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Mark Lazerus

Sports Editor Mark Lazerus has been honored nationally by the Associated Press Sports Editors for three straight years, was named one of the top three …Read More

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  • Lazerus: Crown Point on the verge of naming its new football coach

    You know, I thought mid-March was the perfect time to take a few weeks off to change diapers and get to know my new daughter. After all, the Valparaiso basketball season is usually over by then, high school baseball season doesn’t really start for a month …Read More

  • Lazerus: Plenty of room for optimism at Valpo

    VALPARAISO — Stop for a moment. Deep breath. Think for a second. Try to remove from your mind the images of Detroit’s Ray McCallum Jr. thumping his chest, slapping the floor and dunking in the last second of Tuesday night’s Horizon League championship victory over Valparaiso at …Read More

  • Lazerus: Crusaders enjoy the view from the top

    VALPARAISO — Suddenly, that Horizon League tournament format isn’t looking so terrible to Valparaiso. A year ago, the Crusaders finished one game out of a three-way tie for first place, yet they had to win four games to win a championship, while Milwaukee and Butler …Read More

  • Lazerus: Valparaiso ready, willing and able

    VALPARAISO — The Horizon League men’s basketball tournament has been held in historic Hinkle Fieldhouse (capacity: 10,000). In the NBA’s Market Square Arena (16,530). In big-time arenas such as Cincinnati’s Riverfront Coliseum (17,556), the University of Dayton Arena (13,435), Evansville’s Roberts Municipal Stadium (12,732) and Milwaukee’s U.S. Cellular …Read More

    • Lazerus: Crusaders better off without Wood

    With less than three weeks to go before the Horizon League tournament, here are some idle thoughts on Valparaiso basketball as it prepares for a make-or-break weekend. Had Brandon Wood chosen to stay at Valparaiso rather than transfer to Michigan State, he undoubtedly would have been …

  • Lazerus: Eli content in Peyton’s shadow

    INDIANAPOLIS — Eli Manning took several of his offensive teammates out for a steak dinner at St. Elmo on Monday night. He said not a single fan came up to him and asked him about big brother Peyton. Hope he enjoyed it. Because the rest of …Read More

  • Lazerus: Counting down to fatherhood

    A little more than a year ago, after a thorough (read: horrifying) review of our finances, I looked at my wife and fellow Post-Tribuner, Christin, and said, “Well, we can either finally go to Italy next year, or we can have a kid.” Christin paused. Her train …Read More

  • Lazerus: Loyola’s new arena a shining example for VU

    First of all, let’s immediately dispense of the notion that Valparaiso cannot compete in the Horizon League without a sparkling new arena and a dedicated, state-of-the-art practice facility. “Would we like to have a modern facility for our basketball program? Absolutely,” said VU director of …Read More

  • Lazerus: Grigson is Highland’s new favorite son

    Somewhere buried in a closet in Dave Milausnic’s house is a bunch of Colts gear he’s never touched. His wife, Robyn — an Indianapolis native and Colts fan — bought it all for him, but Milausnic bleeds the blue and orange of the Bears. Well, that all …Read More

  • Lazerus: Transition, not change, at Valpo

    At the end of the school day on Wednesday afternoon, Dave Coyle was sitting in Mark Hoffman’s office, and the two were talking Valparaiso High School football. What else is new? These two have been doing that for 22 years now — Hoffman, the head …Read More

  • Lazerus: Will the real VU please stand up?

    VALPARAISO — This wasn’t exacty bragging. It certainly wasn’t trash talk. It probably doesn’t even qualify as a guarantee heading into Valparaiso’s Horizon League home game tonight against Milwaukee. Fact is, Ryan Broekhoff almost sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “If, no when, WHEN we get …Read More

  • Lazerus: VU's foreign players improvise on Christmas 

    VALPARAISO — In the corner of the Valparaiso house that Kevin Van Wijk rents, there’s a plastic Christmas tree. Underneath it are some presents that his parents bought when they were in town over Thanksgiving break. On Christmas morning, he’ll fire up his laptop, Skype his …Read More

  • Lazerus: Intriguing season on the Horizon

    Back in September, after writing a column musing about the intriguing but far-fetched idea that Butler could be scooped up by the Big East in the wake of the nationwide shakeup that saw that conference badly plundered from a football standpoint, I received an e-mail from …Read More

  • Lazerus: Pinpointing the parochial problem

    The way Bobby Cox sees it, the problem isn’t that seven of the eight schools playing in the Class 1A to 4A state football championships this weekend are Catholic schools. It’s that four of them won state titles last year. And are, frankly, very likely …Read More

  • Drews cope with simultaneous cancer diagnoses together

    VALPARAISO — Homer Drew — ever the ham, ever the showman — heard the doorbell ring on Oct. 24 and went into full-blown acting mode. He frantically looked around at all the flowers and food dishes and cards and tokens of affection that had turned the …Read More

  • Lazerus: Ex-Dogs make new memories at Crown Point

    CROWN POINT — Matt Jansen and Nick Ciochina don’t cry themselves to sleep every night, thinking of that fateful Friday night in November of 2005. “Well, I might a little more than Matt,” Ciochina says with a chuckle. But that doesn’t mean the memory of that game — one of …Read More

  • Mark Lazerus: Bryce preaching, practicing patience

    VALPARAISO — Homer Drew’s feet would be pressed together, his hands clasped, almost as in prayer. He’d bend at the waist, turn his head toward a referee and say something like, “Oh, you’re a better official than that!” “Always very positive with them,” Bryce Drew …Read More

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