Nothing wrong with IU athletic director Fred Glass’s fast twitch administrative muscles. “Fired Wilson, hired Allen, let’s get lunch!” Indiana Football coach Kevin Wilson resigned today, and I’m pretty sure he was asked to. The cost of that resignation? Exactly $542,000, according to Glass. At least we assume that quid pro quo. Mutually agreed to […]
On the worst day, being a sports talk radio host is a lot of fun. On the great days, it’s magical. Today is one of those magical days. The Hickory Huskers are in Indianapolis to be honored tonight at Bankers Life Fieldhouse by the Indiana Pacers as they play the Phoenix Suns, and I spent […]
Anyone who has read anything I have ever written about college athletics and the relationship between a school and its athletes knows that I err on the side of the athletes. They should be able to control and profit from their images, and if John Calipari and Nick Saban are worth more than $7,000,000 per year […]
What do we do now? If the smiles ever fade, Cubs fans are going to have to figure out how to behave without endless references to 1908 and 1945 ringing in our heads. “Wait ’til next year” is gone – replaced by “This year was was everything I dreamed!” When Kris Bryant made the throw to […]
The dream ends tonight. One way or another, the Cubs run to whatever this will be is going to be over in roughly 12 hours. Then what? What will we obsess about? What memories that have been so fresh over the last month will recess again into our deep subconscious? What excuses will we find […]
The Colts win ugly, and lose uglier. Today, they lost the the Kansas City Chiefs 30-14 in a game where the team that backpedalled the slowest won the race – again. Today’s loss to the Chiefs was virtually without redeeming value. Turnovers, drops, penalties, and an extended Nick Foles sighting made this yet another game […]
Let’s overlook all the “first time since 1945” crap. Been there, done that. Not relevant to the proceedings tonight. Game three will be decided on the field, not in the hearts of Cubs or Indians fans. No positional matchup will compare in importance to that of the starting pitchers. Kyle Hendricks will deal for the […]
So there I sat at Fan Dan’s in Broad Ripple Saturday night crying like a baby – weeping really – after the Chicago Cubs finished off the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series. Time froze, so I’m unsure whether my unsightly emotional outburst lasted 30 seconds or 15 minutes. All I know […]
The dots that may lead from the lieutenant to the general weren’t connected, and so Louisville head basketball coach Rick Pitino will continue preparing his Cardinals for what could be a National Championship season. Former director of basketball operations Andre McGee kept his mouth shut, and Pitino escapes with only a single failure to monitor […]
It had to happen eventually – the Colts have become the type of team they used to mock. For a generation, the Indianapolis Colts were the team that made others pay late. Extraordinary comebacks were routine. The rest of the AFC South gritted their teeth as Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck snatched victory from the jaws […]
