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Authors talk over era of Montana basketball legends

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The rollout of two new books about high school basketball in Montana turned into an appreciation of basketball legend Larry Pretty Weasel here on Wednesday. Pretty Weasel is widely considered the best Indian high school basketball player in Montana history, and some people call him Montana’s greatest high school basketball player, period. He also is a key character in a new book by a Hardin teammate, Steven E. Dyche, author of “Integrated Basketball at the Little Big Horn: A 1957 Success Story.” (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: News, Dennis Gaub, Hardin, Larry Pretty Weasel, Laurel, Steven Dyche

Terry native Clarke saluted for newspaper work

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Last May, my old Billings Gazette colleague Dennis Gaub wrote a profile of Norm Clarke for Last Best News, just before Clarke came back to Montana to deliver the commencement address to graduates of Montana State University Billings. This is how Dennis’ article started:

“Norm Clarke agrees: he’s come a long way from his small-town start. “His lengthy journalism career began when he was in high school in his Eastern Montana hometown of Terry. The personable Clarke talked the editor of the local weekly newspaper, the Terry Tribune, into letting him report on a Class C basketball tournament in a nearby town.” Yes, he has come a long way, and on Friday Clarke was given the Damon Runyon Award from the Denver Press Club. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Last Best Blog, Dennis Gaub, Denver Press Club, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Norm Clarke, Terry, Terry Tribune