I’ll never forget the first time I walked into The News-Dispatch.
I was a wide-eyed, 20-year-old kid trying to make it as a sports correspondent. I’d just returned from Morgan Township High School, where I covered Marquette’s girls basketball winning a sectional game against Washington Township.
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