http://www.tribstar.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:57:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_184225817.html http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_184225817.html As it turns out, Chris Barrett and Steve Weber were both half right. Weber, who coached the South team in the fourth annual Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association All-Star Game on Saturday at Memorial Stadium, had predicted a low-scoring game and it was in the first half — much to his team’s dismay. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_177230042.html http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_177230042.html I certainly can’t be at all disappointed about how two of my favorite baseball teams are faring at this point in the season.There was actually a point or two during the spring when I wondered exactly how manager John Hayes was going to come up with a respectable team for Wayne Newton Post 346’s American Legion season, but that worry is now behind me. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:13:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_163231417.html http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_163231417.html Texas Tommy Keithley had somehow reached third base with two out in the bottom of the ninth inning, representing the tying run for his Lowell Post 101 American Legion baseball team in its game against LaPorte. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:16:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_156231754.html http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_156231754.html People who believe that baseball is a boring sport were probably not in Jasonville on Friday to see Shakamak’s come-from-behind win over North Central for a Class A sectional championship. Wed, 28 May 2008 23:43:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_149234347.html http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_149234347.html Remember the name Devin Walsh.He’s not a baseball phenom with a 95-mph fastball or a 7-foot point guard with mad skills, he’s a budding playwright. But since what I do here is basically find and evaluate talent, I feel it’s my job to alert you all to him. If he turns up in the same sentence as O’Neill or Albee or Shakespeare before long, you will have been given the inside information. Thu, 22 May 2008 00:30:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_143003200.html http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_143003200.html I’ve had some back issues of my own in the past few weeks, as you may recall. So when I saw White River Valley softball pitcher Stephanie Fougerousse pick up a ball off the ground Monday evening at the Clay City Sectional, kind of half kneeling and approaching the ball from an angle, my rooting interest for that game against Shakamak was decided. Wed, 07 May 2008 23:02:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_128230353.html http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_128230353.html Pretty much everything you need to know about postseason high school baseball in western Indiana could have been learned by watching the Big Four Classic that started Saturday and wasn’t determined until Monday night. Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:37:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_121223826.html http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_121223826.html I don’t know Caitlin Fears well enough to know how much she enjoyed the Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference track and field championships Friday night. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_114231355.html http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_114231355.html If the folks at Rapid Cable up Clinton way would ever add Versus to their lineup (hint, hint — and Comcast from Chicago would be nice too) this would still be my favorite time of year — even though I’m married now. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:11:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_107231817.html http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_107231817.html You might recall that we started this week talking four great people I know, and about the naming of the new gym at Woodrow Wilson Middle School for Trannie Grainger and Mike Kennedy. Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:34:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_104233503.html http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_104233503.html Four of the best people I’ve known will be getting well deserved recognition in this space this week, and I’m even getting a little help with today’s item that deals with the first two of them. Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:11:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_100231309.html http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_100231309.html If I look a little bit bigger to you since the Ameys returned late last week from their Gatlinburg vacation, it could be a consequence of the southern Tennessee cuisine, whose three basic food groups appear to be pancakes, barbecue and fudge. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:36:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_086223617.html http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_086223617.html Just a few odds and ends to get out of the way today before the Griswolds — oops, I mean the Ameys — pack up the van and get out of here. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:45:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_079224611.html http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_079224611.html I’ve heard some of the older Terre Haute South High School basketball fans — sorry, Mark — question coach Mike Saylor’s sectional comment about the 2007-2008 Braves having perhaps the best season in the school’s history. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:08:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_072230951.html http://www.tribstar.com/amey_takes_aim/local_story_072230951.html As the Indiana High School Athletic Association’s annual postseason basketball geography tour takes fans from the western part of the state to concession stands they’d never have visited otherwise (didn’t want the sugar buzz from the cotton candy at Frankfort, but was intrigued by the barbecued frog legs and fried bologna sandwiches at Martinsville), it’s an obvious sign that the winter season is (finally?) coming to a close.