by Kent Sterling When Adidas approached Indiana University Athletic Director Fred Glass with a proposal for IU basketball players to wear some redesigned fancy uniforms, Glass declined. UCLA, Kansas, Notre Dame, Louisville, and others agreed. If you’ve watched the NCAA Tournament, you’ve seen them. They have the fancy camouflage shorts and patterns on the shorts. [...]
by Kent Sterling “Lincoln” is a good movie. I saw it last weekend, and the thought that lingered long after the credits rolled was how so many could be so morally bankrupt about a core principle – like thinking the ownership of human beings is alright. In 1865, Abraham Lincoln had to promise patronage jobs [...]
by Kent Sterling Mark Emmert has talked to talk since he moved to Indianapolis to lead the NCAA. Today he walked the walk. More important than the actual penalties levied against Penn State is the fact that Emmert felt comfortable swinging a big stick and hitting a school with a set of consequences that are [...]
by Kent Sterling Not sure what’s in the Happy Valley water, but a Penn State trustee called presidents of NCAA institutions “pansies” in an ESPN.com post for allowing the NCAA to penalize his school. The only reason NCAA president Mark Emmert will levy a heavy tax on Penn State tomorrow is that Penn State refused [...]
by Kent Sterling Make no mistake about it, the decision to remove the statue of longtime football coach Joe Paterno this morning had as much to do with morality as the series of decisions to remain silent about the sex abuse that assistant coach Jerry Sandusky perpetrated on the Penn State campus. Penn State president [...]
by Kent Sterling If an NFL franchise looked the other way for a dozen years as a former team official raped young men, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell likely would go Lt. Col. Frank Slade on the team facilities and “take a flame thrower to this place!” Goodell is empowered by NFL franchise owners to mete [...]
by Kent Sterling Unhappy with the results of the Freeh Report, the Paterno Family has promised this morning to pay for its own study of the actions of its patriarch. If they are that willing to waste cash, I wish they would just send it to an organization that helps the victims of sexual abuse.The [...]
by Kent Sterling The only goal for lawyers and administrators in the middle of a mess like the Penn State scandal is to stop the noise. The death penalty, whether invoked by the NCAA or Penn State itself, does nothing to stop the torrent of negative public opinion for either body, so not only [...]
by Kent Sterling Isiah Thomas has done a hell of a lot with his life – all of it following his career as a player has fallen short of the expectations of the employers who have sent him packing. He was a fierce competitor on the floor, graceless in defeat and jubilant in victory. Florida [...]
by Bert Beiswanger At the risk of looking like an idiot Saturday evening if Oklahoma beats BCS No.3 ranked Oklahoma State, I’m somewhat annoyed that so little attention has been given to the idea of Oklahoma State playing in the BCS National Championship against LSU. I don’t have enough time or energy at this moment [...]
