by Kent Sterling Winning is not about gaining an advantage through systemic deceit – it’s the pursuit of answering adversity with grit, finding a way through the pain to outwork your opponents, motivating teammates to embrace a common cause, and subverting selfish wants for collective success. Victory without embracing those concepts is meaningless. Championships as […]
by Kent Sterling With every word out of John Calipari’s mouth at the Midwest Sweet Sixteen in Indianapolis, I lost more faith in humanity. During a time when honesty matters less and less in government and business, Calipari is setting a course for the sub-basement where truth is not acknowledged as a concept. His assessments […]
by Kent Sterling The knee-jerk reaction to the ruling by the National Labor Relations Board that Northwestern’s football players may vote to join a union that will have the authority to collectively bargain with the university for benefits is that it paves the way for all college athletes to be classified as employees. Not so […]
by Kent Sterling You remember George O’Leary, right? In 2001, he left Georgia Tech for his dream job as the head football coach at the University of Notre Dame. A little fact checking was done, and O’Leary was a goner. O’Leary claimed to have received a degree at “SUNY – Stony Brook University” – an […]
KANSAS CITY (March 26, 2014) — The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced today the 2014 NABC Coaches’ Division I All-America teams. Selected and voted on by member coaches of the NABC, these 15 student-athletes represent the finest basketball players across America. 2014 NABC COACHES’ DIVISION I ALL-AMERICA FIRST TEAM Nick Johnson, Arizona, 6-3, 200, Junior, […]
by Kent Sterling There are people who wear shorts in the dead of winter, and look like they are impervious to the cold. And there are people who are faced with incredible adversity who look happier than many who don’t have any worry in their lives. I doubt Indiana Basketball coach Tom Crean left much […]
by Kent Sterling When the seeds held in the sub-regional of the 1983 NCAA Tournament, a very cool opportunity availed itself for Indiana University students who were interested in making a small investment and taking a little drive south to Knoxville, Tennessee. Big Ten champion Indiana was scheduled to play Kentucky, and Louisville would play […]
Indiana Basketball – Jeremy Hollowell Next Out the Door as Transfer
by Kent Sterling The problem with fishing for tuna by using a giant net is that while you are going to get some tuna, you will also pick up dolphin, sharks, license plates, wooden crates, and turtles. Indiana caught Yogi Ferrell in the class of 2012, but it also came up with Jeremy Hollowell, a […]
by Kent Sterling Players leave programs all the time. It happens almost everywhere, and for the most part, it’s a win/win/win as the kid wins, the program he goes to wins, and the program he leaves wins. That will likely be the case for Austin Etherington, a redshirt sophomore who has asked for and has […]
by Kent Sterling March Madness doesn’t exist in Kentucky; it’s just Madness because it runs through all 12 months. There are crosstown rivalries like the Cubs and White Sox, Jets vs. Giants, and college football’s Michigan vs. Ohio State, but there is nothing quite like college basketball’s Louisville vs. Kentucky locking horns in March. When […]