 matchups and the season debut of part 1 of Football Pick'Em

 Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys continue their preview of the area HS football conferences, today the guys tackle the Little Illini Conference, it was quite the turnaround for the Tigers of Richland County but its a debate on if they can repeat, can Casey Westfield go for a run at the LIC crown this year, what about Mt. Carmel and any other sleepers, how does Newton stack up!

 Join Travis & Eric on the show today the guys continue their preview of the area HS football conferences, today the guys focus in the Lincoln Prairie, tones of changes and future changes, Arcola and the new co-op and how it affected all the teams, where does Cumberland, Arthur and Sullivan stack up, can Sangamon Valley play spoiler, and everyone else in the conference 

The boys are back in town from their longer than anticipated summer break. Join Travis & Eric as the Starting Lineup makes its glories return for the 2025-26 local sports season  and on the show today the guys talk about the return of high sports specifically High School Football.  In the coming shows the guys will dive into the area football conferences. This episode will focus on the Apollo Conference and the Effingham Hearts, more conferences to talk about next week all in the lead up to Week 1 next Friday 

Join Travis & Eric on the show today, recap of baseball from last week till now, Cardinals and Cubs status of course, all things Nascar and Nascar Pick'em 

Join Travis & Eric on the show for final part of this special 4th of July weekend edition, the guys celebrate Independence weekend with a special bracket to decide the best chicken wing sauce, enjoy THE FINALE!!!

Join Travis & Eric on the show for part 4 of this special 4th of July weekend edition, the guys celebrate Independence weekend with a special bracket to decide the best chicken wing sauce, enjoy part 4 the Hot / Buffalo Sauce Region 

Join Travis & Eric on the show for part 3 of this special 4th of July weekend edition, the guys celebrate Independence weekend with a special bracket to decide the best chicken wing sauce, enjoy part 3 the Miscellaneous Sauce Region

Join Travis & Eric on the show for part 2 of this special 4th of July weekend edition, the guys celebrate Independence weekend with a special bracket to decide the best chicken wing sauce, enjoy part 2 the Asian Sauce Region 

Join Travis & Eric on the show today for a special edition on your July 4th holiday, the guys celebrate Independence weekend with a special bracket to decide the best chicken wing sauce, enjoy part 1 the BBQ Sauce region 

Join Travis & Eric on the show today, Cardinals get shut out (again0 Skenes  vs Pallante, Cubs beat the Guardians, the rest of the MLB, Mt. Zion TE makes his college decision and its not Illinois, NBA free agency, news and notes from Nascar and pick'em as well!

Join Travis & Eric on the show today, how did the Cardinals and Cubs do in their respective series this weekend with the Guardians and Astros, take a look at the beginning of the week before a re match series in Chicago, a little NBA and NFL, College Basketball video game is coming back and more!

Join Travis & Eric on the show today, Cubs-Cardinals split four game series and solve nothing in the standings, temper flare with Wilson and the Cubs, the rest of the MLB, Illinois and Missouri wont renew the rivalry until 2027, upgrades coming to Memorial Stadium, Nascar this week at Echopark and pick'em history occurs on the pod today!! 

Join Travis & Eric back on the show today, Cubs-Cardinals from last night and the rest of MLB, NBA offseason moves with more possibly incoming especially with the Draft tonight, where will KJ and Will Riley be selected, Nascar at Pocono recap!!  

Join Travis for a solo  show today, Thunder are the NBA Champions, how many can they win now, Haliburton goes down with a devastating injury, NBA Draft coming up with couple of Illini players excepted to go in the first round, KD traded to Rockets as well, MLB from over the weekend, College World Series, and a choke job at the Travelers you might have missed 

Join Travis & Eric on the show today, MLB from Thursday and the upcoming weekend schedule including a homecoming a long time coming, we are getting a Game 7 in the NBA Finals after all, College World Series Championship is set and a champion could be crowned in the afternoon, Nascar is in Pocono this week!!

Join Travis & Eric on the show today, MLB from last night and the schedule for today and tomorrow, Florida Panthers raise lord Stanley Cup for the second time in a row, WNBA scuffle, NBA Finals is over, College World Series, plenty of things to update in the world of Nascar!!

Join Travis  and Eric on returning from vacation, recap of MLB, NBA Finals, WNBA, Stanley Cup, U S Open, College World Series and more!!

Join Travis returns for a solo mission with Eric on (STILL) vacation this week, recap of MLB and look at the weekend ahead, Stanley Cup Game 4, NBA Finals, College Baseball World Series, U S Open and Nascar is set to go road course racing in Mexico 

Join Travis returns for a solo mission with Eric on (STILL) vacation this week, recap of MLB including Cardinals lose but Effingham's own Chad Green gets in to pitch, Cubs win in the  city of non brotherly love, College World Series is set, NBA Finals return, Stanley Cup might be over and so is the chances of Connor McDavid at winning a Cup, recap of Nascar at Michigan!!