This chart shows teams’ home-road records throughout football tournament history. Teams that don’t have a true home field (such as Cathedral or Scecina) or need a bigger stadium still have their games listed as home when they move their game to a nearby field. scoreboard.homestead.com/foo…

Isn't it amazing. When you're considered good, you win all the games you deserve to lose (IU games like Nebraska and Michigan). IU definitely would have lost them in the old days.

MISSING SCORES Gary West-Lowell Frontier-Central Catholic ---------------------------

Northridge jumped from a 2-7 record last year to 9-0 this year and had the most improved regular-season record at 7 games. Hagerstown improved 6 games and Covenant Christian and Mount Vernon (Fortville) improved 5 games. scoreboard.homestead.com/foo…

I hadn't been that nervous in a long time. #iufb

Last night's Maconaquah-Northwestern 77-35 score (112 total points) was the highest scoring game of the season for both teams. North Posey's 56-55 OT victory over South Spencer was the second highest total. Connersville's 53-49 win over Jeffersonville was in the top 6. HIGHEST SCORES, BOTH TEAMS, THIS SEASON 112: Maconaquah 77, Northwestern 35, Sep. 25 111: North Posey 56, South Spencer 55, OT, Sep. 25 110: Merrillville 56, Lafayette Jeff 54, 2OT, Aug. 28 108: Wes-Del 72, Blackford 36, Aug. 28 105: Maconaquah 63, Peru 42, Sep. 18 102: Connersville 53, Jeffersonville 49, Sep. 25 101: Cloverdale 69, Greencastle 32, Aug. 21

There were 3 century-unique scorigamis last night, making 6 total this season: scoreboard.homestead.com/foo…

When Riverton Parke beat South Vermillion 61-6 last night, it was pointed out that was the same score as last year's game. It apparently is not a rarity. I have five other matchups that had the same score this year as last year: --Knightstown 59, Union County 0 --Eastside 42, Fremont 13 --Adams Central 14, Heritage 7 --West Central 36, North Newton 7 --East Noble 35, Norwell 0 I found 169 total matchups that had same scores in successive years over the past 33 years. In 1996 and 1997, Providence beat Corydon Central 28-6 three times (once in a sectional). I'm having trouble believing any of this. From now on, I'll just use last year's score as my prediction.

Until last night's Goshen-Plymouth game, there had not been a 5-2 football score at least back through 1994, where my scores start. There have been two 3-2 scores, but not a 5-2 score. This year's 21st Century-unique scores are in this file: scoreboard.homestead.com/foo…

TONIGHT'S PREDICTION CHART scoreboard.homestead.com/fil…

West Lafayette has started the football season 0-4, losing two 3-pointers and two 1-pointers. I found just 9 teams (since 1994) losing as many as 4 games by 3 or fewer points over an entire season. Yorktown lost 5 such games in 1997. Concord lost 4 close games in 1999, including 3 straight. In 2010, New Albany lost 4 games totaling 5 points, including 61-60 and 48-47 losses to Floyd Central.

I have updated my girls and boys basketball sites with every schedule I have received so far. If you sent me anything in the past 2 weeks, I failed to receive it because my email service was disrupted. My email has now reverted back to the original address of [email protected] (that's an underscore in my name and not a dot). Anyone sending me schedules and info must now use that email for me to receive it. Thanks. -----

Refs will be especially thankful tonight for running clocks.

I would put him No. 3, behind Oscar and George.

Looking at some colorized footage of the 1954 World Series, Game 1. In the first inning, the Indians had runners on 1st and 3rd with 2 out. Maglie goes into his windup while pitching to Wertz, and the runner on 1st (Avila) holds! That would never happen today, of course. Wertz triples home the Indians' first 2 runs.

I was binge-watching The Closer, and in one episode a Fort Wayne man was killed in a area near LA. The victim's young son mentioned Pokagon State Park, only he pronounced it POKE-a-gone, rather than po-KAY-gun. It seems Hollywood could check out Midwest pronunciations.