Smith Center

From the Book OUR BOYS: A Perfect Season on the Plains With the Smith Center Redmen by Joe Drape. Copyright © 2009 by Joe Drape. Reprinted by arrangement with Times Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, LLC....

Located 12 miles southwest of the continental United States' geographic midpoint, Smith Center, Kans., is in the center of the country but the middle of nowhere. It's a three-hour-plus drive from the closest...

Washington, D.C., is college basketball's hotbed of 2005-06, with the nation's No. 7 team (George Washington) and No. 17 team (Georgetown) leading a local hoops renaissance. SI.com's Luke Winn visited the nation's...