by Kent Sterling Every day for 10,000 days my wife and I have spoken – sometimes in laughter, sometimes sorrow, and very occasionally in anger, but always honestly, and without exception – daily. 10,000 days ago Julie and I dancing frenetically and repeatedly to side one of Bob Seger’s “Night Moves” album at aq party [...]
by Kent Sterling So much for the seamless transition in the front office of the building Bill Polian once ruled with an iron fist. Both Bill and Chris Polian were told to vacate the premises on 56th Street today in the aftermath of a horrifying 2-14 season. Really smart guys evidently become really fireable really [...]
by Kent Sterling It’s been a long time since Indiana posted anything resembling a gaudy record. The 107-50 blowout win today over Howard isn’t worth raising a banner, but the 11-0 record for a team that had been 28-66 the previous three seasons shows the program has turned a corner. Or has it? The schedule [...]
by Kent Sterling Indiana Basketball beat their neighbor to the south 73-72. You know, the one that keeps kids around for nine months and turns them loose to the NBA. Yeah, those guys in blue and white. This is THE win that fans in Bloomington have waited for since disgraced former coach ran the SS [...]
by Kent Sterling [ed. note: With the recent firings of Syracuse basketball assistant Bernie Fine and Penn State legend Joe Paterno associated with alleged child molestation charges, it's hard to gin up a lot of moral outrage against Kentucky coach John Calipari. As the sub-basement of morality of college sports has been dredged, Cal looks [...]
by Kent Sterling One year and two days after his death, former Chicago Cubs third baseman Ron Santo’s dream finally came true. The Golden Era Committee in charge of the key to the gates of Cooperstown relented, welcoming Santo 37 years after his retirement from his beloved game. Shame on them. Santo spent countless years [...]
by Kent Sterling The narrative in sports is constantly evolving, and that’s what makes it so consistently fun to think about. The minute the Cardinals won Game Seven of the World Series, talk began to percolate about whether Albert Pujols would come back to the team. Then Tony LaRussa retired, and the Cubs hired Theo. [...]
by Kent Sterling It has been correctly pointed out to me that my assessment yesterday of IU head basketball coach Tom Crean was both one-sided and very personal. I spoke of the negatives, and never acknowledged any of the positives, and there are positives. My rule about talking about college programs is that busting on a [...]
by Kent Sterling After watching Indiana beat the hell out of Savannah State, and St. Louis easily handle the Washington Huskies last weekend, I had some serious questions about IU, and the direction of the basketball program. This is year four of the great Tom Crean reclamation project, and it’s time for success against non-330+ [...]
by Kent Sterling If someone doesn’t wake the hell up, the NBA could easily become as irrelevant to the American sports fabric as the MISL (Major Indoor Soccer League, for those who never cared). The NBA Players Association announced yesterday it is going to disband as a union and take the current negotiations to settle the [...]
