by Kent Sterling Time magazine’s cover piece this week champions the righteousness of paying student athletes for the value they create for universities. I’ve long thought that to exclude athletes who fill stadia and arenas from the market economy that benefits virtually every other human being in America, but that Time called for it caused […]
by Kent Sterling Indiana fans have long looked down their noses at their state university neighbors to the north, and apparently the shoe companies that negotiate apparel deals feel the same way. The Portland Business Journal recently filed public records requests with every FBS school for their shoe and apparel contracts, and the deal Indiana […]
by Kent Sterling Railing about the preseason schedule of whatever team you back is as much a part of the August and September lives of major conference basketball fans as watching them during November and December, but I’m not doing it. Criticizing a program for only sporadically challenging itself with NCAA Tournament bound competition is […]
by Kent Sterling To reach their potential, Boston Celtics coach Brad Stevens and former Butler star forward Matt Howard needed each other. Stevens won Howard’s on early mornings when others had something better to do. Eight o’clock pool play games at the Best of the Midwest tournament in July, 2006, were played in front of […]
by Kent Sterling Fred Glass has a great gig, and I can’t believe he’s been at it for five years. Seems like yesterday he made the media rounds in Indy to talk about his being hired to run the Indiana University Athletic Department. Since taking over, there has been some very serious change in the […]
by Kent Sterling When did Indiana Basketball secure the state border in the first place? At no point in the history of the program has IU been able to simply choose who it likes from among the state’s best players. Connor Killoren of the Indiana Daily Student would like you to believe that Indiana has chosen […]
by Kent Sterling Calbert Cheaney is leaving Indiana University for a second time. Twenty years after he was the sixth player taken in the 1993 NBA Draft, Cheaney is leaving his position as the Hoosiers’ director of basketball operations to take the spot on Jim Crews’ Saint Louis University staff vacated by Jim Whitesell. Click […]
by Kent Sterling Teens go to college to learn about math, science, and the arts, but the true value of higher education is usually tied to the life lessons they extract from the rewards of the good choices and the consequences of the bad. Click here to follow Kent P.J. Hairston made some strange decisions […]
by Kent Sterling Work ethic + dedication x timing (squared) = a great play-by-play job one year after graduating from college. Mark Minner has worked hard in secondary roles broadcasting Butler and other sports events, and stands at the crossroads of good fortune and opportunity as he has earned the gig as a play-by-play voice […]
by Kent Sterling It’s hard to list the ways the NCAA is losing control of big money college athletics and the kids whose efforts comprise the product. The NCAA, schools, coaches, and local businesses make fat cash because kids work tirelessly to compete on Saturdays in the fall. The kids are allowed to attend classes […]