Mostly forgotten today, southern Illinois’ Archie Dees was one of the most highly sought after high school basketball players in…
The evolution of the “proper” way to shoot a basketball, a journey leading to the modern jump shot of today,…
It was late October in southern Illinois, a time when the leaves were morphing into astounding colors of yellow,…
There were fifteen rural grade schools in Jefferson County, Illinois, when I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s,…
A Country Boy on a City Boy Basketball Team Some of the great Illinois high school basketball players sometimes get…