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Lake County Corn Dogs name chosen for new Crown Point baseball team

January 25, 2022 – By Larry Avila Leave a Comment

A new Crown Point-based baseball team will be called the Lake County Corn Dogs.

Filed Under: Athletics & Sports, Business News Bits, Entertainment, Quality of Life, Sports, Tourism & Recreation Tagged With: Around the Region, baseball, Center Cross Park, Crown Point, Lake County Corn Dogs, Legacy fields, non-affiliated baseball, Northern League

Indianapolis 500 allowing fans in the stands for Aug. 23 race

June 29, 2020 – By Larry Avila

race flag

The iconic Indianapolis 500 is set for Aug. 23 and will have fans in the stands.

Filed Under: Business News Bits, Sports, Tourism & Recreation Tagged With: 104th Indianapolis 500, Around the Region, coronavirus, COVID-19, fans in the stands, Indianapolis 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, J. Douglas Boles, pandemic

Valparaiso University receives $550,000 donation for renovation of baseball field

February 3, 2020 – By Larry Avila

Emory G. Bauer Field ValpoU

Valparaiso University’s plan to update its baseball field received a $550,000 boost from alumni and other college supporters.

Filed Under: Athletics & Sports, Business News Bits, Education, Sports Tagged With: Around the Region, Carl Young, college athletics, college baseball, Deetjen family, Emory G. Bauer Field, Lynn Scheutzow Young, Missouri Valley Conference, Valparaiso University, Valpo

2020 National Mascot Hall of Fame inductees selected

December 18, 2019 – By Larry Avila

Reggy

The Indianapolis Colts’ Blue and Boomer of the Indiana Pacers will be among the 2020 National Mascot Hall of Fame inductees.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Business News Bits, Sports Tagged With: 2020 inductees, Around the Region, Blue, Boomer, Indiana Pacers, Indianapolis Colts, National Mascot Hall of Fame, NBA, NFL

Winning Helps Boost Support for Football

August 2, 2018 – By Larry Avila Leave a Comment

High school teams find victories lead to more fans, funds for programs In his first two years as athletic director for Michigan City High School, Craig Shaman remembers when Friday night varsity football games drew about 1,000 people. That meant at least 3,000 seats were empty at the 4,000-person capacity Ames Field, which didn’t help […]

Filed Under: 2018-Aug-Sep, Sports Tagged With: business sponsorship, High school football, high school sports, Horizon Bank, LaPorte High School, Michigan City High School

Whiting WhoaZone Stays Afloat

June 1, 2018 – By Lourdes Castellanos Leave a Comment

WhoaZone floating sports park, on Lake Michigan

Water park proves profitable despite doubts Widely known for its out-of-the-box approaches to events and attractions, the city of Whiting has become the small city with big ideas. Its annual Pierogi Fest, Wickedly Whiting, and the WhoaZone at Whihala Beach sports park have put the city on the attraction map. Last summer, WhoaZone’s floating sports […]

Filed Under: 2018-Jun-Jul, Sports Tagged With: Joe Stahura, Whiting, WhoaZone

Ball Game Struggle

April 9, 2018 – By Ben Smith Leave a Comment

Gary Metro Little League

Interest fades in America’s former favorite pastime Springtime again, and there’s no doubting what Kevin Bradley’s fancy turns to. Baseball is his thing and has been for four decades. The president of the Gary Metro Little League first put a bat to a ball when he was just four years old, and the ball sat […]

Filed Under: 2018-Apr-May, Sports Tagged With: Clark Troupe, Gary Metro Little League, Kevin Bradley

Lessons in the Game of Life

February 9, 2018 – By Ben Smith Leave a Comment

Ron and Reesha Howard’s Game Day Sports Camp

Ron Howard leads the way for children’s camps Seven years in, they pull up to the door now and out spill the children. Out spill all the things in his life that make Ron Howard smile.  Yet it’s not just the children who are his blessing, it’s who’s behind the wheel of the vehicles that […]

Filed Under: 2018-Feb-Mar, Sports Tagged With: Game Day Sports Camp, Homer Drew, Ron Howard, Valparaiso University

Youth Football

October 26, 2017 – By Ben Smith Leave a Comment

Northwest Indiana Youth Football and Cheer has 75-80 kids involved this year in four age groups, ranging in age from 7 up to 14.

The game has changed but it’s still coaching kids and it’s still football The game is not going to lose him. David Bush is pretty clear about that. “I love the game of football,” he says. And so, autumn is a busy time for him, and has been for more than a quarter century. He […]

Filed Under: Fall 2017, Sports Tagged With: Crown Point, David Bush

Collegiate Sports

August 18, 2017 – By Ben Smith Leave a Comment

The James B. Dworkin Student Services and Athletic Center, completed in Spring 2016 and located on the North Central campus, seats over 1,500 fans of the Pride men’s and women’s basketball and women’s volleyball teams.

New conferences for Purdue NW and Valparaiso University Thirty-four miles of toll road still separate the two, multiple lanes of pavement that run east and west and, these days, represent far more than just a thread of red on some service plaza map of Indiana. Those 34 miles are only geographic now, because Purdue Calumet […]

Filed Under: Sports, Summer 2017

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