by Kent Sterling Never have I cared who won the Little 500, and I’m sure as hell not going to start now, but what in the world were the Phi Delts thinking when then exchanged with one lap left? They were going to lose regardless because the Cutters’ sprinter is one of the best riders [...]
by Kent Sterling For many years ending in 2009, friends and I attended the Little 500 bike race at Indiana University as students and alums, and we did things that were brash, stupid, funny, and mean-spirited. Many of those things we did, you cannot do today because we did them first. Never an arrest. Never [...]
The Little 500 bike race is a monotonous two-hour exercise, much like the Indianapolis 500. The beginning is exciting, as is the end. The wrecks can provide some moments of wincing for the crowd. What people choose to do in-between is what makes the Little 500 fun of horrifying depending upon your perspective. When we [...]
Idle time is the college student’s best friend. It’s also a close buddy of alums who find themselves happily groggy from the night before during the Little 500 celebration, and my apologies this week are to various and well-meaning folks I have wronged with antics I thought funy at the time. Frankly, I still think [...]
by Kent Sterling The Little 500 is a 50-mile bicycle race, and the centerpiece of “The World’s Greatest College Weekend”. The race is idiotic, and almost all are. Thirty-three teams of four riders share the load in the race, and like the Indy 500 – the race that inspired the Little 500 – the crashes [...]
“The World’s Greatest College Weekend” can be quite a good time. I never understood the interest in the race, but happily have attended many of them. My behavior at them – even as recent as two years ago was silly and more representative of an adolescent than a guy at my stage of life. For [...]
by Kent Sterling The weather gods are smiling on our decision to avoid Bloomington on this Little 500 as the skies opened up during lap 88 – a lap that Little 500 enthusiasts recognize the traditional time for Ed Kink to flip his eyelids, which is now known as the “Greatest Debacle in Racing”. The [...]
by Kent Sterling The Little 500 Weekend was always the time to turn it up a notch – go even nuttier and blow off steam before finals. Ahh, who am I crappin’? We blew off steam like it was our job, but there was no better place or time than in Bloomington, Indiana, on that [...]
by Kent Sterling The Little 500 is to Indiana University what, well, nothing is to any other campus. It is a unique day and event. Other schools claim to have a similar fun centerpiece, none are close. The Little 500 has its own stadium, and is broadcast live on a national TV network – okay, [...]
by Kent Sterling Ahh, the Little 500. Dr. Bop & the Headliners, Roadmaster, John Mellencamp, the BoDeans, Otis Day and the Knights, and too much more music to mention. The powers that be at IU tried to do everything they could to keep the students and silly alums from getting bored after the race. They [...]
