Author Archives: Jeff Showalter

Sports From the Couch-My New TV Conundrum

by Jeff Showalter I’m a fat guy. I know it. I have done a crappy job working on it. I work out, during this unemployment period of my life, more then I usually do, but I need to drop 50 pounds. If I could figure out the secret of going to sleep on an empty [...]

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Sports From the Couch – Tom Crean Lands His Biggest Recruit

by Jeff Showalter IU men’s basketball coach Tom Crean has done a very good job recruiting future talent into the fold for the next four years. McDonald’s All-American Cody Zeller leads this years class and 2012′s class is currently listed as the number one class in the USA by Rivals.com. However, Crean landed his biggest [...]

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Sports From the Couch – LeBron’s Potential Still Untapped

by Jeff Showalter LeBron James is the best basketball player on the planet. LeBron James is the most talented player on the planet. LeBron James has not come close to maximizing his potential. The sports world is abuzz over LeBron James ability, or lack there of, to make his presence felt in the NBA finals. [...]

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Sports From the Couch-Senderoff Overcomes Issues at IU; Takes Reigns at Kent State

by Jeff Showalter Below is an interview I had with new Kent State coach Rob Senderoff. As many know, Senderoff was an assistant coach at IU under Kelvin Sampson. Coach Senderoff has been considered one of the best assistant coaches in America and has overcome the penalties of the NCAA to take the lead of [...]

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Sports From the Couch-Perea, Adams and Fred Glass’ Devotion to 100% Compliance

by Jeff Showalter Well, hasn’t this been an interesting week? Hoosier Nation is in an uproar over ESPN.com’s investigation of Indiana Elite coach And A-HOPE founder Mark Adams. Ohio State continues to have tattoo parlor issues and big time college football coaches claim there is no way to police their programs and want the NCAA [...]

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Sports From the Couch – Views From the Couch

by Jeff Showalter While there is a lot of sports and news worthy stories going on, there isn’t one thing that is really earth shattering so it is time to go with some views on many topics. JMV will have Larry Lackluster on today. I hope JMV asks Bird to explain to the few season [...]

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Sports From the Couch – It’s Time for Larry Lackluster to Go

by Jeff Showalter As word has gotten out that Larry Bird and Herb Simon may not be getting along, your Indiana Pacers look a lot more like the dysfunctional mess I have told you about then the up and coming NBA franchise most people around downtown want you to believe. As noted, by the boss [...]

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Sports From the Couch – I’m Not Buying Bulls or Pacers

by Jeff Showalter Game 5 tonight, between the Chicago Bulls and your Indiana Pacers should be pretty entertaining and close. The Pacers have scrapped much harder after the cream cheese effort of game 1. Pacers coach, Frank Vogel finally figured out that playing your best defender, Dahntay Jones is a really good idea. Jones, combined [...]

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Sports From the Couch–Why Is Everyone So Giddy About the Pacers?

by Jeff Showalter So the Pacers have lost consecutive close games to the Chicago Derrick Roses and all of a sudden everyone is suppose to bleed blue and gold. I must be missing something? The Pacers really have given away both games because they are so soft in the middle and poor defensively. These two [...]

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Sports From the Couch– Cream Cheese Pacers Give Away Game 1

by Jeff Showalter There is a reason blogging has become so popular and sites like KentSterling.com can become Indy’s premiere sports website for opinion. ESPN and other national sites are going to write and talk  about how courageous Derrick Rose and the Bulls were by overcoming the young Pacers. There is a chance that Dakich [...]

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