by Kent Sterling Strange days in Bloomington. Hard to figure out what is going to happen next, but Tom Crean may have foreshadowed the next shoe to drop with his sign off to Indiana University voice Don Fischer, “There is a lot of great honors you can get in any walk of life, but especially […]
by Kent Sterling Mary Willingham, the former academic advisor for the University of North Carolina’s athletic department, saw a wrong and tried to right it. For that she was dispatched, and now she will get paid. Sometimes life actually is fair. Student-athletes were admitted to UNC minus the basic classroom skills needed to survive the […]
by Kent Sterling Indiana a #10 seed? Wow. That wasn’t the only surprise of the NCAA Tournament bracket, but it was the biggest to me. Losing nine of their final 14 games with the five wins coming against Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Rutgers twice evidently meant nothing to the committee. Good for Indiana, bad for […]
by Kent Sterling My smart phone was buzzing last night and continues this morning with texts from IU alums and boosters, most of whom are concerned that a win against Northwestern will mean a “stay of execution” for Tom Crean as Indiana’s basketball coach. Those texts underscore the mood regarding Indiana Basketball among those looking […]
by Kent Sterling Great shooter. Great kid. Great winner. Great leader. Good enough for me. I don’t know all the candidates for Mr. Basketball, the most coveted individual prize in Indiana high school basketball, but I’ve seen a lot of Carmel High School’s Ryan Cline and spoken to him at reasonable length. He is the […]
by Kent Sterling Everyone I knew as a student at Indiana University looked forward to each semester’s last final exam like it was Christmas, the Fourth of July, and New Years Eve rolled into one momentously joyous event. Except for me. I dreaded it. That last final meant my opportunities to rescue a mediocre semester […]
by Kent Sterling Whatever football can be squeezed from running back Frank Gore, outside linebacker Trent Cole, defensive lineman Kendall Langford, and just maybe wide receiver Andre Johnson, the Indianapolis Colts hopes it puts them over the hump in the effort to climb past the New England Patriots for supremacy in the AFC – and […]
by Kent Sterling Some mistakes you never stop paying for. In 2000, Bob Knight was fired by Indiana University for being a jerk. There was all that nonsense about Kent Harvey greeting Knight by his last name, and Knight typically exploding, but it was the incredible tonnage of bizarre idiocy in and around Assembly Hall […]
by Kent Sterling Tom Crean and his Indiana Hoosiers team deserve the opportunity to complete the full season before anyone, including athletic director Fred Grass, define the team’s body of work as a failure – or a success. Strange things happen in college basketball. The Hoosiers can shoot it, and when you can shoot it, […]
