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 Mark Boyle is one of the best radio play-by-play voices in professional and college sports, and he is relentless and disciplined in how he works at his craft. The word ‘craft’ is probably a little to high-handed for Mark to accept as a description of what he does, but it is just […]
by Kent Sterling There are some guys we wish could go on forever living life on their terms, and then the body relents and reminds us that it’s not built more much more than a half century of fun and mayhem. I doubt there are 50 people in the world who have had more fun […]
by Kent Sterling Now that Jerry Sloan is gone, no coach has been with the same franchise as long as Mark Boyle has been with the Indiana Pacers. In 20 days, Boyle will call his 2,000th game as the voice that has told the story and painted the picture for every Pacers team since 1988. […]
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 The Chicago Cubs have Derek Jeter alongside Starlin Castro on billboards all over Chicago extolling fans to buy mini-season ticket packages. How pathetic. The Yankees will be at Wrigley for a three game set from June 17 – June 19, but if a ducat to one of those three games is the […]
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 Will Carroll I hate cupcakes. Both kinds. Call me crazy, but I just don’t have a sweet tooth and hate foods that make me want more. I have enough of an issue with temptation as it is. It’s worse with the cupcakes that college football trots out in September. Samford? Stony Brook? Florida something […]
