by Kent Sterling The kids playing basketball on a relentless schedule this weekend in Indianapolis at the Adidas Invitational, in Atlanta at the Nike Peach Jam, and in Milwaukee and other cities next week are having a great time. The big time college coaches who are out in force evaluating them might not like it, […]
by Kent Sterling Nine games in five days is a lot of basketball for anybody, much less high school age kids, and thatwear and tear showed in the championship game of the Adidas Invitational at North Central High school today. ESPNU viewers deserve better. Spiece Indy Ice got off to a quick 17-2 start this […]
by Kent Sterling In a game like so many through the years, a team from Indiana took on another group with higher ranked players from another area and beat them by hitting open shots, and frustrating them defensively. The EG All-Stars 73-65 win over Dream Vision was impressive given the rout Dream Vision put on […]
by Kent Sterling The Indiana Pacers are all about culture. Everyone involved with the team uses that word early and often, and I would mock it if I didn’t absolutely agree with the way they use it to describe what the team has become. Chris Copeland fits what the Pacers are trying to build perfectly. […]
by Kent Sterling The best two hours of my work are coming up, and Fox 59 sports director Chris Hagan and I might have assembled the best lineup of guests in the show’s history. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter Chris Copeland’s first interview since signing with the Pacers will be at 12:15p, although […]
by Kent Sterling “It’s all about content, dumbasses,” is what I shout on a daily basis to people in the media. The delivery system is entirely beside the point. Unique content is everything. I’m sure there were and are people at the Indianapolis Star who are wondering what the hell a bunch of ink stained […]
by Kent Sterling There are some very good players in Indianapolis this weekend for the Adidas Invitational, but of the seniors-to-be games I’ve seen, there has been only one standout team – Dream Vision. Not surprising they would be the odds on favorite to win the tournament, although for many teams, winning bracket games only […]
by Kent Sterling There will be those in Indiana who are compelled to campaign for the return of Player X – the queen bee who started the mess that nearly destroyed the Indiana Pacers with his erratic behavior – now that he has been released by the Los Angeles Lakers. Click here to follow Kent […]
by Kent Sterling Like Justin Bieber, rookie Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig went from unknown to wildly popular to unfashionable, but in Puig’s case it took just over one month – and he’s still hitting .394. Even with the annoyingly arrogant Bieber the backlash took a couple of years to engage. No one knew who Yasiel […]
by Kent Sterling There is something wonderful about summer basketball tournaments. From one game to the next, you have no inkling what might happen. Teams that are assembled from neighborhoods can go to war against the nation’s best, and you never know. Some are well coached and others are led by a goofball who spends […]
