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Welcome to NewScene Sports Radio! This will be our first year for our web radiobroadcasts of the boys’ basketball games at NorthSide Gym. |
This year's NewScene Sports Student Staff
On-air staff
Mackenzie Klahr
Mini bio ~ Mackenzie is a senior at ECHS. She is involved in Blazer Communications, concert choir, and the girls tennis team. She currently is the 2012 Distinguished Young Woman of Elkhart County, formally known as Junior Miss. She plans to attend Ball State University next fall with a major in TeleCommunications.
Jessica Gorden
Mini bio ~ Jessica is a sophomore at Elkhart Central High School, is involved in Blazer Communications and Student Council. She is a six-year 4-H member and a Second Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. She is the Sophomore class president and is the official meteorologist at ECHS. This is Jessica's second year of broadcasting basketball at NorthSide Gym and is looking forward to great season!
NewScene Sports Staff hard at work at the Blazers vs Memorial boys basketball game. The Blazers won by a 70 to 68 score.
NewScene Sports with their new banner at the South Bend Riley game.
A view from the NewScene perch looking down at some of the 4,500 fans at North Side Gym.
Catherine Anagnos
Mini bio ~ Coming soon!
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| Broadcast Terms
A color commentator (color analyst, analyst) is a sports commentator who assists the play-by-play announcer, often by filling in any time when play is not in progress. The color commentator provides analysis and background information, such as statistics, strategy and injury reports on the teams and athletes, and occasionally light humor.
Play-by-play in sports broadcasting, is a commentator who gives a running commentary, i.e., play-by-play, of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background.
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Who is Mr. B?
Elkhart Truth, February 18, 1983 The original drawing of the Elkhart High School/Central High School "Blue Blazers" logo hangs proudly in the schools' athletic office. For some 30 odd years it was stored among Ruth Kell's mementos of her years at EHS of 1954, she lives in El Cerritto, CA. She recently returned the drawing while visiting her parents. The late Howard James, head of the EHS art department, drew the sketch during the 1953-54 basketball season. Mrs. Kell was an art student and colored in James' "Mr. B" drawing. According to legend, James was not excited about making the drawing. So "he designed the ugliest thing he could think of," said Bob Slaughter, former activities director at Central. "He was going to throw it away and she kept it". Before Mrs. Kell took it, the drawing was used to make a plywood cutout to place in the center circle of the North Side Gym during the EHS pre-game warm-up for the 1954 sectional. The team advanced to the state finals, but lost to Muncie Central in the afternoon game. Muncie went on to lose to Milan in one of the greatest upsets in tournament history.
Slaughter said James was asked to draw a school mascot because EHS fans were impressed with the Munice "Bearcat" logo during the regular season. Elkhart fans "decided they wanted some kind of mascot." In time, the little guy on the lighting bolt became known as "Mr. B" after Max Bell, who became the EHS basketball coach in the fall of 1954. Long before EHS had "Blue Blazers" as its nickname, it was called the "Blue Avalanche". The history is a bit hazy, but Slaughter said that the term "Blue Blazers" was coined in the late 1920s by an EHS graduate who was an advertising executive in New York. "The nickname stuck", Slaughter said. Apparently it took a little while for "Mr. B' to gain similar popularity. "They had no idea it would be around 30 years later and would become such a tradition," he said.
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North Side Gym
A little bit of information about North Side Gym North Side Gym is one of the largest high school gyms in the world. When it was built in 1954, it was the largest high school gym in the world. It seated 8,284 with a cost of $1,350,000. Every seat in North Side Gym had a good view of the floor with no post to block the view of the spectator. The gym had 16,400 sq. ft. on the main floor, 10,000 sq. ft. on the Mezzanine, and 10,000 sq. ft. in shops and physical education facilities under the Mezzanine.
North Side Gym was designed to accommodate all of the people of Elkhart. Because of this it has hosted basketball contests from grade school through the pros, the ice show, circuses, pro wrestling, the Globetrotters, numerous big entertainers including Bob Hope, and was the former home of the MH/RV show.
In 1989, a $2.2 million renovation took place, which included a new face-lift inside and out. The gym floor was refinished and a new lighting and audio system installed. New seats replaced the old and the seating capacity changed to 7,373.
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