Mike Hutton

Pound for pound, Nino Barbosa is the best athlete in Northwest Indiana. Barbosa, a 5-foot-8, 145-pound senior, proved it again last Friday in Whiting’s 44-7 victory over Wheeler. All Barbosa...

Lake Central senior Isabel Spanburg had never broken 80 in a golf tournament. Spanburg ended that drought on Monday in spectacular fashion, draining a 30-foot putt for a birdie on...

Don’t expect clarity, closure and humanity. That was the message from West Side administrators after they launched a legendary coach. Rod Fisher, perhaps the most popular coach in West Side...

Jesse Harper broke off the big run Friday night when Valparaiso needed it most. Harper, a 5-foot-9 senior, scored on a 45-yards run with 7 minutes left to play. That...

Junior defensive end Humberto Morales didn’t expect to have seven sacks after three games for Portage. He’ll take it, though. Morales is tied for the lead in Indiana, according to...

Portage quarterback Zack Warchus didn’t know if the game would be finished. Warchus, a junior, was ready when word came down that they would play. Warchus rushed for 158 yards...

Irv Cross had to get composed on the phone. After all these years, it still wasn’t easy to open up about his father. He was generally a good man who...

Merrillville coach Brad Seiss heard about Kenneth Grant when he was at Pierce Middle School. Lauren Seiss told her husband there was an extremely big seventh-grader there. So big it...

The Valparaiso boys basketball team got a lot better Sunday. That’s when Brandon Newman tweeted he was returning to be a Viking after a short stint at prep school in...