Bob Hammel, a sportswriter who covered 23 NCAA Final Fours and 29 Indiana high school basketball championships, has died at 88.

I’m at 30,000 feet when I get the update, relayed via text message and Wi-Fi, technological wonders that Bob Hammel could not have imagined when he filed stories from Munich, Maui, or Madison Square Garden: I am not surprised.

Former Herald-Times sports editor Bob Hammel passed away on Saturday. The award-winning former reporter chronicled four decades of Indiana athletics.