When asked before each season how many games I believe the Colts will win, I have always had an answer. This year, I have no idea. It could be 12, seven, or anywhere in between. There are so many questions about this edition of the Colts that pretending to know seems absurd. In the Peyton […]
My wife Julie is very smart and funny, and a great mom too. It goes without saying she is an incredibly patient woman. But as the NFL kicked off the 2007 season in downtown Indianapolis after the Colts won the previous Super Bowl, she was more than that. She briefly became a star among stars. Most of […]
The recency bias that enticed Indiana fans to buy into the belief that their football program had turned a corner toward repeatable respectability was flawed – as is the case with most recency biases. The Hoosiers were outclassed, out-executed, and out-fought by Iowa Saturday afternoon in their season opening 34-6 debacle. Now, Indiana fans need to fight […]
Covid and the Colts stitched together brings misery to fans – and media
There is nothing about Covid-19 I like. Obviously, the deaths, illness, fatigued-beyond-words health care workers, and tremendous fear among many top the list. But I also hate the way it has intruded upon sports. Sports serves as both a mirror of our society and an escape from it. Watching our city’s teams is really the […]
Bill Belichick has made his decision. Mac Jones is in as starting quarterback and Cam Newton is out – way out – as in no longer employed by the New England Patriots. The Indianapolis Colts have a starting quarterback on the Reserve/COVID-19 list who is still recovering from an unanticipated foot surgery, a back-up QB […]
No way around talking vaccines now, is there? I’ve tried, but with Carson Wentz, Ryan Kelly, and Zach Pascal going on the Reserve/Covid-19 list today, there is no avoiding virology as we discuss football. Full disclosure – there are two reasons I got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The first is that epidemiologists told me getting the […]
Don’t sweat the loss of Colts receiver T.Y. Hilton. There comes a time when an athlete’s popularity and fame eclipse productivity, and that time has come for Hilton – a four-time Pro Bowler. The Colts announced yesterday that Hilton will miss significant time with a disc injury in his neck that coach Frank Reich described […]
NIL money is reportedly going to flow toward prized recruit Emoni Bates as part of an agreement between the University of Memphis and FedEx, according to multiple reports from sources being retweeted often by fans of schools Bates spurned. The NCAA bans any pay-for-play, as well as using NIL as a recruitment lever, so Memphis being […]
Robin Miller was to Indianapolis Sports as Mike Royko was to Chicago politics. If you didn’t read his column in the 1980s and 1990s, you couldn’t have a sports related conversation in Indy. The hook was that Robin did not respect authority – not in sports and not in media. He was highly critical of Indiana […]
The alliance between the Big 10, ACC, and Pac-12 means the Power Five just became the Power Four. As a person who has sat in meetings among administrators and bureaucrats in a variety of field – media, sports, and health care among them – I am in a rare position to translate nonsensical gobbledegook into what […]