by Kent Sterling The Final Four has been held in Indianapolis six times, and Duke has qualified for three of those celebrations of amateur basketball (1991, 2010, 2015). They have won the National Championship all three times. Yet, only 9.8% entrants in the ESPN Bracket Challenge guessed Duke would win. Idiots! Kentucky was supposed to […]
by Kent Sterling There is a lot going on in Indiana sports, but nothing quite as compelling as predicting the future of people on the brink of success and failure, and it’s those stories that will captivate us in 2015. 10 – What the hell happened to Brandon Miller to cause him to decide to […]
by Kent Sterling Brandon Miller is 35 years old and has the job of his dreams, but has requested a leave of absence for medical reasons, Butler University athletics director Barry Collier announced yesterday in a statement. The message from Collier is simple and vague, “Brandon Miller has requested a leave of absence for medical reasons, […]
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 It’s been almost a decade since Butler experienced a season like this one. Sometimes we forget that in the middle of all that excellence through the Collier, Matta, Lickliter, and Stevens years that Butler won only 13 games in 2004-2005, but they did. That aberrational season was in the Horizon League, so […]
by Kent Sterling There is so much to talk about that Fox 59 sports director Chris Hagan and I could easily do twice as much as the two-and-a-half hours we have been allotted for today’s show. Pike High School won a 34-32 thriller against Ben Davis last night, but the main story is the suspension […]
by Kent Sterling This is the week. This is THE week. The NFL hit the halfway mark of the regular season, the NBA is ready for opening night. The World Series is now a best two-of-three series. College football is heating up as teams are halfway through the conference schedule. The NHL is about ten […]