by Kent Sterling Sure, they are a lot of options for your live and televised sports viewing right now. The Colts are in a state of virtual chaos, IU is undefeated entering Big Ten play for the first time since 1987, the faster and younger Pacers open preseason play Saturday, Notre Dame is a national […]
by Kent Sterling Indiana University’s football team has won five games in a row – for the first time since 1987. Indiana University’s football team has started the season 4-0 – for the first time since 1990. That’s almost as long as IU basketball fans have waited for a sixth national championship, and top ranked Ohio […]
by Kent Sterling The obituaries were being written, and reporters were ready to pronounce the Indianapolis Colts dead for 2015. Behind 27-14 in Nashville as the clock ticked under seven minutes to play, the Colts awakened with a fury unseen since the startling comeback win against the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2013 wild card […]
by Kent Sterling Venting feels good for a moment, and then come the consequences. When alone in a car, the comeuppance is a confused stare from the driver of the car next to you. With your girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, wife, mom, or dad, it’s generally a minute or two of patience before being told to […]
by Kent Sterling “No more fun of any kind!” bellowed Dean Vernon Wormer as the members of the Delta house filed out of a disciplinary hearing in Animal House. It kind of felt that way when Indiana football coach Kevin Wilson answered a question during his weekly radio show about the possibility of ESPN’s Gameday […]
by Kent Sterling We can’t protect ourselves or our kids with bubble wrap or absolutely ensure safety. No matter our diet, destructive habits, exercise regimen, or risk threshold of our jobs, people get old, sick, and finally die. How it happens is rarely up to us, but we can decide what challenges and validates us – […]
by Kent Sterling This was an impossible to watch from start to finish mess. The Indianapolis Colts losing to the New York Jets 20-7 last night in front of a national audience turned back the clock to 1993 – the last time the Colts were shutout at home, and the last time they were quite […]
by Kent Sterling There are Lombardi Trophies to be won and millions of dollars to be earned, but as the Indianapolis Colts season unfolds people are going to talk about how the Colts need to play for Chuck. Indianapolis Colts coach Chuck Pagano is reported to be on his way out the door regardless of the […]
by Kent Sterling Parents watch their sons and daughters differently than everyone else at a high school sporting event. They are invested – both financially and emotionally – in their kids’ performance and use by coaches, and some feel that investment confers a license to vent when frustrated. And they are the most likely to […]
by Kent Sterling The athletic department at the University of Texas is the closest thing to a business in college athletics, but it isn’t a business, so Steve Patterson was fired as athletic director yesterday. [Well, his resignation was negotiated, but if the choice was his, Patterson would still be the AD.] It happened for […]