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Mike Hutton

Mike Hutton has been writing a sports column for the Post-Tribune since 1998. He has been honored as a top 10 columnist nationally by the …Read More

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  • Hutton: Purdue should have taken care of Marcius

    Sandi Marcius didn’t get the Purdue severance package. He got their unrequited love and respect. He’s part of the family forever but the soon-to-be Boilermakers graduate won’t get his last two classes paid for out of the $66 million athletic budget. Matt Painter loves “the …Read More

    • HUTTON: Irish offense still trying to get up to speed

    SOUTH BEND — The headline on Notre Dame athletics’ official website, und.com, after the 2010 spring football game, the first one that Brian Kelly coached at Notre Dame: “Offense Shines in Blue-Gold Game.” That was the year that Nate Montana threw for 223 yards and …

    HUTTON: Michael Jenkins gives a piece of himself to his father

    I have never met Bonita Jenkins face-to-face, but I can feel her softness and breathe in her dignified, profound strength over the phone as she tells her story. I can say this with certainty: Those Jenkins boys are lucky to have her around. All five …

  • HUTTON: After Monday’s spike in production, CP’s Spike Albrecht becomes media, Twitter sensation

    On the day after the day of the moment for Spike Albrecht, who is now friendly with Kate Upton and familiar with Louisville guard Peyton Siva, he was unavailable for “Good Morning America.” Here are a few leftovers from Monday’s scintillating, yet deflating, 82-76 Michigan …Read More

    • Hutton: All-area teams always include tough choices

    A behind the scenes look at selecting the Post-Tribune All-Area team, and a season ending high school basketball wrap-up. What was the hardest omission? Probably leaving Tom Bardeson off the team. He was like the 16th guy. Bardeson had a phenomenal final game against Michigan …

  • Hutton: Lighthouse loses out on IHSAA numbers game

    It’s hard for Thomas Smith and Quincy Taylor not to be skeptical and understandably frustrated about the intentions of the IHSAA and its latest reclassification job. The basketball coach and the athletic director, respectively, at Lighthouse Academy feel like they got the royal Indianapolis shaft …Read More

    • HUTTON: Connaughton conjures up Samardzija memories

    GARY — Have you heard this story before? Strapping 6-5 right-handed, two-sport star for Notre Dame comes to the Steel Yard and is perfect. Ok, I don’t recall Jeff Samardzija ever making it to the Steel Yard for a game but the similarities between him …

    Hutton: Moving up a class won’t be a problem for special Bowman program

    INDIANAPOLIS — When Bowman coach Marvin Rea said that Austin Daniels, who had a piece of the state championship net sticking out of his ear during the postgame news conference, had been sent down early in the season, my first thought was: to the Developmental …

    Hutton: Valpo happy to show up, play hard and lose ... again

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — It’s all a matter of perspective. There was a time, before Butler was going to the Final Four, that I hoped for a Butler-like level of performance for the Valparaiso program. Those aspirations exist in a different lifetime now. It was …

  • Hutton: IHSAA tourney formula inverse of excellence

    INDIANAPOLIS — Have I told you how absurd the Tournament Success Factor Formula that the Indiana High School Athletic Association uses is? No. Good — let’s talk. I think that a good attorney could have a field day with it. I like to call it …Read More

    • Hutton: Playing ‘hot’ wins third semistate title for Bowman

    HUNTINGTON — It’s like a pick-up game for Bowman. Always is. Organized, frantic chaos with the Eagles head coach, the unofficial ringleader of the bunch, dressed up in a preppy, gray, school-boy Cardigan. Except these Eagles don’t play like school boys. They play like they’re …

  • Hutton: T.J. Lux continuing Pirates’ winning tradition

    Who is the best young coach in Northwest Indiana? That’s easy. Using measurable criteria, it’s Merriillville’s T.J. Lux. Lux erased any stigma that might have existed about being hired because he was the son of the superintendent when he won a sectional last year with …Read More

    • Hutton: Andrean beats back the Plymouth curse

    PLYMOUTH — This is where region teams come to die. Plymouth, Indiana — that outpost 50 miles east of Westfield Southlake Mall, the middle of basketball purgatory for Northwest Indiana. Not a happening town for Northwest Indiana in the middle of the state tournament. The …

  • Hutton: After long wait, Valparaiso’s moment finally arrives

    VALPARAISO — How do you prepare for the moment? For Valparaiso University, the chance to have a chance at the moment was all it took for the Crusaders to play like the end of the world was close Wednesday in the first half of the …Read More

    • HUTTON: Love of game kept Pirates’ Breon Hill from giving up

    MERRILLVILLE — Meaningful playing time is just a couple of solid practices away for Breon Hill in his world. He gets the idea that one of the last guys to make the team should just be happy to get to practice, and for instance, do …

    Hutton: Officiating should never influence the outcome of games

    I am going to break my own cardinal rule here and write about officiating, which is typically an impossible, rational discussion to have in any setting. Can’t help myself — this needs to be said as the regionals heat up: Let’s not forget about the …

  • Hutton: Merrillville too much for overachieving Valparaiso

    MICHIGAN CITY — This was the day that Merrillville was almost John Mosser-i-zed. Three-pointers, little leaners, mid range jumpers — they were floating through the Michigan City gymnasium from the finger tips of Mosser’s hands like they were controlled by a magic wand. Swoosh. Swoosh. …Read More

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