Autobiography

Last Press Bus Out of Middletown (scheduled publication March 2019)

Author

• Knight With The Hoosiers (1975)
• NCAA Indiana All The Way (1976)
• The Champs (1981)
• Beyond the Brink with Indiana (1987)
• A Banner Year at Indiana (1993)
• Silver Knight (1997)
• Hoosiers: Classified (1997)
• The Bill Cook Story: Ready, Fire, Aim (2008)
• The Bill Cook Story II: The Re-Visionary (2015)

Co-Author (autobiographies)

• Super Scout (with baseball scout Jimmy Russo, 1992)
• KNIGHT: My Story (with Bob Knight, 2002)

Co-Author (with Bob Knight)
The Power of Negative Thinking (2013)

Co-Author (with Kit Klingelhoffer)
Glory of Old IU (1999)

Contributed to

• Indiana at 200, Indiana Bicentennial book (wrote Sports segment)
• 25 Greatest Sports Stories in the History of Indiana (2016)

Honors, Awards, Offices

Inducted, Halls of Fame

• U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame, 1990
• Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, 1996
• Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame, 1997
• Indiana Sportswriters and Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame, 1998
• Indiana University Athletics Hall of Fame, 2008
• Monroe County Sports Hall of Fame, 2015
• Huntington County Honors, 2016

National President

• U.S. Basketball Writers Association, 1982-83
• Football Writers Association of America, 1992 (interim executive director 1994-95)
• National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, 1989-90

Received

• Sagamore of Wabash Award, State of Indiana (Gov. Evan Bayh), 1996
• Curt Gowdy Award, International Basketball Hall of Fame, 1995
• Silver Medal, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, 1996
• Jake Wade (lifetime) Award, College Sports Information Directors Association, 1996
• Fred Russell (lifetime) Award, All-American Football Foundation, 2004
• Bert McGrane (lifetime) Award, Football Writers Association of America, 1996*
• *In 2015, marking FWAA’s 75th anniversary, named one of 25 “Pillars of the FWAA”
• Midwest Chairman, Heisman Trophy Committee, 26 years; Indiana chairman, 32 years.

Named

• Indiana Sportswriter of Year (National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Assn.) 17 times
• Indiana Sportswriter of Year (Indiana Sportswriters and Broadcasters Assn.) 4 times

Co-Named

Bloomington Writer of Century (with Ernie Pyle, in Herald-Times readers' survey, 2000)

Media representative

• Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Selection Committee, 5 years
• College Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee, 5 years

Coverage

5 Olympic Games

• Munich 1972
• Montreal 1976
• Los Angeles 1984
• Barcelona 1992
• Atlanta 1996

9 U.S. Olympic Trials

• Swimming 1972, 1976
• Diving, 1972, 1992, 1996
• Track and field, 1988, 1992
• Basketball, 1976, 1984

Others

• 2 Pan American Games: San Juan 1979, Indianapolis 1987
• 23 NCAA basketball Final Fours (3 IU championships: ’76, ’81, ’87)
• 29 Indiana high school basketball championship games (first 1955)
• 8 World Series, 5 MLB All-Star games
• 11 Indianapolis 500s
• Kentucky Derby 100th, 1974 (winner Cannonade)
• Heavyweight championship fight: Muhammad Ali-Michael Spinks, New Orleans, 1978
• PGA 1992, Crooked Stick, Indianapolis (winner John Daly)
• 8 IU football bowl games including Rose, 1968
• BCS national-championship football game, 1996 Phoenix (winner Nebraska over Florida)
• 7 College All-Star football games, Chicago