by Kent Sterling Butler’s Basketball team had a tough time during its first year in the Big East Conference. Brad Stevens left to become the head coach of the Boston Celtics, Roosevelt Jones was lost for the season to injury, and the Bulldogs lost 11 games by a total of 48 points. The 2013-2014 season […]
by Kent Sterling For over four hours, seven of us sat in the Indiana Pacers media room waiting for team president Larry Bird to pull the trigger on a move to bolster their roster. TV crews were absent. Radio hosts, minus me, nowhere to be found. Lots of pizza, few mouths. The writing was on […]
by Kent Sterling “In 49 states, it’s just basketball – but this is Indiana!” “In 29 cities, the 2014 NBA Draft holds promise for improvement, but this is Indiana!” Of the 30 NBA franchises, the Indiana Pacers will wait in line behind all but the five teams without any picks at all for their chance […]
by Kent Sterling To hell with all this talk about winning against Germany today at Noon. The win for the Americans is to advance to the knockout round, and the draw that can force it should be the focus. It would be nice to beat the team ranked second in the world, but after the […]
by Kent Sterling A baseball coach being hired away from Indiana University to Arizona State brings both good news and bad news. Given a choice, people almost always want the bad news delivered first, so here it is – Tracy Smith is packing a bag for Tempe. The great work he has done over the […]
by Kent Sterling The world would be a much more accommodating place for the Indiana Pacers if LeBron James would sign with the Los Angeles Lakers, but it’s never going to happen. Signing with the Cleveland Cavaliers would re-ignite the dormant passion for professional basketball that existed prior to James becoming public enemy #1 four […]
by Kent Sterling One person talks, and another listens. One person reveals, and another evaluates. One person says something funny, and another laughs. One person shares perspective, and another thinks. That’s radio. It’s not quite that simple. If you are like me, I talk back when I listen to the radio. I look crazy as […]
by Kent Sterling NCAA President Mark Emmert has been dealt a bad hand – the kind of hand that Phil Ivey could not bluff into a winner. He is forced to spew blather that defies logic in an effort to perpetuate the bold lie of amateurism in collegiate sports. As the head of a member […]
by Kent Sterling As is always the case, people seek status in being among the first to discover how cool something is. Soccer enthusiasts are looking down their noses at the World Cup fans who show up in bars every four years to watch Ecuador play Albania or Cameroon play Chile – four countries 99% […]
by Kent Sterling Maybe the fourth overall pick in Major League Baseball’s First Year Player Draft didn’t much care for Boise, Idaho, and tried to hit his way back to the midwest as quickly as possible. Maybe the Cubs farmhand – one week into his professional career – gets antsy staying in one place for […]