Forget points, rebounds, assists, and steals. Highland Park High School’s boys basketball team considers deflections its most critical statistic. The Giants amassed a whopping 32 deflections— a season-high total—in their…
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Shots in Broad Daylight
I’ve never owned a crystal ball, but I’m peering at a figurative one now. I see all kinds of wondrous feats that athletes in The North Shore Weekend coverage area…
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Quoteworthy
Fish need water. Sports journalists need insightful thoughts and reactions from athletes and coaches and admin- istrators. We never thank them enough for helping us enliven our pages. Thank you,…
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Sunday Breakfast: Susan Kelsey
Susan Kelsey got lost as a youngster. Often. But she loved every second of the feeling that accompanied the condition. A Lake Forest resident since 2006, Kelsey blames riveting books…
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The Top 19 in ’19
How fine were the feats of The North Shore Weekend-area athletes in 2019? North Shore Country Day School’s boys soccer team finished fourth at the Class 1A state tournament—and just…
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‘Bella’s Back
Sneakers squeak-squeak-squeak atop the hardwood. A basketball bounces. A referee’s whistle chirps. A basketball clangs off the rim. It’s not the sweetest combination of sounds, but it’s the haphazard symphony…
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Titans’ Record Remains Pristine
Emmett Burnside paced New Trier High School’s boys basketball team in a trio of statistics in a home game last week. Two were conventional. The 6-foot-7 senior pulled down nine…
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Sunday Breakfast: Matt Ravenscraft
No phone. No computer. Oh, and one more thing, young man: You’re not allowed to speak English, at anytime, for seven months. Matt Ravenscraft faced those daunting challenges in Logrono,…
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It All Adds Up
That mad-about-basketball math department at Lake Forest was “sum”thing else last winter. A good chunk of its faculty members—about half, according to math teacher Kyle Wilhelm — showed up faithfully…
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Sunday Breakfast: Don Meyer
Don Meyer’s phone rang. The Lake Forest College music professor was an exhausted, overwhelmed first-year graduate student at the UC Davis, when he picked up the receiver in the Era…
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