Tim Timmons

It’s certainly an interesting time to be a football fan in Indiana. Is there a neater story than Curt Cignetti and the IU Hoo-Hoo–Hoosiers? How about all the controversy surrounding Notre Dame’s exclusion from the College Football Playoffs? (And thank you to those who responded to my recent scribblings on a proposed change to the…

As some of the eight or nine (sorry, I have been told there might be 10 or 12 or maybe even 17 of you reading my scribbles – I just can’t wrap my head around those numbers) of you may know, my newspaper world began in the toy department. It was a long time ago…

Noblesville boys basketball fans, especially those not identified as Baby Boomers, might not recall the terrible state of Noblesville High School basketball before Dave Nicholson showed up for the 1975-76 season. The Millers had been so bad that legendary sports scribe Don Jellison wrote a damning column with the headline: Basketball Stone Dead in Nob…

Notes scribbled on the back of a Sears & Roebuck Christmas catalogue . . . I LOVE Christmas in Noblesville!There are so many reasons and I suppose it’s a bit different for each of us. For me it starts and ends with Santa’s House on the courthouse square.Back in the day when the Christmas season…

A couple of weeks ago, I asked the following question in this column: Do you want more? Do you want less? Or do you want less AND more? Still sounds like a trick question — but it’s not. I was (and still am) asking about The Times, a newspaper that has been serving Noblesville and…

Tomorrow is our traditional day to give thanks, right? It’s a tradition that goes back to the pilgrims, Plymouth Rock and the beginnings of a twinkling in the eye for a new nation. Fast forward 300 years or so and the holiday has changed. Actually, it’s kind of getting lost, isn’t it? Think about it.…

Used to be, back in the day, I really enjoyed Halloween. Us kids had a ball trick or treating in the neighborhood – getting a haul of candy in a pillowcase and feeling like we hit the mother lode! Some of it was home-made, popcorn balls, caramels wrapped in wax paper and the jackpot, apple…

EDITOR’S NOTE: In the spirit of the season, we are sharing a popular Timmons column about Halloween. Halloween’s a few days away and it seems a good time to share a story I’ve never told anyone. Years ago, I was a young sportswriter working late nights and loving every minute of it . . .…

It had been a while since I had heard from Bubba Castiron, my “friend” who is about three plates, four forks, two spoons and a couple of glasses away from having a full set of dishes. No idea why he was on my mind – maybe I just didn’t have enough to do – but…

In the spring of 1968, just four and a half years removed from the assassination of our country’s 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, we watched a year dawn unlike any we had seen in our young lives. Martin Luther King was gunned down in April. Bobby Kennedy was murdered two months later. And two months…