McClendon was born in Gary on Jan. 11, 1956 as the youngest of nine boys to a family with 13 children. She was an assistant coach for the Wheeler boys basketball team for three seasons.

His wife, Cindy, was also a Morton graduate.

Cross set the standard as he was the first African-American to co-anchor a network sports show, and George was one the first females to do the same. His .319 average at Riverfront Stadium was the highest by any Reds player in the history of the stadium, quite a feat considering the likes of Pete Rose, Joe Morgan and Johnny Bench played there. He worked as a Braves radio and TV announcer in the early 80s. The 1999 Merrillville graduate won two rings with the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVIII and Super Bowl XXXIX.

Thats one for the Gipper, Chevigny is said to have yelled as he crossed the goal line. Chevigny coached the Camp Lejeune Leathernecks he had renamed the team to a winning record before requesting overseas duty. A relief pitcher, Stoddard posted a career record of 41-35 with a 3.95 earned run average, 76 saves and 582 strikeouts over 485 appearances. Check your spam folder if you do not receive it.

I called his dad, and they had like four phones going.

He spoke about having dreams, a backup plan, specific goals, and the importance of a solid education.

It was the nickname given to the Gary born and reared boxer.

She currently lives and works as an artist and published model in Indianapolis. He led Andrean High to three sectional titles and helped the 59ers get to a Regional final, finishing 10th in the state in scoring at 23.6 points per game and was second in rebounding at 12.8 per game.

He led Tennessee State to three consecutive NAIA National Championships. Like his uncle, Ted Zale lost his father at a young age. The Panthers Kawann Short, an E.C. Lew Wallace's 6-foot-10 Tellis Frank soars over the Benton Central defense in this 1982 photo. He attended the University of Illinois, where he majored in speech communications. "He hired me as an assistant and he taught me a lot about coaching.".

Chesterton graduate Scott Chemma is the director of Indiana Game, a Region-based AAU program, which features Chesterton's Travis Grayson and Illiana Christian's Logan Van Essen.

The future NBA star was born in Gary on Oct. 2, 1936 and attended Gary Roosevelt High School. Basketball was the ticket to success and fortune for "The Big Dog," who grew up the son of an unmarried teenage mother in Gary.

His 26 saves in 1980 stood as the Orioles' team record until 1986.

"How's it going?"

Over an eight-season career, Pettis scored 1,408 points in 228 games. Bubas was Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year each of those seasons.

East Chicago you guys have been behind my back 100 percent. "We had a good group of coaches all over the city," Szulborski said.

He gave it 110 percent.". Robinson entered the starting lineup in 2016, then became a national star in February when he claimed the NBA Slam Dunk championship.

Weatherford went undrafted after completing his college career, but his college special teams coach, then on the New Orleans Saints' staff, talked the team into signing him. He has that funky three-quarters delivery where the ball comes out of nowhere..

He was not ashamed to tell me 'This is the only reason I'm here.'". Every Man's Journey to Significance." LeRoy Kirk, who coached LaTroy at West Side, once said, "I saw the same determination in whatever LaTroy got involved in, whether it be basketball or baseball.

In between, Kuechenberg played on a national champion University of Notre Dame team.

It lit a fire under everybody to join the celebrating..

Ive played three years and Im here, said Short, who had a video message for the citys football players watching Super Bowl 50 game at the high school: Ive been in your position and in the same seats many years ago. Trgovich was drafted by the San Diego Sails of the ABA and the Detroit Pistons of the NBA in 1975, He signed with the Sails, but the ABA soon folded. coaching staff that won the 2011 sectional championship.

He spent one year at Wirt after Emerson closed following the 1981 school year. He would also send newspaper clippings of Duke games to prospects.

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He finished with 14,234 career points, averaging 20.7 points, 6.1 rebounds, 2.7 assists, and 1.2 steals per game. He was one of six children born to Jim, an ironworker in the steel mills, and Dorothy Kittle. Most employers might shake their head regretfully and walk away.

"I had great assistants and we always tried to be competitive.". He was then cut in veterans camp.

He left Purdue as its all-time leading rusher with 2,476 yards, a record that stood until Otis Armstrong broke it in 1972.

On February 18, 2011, the Texans released Wilson. As of 2014, Hamblin lived in Gary.

He entered high school coaching in 2001 at Andrean, where he led the 59ers for two seasons. Kittle was born in Gary on Jan. 5, 1958. Wineland was a wrestler in high school, and began his MMA training at Duneland Vale Tudo.

The efforts paid off in grand fashion as Bubas drew future All-Americans from across the country to Durham. He spent the 1990s playing basketball in Europe, primarily in Italy and Spain. Reed played 19 major league seasons, winning 146 games and registering a 3.46 career earned run average and pitched in the 1980 World Series with the Philadelphia Phillies and again in 1983.

Bob Kuechenberg played offensive and defensive line at the University of Notre Dame, and was a member of the 1966 championship team.

Luke Harangody excelled at sports from his elementary school days at Schererville's St. Michael's in soccer to his high school, collegiate and professional basketball career.

George said she has kept in contact with Cross through the years. After moving from Lansing, Illinois, to Dyer and joining the IHSAA ahead of the 2018-19 school year, Illiana Christian will be eligible to compete in the postseason starting in the fall.

She finished third in the voting for Miss Basketball and was an Indiana All-Star.

Enter your email address and we will send you instructions to reset your password if there is an account for that email. At Munster, Morris captained the tennis, basketball and baseball teams in his senior season. Williamson formed the production company Po' Boy Productions in the 1970s. The Vikings will join the Greater South Shore Conference ahead of the 2021-22 school year.

!0e>M&. Moore was chosen to play in the Pro Bowl in Honolulu after the 2012 season. In April 2009, Hunter was picked up by the New York Knicks, but was waived six months later before appearing in a regular-season game. The lights came on. Alex Karras became the best known member of a football-playing family, with a career as a dominant defensive lineman in the National Football League, followed by an acting career that included notable roles in "Blazing Saddles" and "Webster.". Normally, it would take four years for a new school to be able to participate in the IHSAA postseason.

East Chicago native Kenny Lofton enjoyed a 17-year career in Major League Baseball as a skilled center fielder and a premier lead off man and base stealer. Zale was a 1991 inductee in the Boxing Hall of Fame.

A late bloomer who was a junior varsity player as a freshman at Lake Central, "Trey" emerged the following season, when he led the Indians in scoring.

Finley tried to sell Vida Blue to the Yankees and Rollie Fingers and Joe Rudi to the Red Sox.

James Boyd is the Lake County prep sports reporter for The Times. His playing career in the NBA may have only lasted 60 games, but basketball remains at the center of Chris Hunter's life.

Several summers ago, Pishkur spent vacation time watching Manaea throw in the prestigious Cape Cod League. Chaney was traded to Atlanta after the 1975 season and in 1976 batted .252 with 50 RBIs as the Braves' regular shortstop.

Morris hit .304 over his career with the Yankees, Reds, Royals and Tigers, and also made it onto a Wheaties cereal box.

Im 6-foot, and I still have to look up at it, said restaurant owner John Troupis. The safety finished his career with 176 tackles (139 solo, 37 assists), 11 interceptions and 60 pass deflections. The Astros traded him to the Cleveland Indians where Lofton hit .285 in his first full year, setting an American League rookie record by stealing 66 bases.

As CEO of Bridgeman Hospitality Group, he owns 244 Wendy's franchises and 120 Chili's franchises more than 400 stores counting the Perkins Restaurants and Fazoli's he also runs.

Are you ready for new adventures? She finished her Notre Dame career with 1,148 points and 549 rebounds. Hes a good kid from a good family. "I thought things might be different at Detroit, but they weren't.". He ran on the gold-medal 1,600-meter relay team that posted a record time of 2 minutes, 55.39 seconds.

The E.C. Central grad.

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Kamp said Illiana Christian did not offer up an amendment to the IHSAA's postseason bylaw when it initially crossed over state lines two years ago.

He played 96 games in his eight-year career finishing with 399 tackles, four fumble recoveries, 41 pass deflections and 14 interceptions. She appeared in 91 games for the Huskies, playing 423 minutes and scoring 68 points.

Samardzija was named the 2002 Times Offensive Player of the Year while playing for Valparaiso High School as a junior. He attended the University of Arizona where he was torn between playing baseball or basketball, Lofton told Times sportswriter Glenn Minnis in 1993. "NBC, they had taped segments, but we went live, and it was tough with several games' halftimes coming within 30 seconds of each other.

They always come back.

It was a popular hangout with their basketball teammates. He spent two season in Chicago, starting in 22 games in 2015-16 while averaging 7.5 points and shooting .452 from 3-point land. While Stoddard did not pitch, he earned a ring.

He was a two-time All-State selection and, as a senior, was named the Duneland Athletic Conference's defensive player of the year. Eddie Wineland is on the road to recovery following a broken jaw last month.

"I wish it would have turned out differently, but I had some injuries," Szulborski said. Bridgeman helped lead unbeaten Washington to the 1971 state basketball championship, then starred at Louisville before enjoying a productive 12-year NBA career, much of it with the Milwaukee Bucks.

The Boston Celtics drafted him 52nd overall in 2010, but the 6-foot-8 power forward was slowed by a knee problem. Please wait while we submit your question/message.

Social media kept him in touch daily with the Region, as if he were standing at the corner of Chicago Avenue and Indianapolis Boulevard, taking it all in.

He hit .340 on the year, which, at the time, was the third-highest batting average by a rookie in 50 years. Charlie O. Finley poses with his team, the Oakland Athletics.

Eight years later, he's back with the Cardinals.

"Many guys today fight only once or twice every two years," Ted Zale said.

The Wolverines reached the 2014 regional final, falling to Kentucky, and the 6-foot-7 Robinson declared for the draft. The 255-pound left-hander averaged 6.3 points and 5.2 rebounds over 32 games.

That's a success for the community and gives them a sense of belonging.". ", Bridgeman wondered how life had been treating his employee and was told, bluntly: "Today is no different than tomorrow's going to be or the day after that.".

It was too late to sign with Detroit, so Trgovich had to wait until the next season, since the Pistons still owned his draft rights. I loved them both and if it was left up to me, Id be playing both professionally right now..

Illiana Christian becomes eligible for IHSAA postseason, receives approval to join GSSC in 2021-22.

Archibald McKinlay, a former Times columnist, wrote in 1990, Don Larsen was born in Michigan City Aug. 7, 1929. Even St. Luke's closed its doors after the 1968-69 school year. He played for Denver in the 2013 NBA Summer League and played in the Euroleague overseas for UNICS Kazan in during the 2013-2014 season.

Upon completion of his required active duty, Popovich returned to Colorado Springs, where he became an assistant coach in 1973. In 1975, he teamed with Brent Musburger and 1971 Miss America Phyllis George on CBS-TV's "NFL Today," which was the first network pregame show to go completely live. She finished her career with 2,053 career points.

Bryce was chosen in the first round of the NBA Draft a few months later by the Houston Rockets and spent six season in the Association, finishing with 1,081 career points and 524 assists. Neville was a three-time Big Ten indoor and outdoor track champion in the 400 at IU before going pro with Team Nike as a junior. Philadelphia claimed Robinson two days after and he finished the season there, making his first professional start in the season finale. The 6-foot-10 Mitch McGary attended high school there as a freshman and a sophomore, but left for Brewster Academy, a prep school basketball factory in New Hampshire, where he developed his raw, but vast, talents and became one of the top recruits in the nation for his class. After hitting .240 with St. Louis that year, Bigbie returned to the minor leagues under contract with the Atlanta Braves and the Los Angeles Dodgers before going to Japan where he played the 2008 season with the Yokohama Bay Stars in the Japanese Central League. Most kids will never become professional athletes, the odds are heavily against them, but education or technical training can open countless doors to a fulfilling life.

His 40 points in the semifinals tied the standing record for scoring in the state finals.

His brother, Rudy, was also a star on the gridiron and played for the Chicago Bears as a linebacker. Valparaiso High School graduate Cassie Kerns with the UConn Huskies. He attended Merrillville High School (1966) and graduated in 1970 from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is retired as the executive director of the Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Central Minnesota.

"On May 4, the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) Board of Directors approved a bylaw addition to Article III section 3 of the handbook which allows provision for a school that moves from an adjacent state to Indiana to participate in the state tournament in two years instead of the standard four years for new IHSAA applicants," Illiana Christian's release stated. Its a win-win for the city because it went viral on social media.

Please complete the following survey to help us better understand your race experience. He was drafted by the Detroit Pistons in the fourth round of the 1965 NBA draft.

Harmon married actress Elyse Knox in 1944, and they had three children: Kristin Nelson, Kelly Harmon and Mark Harmon. He was an Indiana All Star in baseball in 1983 and was named the MVP of the annual North-South All-Star Game in Jasper, finishing 8-for-9 in the series. He worked as the pitching coach at Northwestern University through 2014, a span of more than 20 years.

He was hired as head coach at Duke later that year, ascending the Blue Devils program to national heights. He led Purdue in scoring in each of his first three seasons (2008, '09 and '10), becoming the first player to do so since Troy Lewis in the 1980s.

So his new boss in Detroit arranged for him to play minor league baseball in Florida and was so impressive as a pitcher he was invited to the Atlanta Braves spring camp in 1966 fresh off his first NBA season. After an 11-win season for the Sox, Samardzija became a free agent and was picked up by the San Francisco Giants in December in a five-year, $90 million contract.

Hummels college career was sidelined by injuries, but he came.

After retiring from football, he became a businessman in Florida.

Bradley went on to be named the MVP of the Midwestern Conference in 1972.

Northwest Indiana baseball great Dan Plesac told The Times Al Hamnik, Kenny had a real good idea of the strike zone. He also intercepted Ben Roethlisberger in a 41-27 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2004 AFC Championship.

This 1975 photo shows the broadcasting team for the ABC television network's 'NFL Monday Night Football' series and features, left to right, Alex Karras, Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford. "There were some Purdue alums in Detroit and I took a visit and liked Purdue," he said. He taught at the university level for a number of years before retiring and launching a career in motivational speaking.

Hawkins became the 13th pitcher in August 2015 to record a save against all 30 Major League Baseball teams, completing the achievement against the Twins. Anita graduated in 1975. I knew the kid had it. Tim Stoddard, an East Chicago native, was the pitching coach for Northwestern University's baseball team for over 20 years following his own professional career. Her standout career drew the attention of legendary head coach Geno Auriemma and the Connecticut Huskies. He also spent time with the Baltimore Orioles, the Colorado Rockies, the New York Yankees, the Houston Astros, the Milwaukee Brewers, the Anaheim Angels, the New York Mets and the Toronto Blue Jays. He set records for slugging percentage and batting average while playing alongside the likes of Barry Larkin, Chris Sabo and Jim Abbott.

Harmon told The Times in a 2013 interview.

Popovich is the longest active coach in both the NBA and all U.S. major sports leagues. Kittle wore jersey No.

Instead, the Vikings waited to build their reputation among other member schools, while also establishing a foothold in the Region. His first home run came four days later, a game-tying two-run shot in the seventh against Arizona. "I coached great kids and I loved coaching," "Szulborski said. She led the Cardinals to an 18-2 record and the first two sectional championships in program history. He joined the University of Nebraska football team as a walk-on for legendary coach Tom Osborne.

On Dec. 12, 1989, Morris was traded to the Reds and helped them win the World Series in 1990. Karras also worked as a commentator on Monday Night Football broadcasts from 1974-76, alongside Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford.

Bob Kuechenberg played in the Brickie Bowl and the Super Bowl. When the book was adapted as a movie, Karras played himself opposite Alan Alda's Plimpton. Your message was posted to Facebook. Before the likes of West Side star Dana Evans came around, it was Angela Hamblin who starred in the Steel City. Covenant Christians Ben Lins tries to keep the ball away from Illiana Christians Justin Van Drunen during a regular-season game on Jan. 10 at Illiana Christian High School.