ESPN.com posted an interesting two-part series last week focusing on the harm caused by young athletes focusing entirely on basketball. It was well-researched, interesting, and probably scared the hell out of a lot of parents whose kids dream of playing college basketball and maybe even the NBA. One thing it failed to mention is that […]
Sports media yammerers love to say NBA championships will always go to teams in major markets. Every offseason we hear it – again and again – as though we’re talking physics. The world is round. Gravity is a constant. The universe is huge. And small market teams cannot win an NBA championship. Nonsense. Here are the 15 […]
Slavery was horrible – a massive stain on American history. Racism remains a huge and shadowy blight on our society. People are people, and to suggest one group is superior to another because of race is idiocy. But does that mean every American image created prior to the abolition of slavery should bear a stain […]
The Indiana Pacers clearly subscribe to the notion that in basketball the whole needs to outweigh the sum of the parts. In a star driven NBA, teams overpay for celebrity. In Indiana, where celebrity is a meaningless measuring stick for people and players, the Pacers target players concerned with winning rather than Instagram followers. So yesterday, when […]
When I was a kid playing any sport with a ball and scoreboard, parents used games and practices as a babysitter. They napped, partied, played golf, relaxed, or whatever the hell else they felt like doing when kids weren’t bouncing off the walls in their homes and neighborhoods. At my high school soccer games, most […]
Ed Schilling is moving on, according to multiple online reports. Archie Miller’s original staff (Schilling, Bruiser Flint, Tom Ostrom, and Bill Comar) remained intact for two years, and Schilling’s decision to bolt could be explained in a number of ways – Miller is a tough guy to work for, recruiting is a pain in the ass, […]
Radio’s death has been greatly exaggerated for the past 20 years. Since digital audio became a thing, people have been sounding the alarm that traditional radio is on its last legs. Those last legs continue to run, and the reason has nothing to do with closing the tech gap, app growth, or the advantage radio has […]
If you’re looking for hysterics about how the Pacers screwed up by drafting another big, you won’t find it here. Goga Bitadze is coming to the Pacers, and I don’t know what the hell that means. I assume Pacers president Kevin Pritchard and the other big brains in the front office know what they are […]
Colorado youth baseball brawl latest example of sports parenting run amok
A 13 year-old volunteers to umpire a little league game being played by seven year-olds. It’s a recipe for disaster in Lakewood, Colorado. Parents are idiots. This has somehow become our society. It’s not that all games end in brawls, but at virtually every rec or travel league baseball game this summer across America, at […]
Tomorrow’s NBA Draft and the beginning of free agency have prompted a lot of talk about how everyone hopes to play in a vibrant and fun city. Indianapolis, along with Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, Memphis, Detroit, and Cleveland, is often listed among those cities rejected as being uncool. I get it. When the idea of […]
