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,…
Over the years, Oakland City College/University has sent hundreds of basketball coaches out into the high school ranks. These graduates…
Seventy years ago, Clarence Bevo Francis appeared out of nowhere, instantly capturing the complete attention of the world of college…
The outlaw is perhaps the most distinctive of American folk types and, oddly enough, seems of more interest to the…
Family genealogy, at its best, teaches about life at the daily level. Unfortunately, digging up information about ancestors of more…
Mt. Vernon High School in Illinois has a long tradition of basketball successes, but one story in particular about a…
They answered the call to help save the world from the two most powerful and ruthless war machines ever. —Tom…
The important teachers in my life were not only in school, they were everywhere. Some of their essential teachings, however,…