There’s an old saying in sports that you better be ready when your number is called. Back in the late 1980s, while still a student, aspiring sports broadcaster Chris Gervino certainly was ready when the University of Missouri asked if he could serve as the public address announcer … for none other than coach Norm… Read more »
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Dale Gildehaus
For St. Francis Borgia Regional High School football coach Dale Gildehaus, it’s more than the incredible number of wins and losses or all the trophies. It’s about faith, family, his players and coaches, and the Borgia Regional High School Community in and beyond Washington, Missouri. In fact, in today’s world of “what have you done… Read more »
Irv Goode
Who hasn’t been in a practice where a coach implore players to be ready for anything, that you never know when your time may come? If football coaches ever need a great example, they should tell the story of Irv Goode. Drafted in 1962 to play center for the National Football League’s St. Louis Cardinals… Read more »
Rich Gould
For somebody who has been telling sports stories for years, the story that kick-started it all for his career is even hard to believe. We’ll let Rich Gould explain it. After all, that’s in the wheelhouse of a longtime television sports director. “In 1978, Tom Mast (MSHOF 2021) was working non-stop for about three to… Read more »
Mel Gray
At the University of Missouri, Gray lettered in football and track from 1968 to 1970. In track, Gray was an All-American once indoors and twice outdoors. In football, Gray was All-Big Eight in 1969, when he caught 25 passes for 705 yards and a school record 9 touchdowns. He, at one time, held the MU… Read more »
Trent Green
Originally drafted by the San Diego Chargers in 1993, Trent Green became a NFL starter in 1998 with the Washington Redskins. The following year he signed a four year contract with the St. Louis Rams. After a season ending injury in a pre-season game, he was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs. In 2003, Green… Read more »
William Greenblatt
Back in middle school, he took photos on a Polaroid camera and, during high school, would photograph football games while he stood on the sidelines in his marching band uniform. At age 16, William Greenblatt was working for a St. Louis camera store when Fred Sweets walked in one day. Sweets’ father was the publisher… Read more »
1977 Greenfield High School Football Team
Back in 1977, a football season that had begun in the warmth of the late-summer sun reached the Class 1 state championship game only to be faced with two opponents – one being an ice storm. Quarterback David McNeel remembers it being 9 degrees. Coach Jim Dykens says it was a little warmer, maybe 10,… Read more »
1981 Greenwood Laboratory School Football Team
Glenn Adams, the running back who would score the winning touchdowns in the state championship victory months later, still remembers two-a-day practices in August. How could he not? Before the Greenwood Laboratory School 1981 Football Team reached its destiny, it first had to journey through … a Springfield city park. “Coach (Paul) Mullins made us… Read more »
Dr. Bernard Griesemer
He grew up on a family farm near Billings in southwest Missouri, eventually headed off to St. Louis University to become a doctor and found his way back close to home, in Springfield. For Dr. Bernard Griesemer, the field of sports medicine grabbed him by the stethoscope in 1980. That’s when Dr. Lee Vensel left… Read more »
Bill Grigsby
Bill Grigsby has a lengthy background in broadcasting sporting events. He is in his 31st year as color commentator for the Kansas City Chiefs – a longevity record in the National Football League. He began his broadcasting career in Joplin as a play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankee farm club, the Joplin Miners. He… Read more »
Gary “Skip” Grossnickle
Gary “Skip” Grossnickle was a standout athlete for Kirksville High School. As a 9th grader, when grades 10-12 were the only high school grades, Gary played quarterback for the high school team. In high school, Gary was selected Captain or Co-Captain in football, basketball and track all three years. A three year letterman for the… Read more »
Tim Grunhard
Tim Grunhard laughs about it now. After all, he was just a rookie. But the first time he walked into the Kansas City Chiefs locker room, he assumed the “old guy” standing next to his locker was just another assistant coach. Turns out, it was his mentor for his 1990 rookie season – future Hall… Read more »
Art Hains
He used to act as a broadcaster on his buddies’ Strat-O-Matic games, even practiced in the basement of his parents’ home and, one day, walked into the radio station in his hometown of Marshall. Before long, Art Hains made his radio debut at – get this – age 17. “I’ve always said that I was… Read more »
Art Hains
There’s no other way to say it. He was on his death bed, stricken by a severe case of West Nile virus. Doctors sent him to one hospital after another, and friends back home in the Ozarks feared the worst as news reports and social media updates scrolled across their smartphones. This was the fall… Read more »
John Mark Hale
He had the script all but written, and it would have been one of those sweet homecoming stories you see in the movies. John Mark Hale, right out of college and unable to land a high school coaching job in his home state of Kentucky, headed west to a southern Missouri community called Cabool. This… Read more »