Chip Davenport

Chip Davenport

Chip Davenport

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.

By CHIP DAVENPORT | July 20, 2024

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.

By CHIP DAVENPORT | July 13, 2024

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.

By CHIP DAVENPORT | July 12, 2024

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.

By CHIP DAVENPORT | July 6, 2024

Chip Shots: Middle Schoolers Must Clear The Redshirt Hurdle

Let’s talk about football redshirts.

By CHIP DAVENPORT | June 29, 2024

Chip Shots: Is It Too Soon?

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

By CHIP DAVENPORT | June 22, 2024

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.

By CHIP DAVENPORT | June 15, 2024

Chip Shots: Here Comes Apathy Season

Sportswriters and Sports section opinion columnists who love all sports are rarer than you think. They’re handy because they can maintain an enthusiastic level of opinions as their readers navigate the seasons, and almost everyone is happy.

By CHIP DAVENPORT | June 8, 2024

Chip Shots: Two-Headed Thoughts

My weekend thoughts take the form of a two-headed life form:

By CHIP DAVENPORT | June 1, 2024

Chip Shots: Manage Your Expectations

Caitlin Clark, professional women’s basketball’s arguably most heralded rookie, has two completed basketball games in the books after The Indiana Fever’s 102-66 loss to the New York Liberty.

By CHIP DAVENPORT | May 18, 2024