by Kent Sterling Jeez. Who’s in charge over at Rutgers? Not two months after basketball coach Mike Rice was told to pack a box after years of verbal and physical abuse were revealed in hilarious and horrifying practice videos, Deadspin has uncovered his replacement never earned the degree he has claimed to. Yep. Eddie Jordan […]
by Kent Sterling The quest to get every call right is killing the momentum of a great great, and those interruptions are going to become more frequent during the 2013-2014 college basketball season. Here are the changes, as reported by ESPN: Refs can now go to the monitor in the final two minutes to check […]
by Kent Sterling The commissioner of Major League Baseball will turn 80 before he mercifully retires at the end of the 2014 season. Nothing against Bud Selig, but he’s nearly a half century older than the age of the guy who should have the job. Technology is evolving every 18 months, as is the market […]
by Kent Sterling College is where minor mistakes in judgment can be made without lifelong consequence, and during a visit to Bloomington today I was reminded of two of them. I was ruled by my id in college (see I didn’t just sleep during my psych classes!). If it was fun, I did it. Studying […]
Coach Rick Venturi on What Makes Andrew Luck so Good
by Kent Sterling Covering the St. Louis Rams last year, I didn’t get a chance to watch Colts quarterback Andrew Luck as much as I would have liked. After moving back to Indianapolis, I watched all of his snaps, and I thought he was outstanding in his rookie year and potentially the best in the […]
by Kent Sterling When there were a few more boxes than I would like in our attic, the Sterlings had a family garage sale where we netted $500. Bob Knight is evidently not a fan of garage sales. His junk is available for sale at auction on Steinersports.com. To be fair, there is some one-of-a-kind memorabilia […]
by Bert Beiswanger A few days ago, I wrote a piece praising the excitement in the IZOD IndyCar Series right now and the refreshing new storylines heading into the Month of May and the 2013 Indy 500: Hinchcliffe Puts the Hammer Down Heading to Indy One exciting thing I didn’t touch on is the fact […]
Coach Rick Venturi explains why Tim Tebow can’t start at quarterback in the NFL
by Kent Sterling When I have a question about the NFL, I call Rick Venturi, one of the best and smartest defensive coaches in NFL history. Rick is able to remove all emotion from his analysis from one of the most polarizing figures in today’s NFL. People either love Tebow or are mystified by that […]
Susannah Collins firing shows how tenuous broadcasting careers can be
by Kent Sterling Managers of television and radio stations sometimes stand by their staff when upper management calls for action. Then again, sometimes they don’t. The folks at Comcast Sports Chicago acted quickly when reporter Susannah Collins used the word ‘sex’ instead of ‘success’, as in “the Blackhawks have had a tremendous amount of sex […]
by Kent Sterling Actually, the Indiana Pacers dropped two deuces, two triples, and three free throws in the fourth quarter, more specifically the last 4:48 of the fourth. Until that point, they were scoreless in the quarter. From the time that Jeff Pendergraph reported at 3:04 left in the third for one of the more […]
