Bill Bradley graduated from Bismarck High School and embarked on a basketball career that has spanned over five decades. He attended Hannibal-LaGrange College from 1952-’54, where his teams compiled a 59-11 record and placed third in the National Junior College Tournament both years. He then moved on to Northeast Louisiana University and was a two-time… Read more »
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Central High School Girls Basketball 1984 State Championship Team
Trina Osborne Williams remembers the team’s loyal supporters, who turned out even on the road. Others point to the 19-point comeback in the state semifinals as showing the team’s heart. And nobody will never forget hoisting the state championship trophy around midnight in Columbia. After all, the 1984 Central High School Lady Bulldogs became the… Read more »
Brent Dunn
Never underestimate those who begin their professional careers working in the trenches. Because it’s in those trenches where rolling up your sleeves and grinding make folks tough – and successful difference-makers – for the long haul. A case in point is Brent Dunn, who rose from radio news/sports reporting in Springfield to become the Executive… Read more »
Gil Hanlin
Gil Hanlin is a varsity assistant basketball coach at Springfield Central High School. He was inducted into the MSHOF in 1992 and the MBCA Hall of Fame that same year, as well. He is also featured among the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association’s 600 Victory Coaches, with 639 victories. Hanlin has coached at Montrose High School,… Read more »
Denny Hunt
On a bus ride home from a basketball game, with his senior season at Summersville High School coming to an end, Denny Hunt felt the real world tugging on his letter jacket. Going into business? Well, he had jotted that down as a potential college major. Yet that wasn’t him. And so he sought out… Read more »
Bob Kinloch
In the mid-1960s, as he began his teaching and coaching career, Bob Kinloch floated an idea to then-Springfield Public Schools athletic director Orville Pottenger. Having wrestled in U.S. Army, Kinloch asked if the school district could launch a wrestling program. “He said, ‘We’re not starting wrestling,’” Kinloch recalled, adding that he then ramped up his… Read more »
Randy Magers
In the 1960s in Springfield, you wouldn’t have found Randy Magers in his parents’ home other than to eat dinner, study and for bedtime. Instead, he and buddies rode bikes to Nichols Baseball Park on the city’s northwest side. Or, you could find Magers in his backyard, where his dad, Orville, had built a pitching… Read more »
Jim Morris
He is proof that you can write a great second chapter in life, that you’re never too old to take up a sport and that – who knows? – you can surge to success. The story goes that Springfield’s James “Jim” F. Morris was sitting in the balcony of Grace Methodist Church and not far… Read more »
Don West
What a way to start a career – and without really meaning to. For Don West, his sports broadcasting career basically began over a game of poker. You see, he and a friend, not long after their 1985 graduation, decided while playing poker to do a next-day mock broadcast of an American Legion baseball game… Read more »
Jim Whytlaw
A longtime high school coach, Jim Whytlaw likes to put it this way about his career: “I have always told my wife that my tombstone should say, ‘He yelled because he cared.’” He certainly showed the way for 37 years (1973-2010) as a swimming and diving coach — including 34 successful years at Glendale High… Read more »