Steve T. Gorches

Steve T. Gorches has been writing for the Post-Tribune since 1999, covering everything from basketball to football to NASCAR to being a national award-winning bowling …Read More

• Gorches: Time for some softball predictions

  In recent years, I’ve been slipping at these prediction columns. In fact, when that word is brought up in the office, the response from Mr. T’s memorable character Clubber Lang from the movie “Rocky III” is invoked. “My prediction? Pain.” Predicting the winners of Northwest Indiana …Read More

• Gorches: Are you ready for the end of football?

  Beware football fans — a storm is brewing. It’s been building in recent years from the top on down with the National Football League, but you can bet it will hit every level down to Pop Warner. Not to sound like a doomsday prophet, but …Read More

• Gorches: Unique setting for RailCats exhibition a blast from the past

  HAMMOND — It was being held at a field used for high school and Babe Ruth baseball games. It felt like a high school or Babe Ruth baseball game on Thursday night at Riverside Park, what with one of the teams only wearing t-shirts with …Read More

• Gorches: Education and sports: Two separate entities

  How’s the saying go: Don’t mix politics and religion? Separation of church and state? Something like that. But there can also be a saying that goes, “Don’t mix sports and politics,” too, though Congress has trouble doing that in recent years (i.e., those darn steroid hearings). That’s …Read More