OPINION
Chip Shots: When Watching The Game Isn’t Enough
There are a few places to put your finger on the pulse on what’s going on in high school sports if watching the game isn’t enough to feed your football need. I’ll take the time to inform more than opine this morning.
The Penalty Box: Sports Shorts
With the fall sports season officially launching this past weekend and football at all levels popping up on our radars, it’s way too busy a time to focus on just one thing.
Chip Shots: It’s A (Column)… About Nothing
Seinfeld, one of the five best TV sitcoms, was explained by its writers and producers while touring the press and talk show circuits as a “show about nothing.” This week I’m sharing a column about nothing.
Chip Shots: From Hell To Heaven, I’m Already Ready
I moved from Gahanna, Ohio to Goshen, Indiana on my 32nd birthday in 1996. Another trip around the sun concludes this coming Wednesday. My outlook was filled with ambivalence.
The Penalty Box: If I Were King Of Sports—Silly Edition
From time-to-time, I swerve off the normal path of this space and wonder what would happen if I were the king of sports. What would happen if I were simultaneously named the commissioner of the four major American professional sports leagues, the NCAA and Indiana High School sports?
Chip Shots: Football, Futbol, Football
I’m sprinkling the Saturday morning discussion among the institution of college football, Warsaw girls’ futbol, and Warsaw Tiger football.
Chip Shots: Watching Golf – Time Unexpectedly Well Spent
Last weekend’s British Open hit home for me although 1) I don’t watch much golf, and 2) I haven’t played a round of golf since 2008.
The Penalty Box: College Conference Movement Is Telling
In April of 1889, about 2 million acres of land in the middle of the United States of America was up for grabs. Covered wagons filled with an estimated 50,000 families and their belongings lined up side-by-side at the border to what we know as Oklahoma. At noon on April …
Chip Shots: Coach Krebs Takes Us In A Refreshingly Different Direction
I’ve used my Saturday columns to give you my worldview on NBA schedule length, and prognosticating IHSAA Class 6A football sectional alignment. Recently, however, Warsaw Tigers girls’ head basketball coach Lenny Krebs shared his valuable time with me to discuss what he would do if he were IHSAA commissioner for …
The Penalty Box: Why I Am Not A Coach
If you read my weekly ramblings at all, you know that coaching and leadership come up a lot. And, so, a couple of you have posed the question of why I don’t coach. That’s totally a fair question and I would love to explain it.
Chip Shots: Thank USC, UCLA This Morning, Faithful Readers
This was the week I was going to share “what I did during the IHSAA moratorium week.” I would have waffled sports, my vocation, and the non-sports segments of my life together to… you know where I would have taken us.
The Penalty Box: Catching Big Fish Vs Little Fish
I wrote a little bit about fishing last week, but with us in the heart of the summer fishing season I wanted to spend more time this week talking about a question that fishermen passing at the dock will ask: “what you fishin’ for?”
