Silent Dreams

Janelle Barencott has never heard the bounce of a ball, the swish of a net.  But on this day, she got to play against the best of the best, players dreaming of jobs in the National Women’s Basketball Association.  Janelle’s dreams are silent.  ...

Budding Larry Bird 

March Madness gives us a chance to watch the superstars of tomorrow.  Before Larry Bird became a basketball legend, he was a shy student.  I covered one of his first games. Hop in my Way Back Machine for a bit of March Madness from 1979.  You’ll be...

Widow’s Guilt

In January 1957, Henry Alexander offered an innocent black man, Willie Edwards, a terrible choice while he looked down the barrel of a gun.  Either run or jump from a bridge north of Montgomery, Alabama.  He leapt into the Alabama River 50 feet below. ...

Vietnam Wall Washers

Michael Najarian found his name chiseled on a list of war dead.  His was one of more than 58 thousand names on the Wall of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.  Najarian served in Vietnam, but was still very much alive. “I just sort of sank on...

Summit Town

Folks in Polk, Nebraska prefer to get their news the old fashioned way — in a newspaper, the Polk Progress.  Its editor Norris Alfred is the only Democrat in the county.  Why do people buy his newspaper?  “I play poker with a lot of them.  And I...