One school, two brothers, two paths

Mike Lawton never set out to be the historian when it comes to Dixon High School athletics, but in many ways, that's who he is. Brad Lawton never set out to be a record-setting javelin thrower at the University of Illinois, but that's who he is. The Lawtons, sons of Rich and Sue Lawton of Sterling, each carved his own sports niche in vastly different ways. Mike Lawton is the creator of "We're Out To Win This Game," a takeoff on the Dixon fight song and a booklet that contains football and basketball scores, coaching marks, decade-by-decade breakdowns, individual records and other tidbits dating back to the early 1900s. The project started in the early 1990s, shortly after Lawton completed undergraduate work at the University of Illinois. He