by Kent Sterling Every time Fox 59’s Chris Hagan and I roll into the 1070 the Fan studios for another few hours of talking sports, it feels special, but tomorrow is total madness and I can’t wait. And I won’t have to wait until our normal start time because there is so damn much going […]
by Kent Sterling This could be a very long season for Hoosier basketball fans who have had enough long seasons over the past decade to last a lifetime, and the background din about Tom Crean as the leader of the program is beginning to grow a little louder. Indiana is 1-4 against teams they shouldn’t […]
by Kent Sterling Today’s games ended much as 2013 with be remembered among hoops fans in Indiana – thrilling, but ultimately unfulfilling. The Pacers and Hoosiers kicked things off simultaneously, and I did my best to keep an eye on both while at Bankers Life Fieldhouse celebrating the New Year with the tenth sellout crowd […]
by Kent Sterling Since Tom Crean’s first season in Bloomington, it’s been easy to express optimism about the Hoosiers. “It’s going to be better this year,” has been the mantra. Those day’s are apparently over. Indiana doesn’t shoot it well (making only 31.5% from behind the arc), and averages only 12 assists on 27.2 field […]
by Kent Sterling With yesterday’s announcement that Indiana University basketball player Luke Fischer is leaving the team and school, I thought it worth recalling the experience of another freshman who found it difficult to assimilate to the Bloomington lifestyle. College seemed like it was going to be fun. How could it not? Almost 40,000 students […]
by Kent Sterling On the eve of the Big Ten opener against Illinois in Champaign, coach Tom Crean found out that his bench at Assembly Hall will have some extra room. The chair that freshman forward Luke Fischer would have occupied will be empty – or filled by the next man up for Indiana. As […]
by Kent Sterling Over the first three years of the Kevin Wilson era, Indiana’s football team has earned a 10-26 record, but the arrow is pointing in the right direction because Wilson displays the traits of a very effective leader. Changing an almost relentless pattern of mediocrity at best doesn’t happen in a year or […]
by Kent Sterling A significant amount of time is spent by athletic directors finding the cash needed to update facilities, and when Fred Glass welcomed Cindy Simon Skjodt and her $40 million dollar donation that will cover the tab for a much needed renovation of Assembly Hall, that represented a watershed moment in his era […]
by Kent Sterling The rain is falling in record setting amounts, this is the shortest day of the year, and Christmas falls on a Wednesday – meaning no long holiday weekend. You need a ray of sunshine as you pick up your last minute gifts, and today’s “Ahead of the Curve” can’t part the clouds, […]
by Kent Sterling There are still people in Indiana and elsewhere who believe that Assembly Hall should have former coach Bob Knight’s name affixed to it forever despite Knight wanting nothing at all to do with his former place of employment. The way Knight was treated by Indiana University during his last year was shameful. […]