Bradley Piros has been a reporter at Riverbnder.com since January 2022.
He graduated from Western Illinois University in December 2020 with a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism as well as a minor in Sports Broadcasting.
At WIU Bradley worked at the school's student-run newspaper publication The Western Courier. He began his freshman year as a writer and worked his way up to Sports Editor by the time he was a senior.
In his spare time, Bradley loves to stay active. He played soccer and ran track and field at Alton High. Now he stays busy with his favorite hobby disc golf. He also loves spending time with his family and friends, traveling to new places, and watching sports.
EAST ALTON - The Alton Road Runners Club is wrapping up its 25th Annual Summer Running Series this weekend. The club will host its third and final event of the summer which is the 26th Annual 'Dash-n-Glow'. It's classified as more of a family run with ages 14 and under running a half-mile and ages...
EAST ALTON - Tyler Lafferty, an East Alton Wood River High School graduate, has been working with the Parks and Recreation Department in O'Fallon, Illinois, ever since graduating college. He graduated from Western Illinois University with a Master's Degree in Public Administration at the end of 2019....
ALTON - One of Alton's oldest-running golf tournaments, starting back in 1954, returns this year when Cloverleaf Golf Course hosts the 69th Annual Gold Medal Golf Championship. It will be the first time Cloverleaf has hosted the event. The winner of the event is automatically inducted into the Alto...
AVISTON – After dropping their opening game to Moline Post 247 by a score of 7-0, the Alton Post 126 Sr. Legion baseball team found themselves in a win-or-go-home situation. They had to beat the now 25-1 Aviston Express, a team they’ve played four times before this season and have yet...
ALTON - Wednesday night, July 27, was OSF Saint Anthony's Health Center Night at the Ballpark. It included doctors and nurses receiving free admission, people giving out health care information, and a local cancer survivor throwing out the ceremonial first pitch. Jim Corby, 61, of Alton was diagnosed...
ALTON - Just weeks after the very successful middle and high school football camp at Public High School Stadium, a camp hosted by Atlanta Falcons' cornerback Mike Ford, AMS went back at it to host another camp. This camp, being held at the practice field behind Alton Middle School, began Monday,...
BREESE – The Alton Post 126 Sr. Legion baseball team qualified for the state tournament last weekend when they were runners-up in the 5 th Division Tournament. Wednesday, July 27, they played their first game at the state and were defeated by Moline Post 247 by a score of 7-0 in the first...
ALTON - The Alton Post 126 Sr. Legion baseball team headed over to Breese, Illinois for the first round of the state tournament. They took on and were defeated by Moline Post 247 by a score of 7-0. These photos are from that game.
ALTON - From 9 a.m to 12 p.m. on Saturday, July 30th, the Alton Athletic Association will be hosting the 1st annual Redbird Amazing Race. It costs $100 to make a team of five athletes to participate in the race. Teams will need a driver to get from place to place. The driver can be either a student...
EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville Futures continued yesterday afternoon and into the night. Day two of the tournament wrapped up qualifying play and began the round of 32 main draw singles matches. The highlight match of the night has to be the three-set tiebreaker between a University of Illinois...
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