by Jeff Showalter Today, Indy Star columnist Bob Kravitz wrote that the NBA needs to level the playing field for small market teams. Kravitz quoted Pacers owner Herb Simon who believes the big market teams have an undue advantage in today’s NBA. They believe the acquiring of so called superstars, in sets of three, in [...]
by Kent Sterling “Greed is good,” Gordon Gekko said in “Wall Street”. It’s certainly been good for the NFL owners and players. Up until now. When both sides in a negotiation are equally motivated by their greed, a non-productive acrimony can flourish. That’s not good for business. The best deals satisfy the needs of both [...]
by Kent Sterling Last night, when Ohio State basketball coach Thad Matta told the assembled media after his Buckeyes thoroughly outplayed Indiana in their 82-61 game that advice from former IU coach Bob Knight helped beat the Hoosiers, he wan’t just sharing an anecdote. Matta was firing a scud missile right past Tom Crean’s ear. [...]
This stalemate in the NFL labor negotiations could last into September, but could get done now. Both sides are making too much money now, but will stop at nothing to get more. Greed is not good. This craziness will stop eventually, so why not today. Click on the arrow to listen: Sterling Apoloigizes to NFL [...]
Purdue smokes Sparty, Hoosiers fail in Columbus, and the Pacers coming back down to earth: Boilers – JJ leaves nothing behind – Lafayette J&C (Washburn) Hoosiers – Deshaun Thomas finds mark against Indiana – Star (Hutchens) Hoosiers – Buckeyes will be #1 for a reason – IDS (Hart) Hoosiers – Knight drill helps Matta and [...]
by Kent Sterling Sometimes, high school coaches will scrimmage the varsity against the JV. It’s good for the varsity to run against competition that’s little more than a nuisance, and it’s great for the JV to get a measuring stick of how much better they need to get in order to compete at that level. [...]
by Kent Sterling It started with a visit from Zach Hahn’s Mom Connie. She asked me if I was emotional about the day. Inside, I thought, why would I? It’s Butler’s Senior Day, not Loyola’s. Hahn played his last game at venerable Hinkle Fieldhouse, (if you don’t precede Hinkle Fieldhouse with the word “venerable”, athletic [...]
by Kent Sterling No one knows more about what the hell is going on in the NFL labor talks four days prior to the deadline to avoid a lockout than Peter King, or at least that’s what drew me to the Tweetup that he hosted at Scottie’s Brewhouse last night. What we got was a [...]
by Kent Sterling Obviously no one wishes illness or death upon anyone, but the Cubs marketing forces might have contemplated the above fictionalized action during a moment of weakness before deciding to put Derek Jeter on a billboard hawking season tickets to Chicagoans. Of course, all characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance [...]
by Kent Sterling Matt Howard and Zach Hahn will get their proper sendoffs tomorrow afternoon at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Butler fans will have a great opportunity to say thanks to those two wonderful players. A friend of theirs from a summer team that defied expectations 28 times to win tournaments around the country over four years [...]
