Chip Davenport
Chip Davenport

Chip Davenport


Chip Shots: At Least Their One Speed Is Fast

Tuesday night I was PA announcing the IU South Bend women’s basketball game versus IU Columbus. It was a blowout, and in the third quarter I statistician from on loan from another school in the conference asked me, “They’re up by 40 in the third quarter. When are they going to stop pressing?”

Chip Shots: Coaching College Football Gets Tougher

College football and college basketball are sports where a coach with reasonable success can hang around a while by winning consistently.

Chip Shots: A Look At Tiger Football With Parker’s Help

My daughter, Ellen, in early 2021, broke my Chip Shots writer’s block in what turned out to be a fun piece to prepare.

Chip Shots: A Month Of Reckoning?

The final four among each IHSAA football enrollment class battled for a trip to Lucas Oil Stadium. I finished my picks (only predicted one school in Class 5A) at a near-even won-loss record of 10 wins and 11 losses.

Chip Shots: Enjoy Those Lady Tigers

The Lady Tigers’ basketball squad scored prolifically in their 74-45 win over Fort Wayne Snider in Thursday’s home opener with an aggressive defense creating opportunities for Warsaw to score easily.

Chip Shots: Football Musings, Crow Up?

There is no secret this column isn’t “live” each Saturday morning. I am excited about the prospect of Warsaw’s ability to compete with and defeat the Concord Minutemen in their sectional title clash considering the Tigers had them on the ropes with a 17-0 halftime lead six weeks ago.

Chip Shots: My Favorite Final Four

Is it blasphemy in Indiana to be more excited about six sets of high school football final four fields than The NCAA Final Four for men’s and women’s college basketball? If so, I’ll have to watch for airborne stones as I move through the Lake City.

Tigers Take Care Of Business In 52-7 Sectional Opening Win

A kettle of hawks, RedHawks, Goshen RedHawks in fact, descended on Fisher Field at Warsaw’s Tiger Athletic Complex for the second time in eight weeks hoping to keep their 2024 football season alive.

Chip Shots: Football Fandom: My Taunt, My Fail

We’re faced with another week in fall sports where all the competition is slated for Friday (football sectionals) or Saturday (all other fall sports). Area athletes who were still practicing this week, good luck in your continued postseason runs.

Chip Shots: Billionaire Welfare Comes To Brook Park, Ohio

The Cleveland Browns ownership, Jimmy and Dee Haslem, is the latest billionaire welfare success story for Cleveland, Ohio suburb of Brook Park into an agreement to be the location for the Browns’ new stadium, another Northern U.S. city with a dome.

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