It is, without question, the movie that is most deeply personal to me. In fact, “Field of Dreams” isn’t really a movie in my mind, but instead a concept, a feeling, a collection of memories and emotions. It’s easy to summarize: My dad died in 2006. My dad and I shared many baseball ...
Penn State made what looks like a terrific hire in selecting Carolyn Kieger as the new women’s basketball coach. Kieger’s background is exactly what the Lady Lions should have been looking for. She was a very good college player herself at Marquette, put in several years as an assistant coach for a major program at Miami, then showed she could turn around a program quickly as a head coach when she took over at Marquette. Penn State will be hoping Kieger can do the exact same thing for a Lady Lion program with terrific tradition but that had struggled in recent years under ...
Welcome to the greatest two days of the sports year — the beginning of the NCAA Tournament. Enjoy the madness, folks. I know I will. Once again, Penn State is nowhere to be found. What else is new? Did you know the Nittany Lions have been in the NCAA Tournament just five times in the past 63 years? On a national level, Penn State has been irrelevant in college basketball for pretty much your entire life, no matter your age. I don’t point that out to be mean. I point it out to so that you find some level of perspective. When the topic comes up about whether Patrick Chambers ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Saint Francis showed all season, and especially in the first half Tuesday night, that it has a very good team. Much more important, though, is this: Saint Francis has a very good program. There are many reasons why that should not be the case. The Red Flash program was struggling big time not too many years ago, and the challenges of recruiting good players to the tiny Loretto school and keeping them there are numerous. Somehow, some way, Rob Krimmel has pulled it off. The fact that the Flash had the halftime lead (40-34) at Indiana in the first round of the NIT ...
LORETTO — Rob Krimmel arrived at Saint Francis as a player in 1996, and he’s always wanted to see the school enjoy the kind of basketball atmosphere that was on display Tuesday night. DeGol Arena was electric. It was magical. The phenomenal, high-energy, high-basketball-IQ crowd should have been plenty good enough to help the Red Flash get over the hump and win the NEC final to reach the NCAA Tournament. But oh those stinking free throws, an abomination that finished as a 4-of-17 eyesore. Still, what was on display Tuesday night was a classic example of, if you win, people ...
One of my favorite shows growing up was the spectacular “Quantum Leap.” In fact, give me pretty much any TV show or movie that centers on alternate reality, and I’m instantly hooked. We get used to the world we live in and the way things are, so it’s cool to see how the world could be ...
