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.

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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.

The IHSAA released the sectional alignments this past Tuesday, and there are several “wrongs” in my Class 6A football guesses. You could say I safely qualified my forecast, though, with the following quote from February when I made a second round of predictions.

I am not a hunter. I am a fisherman at my core. I come from a long line of people who chose fishing over hunting, and I married into a family that loves fishing too. A lot of people like to both hunt and fish. The Indiana DNR has had a combination hunting-fishing license for just such folks.

I’ve had sports on the brain all through the completion of last night’s Max Truex Invitational. Now, about one hour before print deadline, I’m tired of thinking and writing about sports.

I was watching baseball Sunday, mainly because rain and storms chased us inside. The common theme throughout the two broadcasts I watched could be summarized by the phrase that starts “after the league bans shifting next season.”

…showers * heavy sigh.* At least they do here in Northern Indiana. I’ve managed my expectations, so I’m neither shocked nor disappointed. I’m just prepared for lots of schedule changes. I gain solace, however, from the NBA playoffs, whose television ratings were the highest in eleven years.

Social media was all abuzz at the headline on Twitter which announced that spring sporting events in Indiana were being cancelled. Why? Hint: It wasn’t the weather.

It’s time for me to locate and remove cheater branches and prune other branches among the trees in my yard. I also pruned my sports media tree at the end of last January.

Sometimes this column is about you. Sometimes it’s about your kids and grandkids. Sometimes it’s about other people. Today, it’s about me.

My sports viewing will have a slightly different twist this weekend than most of your sports viewing plans.

Sorry my column is a day late. It’s totally my fault. My family went away for a few days at the beginning of Warsaw’s Spring Break. We went to Cincinnati to visit the Ark Experience, the Cincinnati Zoo and the parks along the riverfront downtown.

I have been drinking coffee for at least eight decades without knowing much about this delicious beverage. Recently, however, I learned that those of us who consume two to three cups a day may have a …

It’s not as great a fairy tale when, in the men’s NCAA basketball Final Four championship tournament, Cinderella arrives at the ball. Oh, how we love our darlings, these Cinderellas: Loyola, George Mason, Virginia Commonwealth to name a few.

It’s nice to start getting back outside as the weather begins to improve. I know we’ve only had a few warm days, but that makes many of us anxious to begin clearing debris from the yard …

It’s a scenario that plays itself out in driveways, playgrounds and gymnasiums all over the country every day of the year. No time left on the clock. A foul is called. A hero walks to the foul line to be the win the game for his team.