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 […]
by Kent Sterling Hosting “Ahead of the Curve” on 1070 the Fan in Indy and www.1070thefan.com on the web is the best way I can think of to start my weekend, and Fox 59 sports director Chris Hagan and I hope that listening to us while you are in the car or getting ready to […]
by Kent Sterling There is something special about Assembly Hall. It used to be a bizarre building that was mistakenly designed to accommodate concerts played to one side or the other. What it has become is a shrine to basketball at a place that understands and appreciates the game better than anywhere in the world. […]
by Kent Sterling If you are going to punch 1070 AM or 107.5 FM on your radio, you want to listen to something worthwhile, and that is what he work hard to provide each week. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter Today’s guests are as good as it gets, and we’ve worked all week […]
by Kent Sterling Railing about the preseason schedule of whatever team you back is as much a part of the August and September lives of major conference basketball fans as watching them during November and December, but I’m not doing it. Criticizing a program for only sporadically challenging itself with NCAA Tournament bound competition is […]
by Kent Sterling Calbert Cheaney is leaving Indiana University for a second time. Twenty years after he was the sixth player taken in the 1993 NBA Draft, Cheaney is leaving his position as the Hoosiers’ director of basketball operations to take the spot on Jim Crews’ Saint Louis University staff vacated by Jim Whitesell. Click […]
Indiana Basketball – Tom Crean Talks About Leadership and the NCAA
by Kent Sterling Indiana Basketball coach Tom Crean is an interesting guy. Regardless of whether you like, love, or loathe him, he’s a lightning rod in Indiana sports who is impossible to ignore. Heading into his sixth year, the challenges of being the head coach at IU will evolve toward a new level of pressure. […]
by Kent Sterling It sounds easy, giving student-athletes a little cash each week for expenses not covered by a scholarship. It sounds like the absolute right thing to do. Being an athlete in college is all consuming, and having a job in the dorm cafeteria isn’t possible because of the investment of time in the […]
by Kent Sterling There are some very good players in Indianapolis this weekend for the Adidas Invitational, but of the seniors-to-be games I’ve seen, there has been only one standout team – Dream Vision. Not surprising they would be the odds on favorite to win the tournament, although for many teams, winning bracket games only […]
by Kent Sterling This morning I wrote about the Indiana Basketball program, and how it needed to cover its ears to protect itself from the silent song of the one-and-done player quick fix. Dante Exum is a gifted basketball player from Australia who is considering an offer from Crean to join the Hoosiers next season […]