by Bert Beiswanger So, five games into the season and discussions have already started with friends of mine about how good the Colts are coming off the solid win against Seattle last Sunday. With so many blue faithful giddy after the win, it’s a fair discussion. As can be the case with these types of […]
Five Days After the Play, ESPN Still Can’t Tell Difference Between Seahawks Hauschka and Ryan
by Kent Sterling Last Sunday, former Indianapolis Colt Lawrence Guy blocked a Seattle Seahawks field goal attempt by kicker Steven Hauschka, and Delano Howell scooped it up and returned it for a Colts touchdown. The weird part of the play, the part that ESPN anointed as part of it’s top ten plays of the week, […]
by Kent Sterling The group who will decide the four programs that will be invited to compete in the first college football championship in the winter of 2014 will be filled with big name experts on a variety of things – football among them. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter Former Secretary of State […]
by Kent Sterling On a Saturday night 10 years ago, I had a party. A houseful of people watched the Chicago Cubs throttle the Florida Marlins 8-3 at Pro Player Stadium to inch within one game of their first trip to the World Series in 58 years. When Jeff Conine grounded out to short against […]
by Kent Sterling The St. Louis Cardinals do it right. What do they do right? Everything. From the front office to the vendors to hitting the cut-off man to supporting teammates, the Cardinals are a team and business that works hard everyday to treat St. Louis fans to the baseball and with the respect they […]
by Kent Sterling The Associated Press is really good at providing dry game recaps, and other nondescript pieces that help newspapers fill its pages with relevance. What it rarely does is rage against a player, team, or league – until what happened at IndyCar’s Grand Prix of Houston got wedged between the APs Jenna Fryer’s […]
by Kent Sterling Anyone surprised that Joe Girardi decided to stick with the New York Yankees is a moron. The only hope the Cubs of had of landing the only decent manager with any interest in the job had was that the Yankees would be so dissatisfied with an 85-win season that they might tell […]
by Kent Sterling Asking high school kids to calmly shake hands seconds after a hotly contested game is an unrealistic request. It has always been ridiculous, and those who mandate that it occurs lack an elementary understanding of the way a competitive teenager’s brain functions. The Kentucky High School Athletic Association took a step in […]
by Kent Sterling There was a time that the dream of Indianapolis hosting a Super Bowl was reserved for psychotics, malcontents, and idiots. Anyone who watched the people of this city wander (it was a directive on Indiana license plates for a brief time) aimlessly through the almost completely empty downtown couldn’t imagine Indy hosting […]
by Kent Sterling You have to hand it to those who work at the University of North Carolina. They are a moralistic bunch, even if the coaches hired to lead the student athletes there are lacking in that area. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter Jack Halperin has tutored student-athletes at UNC for 23 […]
