by Kent Sterling When a talk radio host where I worked made some inane and ill-conceived on-air bet, I always forced them to follow thru. It wasn’t fair to tease listeners and not pay off, so whatever the harebrained threat was, it was done. If I refuse to pay a similar bet now that I’m […]
by Kent Sterling Being a radio producer is not a career destination; it’s a step toward something else – an opportunity to host, sell, or manage. So when my producer for the first 16 months of my show, an affable and diligent young man named Nick Bosak, told me he was leaving the show to […]
by Kent Sterling There are hip sports fans, and then there are the dated and weird fans that we only see at the sporting events they have became inexorably linked to. Jack Nicholson will be forever hip even as he makes fewer movies, but he doesn’t miss many – if any – Lakers games. Jon […]
by Kent Sterling Driving home yesterday, hauling ass to watch every pitch pf game four of the NLDS just like when I ran home everyday from Mrs. Zimmer’s class at Lake Bluff Central Elementary to catch the end of every regular season game in 1971, I heard Jake Query on WNDE lambasting me for my flip-flop […]
by Kent Sterling Venting feels good for a moment, and then come the consequences. When alone in a car, the comeuppance is a confused stare from the driver of the car next to you. With your girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, wife, mom, or dad, it’s generally a minute or two of patience before being told to […]
by Kent Sterling The Chicago Cubs held a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the eighth inning yesterday in St. Louis – trying to hold on for a sweep that would have cut the Cardinals lead in the National League Central over the Cubs to five-and-a-half games when I decided to prove a point. In […]
by Kent Sterling Twitter is a great barometer for character. There is nothing to feat about social media unless you have some serious darkness in your heart, or a faulty filter either through personality quirk or a propensity for entertaining yourself after a couple of cocktails. Scot McCloughan is the new general manager of the […]
by Kent Sterling NFL fans in St. Louis have no team. For the past decade, the Rams have been terrible, but even a historic level of poor play can’t get a franchise de-listed. No, St. Louis fans have turned their backs on the Rams because owner Stan Kroenke is in the midst of very publicly […]
by Kent Sterling “I like Tom Crean, but…” If you listen to media people, myself included, appraise the work of Indiana Basketball coach Tom Crean, it’s inevitable you will hear that he is liked by that person. It’s relentless, this compulsion to declare our affection for Tom, and it makes me skin crawl. I hear […]
by Kent Sterling Choosing a college is a very big deal for the kid making the decision. When deciding which college to attend, you aren’t just picking a school. The town where the college is located will become a special place – the first place where a young man or woman begins to think like […]