Big 10 commissioner Jim Delany is in the process of receiving a $20 million bonus for his work leading the conference’s athletic departments to unprecedented profitability. That’s a lot of cash – even for a visionary who saw the road to massive earnings through launching the Big Ten Network. During a time when the debate […]
It’s not like NASCAR and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway are conspiring to bore us every July. They don’t want the Brickyard 400 to suck any more than we do. But it does, and watching it rewards only our ability to endure tedium. Six hours and nine minutes. That’s how long it took yesterday’s Brickyard 400 […]
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt. — ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Paul George must have been napping in the back of the classroom when funny things Lincoln might have said were discussed. Every time George speaks, he conveys what is best kept hidden. Over the last 48 […]
Gone are Paul George, Jeff Teague, Monte Ellis, Rodney Stuckey, C.J. Miles, Lavoy Allen, Aaron Brooks and Rakeem Christmas. Those players represent roughly 75 points per game, and played more than half the minutes for the Indiana Pacers last year. Replacing them are players both familiar and not so much like Victor Oladipo, Bojan Bodganovich, […]
Brownsburg native Gordon Hayward made it official tonight. He’s going to become a Boston Celtic. Who can blame him? Chasing a trophy in Salt Lake City is a fool’s errand. Hayward knew it, so he’s heading east in the hopes that LeBron can’t get to an eighth straight Eastern Conference Finals. Even John Stockton and […]
Paul George for Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis. That’s the trade the Indiana Pacers and OKC Thunder agreed to late last night. Fans in OKC are thrilled, and all but the delusional in Indiana are deflated. The truth is that neither set of fans should be cranked or despondent because it really doesn’t make any difference. […]
“He’s an idiot!” That’s what Syracuse basketball coach said yesterday when asked about Tom Crean’s draft night assessment of former Orangeman forward Tyler Lydon. Lydon was selected 24th in last week’s NBA Draft, and Crean questioned the wisdom of the pick during The Vertical’s draft night webcast, “The whole strength is supposed to be the shooting, […]
Jim Irsay lives a good life as the owner of the Indianapolis Colts. He has virtually limitless wealth, which allows for access to all kinds of fun you and I don’t even know exists. Best of all, Irsay is completely unbound by consequences that keep you and I on the straight and narrow. Irsay has […]
Timing is everything. In the stock market, prices surge and recede based upon all kinds of conditions – some seen and understood by investors, and some not. Get out at the right time, and pay off your house. Wait too long or pull the trigger too soon, and your kids go to work instead of […]
A Leaf blew into Indianapolis during the first round of the NBA Draft as though it’s already Autumn, and time for training camp to start. T.J. Leaf will return to his family’s hometown as he begins what Pacers fans hope is a long and prosperous career. There are some good to great things about T.J. Leaf […]
