Citing a desire to spend more time with his family, including daughter Abigayle and son Trey, Chris Payne has resigned as Burlington Central's boys basketball coach.
When Aaron Nelson was a seventh-grade basketball hopeful at Washington
Junior High in Chicago Heights, he got cut in training camp. Today, Nelson is the 2008-09 Beggars Pizza/Pepsi/SouthtownStar Boys Basketball Player of the Year.
Bruce Scaduto was a 7-year-old first-grader in 1971 when his Hall of Fame father, Len, coached the Oak Lawn Spartans to a second-place finish in the IHSA state basketball finals.
With a game more than a little reminiscent of his friend Evan Taylor -- formerly of St. Joseph and now at Ohio State -- Bolingbrook's Diamond Taylor was the cream of the crop in Joliet area basketball this season.
YourSeason's Patrick Z. McGavin reviews "Hoop Reality," a new documentary which serves as a sequel of sorts to the acclaimed mid-90s movie, "Hoop Dreams."