by Kent Sterling Michigan fans are sick and tired of losing. Since firing Lloyd Carr for winning only 9.4 games per season from 1995 thru 2007, Michigan has posted a 43-38 record under Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke. That’s an average of less than seven wins a season. The frustration that accompanies that level of […]
by Kent Sterling Life is short, so when people ask me to do something that can cause no damage to my health or the well-being of my family, I say yes. That philosophy has given me a wide breadth of experiences, and I’ve enjoyed most of them, so when I got an email yesterday from […]
by Kent Sterling Not sure what ESPN pundit Bill Simmons was trying to accomplish when he called NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a liar, and dared ESPN management to punish him for doing so, but if he wanted some time off – mission accomplished. Simmons has been suspended for three weeks because of a rant in […]
by Kent Sterling Always trying to be the clever guy who doesn’t have the wait in line, I ran over to the AT&T Store this morning to pick up a new iPhone 6. Why not the Apple Store at the Fashion Mall? Because I thought the rabble would head there, and who would think to […]
by Kent Sterling First, the good news – veteran broadcaster Steve Simpson has been hired to inform and inspire Minnesotans at heritage news/talk WCCO in the Twin Cities. The bad news for Indianapolis radio listeners is that Simpson will be doing the thing in Minnesota that he has done so well here for the last […]
by Kent Sterling What in the hell goes on in the minds of young men with 895,000 twitter followers when they decide to tweet whatever idiocy pops into their minds early in the morning. Indiana Pacers forward Paul George decided to weigh in on the Ray Rice issue this morning, has pulled the offensive tweets, […]
by Kent Sterling UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma is adept at a lot of things – solid x’s and o’s coach, great brand builder, and as a result a magnificent recruiter – but his greatest talent is manipulating the media into positive coverage for the Huskies. While the media climbs all over itself to […]
Breakfast with Kent – Re-Pete’s Seahawks thrash Pack; Big Ten’s big weekend; Colts Luck needed; Geno Auriemma gains media
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by Kent Sterling The truth is never as far away from being discovered as liars believe it to be, and if the truth is something other than Southern Cal cornerback Josh Shaw’s tale of heroism in rescuing his nephew, his life is about to take a drastic and unsavory turn. Shaw’s original explanation for his […]
by Kent Sterling Anthony Schottle of the Indianapolis Business Journal does a great job covering media in central Indiana. He’s accurate, fair, and actually transcribes quotes accurately – a major point of differentiation between him and several of the other guys doing the same job in other markets. When he called on Thursday to talk […]
