There was something ancient and communal about small-town high school basket in the 1960s—a rite of passage for young male…
Indiana high school sports lost a valuable man recently. From the late 1960s and fifteen years beyond, Indiana sports writer…
While it’s true, and amazingly so, that Larry Bird could seemingly overwhelm an opposing team all by himself during his…
Some would argue that the 1970s were a part of the golden age of Indiana high school basketball. The single…
As I continue to work on a book about Larry Bird’s high school basketball senior year, I keep running across…
Like other young boys growing up in the 1950s in the Horse Creek region of rural southern Illinois, I was…
It was late October in southern Illinois, a time when the leaves were morphing into astounding colors of yellow,…
My first real job, hauling hay for a farmer I hardly knew, started on a bad note. This was in…
My dad loved to quail hunt, a yearly ritual that began during the relatively warm Indian summer days of November.…
In 1891, James Naismith was tasked by his employer at the Y.M.C.A. International Training School at Springfield, Massachusetts, to come…