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…
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,…