JOHN DOHERTY: Questions loom as NCAA hoops season ends

With Monday's final game of March Madness, we now know which is the best men’s college basketball team in the land.

Small-school guys get their shot at NFL combine

INDIANAPOLIS | Armonty Bryant gets those awkward looks every time he tells someone he attends college at ECU.

JOHN DOHERTY: Before hitting new year, peruse biggest comebacks of 2012

Who shall it be now?

Pagano, Colts getting back to business as usual

INDIANAPOLIS | Chuck Pagano beat the traffic and a blizzard into work Wednesday morning — all in an effort to beat the Texans.

Interim coach Bruce Arians has Colts clicking

INDIANAPOLIS | Bruce Arians feels like he's living out a fantasy.

Bears GM defends Cutler as franchise quarterback

LAKE FOREST | Bears general manager Phil Emery defended Jay Cutler as a franchise quarterback Wednesday and shrugged off recent sideline incidents with left tackle J'Marcus Webb and offensive coordinator Mike Tice.

Colts' Arians ready to step in for ill Pagano

INDIANAPOLIS | Bruce Arians always wanted to coach his own NFL team.

JOHN DOHERTY: Urlacher's status on 'kneed' to know basis

Perhaps you don't recall the play. It was late in the January season finale against the Vikings when Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher and safety Major Wright arrived at the same spot in the end zone at the same time.

Colts' pass-rush tandem embraces position change

ANDERSON | Dwight Freeney thought he had seen everything in the NFL.

Karras, South Central hope to make history

First-year coach Jeff Karras works with his players on the first day of practice in August. Tonight he will lead his team against Culver iin the Class A Sectional 33 championship game. If South Central wins it will be their first sectional title in school history.

The honeymoon is over in Crown Point

Today girls basketball players around the state of Indiana will get together inside their gyms excitedly for the first official practice of the IHSAA season.

Jeff Karras, Michigan City football

Jeff Karras has started a fishing club at Michigan City High School, where he is a teacher and assistant football coach.

Attitude change already evident at South Central

Coach Jeff Karras talks over a new play with senior quarterback Bryant Hoover. Monday was the first official day of practice for South Central with Karras as coach. The high-energy coach has also worked at Andrean and Clark.

South Central coach Jeff Karras

Coach Jeff Karras is happy to be part of the program at South Central, his third gig as a head coach in Northwest Indiana. The Hobart grad whose father won an NFL title with the Bears in 1963, previously coached at Andrean and Clark.

South Central coach Jeff Karras

New South Central coach Jeff Karras is part of a Region football family that includes dad Ted Karras Sr., uncle Alex Karras and brother Ted Karras Jr., the latter the head coach at Marian University in Indianapolis. Jeff had his first official practice with the Satellites Monday.