by Kyle Miller It took me awhile to gather my thoughts on Indiana basketball after the Butler game, but here’s what I saw. It certainly wasn’t what I expected. It wasn’t pretty, poetic or even fun to watch, but Indiana’s win last night was its biggest in four years under Tom Crean. Let’s be honest, upsetting Pittsburgh [...]
by Kent Sterling It has been correctly pointed out to me that my assessment yesterday of IU head basketball coach Tom Crean was both one-sided and very personal. I spoke of the negatives, and never acknowledged any of the positives, and there are positives. My rule about talking about college programs is that busting on a [...]
by Kent Sterling After watching Indiana beat the hell out of Savannah State, and St. Louis easily handle the Washington Huskies last weekend, I had some serious questions about IU, and the direction of the basketball program. This is year four of the great Tom Crean reclamation project, and it’s time for success against non-330+ [...]
by Kent Sterling If someone doesn’t wake the hell up, the NBA could easily become as irrelevant to the American sports fabric as the MISL (Major Indoor Soccer League, for those who never cared). The NBA Players Association announced yesterday it is going to disband as a union and take the current negotiations to settle the [...]
by Kent Sterling It’s hard to argue against doing the right thing, so this post isn’t going to turn too many heads, but so many people make so many daily compromises in the name of maintaining the machinery necessary to create and perpetuate their income flow that I’m compelled to write something that people will [...]
by Jeffrey Showalter Why are we surprised? Major college football programs have not been “programs” for decades. The BCS is business and in business, “problems” get covered up. Recruiting and donation support dries up, you lose games, and then it repeats itself. Why are we surprised? This time it was Penn State, many thought the [...]
By Pauly Balst Former Speculative Journalist Emeritus [Ed. Note: Balst has predicted correctly a myriad of events in a career as a speculative journalist, including the still to be completed dissolution of the Big 12, the firing of Jim Hendry, and the downward spiral of Tiger Woods. Paulie is to sports as Warren Buffet is [...]
by Kent Sterling It doesn’t matter if Joe Paterno went to high school with Ben Franklin and invented football. If a man entrusted with the development and maturity of young men doesn’t do everything allowed by law to stop a man from molesting children, he should be fired instantly. There are very few absolutes in life, [...]
by Kent Sterling Sitting in the visiting radio booth before the St. Louis Rams play the Arizona Cardinals, there is nothing to do but think, and if I’m going to think, I’m also going to write, and there is plenty to both think and write about. I know it’s not in the headline, but this [...]
by Kyle Miller The game was tied only twice, once at 0-0 and then again at 5-5, but other than that IU led visiting University of Indianapolis the entire game. The Hoosiers went on to defeat the Greyhounds 90-72 in their only exhibition game at Assembly Hall. For an exhibition game, the Hoosiers looked solid, [...]
