by Kent Sterling UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma is adept at a lot of things – solid x’s and o’s coach, great brand builder, and as a result a magnificent recruiter – but his greatest talent is manipulating the media into positive coverage for the Huskies. While the media climbs all over itself to […]
Breakfast with Kent – Re-Pete’s Seahawks thrash Pack; Big Ten’s big weekend; Colts Luck needed; Geno Auriemma gains media
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by Kent Sterling Tennis used to be big in America. Kids took lessons and played for fun. Athletes from the United States won tournaments – major tournaments. Now, other than the Williams sisters, who are quickly closing in on retirement, there are no Americans posing a threat to win any of the majors, and a […]
by Kent Sterling The number of people being warehoused in American prisons and jails continues to skyrocket because American justice is more about assessing punishment than causing behavioral change. Similarly, the NFL’s system of discipline is designed to impress fans with its severity, rather than enlighten and enrich. So Colts owner Jim Irsay was suspended […]
by Kent Sterling As people get older, they hear nature’s clock ticking more and more loudly. For a few, the result of that incessant clacking is a yearning to imbue the young and stupid with wisdom that can only be gained through experience. Indianapolis Colts all-time sack leader Robert Mathis was once a young stud […]
by Kent Sterling There is no season quite as silly as the period between the opening of football training camps and the regular season opener. We try to read tea leaves to figure out what the hell might happen, and no one is wrong because the measure for success is 100% subjective. Now, we get […]
by Kent Sterling Unhappily lost in a maze of perplexing classes and crowded parties, I got very lucky on August 30, 1984, when an almost always smiling force of nature danced into my life. At a party in Walnut Knolls apartment D-19, college students were doing a lot of what college students normally do on […]
by Bert Beiswanger As the college football season kicks off, I could spend some time pointing out the most entertaining and intriguing Week 1 match-ups to get the season rolling: Texas A&M-South Carolina on the newly-formed SEC network (which was actually a dud last night), Wisconsin-LSU, Clemson-Georgia, Ball State-Colgate (I’m kidding), IU-Indiana State (I’m kidding, […]
by Kent Sterling Cripes. Can’t somebody just talk without evoking the kind of pedantic legalese bureaucrats habitually use to cover their asses? Jackson Boyer, a walk-on freshman receiver for his hometown’s University of North Carolina’s football team, suffered a concussion from which he is still recovering because of an incident that resulted in the suspension […]
by Kent Sterling The truth is never as far away from being discovered as liars believe it to be, and if the truth is something other than Southern Cal cornerback Josh Shaw’s tale of heroism in rescuing his nephew, his life is about to take a drastic and unsavory turn. Shaw’s original explanation for his […]
