One of my favorite events that I related in the book An Almost Perfect Season: A Father and Son and…
The coldest day on record in southern Illinois was February 2, 1951. A dome of bitter Arctic air settled over…
A Country Boy on a City Boy Basketball Team Some of the great Illinois high school basketball players sometimes get…
One of southern Illinois’ most successful basketball teams you probably never heard of. Accounts from Illinois newspaper sports pages clearly…
A Brief History of Some of the Best Bluford High School Basketball Teams and Scorers, 1950-1970 During the exciting, highly…
The Story of a Waltonville Boy, Jimmy Newell, who traveled to the Big City in 1906, as Told through Family…
While my book, An Almost Perfect Season, primarily features Bluford basketball teams, the book also give ample space to many…
In the book An Almost Perfect Season: A Father and Son and a Golden Age of Small Town High School…
In the 1968-1969 Illinois high school basketball season, tiny Bluford High School, having just over a hundred students, reeled off…
Today our sweet mother, Mary Alice Newell, would have been ninety-one. In the photo of her holding a small dog,…
I had the special privilege of being the keynote speaker at Vincennes University’s Veterans’ Day program on Thursday, November 8th,…
While Randy and I have written two books and several articles together about Hoosiers in combat, there was one story…