by Kent Sterling In that area between the snow belt and the sun belt, winter is virtually unbearable. Too warm for skiing and snowmobiling, and too cold for golf and tennis, there is nothing to do but look ahead to warmer days, and the most important bellwether for warmer days is the first day of […]
by Kent Sterling Assembly Hall is a quaint and tradition rich answer to the question of where Indiana Basketball should call home. At some point soon (2015 and beyond), fans and players will deserve more and better. Indiana athletic director Fred Glass has a lot on his plate. Making sure that the athletes at IU […]
by Kent Sterling There is something so fundamentally right about watching high school basketball in the state of Indiana that regardless of the teams competing, it’s compelling. Nothing over the holidays is more fun than making the trip to New Castle to watch the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Classic. I’ve never seen Washington or […]
by Kent Sterling The Kentucky basketball program was led for 41 years by a man they still call “The Baron”. Adolph Rupp led Kentucky to a then record 876 wins despite only six of those seasons being comprised of more than 30 total games. Here are some quotes attributed to Rupp. Some mean-spirited, yet funny; […]
by Kent Sterling Kentucky has won more games than any college basketball team in history. As a celebration of the price the Wildcats have paid for glory, we will take a look at the top five moral compromises made in earning many of those wins. #5 – The 1952-1953 Kentucky team was suspended for the […]
by Kent Sterling I was a miserable college freshman in Briscoe Quad on Indiana University’s campus on December 8, 1980. My roommate, a drug-addled boob from Connersville (IN), built a loft in our dorm room to clear my bed and me from the floor so his drug-addled friends had more room for misusing and wasting […]
