Colts quarterback Andrew Luck will miss the next three days of work at training camp and will not play the preseason opener in Buffalo, according to coach Frank Reich. The decision to sit Luck in Buffalo was made three months ago, but the adjustment in his practice schedule came due to pain in the calf […]
The Cubs have a decision. Exercise patience, hoping the team magically finds the exuberance that made them so much fun to watch from 2015 to 2017, or sell some parts to restock a depleted farm system. The trade deadline is two days away and president Theo Epstein could try to find a piece of two […]
What better way for a manager to tell a general manager the bullpen sucks than expose one of the pitchers who comprise it? That may be exactly what Cubs manager Joe Maddon did last Sunday when he brought in Carl Edwards Jr. with two outs and two on in the top of the ninth inning […]
People who make bad decisions – or exhibit a lack of behavioral control – in one area will likely make them in others. Such is the case with Cubs second baseman Addison Russell, who was accused in social media posts by his ex-wife of general idiocy that included physical abuse and emotional terror. Russell was suspended […]
Lot of jokes about DePaul cheating its way to the bottom of the Big East because the NCAA Committee on Infractions levied some mostly meaningless penalties against the Chicago school’s basketball program. I enjoy a good joke at DePaul’s expense myself, but the joke is that the NCAA smited a program that did nothing more […]
Colts GM Chris Ballard and coach Frank Reich are running the Colts as a meritocracy. You excel, you earn. That’s the way the NFL works. If Player B outplays Player A, Player B gets snaps and Player A sits. Ballard has shown a proclivity toward drafting very talented and driven players who push veterans, and […]
As a man, Dan Le Batard did the right thing by voicing his opinion about President Donald Trump’s tweets. As an ESPN employee, he asked for trouble by doing it on his radio show. Le Batard will not host his radio show today. Whether that was his choice or ESPN’s is unclear, but his absence […]
Sports media is a tough business. Talk to anyone who’s trying to make a career out of talking or writing about sports, and they will tell you. Few media companies are in growth mode – most are continually shaving payroll and staff. Having a job is a win. Keeping it is another win. Having a […]
Indiana University Football has been an oxymoron since the beginning. Minus a few glorious years under Bo McMillan and Bill Mallory, and that glorious run to the Rose Bowl in 1967 that virtually no one alive can remember, IU and football have never gone together. Big 10 Football Media Days begin at Noon today, and […]
This is Indiana! IU Basketball fans say “This is Indiana” a lot – as though evoking the name of the university and state that takes such pride in its basketball heritage can shake off the rubble and cobwebs of a program that has receded into national irrelevance over the past quarter century. During that 25-year period, […]
