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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

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Gorches: Vote ‘yes’ to referendum, vote ‘yes’ for kids

Here we go again. Kids’ educational futures are being held hostage in three Northwest Indiana communities, just like in three others in recent years. On May 8, 2012, the Duneland School Corporation held its collective breath when voters made a choice whether to implement a …

  • Gorches: Gentleman’s game has ambiguous rules

    I love the game of golf. I really wish I had more time to play more rounds at any number of local golf courses. I have several favorites — Turkey Creek in Merrillville, South Gleason Park in Gary, Robbinhurst in Portage, Indian Ridge in Hobart …Read More

    • Gorches: Whiting breaks ground on turf project so many other schools should consider

    As I was listening to different Whiting school officials on Thursday — from superintendent Sandra Martinez to principal Jay Harker and so on — explain their feelings about the new turf field that will be installed at the Oilers’ football stadium, Ray P. Gallivan Field, …

    Gorches: Stop being wimpy and play high school games

    Remember the good old days when high school games would be played in the spring, when there were few cancellations and few scheduling issues? Yeah, me too — it was last year when global warming was in its heyday. There were 70- and 80-degree days …

    Gorches: VU’s Dorow has a lot of work to do

    How far has the Valparaiso University women’s basketball program fallen? The simple answer is … as far as possible in a fairly short period of time without reaching rock bottom, yet. As good as VU basketball fans feel about the men’s program with its Horizon …

  • Gorches: Carson Cunningham, Marvin Rea both learned from Gene Keady

    It’s fitting that Bowman Academy and Andrean are playing in the same semistate Saturday at Huntington North High School. Not because the schools are in neighboring communities or because they faced each other earlier this season — Andrean won the home game 73-68 on Dec. …Read More

  • Gorches: Former Spoilermakers shining in boys basketball postseason

    It’s not uncommon for Northwest Indiana boys basketball players from different teams to be teammates in the offseason on one of the numerous AAU squads that traverse the country. Heck, the days of heated school rivalries are starting to disappear since many of the kids …Read More

  • Fantasy NASCAR: Danica shows she’s for real, for now

    It was quite an interesting start to another NASCAR season. Where do we start? There was the crash at the end of the Nationwide race that got national headlines because Kyle Larson’s car went airborne into the catch fencing, injuring around 30 fans, some serious. …Read More

    • Gorches: Pole results in Danica-mania boost

    Are you ready for the Post-Tribune’s sixth annual Fantasy NASCAR contest? It’s been so popular over the last five years that some former readers who have moved out of the area have called just to see if we still have it — one of them …

    Gorches: Here’s your Super Bowl commercial studs and duds

    It’s an annual tradition for me and I’m a stickler for sticking to tradition — play on words intended. So I spent Monday doing the same thing I’ve done on five previous days after the Super Bowl — watch the DVR version and analyze the overhyped commercials. …

    Gorches: First, a bone to pick – then sectional picks

    Before we get to predicting the girls basketball sectional winners — because I know you’ve been waiting all week to find out what the guy who averages 50 percent on his picks thinks — I have to get something off my chest. Oh, how I …

    Gorches: Real life issues hit home in Gary athletics

    There are times when real life interjects itself into sports, and when sports interject themselves into real life. When sports are a diversion from real life problems, and when real life problems are part of the sports that we have grown to love because they …

    Gorches: Conference tourneys draw big buzz

    This is one of my favorite weeks of the basketball season. You can have your sectional weeks for boys and girls — those have become watered down since class basketball was implemented. I’ll take conference tournaments any day. It’s just a shame only two Northwest Indiana …

  • Gorches: Quality not quantity in NWI state titles

    Maybe 2013 will be better, because 2012 just wasn’t Northwest Indiana’s year when it came to high school sports success. Actually, neither was 2011. This is the time of the calendar year when I look back at the region high school state champion teams, and …Read More

    • Gorches: Going against Pack makes you bad Bears fan

    Sometimes the sports world throws you a curve ball, and I don’t mean the kind from the arm of a Major League baseball pitcher. Sometimes you just have to laugh at how karma works in life and sports. Take the National Football League as a …

    Gorches: Headlines we’ll miss, thanks to the apocalypse

    Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Dummy with the rapture and the reverent in the right … right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, Feeling pretty psyched. It’s the end of the world as we know …

    MC-Merrillville doesn’t disappoint

    It’s become must-see basketball at least twice a year — more than likely, three times since the two teams are easily the best in the same Class 4A sectional. And that just isn’t the case most of the time with region girls hoops. On Tuesday …

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