Nojel Eastern decided to transfer from Purdue. He communicated that decision on Tuesday. Yesterday (Thursday) it was revealed that he will play for Michigan. This morning on “Breakfast with Kent,” I mocked Eastern’s shooting, saying “If Juwan Howard promised Eastern a green light to shoot, I hope he uses it liberally when Michigan plays Purdue […]
With the draft over and free agency mostly done, Indianapolis Colts GM Chris Ballard has one more big decision to make this offseason – should the Colts meet receiver T.Y. Hilton’s price to sign him to an extension. Ballard should wait until the 2020 season is in the books to pull the trigger on a new deal […]
Here comes college football! There is zero chance Power Five schools will act as one to punt the upcoming college football season. Players want to play, coaches want to coach, and school/conference administrators want money. There is no constituency tethered to college football that would champion a cancellation or suspension of the season, so all that is […]
College athletes get four seasons to compete, and Purdue Basketball player Nojel Eastern appears eager to use his fourth somewhere else. I don’t get it. When I saw the release announcing Eastern is entering the portal, I tried to make sense of it somehow, someway. College athletes often feel the grass is greener somewhere else, […]
Some mistakes are never truly forgotten or forgiven, but rarely does a coach get fired twice for the same infraction as LaSalle assistant Kenny Johnson was yesterday. Johnson was an assistant at Louisville prior to being hired at LaSalle. While on Rick Pitino’s staff, according to testimony from the father of recruit Brian Bowen, he gave $1,300 […]
There is a rule in drama that for every hero, there must be a villain. That’s just the way it is, and no one messes with that construct if they want to sell tickets or get great ratings. The Last Dance has followed that rule through all eight episodes we have seen so far. Michael Jordan is […]
People are upset the Indianapolis Colts will be showcased on prime time only once during the upcoming NFL season. They are insulted that one prime time game will be played in Nashville, Tennessee, and not in our hometown. But I am thrilled. From a pragmatic perspective, it was unreasonable to expect more. The Colts play […]
Every morning I host Breakfast with Kent – a sports related live video – first on Facebook Live and then again on Periscope/Twitter. At the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic, I stayed away from discussing it in any form. Today, I swerved into that polarizing topic because major league sports are in the process of trying […]
“They are going to crush you,” said the father of one of the players that Derrick Rose’s Meanstreets team had crushed in the semifinals of the 2006 Adidas May Classic at Assembly Hall in Bloomington. Under my breath, I told him to kiss my ass. Aloud, I said, “We’ll see.” The Spiece Central Stars had been […]
Cheating in college basketball recruiting is abhorrent because it elevates the result of the game over what should truly matter – the lessons that basketball instills in players and reinforces in fans. It’s not that winning isn’t important, but the magic of the game is the tug of war that exists between the selfish and selfless. Players […]
