On being an Indiana Hoosiers football fan, Part 1 College football summons the emotions of millions. Generations of us watch. We revere the excellence of…

Continue reading → The long road

My first memory of any marathon comes from the 1972 Munich Olympics, watching Frank Shorter — the first and only American to win Gold. Fast…

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Happy November! Just as I did in 2021, I've chosen to post here frequently during the year's most underrated month — when colors peak, college…

Continue reading → My “Coaching Youth Basketball” guide returns with expanded Third Edition

From August 2020 It’s my first entry here in awhile! (Wish me luck) Something of value's bound to come of it, especially if it’ll get…

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-Good-natured approach stands out Drop Us a Line Sucker (1995) We asked; they replied.  Lamely.  Wondering how businesses would reply to the ridiculous, my business-partner brother and…

Continue reading → Unusual business requests are no joke  

Clockwise from top: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Carol Coombs, Jimmy Hawkins, Larry Simms and Karolyn Grimes. (Photo by Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Images) Back in…

Continue reading → It’s a Wonderful Nope

On Bobby Knight and Being a Hoosier Robert Montgomery Knight died at age 83 on November 1, 2023  Legend. Fate placed me back in Bloomington,…

Continue reading → The one and only

Originally published in 2020 Got a feeling '21 is gonna be a good year. Below is the result of about eight years of list-making... My…

Continue reading → Formative humor

The wild life and legacy of Edgar Rice Burroughs (1997) Biographer John Taliaferro asserts it would be foolhardy to read an Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan…

Continue reading → Book review: Tarzan Forever