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Where are they now?
Central Indiana
Growing up on the West side of Indianapolis, Jimmy Dimitroff desperately wanted to be a basketball player.
Only one thing held him back…talent. So when he realized he wasn’t going to make it as a member of the Washington High School Continentals basketball squad, a coach tossed him a whistle and told him to start refereeing intra-squad scrimmages.
A career was born. Dimitroff ended up spending a lifetime... More 
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Well Traveled
Central Indiana
Even as the RCA Dome’s Teflon roof is prepared for deflation, Jerry Oliver feels no sense of, well, deflation.
“No, I look back and think, hey, I was a part of that,” says Oliver. “And I still have pictures and memoirs and a lot of really good memories.”
More on that in a moment.
That’s because Oliver, now 77, is perhaps best known as the coach of... More
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Well Decorated
Central Indiana
Twenty-two years later, it remains the most dominant and incredible performance in Indiana high school track and field history – boys or girls.
Three events. Three victories. And three state records which still stand.
“Yes, that was a great moment in my career,” recalls Maicel Malone, now the head women’s track coach at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee. “And I like to re-live it from time to time.”
Representing North... More
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Still Having A Ball
Central Indiana
This feature is titled, “Where Are They Now?”
With Mildred Ball – the first woman to be inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame – you don’t to ask. All you have to do is look. She’s everywhere. In magazines. In newspapers. On billboards.
Her smiling face is being featured in a campaign promoting women’s heart health and awareness by Indianapolis-based Clarian Health.
That came about... More
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Where Are They Now?
Central Indiana
No month of March in Indiana will ever go by without recalling the Miracle Men of Milan.
And, yes, ever is a long time. But since 1954, the story of tiny Milan’s Indiana high school basketball championship is transcendent. Indeed, the legend and lore seems to grow with each passing year, especially since it was given a second and even larger life when Angelo Pizzo’s movie, Hoosiers, was released... More
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Streak Starters
Central Indiana
This month at the IU Natatorium on the campus of IUPUI at the IHSAA Girls Swimming State Championships, the Carmel High School team will take on two challenges.
The competition.
And The Streak.
The competition is every other girls swim team in the state of Indiana.
The Streak is what every other girls team in Indiana has been unable to stop for more than two decades.
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In The Zone
Central Indiana
If ever there was a high school basketball coach in Indiana who could do more with less, it was Speedway’s Morris Pollard.
Not that the Sparkplugs were devoid of talent during Pollard’s 27 years as coach of the little school within the big city. Speedway actually produced an amazing run of players – most of them multi-sport stars – during Pollard’s tenure.
Tom Jones, Scott Neat, Dave Bennett... More
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Schwomeyer captures hoops history
Central Indiana
For years, the most definitive, authoritative and complete history of boys high school basketball in Indiana could be found in the small type and 600 pages of a book simply titled Hoosier Hysteria.
It was Herb Schwomeyer’s labor of love.
First published in 1970, HH was updated nine times by Schwomeyer, the last in 1997. No coincidence there. That was the last year before, as he terms it,... More
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Rosey’s Roundup
Central Indiana
Twice a year, my telephone rings.
“Bill,” the voice on the other end says. “It’s Rosey. We’re getting together at Stookey’s.”
That’s “Rosey” as in Jim Rosenstihl, the Indiana Hall of Fame basketball coach who garnered most of his 549 victories with the Lebanon Tigers.
The invitation is for lunch at Stookey’s, a pleasant mom & pop restaurant on Main Street in Thorntown, Ind. The gathering is... More
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Top of the Craft
Central Indiana
Fifty years.
Think about that number for a moment.
Now consider that’s how long Ray Craft has been involved in Indiana high school athletics and administration.
And that doesn’t count the four years he spent as a high school athlete.
You might recall their significance because in 1954, Craft was a starter on the fabled Milan High School basketball team that won the state championship and, years... More
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Longtime Friends Take on Life “After Sports”
Central Indiana
The numbers don’t lie.
According to the NCAA, of 7 million high school athletes in all sports, less than one percent will play professionally.
In boys/men’s basketball, only 3 in 10,000 will be drafted in the NBA.
In girls/women’s basketball, only 1 in 5,000 will be drafted in the WNBA.
In football, only 8 in 10,000 will be drafted in the NFL.
So when the... More
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With the state tournament approaching, how do you prepare your runners for sectionals, regionals and state meets? Due to the...
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by: Bill Benner
Growing up on the West side of Indianapolis, Jimmy Dimitroff desperately wanted to be a basketball player.
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Newton’s Law
He’s already secured one Class 5A state championship ring and thirsts for a second. And when Carmel High School quarterback...
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