Brendan King is in the big chair for the legend Bob Lovell on a Friday night version of Indiana Sports Talk. In the first 30 minutes, the commissioner of the IHSAA, Paul Neidig, joins the show on semi-state weekend to talk about high school football as well as the return to relative normalcy after a very weird season during the pandemic.

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Brendan King, Indiana Sports Talk’s host sitting in for Coach Bob Lovell, started the final hour with a conversation in memory of Cal Burleson. Indianapolis Indians lost Cal, a former general manager and longtime front office member for 45 years, on Sunday, November 7, 2021 to bladder cancer. Howard Kellman, voice of Indianapolis Indians, shared special moments and memories he had of Cal in memory and honor of him. Matt Schumacker of Fox Sports then joined B.K. to talk about the Butler Bulldogs’ back-to-back wins against Troy and Central AR. Matt then shared his expectations of the upcoming Butler and Michigan State game, as well as his expectations for the rest of the season for the Big Ten’s Purdue Boilermakers who sit at No. 7 in the nation. Being the first time in 100 years, Wabash and DePauw played at the Little Giant Stadium for the Monon Bell. Greg Rakestraw of ISC Sports Network shared his experience of calling the game and witnessing Wabash win 42-35 and take the Monon Bell, and previewed the Indianapolis Colts and the Jackonsville Jaguars upcoming game. Indiana Network and WICR’s Ryan Soel finished out the hour with Brendan to give a rundown of the University of Indianapolis women’s basketball 59-45 loss against Ashland University.

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Coach Bob Lovell talked on Indiana Sports Talk, but as a guest this time! Brendan King, the host for tonight, had coach join to talk about Plainfield High School’s Education of Legacy Fund event he was emceeing to raise donations. Coach also gave his thoughts on the current college basketball world, specifically IU losing to Rutgers 38-3. Chris Denari, voice of the Indiana Pacers, joined IST to talk about the victory the Pacers had against the Philadelphia 76ers, 118-113. They mentioned player highlights from that game, including those from Malcolm Brogdon, T.J. McConnell, Justin Holiday and Kelan Martin. Mark Minner, voice of the Butler Bulldogs, then talked with B.K. about the Bulldogs’ victory over the Troy Trojans 70-59, which was good preparation for Butler’s game against Michigan State on November 17. Brendan and Mark, both being Butler alumni, reminisce on the last matchup the Bulldogs had against Michigan State which was their 52-50 win in the Final Four on April 3, 2010. With Evansville Memorial basketball heading to semi state after their victory over East Central 17-14, Mike Skvara of ESPN Radio’s Evansville WREF gave B.K. a rundown of that game which had a walk off field goal. To finish the hour, Dr. Len Clark of Irish 101 discussed what impressed him the most in Notre Dame’s 28-3 win against Virginia, and if the Fighting Irish will have the “luck o’ the Irish” to get in the top four.

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Brendan King, sitting in for Coach Bob Lovell tonight, started Indiana Sports Talk off with a conversation with Kyle Neddenriep of IndyStar. They talked about surprises with the IHSAA football season including Mt. Vernon’s win against Roncalli, 27-21, which is giving them a chance to play at Lucas Oil Stadium. Kyle gave his thoughts on Scecina Memorial High School going to semi-state after their win against Brownsburg. With records being irrelevant when it comes to playing in the upcoming tournaments, Kyle also guesses that Zionsville football could be playing for a State Championship in their future.

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Big Joe Staysniak from 93.5/107.5 The Fan returns on another Saturday night discussing his alma mater’s win over Indiana from earlier today, previews the Colts game tomorrow against the Green Bay Packers, and questions how the Colts defense will contain Aaron Jones and Devante Adams. As the high school football season nears a close next week with the state championship games, Paul Condy from the Regional Radio Sports Network joins on another Saturday night discussing the ending to a storybook season for West Washington and preview the state championship games for next week.

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During this hour of Indiana Sports Talk with Coach Bob Lovell, Sports Illustrated Indiana's Tom Brew joins the show to talk about the season opener for the Indiana Hoosiers next week against Penn State and what the season may look like.  NASCAR on Fox's Adam Alexander joins the show to talk NASCAR Xfinity and Cup at Kansas and the Playoffs. 

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As we conclude tonight’s show on Indiana Sports Talk with Bob Lovell, Mishawaka Central’s Mike Davidson calls in to describe how electrifying their win was over Penn, Brownsburg’s PA Announcer in Rob Connett following the Bulldogs first loss of the season to Westfield in overtime, Walt Ferber from WITZ makes another Friday night appearance on IST following his broadcast of Evansville Central’s 24-17 win over Jasper, and a very happy Patrick Mallory from Lawrence North stops by after his team was able to squeak out a 27-24 overtime win over Ben Davis, and Pat Shanley from Lafayette Jefferson rounds out the first half of the eleven o’clock hour discussing their win tonight over Marion. In the second half of the program you hear from Paul Condry from the Regional Radio Sports Network elaborating on Andrean’s 35-24 victory over Hobart, Defensive Coordinator Mike Dowell from South Decatur explains how his defense was able to hold Springs Valley to 6 points tonight, Indiana SRN’s Justin Grifice describes North Newton’s win over Fronteir, Mike Kelly from Hamilton Southeastern breaks down his team’s 14-13 win, Mt. Vernon Fortville’s Mike Kirschner continues to win games as they defeated Pendleton Heights 27-21 to remain undefeated, Greg Barrett from South Vermillion breaks down their 51-44 victory over Park Heritage, and the man of the night in Jake Gilbert from Westfield explains how nice it was to finally knock off Brownsburg in overtime to round out the show.

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