The Penalty Box: A Tribute To Mrs. Miller
I want to introduce you to someone today.
The Penalty Box: Be Careful What You Demand
I am a Bears fan.
The Penalty Box: Why Sports Still Matter
The long drive home from Indianapolis Saturday night after the Tiger football game afforded me the opportunity to do some deep thinking.
The Penalty Box: Two Days That Changed Warsaw Forever
With the Warsaw football team immersed in a historic run in the football playoffs, some historical perspective on how we got here is necessary.
The Penalty Box: The Secret To Success
Since Adam and Eve were escorted out of the Garden of Eden, human beings have been on a search to find the secret of success.
The Penalty Box: Warsaw And Concord Deliver Again
As the fourth quarter of Friday’s 5A Sectional 11 championship game was winding down, it was pretty clear this game was going to come down to the final possession and the ending would be memorable. We should not have been surprised.
The Penalty Box: Expectations Can Be Tricky
Expectations are a funny thing.
The Penalty Box: The Hatred Of Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark set the sports world on fire during her last two years of college, and it hasn’t changed a lot since she moved to Indianapolis.
The Penalty Box: Of The Hoosiers, Triton And Nashville
It’s one of those weeks where there aren’t enough inches of newspaper space to hold everything swirling around in this balding head of mine.
The Penalty Box: The Bears Are Still A Mess
The subject of the possibility of a new stadium for the Chicago Bears came up again this week. Despite what even the highest-ranking official in their front office says, I wonder if I will see it in my lifetime.
The Penalty Box: Why Pete Rose Can Never Get In
Pete Rose died last week.
The Penalty Box: Stadiums Make A Huge Difference
The baseball season is over for the Cubs and White Sox. Sadly for one, mercifully for the other.
The Penalty Box: Time To Re-Examine Expectations
We are through Week 3 of the NFL season and Week 4 of the college football season.
The Penalty Box: What’s Good About Sports?
I was in the grocery store last week and someone said to me “it feels like you are becoming a grumpy old man.”
The Penalty Box: It’s Notre Dame - We Should Have Known
I am so angry about Notre Dame losing Saturday, but who I blame is probably not who you expect.
The Penalty Box: Start Of The NFL Season
The National Football League’s 2024 season begins on Thursday.
The Penalty Box: If I Were King Of Sports
I haven’t done one of these for a while, and I felt like it was time.
The Penalty Box: ESPN Heading In Wrong Direction
Long before I was a broadcaster, I was a big supporter of women’s sports.
The Penalty Box: White Sox Are Historically Bad
I am a Cubs fan. You do not need me to tell you that—you already know.
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.
The Penalty Box: Olympics Will Recover From Opening
I love the Olympics.
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.
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.
The Penalty Box: Cubs Fans, Prepare For Pain
It is July, and like so many months of July before, this one will end with pain for fans of the Chicago Cubs.
The Penalty Box: What Does “Free” Really Mean
For most of you, you are reading this on July 3. It’s the eve of the 248th birthday of the United State of America.
The Penalty Box: Gambling
I am not a man to brag, nor am I one to scream to the world “I told you so.”
The Penalty Box: Things That Are Broken, Part 3
This is the final episode of my three-part series on things in sports that are broken and desperately need fixing. I repeat what I said at the beginning—this is not an all-inclusive list. There are many more things that I didn’t have time and space to put in here.
The Penalty Box: Things That Are Broken, Part Two
This is the second in a three-part series on things in sports that need to be changed, updated or significantly improved.
The Penalty Box: Things That Are Broken, Part 1
As promised, I am taking a few weeks this summer to address some sports-related things that are broken and in need of immediate attention for those who can make those changes happen.
The Penalty Box: Free Fishing Weekend June 1-2
I realize that Father’s Day is still a couple weeks away, but my dad popped into my head this week.
The Penalty Box: Pacers Are Now A Force In The East
Two seasons ago, the Indiana Pacers won a total of 25 games.
The Penalty Box: IHSAA Can’t Cave On Transfers
I realize that the IHSAA has a lot going on right now. Tennis and track and field sectionals are this week, baseball and softball start their postseasons next week, golf is coming after Memorial Day.
The Penalty Box: Learning Something New Is Hard
When we experience something we aren’t familiar with, we have two options in what we do with it.
The Penalty Box: The Draft Is About Hoping
The NFL Draft has become a spectacle unlike any other non-game-related event in the world.
The Penalty Box: Fixing Things Takes Courage
About this time each year, I start contemplating what subjects I am going to cover with my summer articles.
The Penalty Box: OJ Dying Doesn’t Solve Anything
OJ Simpson died last week.
The Penalty Box: End Of The Run For Edey, Clark, Malone
Saying goodbye is hard.
The Penalty Box: Growing Up, Not Getting Older
One of the goals we should have as young human beings is to grow to be adult human beings.
The Penalty Box: A Fitting Ending
I know I wrote at-length last week about the NCCAA basketball tournaments making their final passes through Grace College and Winona Lake.
The Penalty Box: It’s A Private Matter
As we get near the end of this year’s basketball season, the annual angst and outrage builds and builds.
The Penalty Box: NCCAA Here For One Last Week
Next week will mark the end of an era in Kosciusko County sports history.
