By Dustin Lytle The Indianapolis Indians have been around for over 100 years. There is a great amount of tradition in the franchise. Since I was a kid, I can remember going to baseball games at Bush Stadium and Victory Field. When I get the chance, I try and get to the ball park and [...]
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by Kent Sterling Almost every time I write about how the process needs to be allowed to work before declaring open season on the four seniors who allegedly assaulted younger teammates in the locker and on the school bus, I regret it. That doesn’t keep me from feeling that DePauw is acting prematurely in determining [...]
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by Kent Sterling The free agency period for the NBA starts at Midnight. Teams will be at the James door at 12:01 a.m. making their pitch to the King. Miami, Chicago, New Jersey, New York, and his current team – the Cleveland Cavs – will wait in an orderly line to beg LeBron to be [...]
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by Kent Sterling There was an excellent show on ESPN last night at 7p with four reporters sitting at a table discussing the futures of the ever-increasing class of free agents. The reporters, including PTI’s Tony Kornhiser and Michael Wilbon, Bill Simmons, and Dan Le Batard, discussed things among themselves, were witty and fun, continued [...]
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by Kent Sterling There was a piece in last week’s Sunday Star that extolled the virtues of Indianapolis as a hot bed of NBA ready basketball talent, and there was a glaring factual error in it that I thought reflected a bothersome level of laziness. So in a post that I wrote, I pointed out [...]
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One day until the free agent market opens for LeBron, Bosh, and others: Telander Series on Brain Injury – Concussions Couldn’t Stop Smeeton – Chicago Sun-Times (Telander) Pacers – Deal with City Unlikely Before Deadline – Indy Star (Thomas) Recruiting – (Video) Etherington’s Rankings of 2011 Class – Star (Neddenriep) Isiah – Interview Throws Light [...]
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by Kent Sterling Why would I dislike Tom Cruise enough to put a whammy on his future endeavors? The whammy is a virulent tool that can only destroy its targets. Cruise is the only famous victim of the whammy of which I am aware. Cruise is a vaguely likable if odd fellow who seems to [...]
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By Jeff Showalter The Couch is back for a review of the world we live in. Some things haven’t really changed over the past few weeks, even months so we can do a quick review of these issues. Cubs Suck. Check Pacers are a mess. Check Reds are still playing good baseball. Check Tom Crean [...]
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by Kent Sterling Had a talk with another person interested in the whole Carmel mess, and he asked where the Carmel High School athletic director had been. I had to admit that despite writing about this since February, I don’t believe I had ever invoked his name or held him accountable on any level for [...]
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