by Kent Sterling Sometimes the best way to learn what’s right is to get it wrong. I wrote yesterday about the disgrace of the 1988 incident where Kentucky assistant coach Dwane Casey was accused of sending an Emery envelope with 20 – $50 bills to Claud Mills, the father of recruit Chris Mills. I assumed […]
by Kent Sterling There is something about March that rewards virtue and penalizes the weak. Matt Howard and Butler continue to dance into the Sweet Sixteen, and Bruce Pearl is sent back to Knoxville to sweat (literally) out his final days as the bastion of amorality he has always been. Better to spend time learning […]
by Kent Sterling It’s easy to pile on Indiana Basketball coach Tom Crean given the Hoosiers losing streak, 3-13 conference record and the apparent continuation of Indiana’s run of seasons without a postseason appearance. Calling an Indiana team a success would be ludicrous when they will have to upset one of its two remaining regular […]
by Kent Sterling Last night, when Ohio State basketball coach Thad Matta told the assembled media after his Buckeyes thoroughly outplayed Indiana in their 82-61 game that advice from former IU coach Bob Knight helped beat the Hoosiers, he wan’t just sharing an anecdote. Matta was firing a scud missile right past Tom Crean’s ear. […]
by Kent Sterling It started with a visit from Zach Hahn’s Mom Connie. She asked me if I was emotional about the day. Inside, I thought, why would I? It’s Butler’s Senior Day, not Loyola’s. Hahn played his last game at venerable Hinkle Fieldhouse, (if you don’t precede Hinkle Fieldhouse with the word “venerable”, athletic […]
by Kent Sterling There are people who love to hate, and losing games in Bloomington, Indiana, is as good a reason as any to hate the coach at Indiana, so that is what these people do. Frankly, I don’t know whether Crean can coach or not, but he has built a pipeline running through the […]
by Kent Sterling There is something challenging about a great basketball player. People watch and they run through a mental checklist of skills and abilities. The first time you see a kid who is highly touted, the feeling is “going ahead and prove something to me.” Well, Gary Harris proved something tonight. In a gym […]
by Kent Sterling It’s a Saturday video cavalcade featuring IU guard Jordan Hulls talking about his desire to be a leader, top 50 recruit Jeremy Hollowell on his love for the game, and Butler’s Matt Howard on his love for the game. First is Jordan Hulls, who led Indiana to a win over Illinois on […]
by Kent Sterling The University of Texas will receive $247.5 million of a $300 million guarantee over the next 20 years in exchange for allowing ESPN to create a network that entirely driven by Longhorn athletics – with some Texas high school football thrown in. Each year, there will be one football game and eight […]
by Kent Sterling John Calipari is not a guy I have a lot of good things to say about, but when he called a Kentucky player a “selfish motherfucker”, I didn’t care. This doesn’t make Calipari a bad guy, any more than his language made Bob Knight a bad guy. The moral outrage being expressed […]
