The Indianapolis Colts’ Blue and Boomer of the Indiana Pacers will be among the 2020 National Mascot Hall of Fame inductees.
Winning Helps Boost Support for Football
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 […]
Whiting WhoaZone Stays Afloat
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 […]
Ball Game Struggle
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 […]
Lessons in the Game of Life
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 […]
Youth Football
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 […]
Collegiate Sports
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 […]
Navigating the Waterways
NWI Paddling Association combines community and conservation She’s the first to admit that the ancestral spirit of the French voyageur likely doesn’t breathe within her. Nor does that of the Olympic kayaker. Instead, Debby Stoit says she’s still a novice at this business of paddling canoes and kayaks along the waterways of Northwest Indiana, and […]
A Gleam on the Ice
Notre Dame’s ice arena aims to inspire young athletes The eye of the beholder begins to gleam, as the beholder steps into this clean, well-lit place. Jeff Jackson has seen it. Mike McNeill, too. “I don’t ask them directly what their thoughts are about the facility, but when they walk through there, their eyes are […]
Slam Dunk Turnaround
A fast rebuild for the IU Northwest women’s basketball program. By Ben Smith History and home. That’s what Nicki Monahan saw when Ryan Shelton came calling. She was a basketball star at Portage High School who was a self-professed “family kind of gal” and so, when she was recruited by Shelton, the women’s basketball coach […]
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