SOUTH BEND – Three more Notre Dame players and a local highlighted day three of the NFL Draft.

SOUTH BEND – Three Notre Dame players were selected Friday night in the NFL Draft, including Cole Kmet to the Chicago Bears.

CHICAGO – The Chicago Bears signed former Concord High School football star Jason Spriggs to a one-year deal.

FORT WAYNE – Former Chicago Bears great Mike Singletary will speak at the 2019 FCA Night of Hope in May.

WARSAW — You are invited to attend the second annual One Night Only; a red carpet reception and a special variety show that will celebrate all the talent Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts has to offer. The party kicks off at 6 p.m. with a red carpet reception that includes wine, light hors d’oeuvres, …read more.

CHICAGO – The 2015 NFL Draft began Thursday night in the Windy City. The first round began as Florida State’s Jameis Winston was selected first overall by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Winston won the Heisman Trophy in 2014. The 2015 Heisman recipient, Oregon’s Marcus Mariota, was selected second overall by the Tennessee Titans. Football fans …read more.

FOOTBALL Spring has finally sprung so I have decided to bounce back with an article as well. Next week I will be back with an official pick’em for local games but this week I am focusing just on the 2015 NFL Draft which starts Thursday night in Chicago. I’ve spent the last few days doing …read more.

Another week of being ink free has come and gone. It has been a difficult journey for everyone here to keep up this ink free lifestyle. We had to fight back the pro-ink propagandists outside of our office this week. Eventually the unruly group of six disbanded and went to lunch, but it was an …read more.

Ink? We don’t need no stinking ink! Okay, so technically all of my picks articles have been “ink free” but this one is extra ink free since it’s the first picking action to be on our new site. It’s also not called the Ink Free News edition because, well, none of what I’m doing here …read more.

Not too long ago I proclaimed the third week of high school football to be the best week that we would see all year, and I was very very wrong. Very wrong. I proclaimed very little going into last week and it turned out to be, perhaps, the best week we will see all season. …read more.

Still not a Rutgers fan… Last week I was very mediocre. In fact, I’m beginning to think that this whole “picking games” idea is a real shot in the dark. Last week my picks were blown up by the likes of Bowling Green, Indiana State and both the Bears and Colts let me down in …read more.

It’s a Friday edition of Nick’s Picks! Last weekend was so bad, I decided to take another day just to recover. But it’s now a new week and everybody gets to start fresh. We are all 0-0 this week, at least that’s how I’m thinking about it. Seriously, it was a rough week for prep …read more.

This is THE week. I hate to raise the bar too high but this might be the greatest weekend of football that we have all season. Yes, I am serious, Kosciusko. How could it get any better? Notre Dame/Michigan, NorthWood/Concord, Warsaw/Plymouth, the NFL returns and Tom Wogomon returns to Syracuse. I don’t know how to …read more.

This week I am skipping the usual routine of picking local games and will instead be giving you a spot-on mock draft for this weekend’s 79th annual National Football League Player Selection Meeting. (That’s the technical name for the NFL Draft. See, you learned something today.) Let me just say a few things before I …read more.

‘Tis the picks before Christmas and all through Kosciusko,Conference games with local teams are a must go. The stages are set for both Warsaw and Wawasee. While rivals square off in Akron and South Whitley. One Triton team goes East while the other stays home. Meanwhile, to the Maple City, Lakeland Christian will roam. On …read more.

Break out the champagne and ticker tape! I have finally accomplished a milestone, my 100th correct pick! It has been a long ride, I could not have done it without you readers and all of the fantastic athletes that have helped me along the way. 100 correct picks is something truly amazing. Nobody else is …read more.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! It is finally time to serve the stuffing, pumpkin pie (extra Cool Whip, please), cranberry sauce (for reasons that I still have not figured out) and turducken! Thanksgiving is truly a special time of year. Bickering family members, dry turkey, mediocre football and crazed moms hurdling one another to grab the last …read more.

This week is going to be a little different, I have an itch to rant. In 2014 the Big Ten Conference will be adding Rutgers University (and the University of Maryland, but nobody cares about that right now) and I have a problem with this addition. In the past year Rutgers has been hit with …read more.

I would be lying if I said that I always knew what I was doing with these picks. Yes, I am what the industry would call an “expert” but I will sometimes just simply be wrong with a pick. Last week highlighted how wrong I can truly be at times as I finished at a …read more.

As far as Kosciusko County is concerned, football season is over. No more Wildcats, Warriors, Vikings, Trojans and after last Friday, no more Tigers. Yes all of our favorite local prep gridiron stars have been eliminated. In fact, just one Northern Lakes Conference team remains in the fall postseason, the Concord Minutemen, perhaps better known …read more.

Happy Halloween! I am back with another amazing set of picks for your reading delight. A lot of trick ‘r’ treating was canceled tonight so I pushed off the article a little more for two reasons. The first reason is because I was at the office all day and quite frankly I believe the place …read more.

Well, does it? Can a weekend of sports possibly have more stuffed into it? Three local prep teams are playing for conference titles, two League Championship Series will come to a close in the MLB Playoffs. Boys and girls cross country and soccer teams will be competing for regional titles. USC and Notre Dame renew …read more.

Last week I was grandstanding. This week I am grabbing the soap box. Maybe next week I will start “Tebowing” just for kicks. I have noticed that we, as fans, too often get caught up in the passion we have for our teams. In the past few weeks I have covered several prep contests where …read more.

 Ahoy, mateys! Today is the day we have pined for all year, International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Yes, it is an official holiday and, yes, you should participate in the festivities. While I would like to write my entire article in pirate lingo, I do not want to annoy you readers. When I annoy …read more.

Week three, finally! I have been anticipating the third week of picks for, well, three weeks. The football picking season will finally be whole as the NFL kicks off this week. Even more exciting than that is the story lines that come with this week. One of college football’s most storied rivalries will add another …read more.