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Lake of the Ozarks is one of the best all-around outdoor destinations in the country.

Golf is an unforgiving game, and every player faces failure at some point.

Long before position-less basketball was a thing, the 1992-93 Whiteland boys team was doing its thing.

A person in Steve McClure’s situation wouldn’t be blamed for curling his or her fists, staring at the sky and asking simplest, yet most complex of questions:

Mike Armstrong never game-planned a way to gradually phase himself out of coaching girls basketball.

As he got set to enter the pool for the 50-yard backstroke final, Liam Price looked over at his lone adversary. Wyoming representative Jesse Jaite had posted the top time during the preliminaries (34.65 seconds), but Price wasn’t at all intimidated.

A lot of eyes are on Max Clark this summer, including several sets that could help determine his near-term future.

With the arrival of summer, outdoor opportunities often turn into family affairs. The relentless pursuit of spring gobblers is just behind us and long stretches of days in tree stands are still far off. You hopefully hammered crappie in the spring, and maybe even put enough walleye filets in the freezer to last until fall.

Basketball

Back in the spring of 2019, Whiteland softball coach Katie Mitchell was coming off of a six-win season and had a roster dominated by inexperience. She had little choice but to throw some young pups into the deep end see whether or not they could swim.