Mark Montieth

Some people will tell you today’s players are softer, less respectful of authority, hold themselves less accountable and are as likely to quit as fight through adversity.

The games of past decades weren’t as good as many people would like to remember, but nostalgia is a powerful force that filters out negative memories.

Construction has begun on an expansion that will add 6,600 square feet to the facility, with 2,600 of that devoted to museum space.

There are plenty of Indiana-related stories hiding in plain sight that have not been given a thorough examination.

Don Fischer is the nation’s only working play-by-play announcer who has called at least 49 consecutive seasons of both football and basketball.

His crusade, joined by many others locally and nationally, had begun informally in 2014, and he had been involved in serious negotiations with the NBA for more than a year.

Attendance is about one-third of what it once was, the schedule of practices and games has been shrunk from two weeks to one and some players can’t even fit that into their schedules.

There are, of course, legitimate reasons for an athlete to transfer, and even diehard Boilermaker fans would have understood if Newman had sought a change of venue.