THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” MONDAY MARCH 18, 2024
INDIANA BOYS BASKETBALL STATE FINALS SESSION 1 PUBLIC GATES OPEN AT 9:30 AM ET 10:30 AM ET | CLASS 1A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP BETHESDA CHRISTIAN (23-7) VS. FORT WAYNE CANTERBURY (18-9) APPROX. 12:45 PM ET | CLASS 2A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP BROWNSTOWN...
THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” SUNDAY MARCH 17, 2024
INDIANA BOYS BASKETBALL SEMI-STATE SCORES CLASS 4A ELKHART FISHERS 48 CROWN POINT 37 FORT WAYNE WAYNE 62 MISHAWAKA 47 FISHERS 69 FORT WAYNE WAYNE 61 NEW CASTLE BEN DAVIS 75 CENTER GROVE...
THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” SATURDAY MARCH 16, 2024
INDIANA BOYS BASKETBALL SEMI-STATE NORTH CLASS 4A AT ELKHART CROWN POINT (20-5) VS. FISHERS (26-1), 10 A.M. FORT WAYNE WAYNE (22-3) VS. MISHAWAKA (20-7), 11:45 A.M. CHAMPIONSHIP, 7:30 P.M. CLASS 3A AT LOGANSPORT PERU (16-10) VS. SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH (18-9), 10 A.M....
THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” FRIDAY MARCH 15, 2024
INDIANA BOYS BASKETBALL SEMI-STATE NORTH CLASS 4A AT ELKHART CROWN POINT (20-5) VS. FISHERS (26-1), 10 A.M. FORT WAYNE WAYNE (22-3) VS. MISHAWAKA (20-7), 11:45 A.M. CHAMPIONSHIP, 7:30 P.M. CLASS 3A AT LOGANSPORT PERU (16-10) VS. SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH (18-9), 10 A.M....
TOP HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL COMING TO BROWNSBURG
CHIPOTLE NAMED TITLE SPONSOR OF THE HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL NATIONALS – “CHIPOTLE NATIONALS” Chipotle has been named title sponsor of the High School Basketball Nationals, now called Chipotle Nationals. The 15th annual tournament features the best high school...
THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” THURSDAY MARCH 14, 2024
INDIANA BOYS BASKETBALL SEMI-STATE NORTH CLASS 4A AT ELKHART CROWN POINT (20-5) VS. FISHERS (26-1), 10 A.M. FORT WAYNE WAYNE (22-3) VS. MISHAWAKA (20-7), 11:45 A.M. CHAMPIONSHIP, 7:30 P.M. CLASS 3A AT LOGANSPORT PERU (16-10) VS. SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH (18-9), 10 A.M....
BIG TEN ANNOUNCES 2024 MEN’S BASKETBALL POSTSEASON HONORS
ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference has announced its All-Big Ten Men’s Basketball Teams and individual award winners for the 2023-24 season. Due to ties, a total of 18 student-athletes were selected to the All-Big Ten teams by the coaches and the media....
BULLDOGS OPEN 2024 BIG EAST TOURNAMENT WEDNESDAY WITH XAVIER
The Tip-Off • Butler, the No. 8 seed, opens the 2024 BIG EAST Tournament Wednesday with a first round match-up with No. 9 seed Xavier. • Both Butler and Xavier joined the conference prior to the 2013-14 season; this marks the fifth time that the two teams will meet in...
THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” WEDNESDAY MARCH 13, 2024
INDIANA BOYS BASKETBALL SEMI-STATE NORTH CLASS 4A AT ELKHART CROWN POINT (20-5) VS. FISHERS (26-1), 10 A.M. FORT WAYNE WAYNE (22-3) VS. MISHAWAKA (20-7), 11:45 A.M. CHAMPIONSHIP, 7:30 P.M. CLASS 3A AT LOGANSPORT PERU (16-10) VS. SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH (18-9), 10 A.M....
NFL NEWS
RAVENS AGREE TO 2-YEAR DEAL WITH FREE AGENT RB DERRICK HENRY, AP SOURCE SAYS The Baltimore Ravens agreed to a two-year contract with free agent running back Derrick Henry on Tuesday, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The person spoke to The Associated...
THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” TUESDAY MARCH 12, 2024
INDIANA BOYS BASKETBALL SEMI-STATE NORTH CLASS 4A AT ELKHART CROWN POINT (20-5) VS. FISHERS (26-1), 10 A.M. FORT WAYNE WAYNE (22-3) VS. MISHAWAKA (20-7), 11:45 A.M. CHAMPIONSHIP, 7:30 P.M. CLASS 3A AT LOGANSPORT PERU (16-10) VS. SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH (18-9), 10 A.M....
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL POLLS
AP MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL POLL 1. HOUSTON, 28-3 (52) 2. UCONN, 28-3 (6) 3. PURDUE, 28-3 (4) 4. NORTH CAROLINA, 25-6 5. TENNESSEE, 24-7 6. ARIZONA, 24-7 7. IOWA STATE, 24-7 8. CREIGHTON, 23-8 9. KENTUCKY, 23-8 10. MARQUETTE, 23-8 11. DUKE, 24-7 12. AUBURN, 24-7 13....
INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL PRE-SEASON POLLS
4A PENN NOBLESVILLE FISHERS CENTER GROVE LAKE CENTAL MOORESVILLE CARMEL FLOYD CENTRAL EVANSVILLE NORTH CATHEDRAL OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: HOMESTEAD, ZIONSVILLE, SEYMOUR, CASTLE, MOUNT VERNON, RONCALLI, MCCUTCHEON, BLOOMINGTON NORTH, NORTH CENTRAL, NEW PALESTINE, SOUTH...
2024 INDYSTAR GIRLS’ INDIANA ALL-STARS NAMED
Thirtteen players have been selected for the 2024 IndyStar Indiana Girls' All-Stars, All-Stars game director Mike Broughton announced Monday (March 11). Those chosen to the team will play three games in June -- one...
NFL NEWS
COLTS AGREE TO 3-YEAR, $70 MILLION DEAL WITH MICHAEL PITTMAN JR., AP SOURCE SAYS INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two weeks ago, Indianapolis Colts general manager Chris Ballard promised that Michael Pittman Jr. would be on the team’s roster next fall. On Monday, he made sure of...
NHL ROUNDUP: ISLES SINK DUCKS, GET BACK IN WILD-CARD SPOT
Casey Cizikas, Kyle Palmieri and Brock Nelson scored in the first period on Sunday night for the surging New York Islanders, who moved into an Eastern Conference wild-card spot by beating the host Anaheim Ducks 6-1. Bo Horvat, Pierre Engvall and Cal Clutterbuck scored...
SPRING TRAINING ROUNDUP: RYAN WEATHERS HELPS MARLINS SHUT OUT ASTROS
Ryan Weathers pitched five shutout innings — striking out seven and walking none — as the visiting Miami Marlins blanked the Houston Astros 3-0 Sunday afternoon in a split-squad game in Palm Beach, Fla. Weathers (1-0) gave up three hits in lowering his spring ERA to...
NFL NEWS: REPORTS, RUSSELL WILSON SIGNING 1-YEAR DEAL WITH STEELERS
After reportedly meeting with the Steelers on Friday, quarterback Russell Wilson will sign a one-year deal with Pittsburgh, multiple media outlets reported Sunday night. Wilson, 35, also reportedly sat down with the New York Giants before apparently deciding to team...
NBA ROUNDUP: ANTHONY DAVIS LIFTS LAKERS PAST WOLVES
Anthony Davis scored 27 points to go along with a season-high 25 rebounds, LeBron James added 29 points and the host Los Angeles Lakers finished off a 120-109 victory over the short-handed Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday night. Austin Reaves scored 19 points, Rui...
INDIANA BOYS BASKETBALL SEMI-STATE
NORTH CLASS 4A AT ELKHART CROWN POINT (20-5) VS. FISHERS (26-1), 10 A.M. FORT WAYNE WAYNE (22-3) VS. MISHAWAKA (20-7), 11:45 A.M. CHAMPIONSHIP, 7:30 P.M. CLASS 3A AT LOGANSPORT PERU (16-10) VS. SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH (18-9), 10 A.M. DELTA (22-6) VS. FAIRFIELD (20-6),...
IU OUTLASTS SPARTANS, 65-64, ON SENIOR DAY
Kel’el Ware had 28 points and 12 rebounds to lead Indiana to a 65-64 home win over Michigan State on Sunday in the Big Ten regular-season finale for both teams.Malik Reneau added 16 points for Indiana (18-13, 10-10), which has won four straight.Tyson Walker scored a...
GAME REWIND: PACERS 111, MAGIC 97
The Pacers used a bit of their own magic to complete the comeback win over Orlando Sunday night. After being down 15 points on one occasion in the second quarter, Indiana sealed the win with a massive third quarter where they outscored the home team 39-21. Indiana was...
EDEY HAS 25 POINTS, 14 REBOUNDS AS NO. 3 PURDUE TOPS WISCONSIN
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Zach Edey had 25 points and 14 rebounds in his home finale, becoming the first Big Ten player to exceed 2,200 career points and 1,200 boards, and No. 3 Purdue beat Wisconsin 78-70 on Sunday. Fletcher Loyer added 15 points and Braden Smith...
BIG TEN ANNOUNCES 2024 TIAA BIG TEN MEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT BRACKET
ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference has announced the full bracket for the 2024 TIAA Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament, set to take place March 13-17 at the Target Center in Minneapolis. All-session tickets for the 27th edition of the tournament...
THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” MONDAY MARCH 11, 2024
INDIANA BOYS BASKETBALL SEMI-STATE NORTH CLASS 4A AT ELKHART CROWN POINT (20-5) VS. FISHERS (26-1), 10 A.M. FORT WAYNE WAYNE (22-3) VS. MISHAWAKA (20-7), 11:45 A.M. CHAMPIONSHIP, 7:30 P.M. CLASS 3A AT LOGANSPORT PERU (16-10) VS. SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH (18-9), 10 A.M....
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1937 Ending his holdout, Lou Gehrig, who had initially asked for $50,000, agrees to sign with the Yankees for $36,000 and a $750 signing bonus. The new deal for the Bronx Bombers’ first baseman, last season’s American League MVP, makes him baseball’s highest-paid player.
1942 During spring training, Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland work out with the White Sox in Pasadena, California. Manager Jimmie Dykes, who reluctantly granted their request for a walk-on tryout, dismisses the black players without making an offer for their services.
1943 Spring training camps began opening in northern locations due to wartime travel restrictions. Some of the locales include Bear Mountain, NY (Dodgers), French Lick Springs, IN (Cubs and White Sox), Asbury Park, NJ (Yankees), Medford, MA (Red Sox), and Wallingford, CT (Braves).
1953 “Braves Win Last Game for Boston, Milwaukee Loses It.” – BOSTON GLOBE, headline lamenting the city’s National League franchise move to Milwaukee. When the National League owners officially approve the Braves’ move from Boston, the team is on the field, beating the Yankees in the fifth inning, 3–0. The club now representing Milwaukee, as of 2:33 PM, blows the lead, dropping a 5-3 decision to the Yankees in the Bradenton (FL) exhibition game.
1953 The Braves end their 77-year-old association with Boston, becoming the first major league club to move since Baltimore shifted to New York in 1903. After listening to Lou Perini’s hour-long impassioned plea, the National League owners unanimously approved the franchise’s change of venue to Milwaukee, where the club will stay for dozen seasons, setting attendance records before moving again in 1966 to Atlanta.
1957 Indian general manager Hank Greenberg turns down the Red Sox’s million-dollar offer for pitcher Herb Score. The former slugger says the Tribe is building for the future and not into selling its premier players.
1958 The Dodgers, playing their first season in LA, do not renew the contract of Emmett Kelly, the team’s resident ‘tramp’ in Brooklyn. The veteran circus performer believes the size of the Coliseum, the club’s new venue on the West Coast, is just “too big for one clown.”
1974 Country singer Charley Pride, best known for the songs I’m Just Me and Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’, plays for the Texas Rangers in an exhibition game at the team’s Pompano Beach training camp. The former Negro League right-hander grounds out and singles in two at-bats in the team’s 14-2 loss to Jim Palmer and the Orioles.
1981 After being declared a free agent because the Red Sox mailed his contract one day past the contractual deadline, Carlton Fisk signs a $3.5 million deal with the White Sox. On Opening Day, the 33-year-old catcher will hit an eighth-inning three-run home run to tie the score, 3-3, which proves to be the difference in Chicago’s eventual 5-3 victory over his old team at Fenway Park.
1985 Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Hall of Famers Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays. Major League Baseball banned the two Hall of Famers from associating due to their employment with Atlantic City casinos.
1990 The players and owners agree on a four-year contract after a 32-day lockout, the sport’s seventh work stoppage and its second-longest since 1972. Although the season will start a week later, teams plan to play a complete schedule, including the 78 games canceled by the work stoppage.
(Ed. Note: The settlement includes raising the minimum major league salary from $68,000 to $100,000 and establishing a committee to study revenue sharing. -LP)
2000 Construction workers install a 15-foot-high and 56-foot-long replica of an 1862 steam locomotive ninety feet above the field onto the rails that run alongside the moveable roof at Enron Field, Houston’s new downtown ballpark, partially located on the former home of the city’s Union Station. The 60,000-pound train, with its cargo of oranges, makes a 40-second trip back and forth on its track every time an Astro player hits a home run.
Seattle Mariners vs. Houston Astros (Major League Baseball – Houston, Texas – July 19, 2017)
2000 After reacquiring Jesse Orosco from the Orioles in December, the Mets send the veteran left-hander to the Cardinals for utility player Joe McEwing. In 1978, the eventual four-decade hurler (1979-2003) was the player to be named later in the trade when New York dealt veteran southpaw Jerry Koosman to Minnesota.
2005 After Mark McGwire, who had previously denied using steroids, refuses to answer the questions concerning his involvement during the congressional hearings, U.S. Representative William Lacy Clay (D-MO) wants to remove the slugger’s name given to a stretch of highway in his state. The legislators officially renamed a five-mile segment, a distance approximately as long traveled by the 70 home runs, of Interstate-70 the Mark McGwire Highway as a tribute to ‘Big Mac’ hitting a record 70 home runs in 1998.
(Ed. Note: In May 2010, the Missouri Legislature passed a bill to change the name of Mark McGwire Highway to the Mark Twain Highway. -LP)
2008 The possibility of collusion by the major league owners against Barry Bonds, who has pleaded innocent to four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice, will be examined by the Players Association. The San Francisco slugger, who hit .276 last year with 28 home runs, has not been offered a contract by any major league team.
2008 In an attempt to be part of a healing process on the campus where 32 students and staff became victims of a deadly shooting spree last April, the Yankees play the Hokies at Virginia Tech’s English Field. George Steinbrenner, moved by coverage of the massacre, donated $1 million to a memorial fund and arranged for his team to participate in an exhibition game at the school.
2009 The Cubs announce the team will retire its fifth number when 31 will be set aside on May 3rd in honor of Fergie Jenkins (1966-73, 1982-83) and Greg Maddux (1986-92, 2004-06). The hurlers will join Ron Santo (#10), Ernie Banks (#14), Ryne Sandberg (#23), and Billy Williams (#26) as honorees chosen by the Chicago club.
2010 Free-swinging slugger Mark Reynolds (.260, 44, 102) and the Diamondbacks agree to a new three-year, $14.5 million contract. The deal covers the 26-year-old third baseman’s first two arbitration years.
2011 The Mets make a symbolic but expensive roster move when they release their second baseman, Luis Castillo. The oft-injured embattled 35-year-old, best remembered by New York fans for the dropped popup in a 2009 Subway Series game at Yankee Stadium, is still owed the remaining $6 million on the four-year, $25 million contract he signed before the 2008 season.
2014 In a Cactus League game, all nine batters Jose Quintana faces reach base and eventually score in the White Sox’s 16-6 loss to the A’s at Camelback Ranch. The southpaw starter gives up seven hits, including a homer by Jed Lowrie and a triple by Sam Fuld, and issues two walks before exiting the game without retiring a batter.
1945 — Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens becomes the first NHL player to score 50 goals in a season during a 4-2 triumph over the Boston Bruins in the final game of the season.
1950 — CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship.
1953 — Don Schlundt scores 30 points to lead Indiana to a 69-68 victory over Kansas for the NCAA basketball championship.
1990 — Jeff Fryer’s 41 points leads Loyola Marymount to a 149-115 victory over defending national champion Michigan in the highest-scoring game in NCAA tournament history.
1993 — Santa Clara beats Arizona 64-61 to become the second 15th-seeded team to win a first-round game in the NCAA tournament.
1995 — Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement.
2001 — Indiana’s Reggie Miller becomes the first player in NBA history to accumulate 2,000 3-pointers after hitting four in a 101-95 win over Sacramento.
2008 — The Houston Rockets’ 22-game winning streak comes to an end. Kevin Garnett scores 22 points and Paul Pierce adds 20 as the Celtics beat the Rockets 94-74, stopping Houston’s remarkable run.
2009 — New Jersey’s Martin Brodeur breaks Patrick Roy’s NHL record for career wins by a goaltender. Brodeur records his 552nd win in a 3-2 decision over the Chicago Blackhawks.
2013 — LeBron James and the Miami Heat escape Boston with their 23rd win in a row, the second longest win streak in NBA history. James scores 37 points and makes the go-ahead basket with 10.5 seconds left in Miami’s 105-103 victory.
2015 — Lindsey Vonn wins the World Cup downhill title for the seventh time, winning the last race in the discipline at the World Cup finals in Meribel, France.
2016 — Middle Tennessee State sends a big shock through the men’s NCAA Tournament, topping second-seeded Michigan State 90-81 in the first round. Middle Tennessee never trails the Spartans (29-6) in one of the biggest upsets since the tournament began seeding teams in 1985.
2016 — Thomas Walkup scores 33 points and 14th-seeded Stephen F. Austin takes down West Virginia’s full-court pressure with some of its own in-your-face defense, pulling off a 70-56 first-round upset of the third-seeded Mountaineers in the NCAA Tournament.
2017 — Kalani Brown scores 21 points and top-seeded Baylor overwhelms much smaller Texas Southern 119-30, the most lopsided women’s NCAA Tournament game. The 89-point margin breaks the previous record 74-point win by Tennessee over North Carolina A&T (111-37) in 1994. Baylor’s 119 points are the most scored in regulation of a women’s NCAA Tournament game, surpassing the previous record 116.
2017 — Texas A&M pulls off the biggest comeback in women’s NCAA Tournament history, rallying from a 21-point deficit for a 63-61 victory over Penn to close out the first round of the NCAAs. The fifth-seeded Aggies finish the game on a 25-1 run to beat the 12th-seeded Quakers.
2018 — Tennessee loses for the first time at home in women’s NCAA Tournament history. Marie Gulich has 14 points and 12 rebounds to lead sixth-seed Oregon State to a 66-59 win. The third-seeded Lady Vols had been 57-0 at home, with most of those victories coming under late Hall of Fame coach Pat Summitt.
2019 — 40-year old Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki overtakes Wilt Chamberlain to go 6th with 31,424 points on the NBA scorers’ list; Mavs suffer 129-125 OT loss to New Orleans Pelicans.