by Kent Sterling In a USA Today piece posted yesterday afternoon several athletic directors representing Big Five conference universities spoke of the difficulty of drawing students to football games. Purdue’s Morgan Burke was one of them. Burke’s comments were certainly reflective of the collective mindset of those facing the challenge of compelling students to part […]
by Kent Sterling There are smart people whom I respect who see nothing wrong with the Washington Redskins using what amounts to a racial epithet as their nickname. Some NFL teams have chosen animals like Bears, Lions, Rams, Seahawks, and Falcons to represent their franchises, while others honored hard-working blue collar workers like Packers and […]
by Kent Sterling Old guys can be fascinating interviews for two reasons – they have a cranky world view crafted through experiences that exist beyond our imaginations, and because at some point they decided that life is too short to sugar coat their version of the truth. Mike Ditka will be 75-years old in two […]
by Kent Sterling Writing the life story straight up to the end for Johnny Manziel isn’t difficult, and the brief NFL career he will enjoy won’t be the longest or most interesting chapter. Manziel’s gift for prolonging plays in college is compromised by the speed of the defenders in the NFL, and his comparative inaccuracy […]
by Kent Sterling The first 49 minutes of the Indianapolis Colts loss to the New York Giants Saturday night were about as good as anyone during the preseason has a right to hope for. The last 11 minutes were just that bad. Leading 26-0 after the starters had long since toweled off and become spectators, […]
by Kent Sterling It was inevitable that some media company would throw a lot of cash and security at former Indianapolis Star sports columnist Bob Kravitz for his estimable talent and brand value, and WTHR has more cash than anyone in Indianapolis media, so their decision to go all in on Kravitz makes complete sense. […]
by Kent Sterling Regardless of which of the three finalists (if any) owners elect today as the next commissioner of baseball, it will be a guy who will do the bidding of the owners and little else. And that may result in the slow death of the game. Ticket prices, financial inequity among franchises, and […]
by Kent Sterling There is one sure way to stop bullying, and that is to refuse to be bullied. That was the message yesterday from Indianapolis Colts coach Chuck Pagano as he was asked a series of questions by the media that were unrelated to football, but very relevant to the lives of some young […]
by Bert Beiswanger After the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix this past Sunday, I waited outside the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team garage for rider Bradley Smith, who had just finished sixth. As Smith hopped onto his scooter, he looked at me and held his bloody, disgusting looking finger up high so I could see […]
by Kent Sterling My Dad had no interest in catching a foul ball or home run with a mitt at a Cubs game. First of all, Dad could never have caught a home run because the bleachers were where the rabble sat. Second, men are able to catch a foul ball with their bare hands. […]
