by Kent Sterling The Bird/Simon summit has ended and the status quo has been deemed good enough moving forward for the Indiana Pacers. The Pacers announced this afternoon that Larry Bird will return as the president of basketball operations, but no contract extension was announced. David Morway will be back as well in the general […]
by Kent Sterling Indiana Pacers president Larry Legend will duke it out today with owner/mall magnate Herb Simon near Los Angeles to chart the course of Indiana’s favorite NBA franchise. It’s not exactly Ali/Frazier, but this will do. Simon, who was furious at the performance Larry gave in the season postmortem press conference, will try […]
by Kent Sterling Great play-by-play guys don’t come around very often, and more often than not, they tend to bounce from gig to gig, always searching for the next rung on the ladder – to where I don’t know. Mark Boyle has been in Indianapolis calling NBA basketball games for the Pacers for 23 seasons, and […]
by Kent Sterling Mark Boyle is one of the best radio play-by-play voices in professional and college sports, and he is relentless and disciplined in how he works at his craft. The word ‘craft’ is probably a little to high-handed for Mark to accept as a description of what he does, but it is just […]
by Kent Sterling There are some guys we wish could go on forever living life on their terms, and then the body relents and reminds us that it’s not built more much more than a half century of fun and mayhem. I doubt there are 50 people in the world who have had more fun […]
by Kent Sterling Now that Jerry Sloan is gone, no coach has been with the same franchise as long as Mark Boyle has been with the Indiana Pacers. In 20 days, Boyle will call his 2,000th game as the voice that has told the story and painted the picture for every Pacers team since 1988. […]
by Kent Sterling There is some magic in the honeymoon period for a new coach. Fan and players alike believe that anything can happen, and that level of hope can allow teams to achieve beyond their talent. Sports teams and businesses alike need an occasional reboot. An 82-game NBA season can be drudgery. The players […]
by Kent Sterling Eddie White was a sportstalk host who Tom Severino and I hired in 2007 and grew to respect and like very much during our two years together at 1070 the Fan in Indianapolis. No one outworked or outworried him. And no one in any business drank more Diet Pepsi. His skill behind […]
by Kent Sterling If anyone sees Ernest Borgnine driving down the road in his 45-foot motor home, follow him and when he stops take his keys and throw them into a pond. On a Biography Channel piece about Borgnine, it showed him as the happy as a clam navigator of a giant RV. It looked […]
