by Kent Sterling There are some guys we wish could go on forever living life on their terms, and then the body relents and reminds us that it’s not built more much more than a half century of fun and mayhem. I doubt there are 50 people in the world who have had more fun […]
by Kent Sterling Now that Jerry Sloan is gone, no coach has been with the same franchise as long as Mark Boyle has been with the Indiana Pacers. In 20 days, Boyle will call his 2,000th game as the voice that has told the story and painted the picture for every Pacers team since 1988. […]
by Kent Sterling The Chicago Cubs have Derek Jeter alongside Starlin Castro on billboards all over Chicago extolling fans to buy mini-season ticket packages. How pathetic. The Yankees will be at Wrigley for a three game set from June 17 – June 19, but if a ducat to one of those three games is the […]
by Kent Sterling John Calipari is not a guy I have a lot of good things to say about, but when he called a Kentucky player a “selfish motherfucker”, I didn’t care. This doesn’t make Calipari a bad guy, any more than his language made Bob Knight a bad guy. The moral outrage being expressed […]
by Kent Sterling Eddie White was a sportstalk host who Tom Severino and I hired in 2007 and grew to respect and like very much during our two years together at 1070 the Fan in Indianapolis. No one outworked or outworried him. And no one in any business drank more Diet Pepsi. His skill behind […]
by Kent Sterling I was a miserable college freshman in Briscoe Quad on Indiana University’s campus on December 8, 1980. My roommate, a drug-addled boob from Connersville (IN), built a loft in our dorm room to clear my bed and me from the floor so his drug-addled friends had more room for misusing and wasting […]
by Kent Sterling Being a good dad is not always easy. There is no blueprint. Kids don’t come with a manual. Dads decide what’s important and work like hell to instill those traits in their kids. Some dads shrink from the challenge and work to feather their own nest. Others micromanage their kids – hovering […]
by Kent Sterling If anyone sees Ernest Borgnine driving down the road in his 45-foot motor home, follow him and when he stops take his keys and throw them into a pond. On a Biography Channel piece about Borgnine, it showed him as the happy as a clam navigator of a giant RV. It looked […]
by Kent Sterling There is a piece in today’s Indy Star by Jeff Rabjohns about how the city of Indianapolis is making it look easy for kids to make it to the NBA. Currently, there are nine former Indy area players in the NBA, and the flow appears unlikely to stop anytime soon. With the […]