by Kent Sterling During his show on Friday, ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd reported that Chicago Cubs general manager Jim Hendry had been fired by owner Tom Ricketts. As Cowherd learned during the break that followed the announcement, he was wrong. How did that happen? Last Wednesday, furious with the level of play of the Chicago […]
by Kent Sterling Chum is in the water in Columbus, Ohio, and the sharks are looking for kicking legs. You know when the byline has three names, a newspaper is expending maximum resources toward a story, and that it’s going to result in bad news for the guy in the center of the storm, so […]
by Kent Sterling To be honest, it’s a hell of a lot easier to book guests for two hours a week than 15, so Chris and I put together a stellar lineup week after week, and this morning’s show is no different. Brad Stevens will talk about Shelvin Mack’s NBA Draft eligibility and adding former […]
by Kent Sterling In 1986, Julie, the woman who is now my wife worked at a Baskin Robbins in Bloomington, Indiana, and if I had a free couple of hours I would ride my bike alongside her to the ice cream store, and then screw around until her shift ended. Then we would ride back […]
by Kent Sterling Fox-59’s Chris Hagan and I went into Emmis today a day in advance of the debut of our show to go over what will do, how we’ll do it, get some pictures taken for the website, and promote the show with Dan Dakich. Yeah, we have a show tomorrow (Saturday) morning from […]
by Kent Sterling Great play-by-play guys don’t come around very often, and more often than not, they tend to bounce from gig to gig, always searching for the next rung on the ladder – to where I don’t know. Mark Boyle has been in Indianapolis calling NBA basketball games for the Pacers for 23 seasons, and […]
by Kent Sterling Fox 59 sports director Chris Hagan and the purveyor of the most important sports themed website in the world have agreed to host a two-hoiur show each Saturday from 9a-11a on 1070 – The Fan in Indianapolis beginning this week. Kudos to 1070 The Fan program director David Wood for having the […]
by Kent Sterling Matt Howard is getting a lot of attention, and the media is focusing on some of the traits that make him such a unique kid. Some view him as quaintly off-kilter with his rusty bike, floppy socks, and somewhat erratic hair. When Butler plays Wisconsin tonight at 9:57 p.m. tonight in New […]
by Kent Sterling Sometimes the best way to learn what’s right is to get it wrong. I wrote yesterday about the disgrace of the 1988 incident where Kentucky assistant coach Dwane Casey was accused of sending an Emery envelope with 20 – $50 bills to Claud Mills, the father of recruit Chris Mills. I assumed […]
by Kent Sterling Mark Boyle is one of the best radio play-by-play voices in professional and college sports, and he is relentless and disciplined in how he works at his craft. The word ‘craft’ is probably a little to high-handed for Mark to accept as a description of what he does, but it is just […]