I admire Roger Grossman’s ability to cover more than a handful of topics in The Penalty Box with smooth transitional flow and brevity. Sometimes I head down the road with five or six issues on my mind only to expend too much copy space on two of them.

It’s been awhile.

There is one thing that is constant through all levels of all sports: people love to score.

I’ll share my view of my Sunday morning composition of this column (last Sunday, again? guilty). Did you notice Dr. Seuss-looking trunks two of my evergreens (thanks to the fine work of the home’s original owners)? I’ll also share my view of the 2022 high school football polls.

There are a few basic facts we know about successful people. They are driven to success.

I’ve thrown caution to the wind this week, completing my column prematurely with reckless disregard for what possible breaking sports news has since surfaced, and what my take would have been.

In short, “Clearly Kosciusko” tells a story of unity. And the phrase likely brings to mind something a bit different for all of us. That’s what makes it special. We’re here in …

One of my favorite sayings is “don’t bother closin’ the gate ‘cause the horses are already running down the road”. The NCAA and its member schools are reaching for the gate, but the dust from the college athletes is visible on the horizon.

There are a few places to put your finger on the pulse on what’s going on in high school sports if watching the game isn’t enough to feed your football need. I’ll take the time to inform more than opine this morning.

With the fall sports season officially launching this past weekend and football at all levels popping up on our radars, it’s way too busy a time to focus on just one thing.

Seinfeld, one of the five best TV sitcoms, was explained by its writers and producers while touring the press and talk show circuits as a “show about nothing.” This week I’m sharing a column about nothing.

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.