SPORTS Bill Benner: The city’s ‘next’ Reggie is already in our midst
Steve Alford and Stephanie White were the quintessential Indiana high school and college basketball stars. They were hardwood heroes who emerged from small towns and led their respective universities, Indiana and Purdue, to national championships. For many Hoosiers, the storybook ending would have been for that success to carry on to the professional level, with Alford and White leading the NBA Pacers and WNBA Fever to championships and street parades. Reality intruded. Alford, as we have been reminded recently, was…