Starting tomorrow, the Daily Times no longer will publish a Friday edition.
People ask me how I feel about that. Sad. That’s how I feel.
You know what else I’m sad about? Glad you asked. I’m sad that no longer on Friday and Saturday evenings can I walk a couple of blocks south on 9th Street from […]

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Guerin Catholic, off to a faster start (12-3) than might be expected from a second-year varsity basketball program, has a big week ahead.
Starting tonight. Starting tonight at home against Pendleton Heights.
It’s one of three games this week for Coach Pete Smith’s Golden Eagles. On Friday, Guerin will play at Indian Creek and then on Saturday […]

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It’s funny, sometimes, how things shake out.
When Fishers High School (modern Fishers High School) announced its first boys basketball schedule last season one of the teams appearing on the card was Lawrence North.
It looked like a fun match-up with Fishers’ first-year coach J.R. Shelt having coached at LN, as an assistant, before accepting the head […]

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Today is the day the Indiana High School Athletic Association conducted a blind draw for its postseason team wrestling tourney.
In wrestling, the IHSAA has two tourneys, a team tourney and an individual tourney. Everything begins at the sectional level.
For complete coverage of all Hamilton County wrestling teams through the postseason, the best source for information […]

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Can Carmel’s boys basketball team finish the regular season undefeated?
That’s a question one normally wouldn’t ask because the answer, one would think, is no. Not in the Metropolitan Conference. To think of a team rolling through the Metropolitan Conference is more like a dream.
But, this year, this team Coach Mark Galloway has gathered could do […]

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You may want to keep an eye on Hamilton Heights’ Lady Husky basketball team.
Don’t get the idea that Heights is a state powerhouse. No, the Huskies can’t play with the big gals like, for example, Class 4A powerhouses Carmel and Hamilton Southeastern.
And, yes, this is a very young team, a team certainly which will get […]

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Stats, things like won-lost records for example, can be misleading. But, they’re fun to play with.
Take Noblesville’s boys basketball team, for example.
Noblesville ranks No. 4 in the state for teams whose opponents have the best combined won-lost records. Miller foes are 61-24 for a .718 percentage. Only teams ranking higher are Lawrence Central (49-18), Ben […]

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Remember how it felt on Christmas day, opening all those packages which were carefully wrapped and placed under the tree?
Then, came the next day and you went back to work.
Remember?
Remember New Year’s Eve and the big party and then the next day sleeping and watching football and sleeping. Then, the next day you went back […]

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So, now comes 2008, with lots of questions. With lots of unanswered questions for Hamilton County boys basketball teams, left dangling from 2007.
 
Can teams like Carmel, Hamilton Southeastern and Guerin Catholic remain hot and roll through January and February and on into sectional play?
Can Noblesville, always a contender, become a contender?
How about Hamilton Heights? A […]

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The best story in boys’ basketball in the 2007 portion of the 2007-08 school year has been Guerin Catholic’s fast start. In Pete Smith’s last season of a program the veteran coach began four years ago, Guerin has roared away to a fast 8-1 start.

With the death this year of the Hamilton County Tourney, Guerin […]

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