Monthly Archives: June 2010

Indianapolis Indians – Sports Done Right

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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Carmel Assault Update – Kitzinger's Admission to DePauw Being Investigated

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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LeBron James Free Agency – Latest Odds on Where He's Headed

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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ESPN's NBA Free Agent Summit Roundtable

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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Don't Go Hatin' on the Indianapolis Star Sports Section

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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Sports Digest – Wednesday, June 30, 2010

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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Tom Cruise Movie "Knight and Day" Tanks – Power of Whammy Validated

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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Sports From the Couch-Views From the Couch

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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Truth's Tuesday Top Five: Excited About Indiana Football

By Kyle Miller Including today, Indiana University students have 63 days until the first day of classes.  One of the biggest, most distinct differences that separate high school from college is that students dread the thought of class, whereas the start of college is a sight for sore eyes.  With all that said, I’m most [...]

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Carmel Assault Update – Where Is the Athletic Director?

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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