While writing a book about Larry Bird’s high school basketball days, I became fascinated by the many stories I heard…
Mostly forgotten today, southern Illinois’ Archie Dees was one of the most highly sought after high school basketball players in…
The fall of 1972 to the spring of 1973–my senior year at Oakland City College. Larry Bird was an unheard…
There was something ancient and communal about small-town Indiana high school basketball in the 1960s though the 1970s, a rite…
While waiting for my book on Larry Bird’s high school basketball days to be released, I occasionally think about lesser…
Lost. A concept with many different connotations, many different vibes. Forlorn. Forsaken. Damned. Haunting notions, easily employed in an entertaining…
For every Oscar Robertson, Rick Mount, Larry Bird, or Damon Bailey, there also existed a multitude of forgotten small-town athletes…
This story centers on the time before large-scale school consolidations, class basketball, and a three point line, these changes…
The evolution of the “proper” way to shoot a basketball, a journey leading to the modern jump shot of today,…
I don’t know what went through Ed Petersen’s mind, watching me climb his way up the Bluford High School gymnasium…