Those of us who have come to believe that Indiana is the only state that harbored great boys’ high school…
I’ve always enjoyed doing research, seeking out and discovering interesting but unexplored stories about people that reveal long hidden dramas…
In the early morning hours of May 30, 1986, Oakland City College’s Student Memorial Gymnasium was destroyed by a fire…
Of all my boyhood adventures in rural southern Illinois, nothing ever matched the experience of exploring, with my older brother,…
In the time of my early boyhood, my family and almost all our southern Illinois neighbors lived in farmhouses that…
While Indiana has such a rich history of high school basketball, it is easy for many of the stories of…
Stories of iconic American figures can often become stale, losing much of their meaning in their repeated tellings from generation…
In my book, An Almost Perfect Season, I make the case that the 1960s era was a golden age of…
Pre-WWII football and basketball at Oakland City College started and ended with grim events. The Great Depression was one bookend.…
Fifty-one years ago today, May 7, 1970, twenty-one young American soldiers of 2nd platoon, Delta Company of the `101st Airborne,…