Saturday, Jan. 13 / NEW ALBANY 112, SCOTTSBURG 48 BY CARY STEMLE In basketball, a letdown doesn’t always mean defeat. When victory is a foregone conclusion, the goal becomes good execution, at a time when it’s just as easy to fall into bad habits as the coach rants about running the usual sets. The New Albany Bulldogs showed where their…
BY CARY STEMLE Some 15 hours after concluding an 85-61 rout of their bitter rivals from Jeffersonville, the New Albany Bulldogs were at Bankers Life Arena in Indianapolis to take on the Silver Creek Dragons. The contest was part of a daylong series of games, at multiple sites, called Basketball Day Indiana, organized and broadcast by Fox Sports to highlight…
Still working on those video skills … but here’s what New Albany coach Jim Shannon had to say after the Bulldogs beat Jeffersonville, 85-61, on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018.
In my preview of Friday’s annual New Albany-Jeffersonville tilt, I pondered whether anyone on the laidback Bulldogs squad will emerge as an outwardly emotional figure during the second half of the season. That’s still an open question, but what’s no longer up for debate is how New Albany star Romeo Langford would respond to widespread social media taunts from Red…
Found on Newspapers.comAs New Albany and Jeffersonville get ready to renew their long-running cross-town rivalry, let’s return for a moment to a particularly intense period of games some 25 years ago, when today’s players were scarcely a gleam in their parents’ eyes and both squads routinely came to the first contest of the New Year ranked in the Top 10…
With apologies for the poor video quality, check out the coach’s remarks after the 62-56 win.
THURSDAY, DEC. 28 / Evansville Central High School New Albany 62 — Evansville Central 56 Consider the scenario: A frigid Thursday night, three days after Christmas. A long bus ride to Evansville. No Romeo Langford. Playing without their leader, who’d dislocated his right index finger just the night before while dunking during practice, the Class 4A No. 3 Bulldogs got…
Saturday, Dec. 2 was my mother-in-law’s 78th birthday, and to celebrate the occasion, her youngest son Chris arranged for her to attend the New Albany High School basketball game that night at home against Evansville Harrison. Judy Wasson taught kindergarten in the New Albany-Floyd County district for 41 years. Even before she was named district teacher of the year, I…