SPORTS
2024 Preview: Women’s Soccer Reloads For Fall Campaign
Grace’s women’s soccer team is armed with young talent for the upcoming fall season.
Chip Shots: Not Feeling Stuck In The Middle
Stealer’s Wheel released a surprise hit, Stuck in the Middle With You” in 1972. It was a surprise because Gerry Rafferty and his bandmates used the song to parody Bob Dylan in vocals and lyrics on a lark.
Claypool’s Kennedy Krull Makes Leap From 1A To D1
Kennedy Krull, a Claypool resident, a Whitko basketball and softball alum, a Huntington University (NAIA) infielder, and most recently Triton Junior-Senior High School’s head varsity girls’ basketball and softball coach is taking another big leap into a Division I (D1) college softball assistant coaching position with Georgia Southern University.
The Penalty Box: Two Big Story Lines In Local Football
Fall sports teams started practicing Monday, and that means football scrimmages are a little over a week away. There are two major changes in the local high school football scene: Tippecanoe Valley changing conferences and Warsaw moving to a new class for the playoffs in November.
Chip Shots: Are You Ready For Some (Option) Football?
Can you hear Hank Williams Jr.’s voice from the ABC Monday Night Football musical intros?
AGAITAS Continues Expansion With Free Camps For Kids
On a Tuesday morning this week, the TRAC at Warsaw High School was unusually busy for the summer. Kids were filing in, carrying pickleball paddles and bubbling with excitement for the activity they were going to do.
The Penalty Box: Olympics Will Recover From Opening
I love the Olympics.
Chip Shots: NBA Action In The Ivory Towers
Free agency is winding up, and most of the action remains in the Association’s ivory towers.
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.
