Mike Rhodes, Author at Muncie Journal

Articles by Mike Rhodes

Misc April 3, 2015

Double Overtime. Yorktown Loses to Hamilton Heights in Sectional Final

Guts. Resiliency. Want. All three of these important words embodied the way Yorktown played in their Sectional Final loss to Hamilton Heights 55-52 in double overtime. The latter of those three words was the message wanted to send to its opposition. They relayed that message well. That wasn’t the reason for their defeat. If anything, no one wanted it more than this group. Quite frankly there was no reason for their defeat. A couple plays here and there, yes you could argue that. This group could not have played any harder and as one team on the floor. Sometimes in…

Business April 1, 2015

J Chapman Brings Woof Boom to Muncie

With deep roots in Indiana, veteran radio broadcaster Jerry “J” Chapman is moving back to the Hoosier state and plans to return a network of six east central Indiana radio stations to local control by later this summer. A group of local investors, headed by Chapman, have formed Woof Boom Radio, a nod to the longtime dominance of WFBM in Indiana broadcasting from the beginnings of radio in the 1920’s until the mid-1970’s. Once the acquisition is completed later this year, Woof Boom Radio will own and operate local radio stations throughout eastern Indiana serving the communities of Muncie, Anderson,…