by Kent Sterling University presidents have made the NCAA so completely useless that they have created an alliance of two people normally at total odds about college athletics – Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari and me. Calipari makes so much sense in his new book, “Players First: Coaching From the Inside Out” that I may drive […]
by Kent Sterling Tom Crean played sparingly on his high school’s team, and did not play in college. Yet, he earns $3.16 million per year in one of the plum jobs of basketball coaching in the world at Indiana University. Assembly Hall is no longer home to the kind of elite basketball program that it […]
by Kent Sterling Sadly, firing the owner of a sports franchise is impossible. Cubs owner Tom Ricketts has vaulted himself into the conversation as one of the worst owners in sports, and is closing in on late Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz as the worst in the long and strange history of Chicago professional athletics futility. […]
by Kent Sterling National NBA pundits have to write something, and speculation about the reasons for the devolution of the Indiana Pacers makes for good copy. The Pacers were riding high on January 20th with an NBA best 33-7, enjoying appearances on national talk shows, and leading Sportscenter with their feel good story of a […]
by Kent Sterling Ridiculous. What a basketball game. What it lacked in beauty and rhythm – and it lacked both entirely – the Pacers and Heat made up for in drama. The game came down to a play coach Erik Spoelstra drew up for Chris Bosh. Yes, Chris Bosh. With two seconds left, LeBron James […]
by Kent Sterling You remember George O’Leary, right? In 2001, he left Georgia Tech for his dream job as the head football coach at the University of Notre Dame. A little fact checking was done, and O’Leary was a goner. O’Leary claimed to have received a degree at “SUNY – Stony Brook University” – an […]
by Kent Sterling In the absence of specifics, we believe the narrative our eyes create, and what fans of the Indiana Pacers have seen over the past 32 games is a soft team that doesn’t care much for each other. That is in direct contrast to what transpired over the first 40 games of the […]
by Kent Sterling There are people who wear shorts in the dead of winter, and look like they are impervious to the cold. And there are people who are faced with incredible adversity who look happier than many who don’t have any worry in their lives. I doubt Indiana Basketball coach Tom Crean left much […]
by Kent Sterling A tsunami of comments flooded kentsterling.com early today, and because I try to reply to even the wackiest of thoughts, I was very busy this morning. I was called names and referred to as a hypocrite enough times that I should have suspected something, but I was typing so furiously I never […]
by Kent Sterling Plans are for the NFL’s director of officiating and his deputy to sit in a command center in New York, preview the video prior to the referee getting to the booth so he will see only the relevant footage, and then consult briefly with the ref to make sure the call is […]