by Kent Sterling Indiana Pacers coach is the master of telling the media nothing. For a guy who had very little experience dealing with reporters eager to extract an inflammatory quote, Vogel has never indulged the urge to tell the unvarnished truth. Click here to follow Kent Sterling on Twitter If there was ever a […]
by Kent Sterling After the Miami Heat used their home court advantage to bludgeon the Indiana Pacers in Game Seven of the 2013 Eastern Conference Finals, the Pacers made it their goal not to allow it to happen again. And after Heat’s overwhelmingly one-sided 114-93 loss tonight to the Washington Wizards, the Pacers will not […]
by Kent Sterling It’s time for the big money schools to declare independence from the NCAA. Schools not in the big five conferences (Big Ten, ACC, SEC, Pac 12, and Big 12) are served very well through their membership to the NCAA. At that level, the term student-athlete is entire appropriate. The chances of a […]
by Kent Sterling Listening to smart people is vastly underrated, and when Indiana Sports Corporation president Allison Melangton explained to me today the reason Indianapolis is so successful in attracting a relentless stream of huge sporting events as, “We under promise and over deliver,” I thought it’s that kind of smart that makes Indianapolis work. […]
by Kent Sterling Indiana Pacers coach Frank “Iceman” Vogel made the call to rest his starters Wednesday night despite the Pacers training the Miami Heat by only 1/2 game for the top spot in the NBA’s Eastern Conference. The gamble initially paid off as the subs eked out a 104-102 win in Milwaukee. Chris Copeland’s […]
by Kent Sterling University presidents have made the NCAA so completely useless that they have created an alliance of two people normally at total odds about college athletics – Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari and me. Calipari makes so much sense in his new book, “Players First: Coaching From the Inside Out” that I may drive […]
by Kent Sterling Tom Crean played sparingly on his high school’s team, and did not play in college. Yet, he earns $3.16 million per year in one of the plum jobs of basketball coaching in the world at Indiana University. Assembly Hall is no longer home to the kind of elite basketball program that it […]
by Kent Sterling Sadly, firing the owner of a sports franchise is impossible. Cubs owner Tom Ricketts has vaulted himself into the conversation as one of the worst owners in sports, and is closing in on late Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz as the worst in the long and strange history of Chicago professional athletics futility. […]
by Kent Sterling National NBA pundits have to write something, and speculation about the reasons for the devolution of the Indiana Pacers makes for good copy. The Pacers were riding high on January 20th with an NBA best 33-7, enjoying appearances on national talk shows, and leading Sportscenter with their feel good story of a […]
by Kent Sterling Ridiculous. What a basketball game. What it lacked in beauty and rhythm – and it lacked both entirely – the Pacers and Heat made up for in drama. The game came down to a play coach Erik Spoelstra drew up for Chris Bosh. Yes, Chris Bosh. With two seconds left, LeBron James […]
