by Kent Sterling This is the fourth straight year the Cubs have been a terrible baseball team. When people talk about the reasons for their low quality of play, a black cat at Shea Stadium and a billy goat that belonged to the Sianis family are recited. The truth is that baseball is played by […]
by Kent Sterling Coaches who tell the truth are a lot more interesting in postgame press conferences than those who alibi or give oddly technical explanations for a loss. New York Knicks coach Mike Woodson is nothing if not honest, and when he said that the Pacers won because “they played harder,” but he wasn’t […]
RTV-6 Pacers Postgame Coverage Provides Some Laughs
by Kent Sterling Very few Indianapolis viewers watch RTV6 newscasts. Ratings are generally poor for their efforts. With a lead-in of the Pacers Game One win over the Knicks, they had some eyes on them that normally might have been elsewhere. The payoff for those viewers was a weird, poorly cued, and inadequately lit mess […]
by Kent Sterling So it’s finally come to this – anything bad happens to your son or daughter at school, and someone needs to be fired. Ding-a-ling parents of thousands of kids demand that their rugrats be treated as the special little presents from heaven that mommy and daddy know them to be, and if […]
by Kent Sterling Most of the time in business, logic isn’t enough to motivate bureaucrats to change a policy. Nowhere has that been historically truer than at the NCAA. Wonderfully, magically, magnificently – the NCAA announced yesterday a change in the preseason practice window that will allow teams to practice six weeks prior to the […]
by Kent Sterling With 10:34 left in the second quarter, Hawks shooter Kyle Korver hit a jumper to bring the Hawks to within one at 23-22. With 9:38 left in the third quarter, Devin Harris drove for a layup to cut the Pacers lead to 11. In between, the Hawks missed 14 shots, the bough […]
by Kent Sterling Add one more thing to the list of things Len Kasper does a whole lot right as the Cubs TV play-by-play voice. He calls the action in an authentically enthusiastic way, and he never elevates his performance beyond the needs of the audience. He is enough of a fan to call out […]
by Kent Sterling There are still roars at 16th and Georgetown as IndyCars hit 230 mph circling the world’s greatest race course, just not for as long as they used to. The Month of May used to mean the whole month, but in 2013 it means from Saturday, May 11th to race day on Sunday, […]
by Kent Sterling Purdue has three scholarships open for next season – assuming Sandi Marcius doesn’t return – and one of those rides could belong to Indianapolis Cathedral product Errick Peck. Peck, who has earned his degree at Cornell, is one of the new breed of one-and-one players who are allowed to use their last […]
by Kent Sterling The Pacers @ Hawks, and Knicks @ Celtics start the action at 7p (ET, and the Thunder @ Rockets and Clippers @ Grizzlies wrap up a night filled with game sixes. All that’s missing are staggered start times, so fans could see the finishes to every game. The Knicks, Pacers, and Thunder […]
