by Kent Sterling Normally, I don’t give a damn where a 17 -ear-old chooses to attend college. It’s the kid’s decision, and whether he decides to head to Indiana, Duke, Kentucky, or SIU-Edwardsville is meaningless. College basketball isn’t the pros, and kids should be able to make this call without fanfare. Once they get to [...]
by Kent Sterling Right or wrong, some mistakes stick to a man forever. In 2002, while head basketball coach at the University of Iowa, Steve Alford defended Pierre Pierce, who was accused of third degree sexual assault. After another incident in 2005, Pierce pled guilty to third-degree burglary, assault with an intent to commit sexual abuse, [...]
by Kent Sterling It seems illogical to talk to 14 and 15 year-olds about where they might prefer to go to college. Every week for a 15 year-old, if I remember correctly, feels like it lasts a year, and they change their mind about what classes they want to take next semester every other day. [...]
by Kent Sterling Kyle Neddenriep of the Indianapolis Star has reported that former Cathedral High School standout Errick Peck has committed to Purdue for his post-grad year of eligibility. Peck spent the last four years at Cornell, but Hoosiers know him as a an Indiana All-Star who enjoyed a nice prep career at Cathedral. What [...]
by Kent Sterling Conspiracy theorists among basketball fans will see the offer to and commitment from Evan Gordon as a prelude to a kiss for his brother Eron. Evan is a 6’1, 187 lbs., graduate eligible transfer from Arizona State, who began his collegiate career at Liberty. Now, he’s coming home to spend one year [...]
by Kent Sterling They are the most predictable fans in all of sports, and have the least class. The University of Kentucky has many reasons to feel shame, but the behavior of their fans toward a kid who did nothing but choose to attend Kansas today shows why teenage basketball players who decide to attend [...]
by Kent Sterling The number one incoming freshman in the country is going to announce his decision today, and there are four finalists from which he’s going to choose – North Carolina, Florida State, Kansas, and Kentucky. I would love for the very best players in the country to make their decisions based upon something [...]
by Kent Sterling Jeez. Who’s in charge over at Rutgers? Not two months after basketball coach Mike Rice was told to pack a box after years of verbal and physical abuse were revealed in hilarious and horrifying practice videos, Deadspin has uncovered his replacement never earned the degree he has claimed to. Yep. Eddie Jordan [...]
by Kent Sterling The quest to get every call right is killing the momentum of a great great, and those interruptions are going to become more frequent during the 2013-2014 college basketball season. Here are the changes, as reported by ESPN: Refs can now go to the monitor in the final two minutes to check [...]
by Kent Sterling There is something creepy about caring deeply about where a high school kid is going to go to college, but for the same reason ‘American Idol’ transfixed America (while the judges were interesting), trying to project high school athletes into a collegiate environment is fun. So I keep track of the kids [...]
