DES MOINES, Iowa — One year ago, Bennett Stirtz was playing for Northwest Missouri State at the Division II level. Now, he's the Missouri Valley Conference Larry Bird Player of the Year. "It's pretty ...
Larry Bird averaged an incredible 30 points and 20 rebounds in his senior season at Springs Valley High. Bird's older brother Mark was a major influence on him becoming No. 33, the basketball ...
Larry Bird should have been excited about attending Indiana University in the late summer of 1974. The man who had recruited him to come there, Dave Bliss, had been chasing him for more than a year, ...