Indiana State's 1979 team reunited in Terre Haute to talk about Larry Bird, that season and author Keith O'Brien's new book on the topic, "Heartland." Coach Bill Hodges, eight players and even an ...
Though Larry Bird was very much on the minds of everyone attending Monday evening’s official book launch for “Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird,” much of ...
Keith O’Brien’s latest book deep dives into one of the most improbable runs in men’s college basketball history and provides surprising insight into how difficult it was to get Larry Bird to embrace ...
More than three decades after his final game—a pain-wracked cameo in the United States’s gold-medal win over Croatia in the 1992 Olympics—Larry Bird retains a mythopoeic quality. Michael Jordan and ...
With the MLB season in full swing and the Boston Red Sox playing in their Opening Day against the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday, it brings me back to a story that has always fascinated me. The time ...
Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium hosted the NCAA Midwest Regional semifinals and finals in 1979. Future NBA legend Larry Bird and Indiana State University dominated the NCAA Midwest regionals with two ...