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…
So many fascinating southern Illinois high school basketball stories have been lost in the dark shadows of time. Exploring old…
While working on a book about Larry Bird’s high school basketball experiences, I became fascinated with what happened to Larry…
The 1950s and on through the early 1970s was a golden age of high school basketball in the Midwest and…
Throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, playing small school Loogootee was a measuring stick for other teams in the region…
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…