Shelly Brand Adlard
Shelly (Brand) Adlard is an Evansville, Indiana native and former basketball player who was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. She was also the first women’s basketball player inducted into the University of Evansville Athletic Hall of Fame. Basketball career Adlard attended F.J. Reitz High School, where she led the Panthers […]
Benjamin Bosse
Benjamin Bosse (November 1, 1875 – April 22, 1922) was an American businessman and politician who served as mayor of Evansville, Indiana, from 1914 until his death in 1922. A prominent industrialist before entering politics, Bosse became one of the most influential civic leaders in Evansville’s history. Bosse Field and Benjamin Bosse High School were […]
Jay Beunte
Jay Phillip Buente (born September 28, 1983, in Evansville, Indiana) is a former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball for the Florida Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays. Early life and college Buente attended F.J. Reitz High School in Evansville, where he played baseball and earned first-team all-metro honors as a senior after […]
Ted Bernhardt
Ted Bernhardt (1946–2023) was an Evansville-born NBA referee who officiated 934 regular-season games during a 17-year NBA career. He retired from officiating in 2006. Bernhardt worked several high-profile games during his career, including the 2002 Western Conference Finals between the Sacramento Kings and Los Angeles Lakers. Dennis Rodman incident Bernhardt received national attention on March […]
Sean Bennett
William Sean Bennett (born November 9, 1975) is a former American professional football player with strong ties to Evansville, Indiana. A graduate of William Henry Harrison High School, Bennett became one of the greatest football players in the history of the University of Evansville before being selected by the New York Giants in the fourth […]
Andy Benes
Andrew Charles Benes (born August 20, 1967 in Evansville, Indiana) is a former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for four teams: the San Diego Padres, the Seattle Mariners, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Arizona Diamondbacks, in a fourteen-year career from 1989 to 2002. His brother Alan also pitched in the […]
Brent Beeler
Brent Beeler Harrison High School alumnus who later graduated from Indiana State University with a B.S. degree in Marketing and Management. Brent is the Chief Operating Officer of Berry Plastics Corporation, recognized as a world leader in plastic packaging and tapes and coating materials. He dedicated his career to building Berry Plastics into a $4.1 […]
Bibbles Bawel
Edward Raymond “Bibbles” Bawel (born November 21, 1930) was an American football defensive back in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at Evansville College. He also helped the Hamilton Tiger-Cats win the Grey Cup in 1957. College careerInitially enrolling at the University of Evansville on a basketball scholarship; Bawel […]
Marv Bates
Marv Bates had a 30-year sportscasting career on Evansville radio, starting in 1947 at WIKY and moving in 1949 to WGBF. He was the station’s sports director and did play-by-play for University of Evansville and high school basketball and football games, and Evansville Triplets AAA baseball. Using taped sound effects and teletype copy he simulated […]
Michael Barber
Michael Barber is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and writer from Evansville, Indiana. Barber has been recognized as one of the highest-selling independent hip-hop artists from the state of Indiana and is best known for being one of the final artists associated with the original incarnation of Death Row Records. During his music career, Barber […]