by Kent Sterling Riding high with an NBA best record of 18-3 and LeBron coming to town tomorrow night, no one would blame the Indiana Pacers for taking today off to rest for their first test of the season from the team that refused them entry into the NBA Finals six months ago. The Pacers […]
by Kent Sterling They were the three best managers of their generation, and their careers as major league managers almost perfectly dovetail one another. It’s entirely appropriate that Bobby Cox, Tony LaRussa, and Joe Torre will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame together on July 27, 2014. They are ranked third, fourth, […]
by Kent Sterling The Rams felt pretty good about quarterback Sam Bradford, so they dealt the number two pick in the 2012 NFL Draft to the Washington Redskins for the sixth pick and a second rounder that year, and the first round picks in 2013 and 2014. That looked like a good deal at the […]
by Kent Sterling (Updated 8:10p to include transcript of Triplette’s post game interview with pool reporter.) Incompetence is tough to hide with cameras following every move from multiple angles, and ironically it was the work of the cameras on a play at the end of the first half of the Indianapolis Colts vs. Cincinnati Bengals […]
by Kent Sterling For a long time I was paid a righteous amount of money for executing the wide variety of tasks necessary for talk radio station programming departments to function at a high level. But just as an athlete has a predetermined number of games his body will allow him to play, I had […]
Sports Grab Bag: College Football Championships, Grantland and the Pacers, Pete Lembo and Boyle
by Bert Beiswanger I started working on a piece involving the Pacers and scenarios for how they deal with Danny Granger, but I couldn’t get a handful of other sports topics out of my head this morning. I’ll elaborate on the Pacers/Granger in a separate column soon, but it’s Saturday morning and a perfect time […]
by Kent Sterling “Now batting for ‘Ahead of the Curve’ on 1070 the Fan, Bob Kravitz, Kravitz.” You can almost hear the resonant voice of the late New York Yankees public address announcer Bob Sheppard announcing Kravitz as the pinch hitter for Fox 59’s Chris Hagan as my co-host, can’t you? Well, I can. Award winning […]
by Kent Sterling This is an intriguing game because it will go a long way toward settling which soon-to-be division champ will be the #3 seed because the Indianapolis Colts and Cincinnati Bengals were built with radically different strategies. It will also be a validation for one of two teams built in very different ways. […]
by Kent Sterling The very best thing that could happen for the Seattle Mariners is that 31-year old second baseman Robinson Cano flunks his physical of Monday, and will be forced to pass on the ludicrous cash they are willing to pony up for his services. It’s not that Cano won’t be worth $25 million […]
by Kent Sterling Indianapolis Colts running back Trent Richardson did what men do yesterday. He took responsibility for his lackluster performance in his quotes to Mike Wells in an espn.com post. Adversity reveals character, and Colts running back Trent Richardson showed some. In “Hoosiers,” Myra Fleener’s mom tells Norman Dale, “The sun don’t shine on the same […]
