Former Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight opened for Donald Trump at a campaign rally last night in Indianapolis, and the result wasn’t the shock and awe hilarity that used to be Knight’s standard fare. Instead, the monologue was strange, rambling, self-serving, and sad. One of the greatest basketball coaches in history has been reduced to […]
I’m a white guy from one of the whitest areas on the planet. The village of 5,000 where I grew up north of Chicago boasted exactly zero blacks. None. To say I am not an expert in the area of the challenges blacks face in succeeding in this country is a grotesque understatement. But I try […]
by Kent Sterling Now that the Indiana State Legislature and governor have learned arrogance never pays, now the nation can turn its attention to basketball rather than a neanderthal attempt to marginalize the LGBT community. Ignorance was revealed, corrected, and now Indiana has enacted its first protection of LGBTs as a class. Winning comes in […]
by Kent Sterling Legislative arrogance + stupidity = irreparable damage to Indiana’s reputation and standing as welcoming host for events like this weekend’s Final Four. Who in his or her right mind objects to baking a bake or arranging flowers for a gay or lesbian couple excited about getting married? That’s an extreme example of […]
by Kent Sterling Dropping a series of self-directed F-bombs during a violent football game where lives and fortunes can change with one hit seems to be a reasonable response to adversity. Tom Brady is one of the marquee players of America’s game, and cameras/microphones are trained on him throughout every game he plays, and when […]
by Kent Sterling Here’s a new idea – we don’t need to agree with each other to like and respect one another. If media has done us a disservice over the past 30 years, the debate-related political conflict presented as drama by television and radio has enforced in us a need to take one another […]
by Kent Sterling There was a time before Mike Pence was Indiana’s governor, a time before he was a congressman, a time when he was a talk radio host on Network Indiana and WIBC in Indianapolis. And he was one of the hosts with whom I had the most fun working with. When I had […]
by Kent Sterling It’s a nonsense election for a position on the Houston Community College Board of Trustees, and the guy who won obviously has a warped sense of humor, but the voters who pushed a button next to David Wilson’s name are the same idiots responsible for saddling America with elected officials at all […]
by Kent Sterling Asking high school kids to calmly shake hands seconds after a hotly contested game is an unrealistic request. It has always been ridiculous, and those who mandate that it occurs lack an elementary understanding of the way a competitive teenager’s brain functions. The Kentucky High School Athletic Association took a step in […]
by Kent Sterling When I moved to Fishers, Indiana, in 1994, there were roughly 18,000 people who lived here. It was a strange little town that sprawled over a fairly enormous footprint of 35 square miles. Now, there are nearly 20,000 students enrolled in Hamilton Southeastern Schools, and a total population of 80,000. The schools […]