Weekly Sports Grab Bag: Ball State, Uncle Verne, Grand Prix of Indianapolis and “The Hawk”
by Bert Beiswanger With a mixed bag of thoughts on various sports topics the past week, locally and nationally, I could have pounded out an article a day given the time. Since life gets in the way sometimes, you do what you can. So I thought it best to hone in on a few freshly […]
by Kent Sterling A lack of sleep turns me wacky, and as I write this, it’s 1:10 a.m., and the St. Louis Cardinals are batting in the bottom of the 13th in Game One of the National League Championship Series. The Cardinals and Dodger are tied at two as they have been since the third […]
by Kent Sterling The battle for bragging rights among the Pagano Family isn’t drawing the sexy media coverage that the Harbaughs do, but the head coach of the colts and the defensive coordinator of the Chargers are brothers. Chuck vs. John will be far down the list of sidebars, just as it should have been […]
by Bert Beiswanger So, five games into the season and discussions have already started with friends of mine about how good the Colts are coming off the solid win against Seattle last Sunday. With so many blue faithful giddy after the win, it’s a fair discussion. As can be the case with these types of […]
Five Days After the Play, ESPN Still Can’t Tell Difference Between Seahawks Hauschka and Ryan
by Kent Sterling Last Sunday, former Indianapolis Colt Lawrence Guy blocked a Seattle Seahawks field goal attempt by kicker Steven Hauschka, and Delano Howell scooped it up and returned it for a Colts touchdown. The weird part of the play, the part that ESPN anointed as part of it’s top ten plays of the week, […]
by Kent Sterling The group who will decide the four programs that will be invited to compete in the first college football championship in the winter of 2014 will be filled with big name experts on a variety of things – football among them. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter Former Secretary of State […]
by Kent Sterling On a Saturday night 10 years ago, I had a party. A houseful of people watched the Chicago Cubs throttle the Florida Marlins 8-3 at Pro Player Stadium to inch within one game of their first trip to the World Series in 58 years. When Jeff Conine grounded out to short against […]
by Kent Sterling The St. Louis Cardinals do it right. What do they do right? Everything. From the front office to the vendors to hitting the cut-off man to supporting teammates, the Cardinals are a team and business that works hard everyday to treat St. Louis fans to the baseball and with the respect they […]
by Kent Sterling The Associated Press is really good at providing dry game recaps, and other nondescript pieces that help newspapers fill its pages with relevance. What it rarely does is rage against a player, team, or league – until what happened at IndyCar’s Grand Prix of Houston got wedged between the APs Jenna Fryer’s […]
by Kent Sterling Anyone surprised that Joe Girardi decided to stick with the New York Yankees is a moron. The only hope the Cubs of had of landing the only decent manager with any interest in the job had was that the Yankees would be so dissatisfied with an 85-win season that they might tell […]
