ZOOM Photo by Justin Rumbach/The Indianapolis Star Coach Todd Lickliter, top right, watches his son, John William, in a game at the Indiana Basketball Academy with his mother, Jimmye Sue Lickliter, front row right, his wife Joez, bottom left, and other sons Ry and Garrett. I remember after Todd graduated from high school, a parent whose son had been a big scorer in junior high school met with my dad to ask about the possibility of centering an offense around his son, recalled Marc...

Tasks include clerical work in the library, light maintenance, assisting the volunteer curator and serving as guides and greeters during the summer months. Volunteers are needed to share a 30- to 50-minute presentation of photos, slides, Power Point, or video of their experiences abroad with children. There is also a need for skilled muralists, children s advocates, friends of the library and programming support people. for Healthy Kids Day registration, arts and crafts, game stations,...

Grizzle said thousands of students from area schools and home-schooled children attended last year's performances set aside just for them, and thousands more attended the evening and weekend shows. Gates open two hours prior to each show, at which time patrons can grab an inexpensive meal at any of several concession stands, meet and collect autographs from the famous Shrine Circus clowns, purchase programs and raffle tickets for $1 each, and choose great seats under the Big Top....

The Dodgers' home season opener Monday afternoon a 6-3 loss marked the first day of all-you-can-eat feasting and the pricier, theoretically more tightly controlled parking. But she was still bottled up in the parking lot two hours later when she heard the crowd roar as pitcher Jason Schmidt belted a third-inning home run. As he contemplated the long line of cars inching forward in front of him on his way out of the parking lot Monday evening, Armando Pineda of Pico Rivera reached a...

From the Cubicle Play-by-play of the Cubs home opener from a guy who met this guy this morning at a promotional event April 9, 2007, 4:11 PM CDT Current inning I'll say this: As crazy as they are about sports in Philadelphia, I don't know that there are any Dick Vermeil lookalikes who can make any kind of coin off of it. From the Cubicle Play-by-play of the Cubs home opener from a guy who met this guy this morning at a promotional event April 9, 2007, 4:11 PM CDT Current inning I'll say...

caved to a disgruntled newsroom that is annoyed at [the paper's owners in] Chicago, annoyed at them and annoyed at the autonomy of the opinion pages. Michael Kinsley, former LAT opinon czar who hired Martinez, also blasts "newsroom busybodies," but simulataneously chides Martinez for making a fuss about whether "a news editor once asked him to consider running an editorial in connection with some news-side series. Michael Kinsley, former LAT opinon czar who hired Martinez, also blasts...