News Now Warsaw Sports Director Roger Grossman being inducted into Indiana Sportscasters Hall of Fame

The association announced Grossman’s inclusion in a news release Thursday morning.

Grossman will be among those to be inducted at its annual awards banquet to be held on Sunday, April 12 at Valle Vista Country Club in Greenwood.

This year’s Class of 2026 includes people who have graced Hoosier newspapers, radio stations, and television airwaves during the past several decades:

Grossman has been covering sports in Kosciusko County for 35 years.

Upon receiving his degree from Butler University in 1991, Grossman landed a summer internship at WRSW in Warsaw and never left.

Grossman began serving as an analyst for football broadcasts that fall, then called girls basketball games the following season.

Grossman has called more than 3,000 sporting events for the radio station and hosts the weekly Tiger Talk program every Saturday. He has previously been recognized by both the IHSAA and Indiana Basketball Coaches Association for his distinguished service, and his broadcast location for basketball games at Warsaw’s Tiger Den has been affectionately renamed “Roger’s Roost.”

Anthony Anderson, Elkhart Truth — After graduating from Indiana University in 1985, Anderson quickly embarked on a four-decade career covering all things Michiana sports. Anderson got his start with The Goshen News, before quickly moving to The Elkhart Truth, where his sports bylines appeared for 30 years. His most famous work during that time was his Twine Line column, which ran for the length of his full-time tenure in Elkhart. For the better part of the last nine years, Anderson has served as a freelance reporter for multiple publications in northern Indiana.

Terry Hutchens, The Indianapolis Star (posthumous) — Born in Oregon and raised in California, the man affectionately known as “Hutch” covered sports for the Fullerton Daily News Tribune and the Orange County Register before making the move to the Hoosier state in 1986. The first bylines for Hutchens appeared in Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, for which he covered the Indianapolis Colts and The Indianapolis News, covering a variety of topics, including high school sports and the 1987 Pan Am Games. He was hired full-time by the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel as the Colts’ beat writer in 1989 and moved to The Indianapolis News as the Colts’ beat writer in 1991. While Hutchens covered a variety of beats during his first decade in-state, he was best known for his time on the Indiana University beat from 1998-2013. Following his days with The Star, Hutchens worked for two websites and the CNHI chain of newspapers around the state. Hutchens died in 2018, but not before authoring 13 books, nine of which focused on Indiana University athletics. Hutchens also served as an adjunct professor at both Indiana University in Blooming and Indianapolis. Hutchens received the Excellence in Beat Reporting from the USBWA in 2018, and was inducted into the USBWA Hall of Fame in 2024.

Rick Morwick, Johnson County Daily Journal (Franklin) —While Morwick works these days for Current Publishing as its newsroom director, he is best known for his byline in the Daily Journal based out of Franklin for a quarter of a century. His tenure began in 1990 as a correspondent, which led to a full-time position a year later. By 1997, Morwick served as the assistant sports editor,  then became sports editor in 2004. While covering the seven Johnson County high schools was always important, the paper’s proximity to Indianapolis allowed Morwick to routinely be on the Colts and Pacers beats as well. Morwick was named the 2014 ISSA Corky Lamm Award winner as the state’s top sportswriter, and Morwick has received 27 awards from HSPA and APME combined.

Jim Russell, Indianapolis News — Russell had a varied career in the newspaper industry following his graduation from Purdue University. Russell began his off-campus days writing for the Greenfield Daily Reporter, serving as the sports editor for three years. Then for Russell, it was a new venture, Indiana Sports Weekly, a statewide weekly Indiana sports newspaper. A year later, Russell began a 13-year tenure with The Indianapolis News, where his work ranged from covering the Colts, high school sports, golf, tennis and the 1987 Pan American Games. After leaving the newspaper business, Russell served as the sports information director for the Indiana High School Athletic Association from 1994-2001. Russell was a two-time winner of the ISSA’s Corky Lamm Award for top sportswriter in the state.

Vince Welch, ABC/Fox Sports/WIBC — A graduate of Ball State University, Welch began his professional broadcasting days at WKBV in Richmond in 1987. After three years in radio, Vince moved back to Indianapolis with the idea of breaking into television. He spent 5 1/2 years on the WISH-TV sports team, eventually making the move across town to WNDY-TV, which was putting a major emphasis on local sports, including play-by-play of IHSAA state championship events, Indianapolis Indians telecasts, and coverage of the Indianapolis 500. Welch shifted back to radio, becoming the sports director of WIBC in 1998, while maintaining a live sports presence on national TV working as a pit reporter for IndyCar races and eventually expanding into doing the same in NASCAR, as well as college football and basketball.

The 10 honorees will be recognized at the association’s annual banquet on April 12, which begins at 2 p.m. at Valle Vista Country Club in Greenwood.

Tickets are available with a meal included for $50. To order tickets, send a check for $50 to Fred Inniger, ISSA Treasurer, 3011 Noble Hawk Drive, Kendallville, IN 46755.

Please order banquet tickets before March 30.

The Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association was founded in 1946. The ISSA created its Hall of Fame 50 years later in 1996. The Hall of Fame currently has 153 members, including this year’s honorees.