The 1986 movie "Hoosiers" was inspired ... Gene Hackman wasn't the first choice to play "Hoosiers" coach Norman Dale. Jack Nicholson agreed to play the fictitious Hickory High School basketball ...

In a season where the Indiana Pacers have celebrated the 30th anniversary of the movie “Hoosiers ... Reed’s first Hickory purchase was a cardinal T-shirt with a large gold Pacers logo ...

But as the filming of “Hoosiers” wrapped up in 1985 ... a mystery on the movie set. The Hickory Huskers uniforms had vanished. They were gone, presumably stolen. And those uniforms ...

Basketball fans, however, are likely very aware of the place that brings more people into the town than anything else — a small brick building that the Hickory Huskers of the movie “Hoosiers ...

That famous line was delivered at the end of a speech by Gene Hackman’s character Norman Dale in “Hoosiers.” His Hickory ...

FILE - Actor Gene Hackman gives fictional Hickory High basketball players instructions during filming of the final game of the movie "Hoosiers" at Hinkle Fieldhouse on the Butler University campus ...

I once watched Hoosiers with Joe Tait ... including Knightstown (the movie home of the Hickory Huskers). Tait and I talked about how Hackman played the part of a middle-aged man with a temper ...