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The Penalty Box: Tiger Needs To Put His Clubs Away

I watch four golf tournaments each year—the four majors. I watch horse racing the same way—I tune in for the three races of the Triple Crown, even if no one is in position to win all three.

National Rifle Contests Held At Beeson Range

The Beeson Range, a shooting range outside of Etna Green, IN, held target matches July 11-14, 2024. The Beeson Range is the national home of the American Single Shot Rifle Association (ASSRA), which was established in 1948 to promote the responsible use, study, and preservation of single shot arms from …

Chip Shots: Loyalty

I follow teams more these days based on how they operate as a business rather than any regional loyalty I had similar to my days growing up in Northeast Ohio.

The Penalty Box: This Week Is Weird For Sports

Simon and Garfunkel wrote a song and recorded their hit titled “The Sound of Silence” 60 years ago.

Chip Shots: The Slowest Week Of Sports

I comment about this July week in sports each year: Major League Baseball All-Star break, Home Run Derby, the All-Star game itself, the ESPY awards (ESPN’s sports-related award show with huge names on the red carpet, pre-show) … and nothing else really happening.

Beam, Pohl Represent Tigers As IFCA All-Stars Tonight

Isaac Beam and Eric Pohl, Warsaw Tiger football defensive standouts and recent graduates in the Class of 2024, will represent the North in tonight’s Indiana Football Coaches Association (IFCA) North-South All-Star Game at Decatur Central High School.

The Penalty Box: Cubs Fans, Prepare For Pain

It is July, and like so many months of July before, this one will end with pain for fans of the Chicago Cubs.

Chip Shots: Asking For A Friend

Does a baseball movie watched from start to finish count as watching baseball from beginning to end? Asking for a friend.

The Penalty Box: What Does “Free” Really Mean

For most of you, you are reading this on July 3. It’s the eve of the 248th birthday of the United State of America.

Chip Shots: Middle Schoolers Must Clear The Redshirt Hurdle

Let’s talk about football redshirts.

Young Tiger Football To Celebrate 20th Anniversary Of Fribley Field

Young Tiger Football and Cheerleading excited to announce the 20th Anniversary of the dedication of Fribley Field, in honor of Marine Lance Corporal David K. Fribley, who was killed in active duty in Iraq in 2003. Fribley Field is located at 700 E. Market St. in Warsaw, IN. The event …

The Penalty Box: Gambling

I am not a man to brag, nor am I one to scream to the world “I told you so.”

Chip Shots: Is It Too Soon?

Seven more Fridays until the high school football scrimmages and jamborees will launch the 2024 season.

The Penalty Box: Things That Are Broken, Part 3

This is the final episode of my three-part series on things in sports that are broken and desperately need fixing. I repeat what I said at the beginning—this is not an all-inclusive list. There are many more things that I didn’t have time and space to put in here.

Chip Shots: Look What I Found

Two Saturdays ago, something said to me in passing triggered a memory of some wisdom passed on to me during the football preseason of 2018 resulting in an “a-ha!” moment.