Like a fifth grader who puts thumbtacks on his teacher’s chair, Skip Bayless is an attention hog without the decency or moral compass to do it right. Yesterday, on the show he co-hosts with Shannon Sharpe, Bayless claimed Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dan Prescott is incapable of leading the team because he went public with his […]
My phone rang on a Sunday morning exactly 20 years ago today. It was WIBC sports director Vince Welch. “Bob Knight is being fired this morning,” he told me. This was when I was the assistant program director of the radio station, and Knight had endured a tough year. The story of his choking Neil Reed […]
The tweet below from Jon Rothstein caused me to get the kind of angry I used to enjoy indulging in. Back in the day, I loved screaming about idiots who publicly showcased their lack of understanding about life, culture, sports, politics, and all topics in between. A few years ago, I paused my penchant for fury. Today, I’m […]
Reflexively, I immediately thought Billy Donovan as the next coach for the Indiana Pacers would be an upgrade over Nate McMillan. Oops. Upon further review, that might not be the case. McMillan was fired because he could not lead the Pacers to postseason success. Here’s what Donovan has done in the playoffs over the past […]
In the three-plus years since Chris Ballard took over as general manager of the Indianapolis Colts, the message has evolved from, “There is a ton of work to do,” to we’re “excited about our roster and ready to get started.” So now it’s put up or shut up time for Ballard and the Colts. They […]
The NBA’s biggest problem is also one of its greatest strengths – it’s stars. Late NBA commissioner David Stern made the decision to market the league around its best players in the 1980s. Back then, the NBA had Michael Jordan, Julius Erving, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas, and others to feature. The league went […]
It’s hard to do a Zoom meeting with the media and not sound crazy. There is something about sitting in a room with people looking you in the eye that keeps a person honest. That’s all I have as a defense for Pacers president Kevin Pritchard’s post mortem media hour. Sitting in front of a […]
The Milwaukee Bucks feel so passionately about the crimes visited upon blacks and the constant fear in their lives that they have boycotted this afternoon’s Game Five in the playoff series against the Orlando Magic. Never before in the history of professional sports has a team passed on the opportunity to compete in order to protest […]
The Indiana Pacers decision to fire Nate McMillan is shocking. Maybe it shouldn’t be, but it is. When news of the firing spread at Colts practice today after a tweet from Scott Agness, the first response was disbelief. Then, it was agreed this was a very un-Pacers thing to do. This is a franchise that has never […]
When the report of Indiana Basketball hiring former UConn assistant Kenya Hunter was tweeted, there was great rejoicing among IU fans. Some media types were shocked that Hunter would make the move from UConn. “How did Archie Miller pull this off?” they asked. Here’s how. Indiana’s athletic department has more money than UConn can begin to […]