Top seven most needed changes to youth summer basketball
This level of bedlam has no place at youth basketball events. I spent a lot of time in gyms over the weekend watching high school aged young men playing basketball in Indianapolis. Many of theist players in the country were here, so why not drive a few miles to see them for myself? My son […]
It’s easy to overreact to a debacle like last night’s Indiana Pacers loss to the Toronto Raptors. The Pacers failed to compete and were never in the game. From the brief moment the Pacers led 9-8 until the clock mercifully expired, the team assembled by Larry Bird and led by Frank Vogel failed to match […]
Baseball analyst Curt Schilling was fired by ESPN yesterday. It wasn’t for his political beliefs, but because he so loudly and compellingly proclaimed them. People will say that ESPN pulled the trigger because they are liberals enforcing an agenda against Schilling’s conservative beliefs. It wasn’t. The reasons for firing Schilling were entirely pragmatic. You might […]
There is a lot of good that comes with the most dynamic social media force in history. Twitter allows for a meritocracy to exist in media. Great takes bring like and retweets regardless of whether you are a newspaper columnist or passionate fan. That’s good. There is also the ability to attach links that turns […]
Indianapolis Colts general manager Ryan Grigson takes a lot of heat over the 2013 trade for running back Trent Richardson, and rightly so. The deal was a complete bust. That’s looking at it through the rearview mirror, which is a luxury afforded to critics. On the front end, this appeared to be a pretty good […]
Mini-camp for the Indianapolis Colts starts today, but a good portion of the team that will take the field at Lucas Oil Stadium in 2016 will not be working out with the team because they are not on the team yet. The NFL Draft is 10 days away, and the Colts will use that annual […]
it’s the World’s Greatest College Weekend in Bloomington, Indiana, and very little of what’s great has anything to do with one-speed bicycles that will be ridden in circles for two hours at Bill “Army” Armstrong Stadium as Indiana University students stare bleary-eyed at the colorful storm of fitness. The Little 500 is a great diversion, but the […]
Todd Jadlow played basketball at Indiana University from 1985-1989, and lived a life of privilege during a long professional career overseas. Then, reality came calling as it often does. Instead of answering that call with purpose and resolve, Jadlow ran to a bar and stayed there. As he told us in a 42-minute interview on my […]
Kobe Bryant will play the final game of his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers tonight, and the media is climbing over one another to wax rhapsodic about the legacy of the self-proclaimed Black Mamba. His career has been collage of great, good, bad, and hideous moments. There were five championships and a single […]
These are interesting times for Indiana sports fans. Mediocrity is everywhere, but all that may be about to change. Professional teams boast potentially transcendent talent that are capable of championship level play, and the college football and basketball teams are arching toward meaningful improvement. I’m normally a cynical critic of management and mediocrity, but there […]