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.

Earlier this week, the city announced a change in development partners for the North Buffalo Street project.  Mathews LLC will be relieved from their role as developer for the mixed-use building …

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?

I’m sprinkling the Saturday morning discussion among the institution of college football, Warsaw girls’ futbol, and Warsaw Tiger football.

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.

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 22 of that year, the signal was given and those wagons took off as future landowners went racing across the plains to claim the 160 acres of former “Indian Territory” they were each allowed to settle on.

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 a day.

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.

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.

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?”

We are approaching one of the slowest handful of weeks in sports. The NBA Finals and the men’s College World Series are behind us. The downshift will continue this Monday, Independence Day, with a hot dog eating contest, then we’ll fight sleep watching green balls volley their way to the Wimbledon finals the same day the IHSAA moratorium week ends (July 10).

Kosciusko County Is A Summer Hot Spot For Fairs And Festivals We do lake-living well in Kosciusko County. With 100+ lakes spread across the county, it’s no surprise that K-County is bustling …

Last year, locally elected officials from the city and county hosted multiple stakeholder and public meetings to understand the local preferences for U.S. 30 freeway safety improvements.   The …

Class 6A football is comprised of 32 schools among 8 sectionals. Due to the growth of schools in and around Indianapolis, and the population shift from the Northern part of the state, the only schools in Class 6A truly geographical North are: Lafayette Jefferson, Lake Central, Crown Point, Portage, Penn, Elkhart, Warsaw, Carroll, and Homestead.

On July 15th, I will be leading a group of about 50 people to the corner of Clark and Addison to one of the most beautiful blocks of real estate on God’s Earth—Wrigley Field.

My approach toward my avocations can be a blessing and a curse. I’m probably more proactive among my avocations than the average bear, but some of that proactivity is more of a compulsion than an effective habit.

A few years back, conference realignment in high school athletics became a big deal.

I take a different television viewing path as high school sports draws to a close, and the NBA finals roll through the first half of June.

As I was watching the Golden State Warriors clinch the Western Conference Championship last week, a thought occurred to me that I want to share with you.

Roger Grossman paid a wonderful tribute to Warsaw Community High School’s sports public address announcer, Ron Henry, in last Wednesday’s “Penalty Box.” I’m compelled to touch on some additional points folks don’t think about when an inimitable figure ends a 40-year span among multiple sports, let alone a single sport.

Diving Deep Into Kosciusko County’s 100-Plus Lakes Invention and entrepreneurship have a strong backbone in Kosciusko County. As home to the Orthopedic Capital of the World®, leading …

It rained last Saturday. To be accurate, a pretty fierce storm rolled through here Saturday morning. It rained hard enough that the Warsaw baseball team had to cancel their four-way tournament at Tiger Field. As news of the cancellation spread throughout town, the realization that more than just baseball games being called off due to weather was happening. It was the end of an era.

I joined Toastmaster’s International (TI) in the fall of 1989. The first ten speeches required to reach Advanced Toastmaster level are a well-thought, very logical path of training and development for public speaking and thinking on your feet.

Fox Sports put the final piece of the puzzle together along with its competing NFL lead broadcast teams when they announced Tampa Bay Bucs quarterback Tom Brady would join Kevin Burkhardt in Fox’s NFL broadcast booth immediately following his eventual retirement.

Last week, a sports debate broke out that wasn’t as much about sports as it was about human beings begin human beings. The player at the center of it drew immediate criticism from some, and was immediately defended by others. That player is Ryan Tannehill, the starting quarterback for the Tennessee Titans.