It’s Finally Here!

By Randy Mills | November 25, 2019 | Comments Off on It’s Finally Here!

My book, An Almost Perfect Season: A Father and Son and a Golden Age of Small-Town High School Basketball, is…

Marshall Says He’ll Share His Car with you: The Story of my Family’s Romance with Cars

By Randy Mills | November 7, 2019 | Comments Off on Marshall Says He’ll Share His Car with you: The Story of my Family’s Romance with Cars

While waiting for the release of my Bluford  basketball book, I thought I’d send out a story for all the…

Rod Stover on ‘An Almost Perfect Season’

By Randy Mills | October 28, 2019 | Comments Off on Rod Stover on ‘An Almost Perfect Season’

It is with great pleasure that I share Rod Stover’s review of An Almost Perfect Season. Rod was the sixth…

Bobby Blondi on An Almost Perfect Season

By Randy Mills | October 11, 2019 | Comments Off on Bobby Blondi on An Almost Perfect Season

One of the top-rated basketball officials in Illinois, Bobby Blondi, weighs in on my book, An Almost Perfect Season. Bobby’s…

Dave Schellhase Reviews ‘An Almost Perfect Season’

By Randy Mills | October 4, 2019 | Comments Off on Dave Schellhase Reviews ‘An Almost Perfect Season’

What an honor to have Dave Schellhase write such a nice review of my upcoming book, An Almost Perfect Season.…

Coming Soon: An Almost Perfect Season

By Randy Mills | September 27, 2019 | Comments Off on Coming Soon: An Almost Perfect Season

It’s almost here folks! My latest book, An Almost Perfect Season. I will be sharing several pre-publication reviews of the…

A Tale of Two Swords

By Randy Mills | September 23, 2019 | Comments Off on A Tale of Two Swords

I would be the first to admit my lacking an appreciation for plays, my lack of an appetite for such…

Don’t you be going into any caves: The First Year College Adventures of a Southern Illinois Farm Boy

By Randy Mills | September 3, 2019 | Comments Off on Don’t you be going into any caves: The First Year College Adventures of a Southern Illinois Farm Boy

It was fifty years ago this week, but seems like only yesterday. I was the first of my parents’ children…

Best Friends to the End

By Randy Mills | August 12, 2019 | Comments Off on Best Friends to the End

Princeton, Indiana, native Dick Wolfe and Alabama native Robert Hilley could have never imagined being thrown together in the cauldron…

Our Love Won’t End: The tragic death of Corvette keyboardist Mike Blythe

By Roxanne Mills | July 29, 2019 | Comments Off on Our Love Won’t End: The tragic death of Corvette keyboardist Mike Blythe

Oakland City Indiana’s very own rock band, The Darndest Things, as well as most other area garage bands in the…

Oakland City College and me Fifty Years Ago

By Randy Mills | July 24, 2019 | Comments Off on Oakland City College and me Fifty Years Ago

It will be fifty years ago in early September of 2019 that I, a scared seventeen-year-old teenager from southern Illinois,…

McLeansboro’s Dick Jones: Southern Illinois’ Congenial High School Basketball Coach

By Randy Mills | July 9, 2019 | Comments Off on McLeansboro’s Dick Jones: Southern Illinois’ Congenial High School Basketball Coach

Southern Illinois basketball stories can sometimes pop up in such unexpected places. My interest in Coach Dick Jones is just…