by Kent Sterling It’s hard to win a game in the NFL. That’s a fact. After making 11-5 regular seasons look easy, the Colts have had an unusual amount of difficulty in getting that done this season. After a 27-21 loss to the 3-4 New Orleans Saints, the Colts expressed frustration in their own inability to […]
by Kent Sterling I’m performing psychological acrobatics like never before in trying to understand and embrace Tom Crean’s views on leadership expressed in his piece at forbes.com. Because I am a humane and giving person, any time I read something Crean writes or listen to what he says, I try to interpret his words positively. Sometimes, […]
by Kent Sterling Overmatched and underprepared. That’s the epitaph for the Chicago Cubs the day after one of the weakest showings in the history of postseason baseball. Regurgitating the obvious – anemic offense and defensive ineptitude – serves no purpose. There was no ‘what if’ moment during the first four-game sweep of the Cubs since Lou […]
by Kent Sterling First, do no harm. Good rule for doctors – and football coaches. Chuck Pagano’s decision to try to trick Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots Sunday night was a true “What the hell?” moment. Sixty hours later, after the curtain was finally peeled back to reveal the reason the play didn’t […]
by Kent Sterling We tend to get high and mighty about college sports – like it should be pure, chaste, and reflective of our best guess as to how teenagers should act. The coaches should be priests and the athletes alter boys. Those expectations are ridiculous. For a group to whom the word “No” has […]
by Kent Sterling Coaches who feel the hot breath of a boss on his neck tend to make squirrelly decisions. Indianapolis Colts coach Chuck Pagano made a call last night with the game on the line that defied logic, belief, and rationality. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter Facing a fourth-and-three on their own 37 while […]
by Kent Sterling Given the last four games between the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts, making a case that the Colts can beat the Pats is impossible. Sure there are reasons for optimism, and I believe the Colts will be very competitive Sunday night, but ratcheting up a 2008 level of optimism with the […]
by Kent Sterling Being a radio producer is not a career destination; it’s a step toward something else – an opportunity to host, sell, or manage. So when my producer for the first 16 months of my show, an affable and diligent young man named Nick Bosak, told me he was leaving the show to […]
by Kent Sterling There are hip sports fans, and then there are the dated and weird fans that we only see at the sporting events they have became inexorably linked to. Jack Nicholson will be forever hip even as he makes fewer movies, but he doesn’t miss many – if any – Lakers games. Jon […]
by Kent Sterling Driving home yesterday, hauling ass to watch every pitch pf game four of the NLDS just like when I ran home everyday from Mrs. Zimmer’s class at Lake Bluff Central Elementary to catch the end of every regular season game in 1971, I heard Jake Query on WNDE lambasting me for my flip-flop […]
