After spending the weekend watching youth soccer at Grand Park in Westfield, I can report that youth sports parents are just as crazy, fun, inappropriate, and combative as ever. There is nothing parents care about more than their kids and there are few things they take pride in more than the achievements of those kids […]
Dreams are granted. Dreams are crushed. That’s the NBA Draft in a nutshell. Last night’s draft was filled with fun and surprises, as were the two days prior for fans of the Indiana Pacers. A trade sent one Indy native to Utah of all places, brought home another native, filled a gaping hole at power forward, […]
One hometown hero swapped for another. It’s easy to be conflicted about this deal. We watched George Hill lift an otherwise mediocre Broad Ripple High School team to relevance a decade ago before doing the same thing with IUPUI and helping the Pacers to consecutive Eastern Conference Finals, but we also enjoyed Jeff Teague at […]
June is the time for Indiana sports fans to dream, and today we dream big. The Colts were one win away from a Super Bowl just 17 months ago, Indiana has won the Big Ten twice in the last four years, and the Pacers are coming off a nice bounce back season where they played […]
There is something magical about watching adults experience the level of extreme joy normally reserved for children. It usually happens only in sports, and usually after the end of a severe drought of success. Few cities have ever experienced a lack of championships that stretched more than 50 years. Despite having franchises in three major […]
These are the doldrums for Indiana sports fans, people will say. Between the Indianapolis 500 and first Colts preseason game, those who enjoy sports hibernate a little bit in Indiana. And it’s ridiculous. You might have to look a little harder, but there is so much going on that I have to make a difficult choice […]
Getting a job in sports media in 2016 is impossible – or nearly impossible. The traditional media industry is searching for efficiencies in most places, and that not only means companies aren’t looking for new employees – they are cutting staff. Those folks who have been shown the door are now applying for the same […]
This is an offseason where the Pacers will show their hand as a team that believes it can contend in the East, or one committed to building a roster that might a championship in three years. Pacers president Larry Bird appears to believe that now is the time, or why would he replace the longest tenured coach […]
LeBron James will either win the next three games against the Golden State Warriors, or he will fall to 2-5 in his seven NBA Finals. Regardless, there will be those who love what he represents, and others who do not. Count me as one of those who doesn’t. There is no question LeBron is THE […]
Muhammad Ali is being laid to rest today, and everyone in the world is either privately or publicly eulogizing him. It’s impossible to get any remembrance of Ali exactly right because he was too grand a figure – both as an athlete and cultural leader to capture in mere words. My thoughts of Ali this […]
