by Kent Sterling What is shown on NBC Sunday night between the commercials and garish pageantry of Katy Perry belting out the hits might be pretty good too. The Super Bowl drives me bats. Sorry, I can’t pay attention to the game. Nobody watches. The women at parties wait for the commercials, and the guys […]
by Kent Sterling Indiana fans have gone from deliriously happy about a 5-1 start in the Big Ten to downright hostile after two straight road losses to Ohio State and Purdue. Talk of Tom Crean being the national coach of the year have been replaced by renewed calls for his ouster. That’s the life of […]
Indiana vs. Purdue tonight – Time for a return of anger and bitterness in this once great rivalry
by Kent Sterling Knight vs. Keady was the State of Indiana’s version of Ali vs. Frazier, and fans loved it. For 20 glorious seasons, those two coaching heavyweights appeared to hate each other and all their rival stood for. It was glorious era of combative basketball and behavior from two historic programs and coaches. They […]
by Kent Sterling There are two ways to amass great wealth – inheritance and balls. New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft put the second of those points of differentiation on display yesterday in front of the media gathered in Arizona for the Super Bowl. Net worth is a scorecard in life that has nothing whatsoever […]
by Kent Sterling Please understand this is not a lament about a reason the Hoosiers lost to Ohio State yesterday in Columbus. Indiana lost because its defense sucked. Allowing Ohio State players to catch and finish without resistance led to them hitting 62.3% of their field goal attempts, and beating a team that shoots better […]
by Kent Sterling When I was a kid, I thought Ernie Banks was the coolest man alive. He got to play baseball for a living, and he always did it with a smile on his face. Like few men or women who walk among us, we are better for his example. Today, he died at […]
by Kent Sterling Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean went to sleep last night smiling. All but the nuttiest critics of his leadership in Bloomington had finally fallen silent. If you went into the 2014-2015 college basketball season believing that Crean was months away from being the latest former coach at IU and that Brad Stevens […]
by Bert Beiswanger Let’s make one thing clear: No one blames the Indianapolis Colts throttling at the hands of the New England Patriots on deflated footballs. Most Colts fans and Indy media are more concerned with with coaching/personnel/in-ability to make adjustments – any adjustment – that led to the embarrassment of a conference title game. […]
by Kent Sterling When the 2014-2015 season started, college basketball analysts assumed Indiana would be a very mediocre Big Ten team, lacking size and cohesiveness. Well, they were half right. The Hoosiers are undersized, especially since the injury to Hanner Mosquera-Perea, but they play with trust and togetherness. That has been enough to make Indiana […]
by Kent Sterling There are undoubtedly NFL teams that look for any advantage they can gain within the rules, and a few that stretch their search into those realms that lie outside restrictions imposed by the NFL. If the NFL doesn’t bring down a massive hammer against the New England Patriots franchise that appears to […]