by Kent Sterling This is the second consecutive year a Butler Bulldog has taken the chance to jump from the Horizon League to THE league, as in the NBA. No one knows where Mack will be drafted, but his roommate and teammate for the past three years has all the confidence in the world in […]
by Kent Sterling Indiana Pacers president Larry Legend will duke it out today with owner/mall magnate Herb Simon near Los Angeles to chart the course of Indiana’s favorite NBA franchise. It’s not exactly Ali/Frazier, but this will do. Simon, who was furious at the performance Larry gave in the season postmortem press conference, will try […]
by Kent Sterling Chum is in the water in Columbus, Ohio, and the sharks are looking for kicking legs. You know when the byline has three names, a newspaper is expending maximum resources toward a story, and that it’s going to result in bad news for the guy in the center of the storm, so […]
by Kent Sterling Ashley works in my wife’s office, and she was excited today when I popped in to say hello. “Did you see the NASCAR fight?” she asked. I have – a bunch of times on ESPN and online. It was impossible to miss because sports fans like drama. Click here to follow Kent […]
by Kent Sterling Next year, the NCAA will force college players to decide whether they will forgo their remaining eligibility to enter the NBA Draft by the middle of April, and that will make it very difficult for a kid and his family to make the right choice. Not everyone deciding to leave college for […]
by Kent Sterling With Shelvin Mack leaving for the NBA, the best team in Horizon League history just lost its best remaining player, but it still remains a special program, and that is going to have to be enough for fans. What they were able to experience the last two seasons was a moment of […]
by Kent Sterling Mark Klein does two thing well – that I’m aware of, stand-up comedy and handicapping the Kentucky Derby. He was kind enough to spend some time with us this morning on “Ahead of the Curve” with Hagan and Sterling. Mark laid it all out, along with some exotic wagers that he hopes […]
by Kent Sterling To be honest, it’s a hell of a lot easier to book guests for two hours a week than 15, so Chris and I put together a stellar lineup week after week, and this morning’s show is no different. Brad Stevens will talk about Shelvin Mack’s NBA Draft eligibility and adding former […]
by Kent Sterling For many years ending in 2009, friends and I attended the Little 500 bike race at Indiana University as students and alums, and we did things that were brash, stupid, funny, and mean-spirited. Many of those things we did, you cannot do today because we did them first. Never an arrest. Never […]
by Kent Sterling In 1986, Julie, the woman who is now my wife worked at a Baskin Robbins in Bloomington, Indiana, and if I had a free couple of hours I would ride my bike alongside her to the ice cream store, and then screw around until her shift ended. Then we would ride back […]
