One day, while shaving, he noticed it — a lump on his neck. Not long after, Chris Coll, 51, learned he had throat cancer and his battle against the disease began. “It was a little bit overwhelming....

If we’re being honest, this is garbage. Chase Smith’s story was not supposed to end this way. He was supposed to have gone to Tokyo last year — okay, this year, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic — to...

INDIANAPOLIS In August, members of the University of Indianapolis football team gathered to vote on its four captains for the current season. The lone underclassman selected was as shocked as anyone....

Max Clark had long coveted Gatorade’s National Player of the Year award; winning the honor was among the goals he wrote on his bathroom mirror prior to his senior season.

For all of Seth Gallman’s physical talents on the football field, it was something more intangible that made the Greenwood quarterback so successful. “The first thing when I think about Seth and what...

During the summer, many around the Center Grove football program were buzzing about an incoming freshman running back. Trojans coach Eric Moore wasn’t quite ready to believe the hype that followed...

“You see what I have to deal with?” Like a father groaning in mock exasperation when his child falls behind, Franklin wrestling coach Bob Hasseman is waiting on boys and girls swimming coach Zach...

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Giving up on baseball right before the start of his final high school season was hard for Michael Couet — but when the top collegiate men’s swimming program in America came calling, the Franklin...

WEST LAFAYETTE Center Grove’s softball team only managed one run during Saturday night’s Class 4A state championship game — but with senior Abby Herbst in the pitching circle, that’s all the Trojans...

The finishing match of the 21st and last state wrestling finals inside Southport Fieldhouse was, by all accounts, a Bless-ed event. Greenwood senior Mark Bless capped a perfect 31-0 season by winning...

By Mike Beas | Daily Journal

COLUMBUS Whiteland started the football season with the toughest opponent in Class 5A, facing top-ranked Columbus East on Friday, but Jake Perry proved to be a bit too much for the Olympians to...

As good as Drew Byerly has been at shaking off would-be tacklers on the football field, he’s just as good at deflecting opportunities to give himself any credit for doing so. Any attempts to get him...

Franklin seniors Drew Byerly and Cory Richards had a special connection on the field Friday, where it seemed like one knew what the other was doing at all times. They’ll take a place in the school...

The socially-distanced crowd in the Indian Creek gymnasium on Sunday afternoon represented a mere fraction of the support that the community in and around Trafalgar has shown for Chase Smith over the...

Eric Moore has coached 229 football games at Center Grove with someone else’s son as the starting quarterback. On Aug. 18, he’ll be trying for win No. 1 with his own. Among the more intriguing...

Knee injuries claimed the first three seasons of Austin Daming’s high school football career. The Center Grove senior made sure to claim the fourth for himself. Finally healthy after having four knee...

Those crazy shots that Megan Harlow heaves up during practices paid off handsomely Friday night. Harlow knocked down an off-balance 3-pointer to tie the game with three seconds left in regulation and...

Franklin Community High School’s athletic complex will be renamed this summer for the man who helped shape it. Noel Heminger served as athletic director from 1996 to 2010, and helped shape the...

Midway through the 2016-17 season, a quiet sophomore point guard was inserted into Center Grove’s starting lineup for the first time. Ben Nicoson remembers it like it was yesterday. “I was probably...

A weekend at the 122d Fighter Wing in Fort Wayne might not be considered a good time by college students — particularly while juggling the demands of a football season. Once a month, Damon Munn makes...

Police found 10 pounds of marijuana in a Greenwood apartment this week and arrested two suspected drug dealers, one who is a teenager. Bailey J. Osborne, 19, of Greenwood, and Corbin H. Rafferty, 20,...

Fourteen games as Center Grove’s starting quarterback got Jack Kellams thinking about his athletics future. After completing 58 percent of his pass attempts with one interception for the Class 6A...

Two Center Grove players expected to play major roles in tonight’s Class 6A semistate attack each snap from scrimmage as if making up for missed opportunities in the past. Senior defensive end L.J....

Earlier this spring, members of Ohio State’s football coaching staff paid Center Grove coach Eric Moore a visit to talk about prospective recruits, including rising junior defensive lineman Caden...