by Kent Sterling Life is too short to spend any of it on the New York Jets roster. Rex Ryan is the ringmaster of a dysfunctional circus that draws a crowd of irrational malcontents. He has no chance to succeed because the team is incapable of success. Smith could go 21-of-22, and Jets fans would […]
Polka Boy Opening Biergarten at Rathskeller Means Spring Has Sprung
by Kent Sterling There are events that close Winter every year for people. Some look at the NCAA Basketball Championship as the time to swing from Winter inactivity into garage cleaning, house airing, garden planting, loosening the arm, and unpacking the shorts. For others, it’s the Masters. For the especially impatient, it’s the running of […]
by Kent Sterling No question there is great drama in both the elation and disappointment by the young men on hand for the NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall. Inevitably there are a couple who are blessed by being taken before they were projected, and there is also the annual poor sap who sits […]
by Kent Sterling The Colts hope the extra ‘e’ in Bjoern stands for effort, excellence, and efficiency. The shiniest new Colt was projected much higher in the draft before the pedestrian 4.83 Bjoern Werner ran at the Combine, but football isn’t a track meet. Unique sets of athletic skills yield different levels of productivity on […]
by Kent Sterling One thing Rams fans know for sure is that Rams GM Les Snead and coach Jeff Fisher aren’t concerned with where the NFL decides they should choose in the first round. Last year, they traded down twice to wind up at #14 where they took DT Michael Brockers, and this year they […]
by Bert Beiswanger Times, they are a changing in Muncie. So it seems. The nightmare that has been almost a decade of futility for Ball State basketball appears to be over. After a string of bad hires and poor leadership from the top of the university down through the athletics department, Ball State basketball fans […]
by Kent Sterling My favorite part of the new College Football Playoff is that the official name for it is the College Football Playoff. No one got all Jim Delany clever, as the Big Ten commissioner did with the soon-to-be-abandoned names of its two divisions – Leaders and Legends. Just say what it is, and […]
by Kent Sterling I got my haircut yesterday – always a landmark of futility. Why I bother is anyone’s guess. The guy cutting away is talking about the pride he feels in living in Indianapolis, and I start talking about the differences between Indy, St. Louis, Louisville, and Chicago – the four cities where I […]
by Kent Sterling There are idiots everywhere. Some are just easier to find. I guess we should all thank the super fans for making that process incredibly simple for us. Unless these people are somehow mentally challenged, or are using their pseudo-celebrity for the good of a charity, although I can find no evidence of […]
by Kent Sterling Teams can take nights off from playing defense in the NBA regular season, but rarely do you see a defense as passionless as what the Atlanta Hawks showed last night against the Indiana Pacers. Legs can bounce back, shooting touch can return, and strategic decisions can turn a series, but when heart […]
