Has toughness been sub-.500 Lanphier's missing ingredient? Lions hope so

Blake Turner wouldn’t say which points of emphasis he wrote on the board before his Lanphier boys basketball team took the floor on Monday in the Martin Luther King Jr. Classic event at Lanphier High School. But by watching the game, the interviewer had a pretty good idea. “Toughness?” Turner smiled at the reporter who asked the question. “Absolutely. Toughness was one of the main things I wrote on there,” Turner said, content with his team’s 52-50 win over Alton in the new Lober-Nika Gymnasium. “Not getting bullied and pushed around — I felt like we’ve been getting bullied and pushed around a lot this year, and that’s not who we are. We’ll go down fighting before we let anyone bully and...