By Jeff Showalter Another Indianapolis 500 has come and gone and so with it, another IndyCar season has ended. Not many people can even tell you how many races there are on the Izod circuit, let alone what the next race is. I know back in the day it used to be the Milwaukee Mile [...]
by Kent Sterling My sampling of race fans at yesterday’s race wasn’t scientific of even very broad, but where I spent the race – in the short-chute between turns three and four and in turn four – Danica is not well thought of by race fans in any demographic. College girls, college guys, families, younger [...]
by Kent Sterling Another Indy 500, another reminder that many of the people at the race are drunken tools, and that the boobs who funnel traffic out of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway are morons – not the police who wave people around, but the knuckleheads who plan the routes. The was the hottest Indy 500 [...]
by Kent Sterling In every other city in America, this is a day for families to picnic, go to the zoo, or play basketball at the Bob Gibbon Classic in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. In Indianapolis, this is the day to pack up the car or van with water, sandwiches, and various adult beverages for the [...]
by Kent Sterling The New Times published an article yesterday that reveals an investigation into the eligibility of NBA bound Eric Bledsoe. He was a poor high school student until he switched schools prior to his senior year, and three months rent was reportedly paid by the high school coach at Bledsoe’s new school. For [...]
by Kyle Miller Indiana University received news yesterday that Westfield center, Jeff Howard, has decided to continue his basketball career as a preferred walk-on for the Hoosiers. As a senior in high school, Howard was named the All-North Player of the Year. The Indiana faithful from the Scout.com message boards seem to be fairly excited [...]
by Kent Sterling 160 impermissible phone calls, 191 impermissible text messages, a former manager gave a recruit impermissible benefits, the director of basketball ops placed an impermissible 29-minute phone call, and members of the staff provided 26 impermissible complimentary admissions or discretionary tickets. There is the heavy hand of the NCAA raining down hell on [...]
by Kent Sterling It’s not very often an NCAA athletic program crows about a team’s cumulative GPA almost cracking the not-so-hallowed 2.2 barrier, but that’s what the UK athletic department did this week. My parents thought about sending out a press release when I brought home a 2.825 in my sophomore year, but for a [...]
by Kent Sterling There is only one place remaining in the world that clings to the notion that not televising an event locally leads to greater attendance. Every one else in every organized sport has adopted the philosophy that the more people see an event on TV, the more they will want to pay to [...]
