Mark Montieth: Rolling the dice
Last year at this time, nobody dreamed IU would have such a luxury, so Purdue fans deserve to be optimistic about Odom.
Last year at this time, nobody dreamed IU would have such a luxury, so Purdue fans deserve to be optimistic about Odom.
At this point, Cignetti is amassing a nation of believers.
Knight, who was introduced as Marian University’s coach in May, will coach the Knights for the first time on Friday in an exhibition game against Indiana University in Bloomington.
Now, finally, they are poised to escape rebuilding purgatory and embark on an era of consistent excellence such as the franchise enjoyed from 1994-2000, when it reached the conference finals five times in a seven-year span.
Bennedict Mathurin learned that the hard way last May when he had to sit and watch his Pacers teammates break through to the Eastern Conference finals before being swept by Boston.
Today’s Big (not) Ten runs wide and shallow. Eighteen teams, as far as 2,800 miles apart.
Purdue and Notre Dame will meet on a football field for the 126th time on Sept. 14, and while every sporting event presents the possibility of a life-changing experience, it’s unlikely anything as momentous as what happened 47 years ago will occur.
It goes without saying then that Bloomington has been a graveyard for the coaches who have dared try to dig the program out of its endless rut.
Nix got his medal by running the first leg of the 4×400-meter relay in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
It’s exhausting, being a revolutionary. And Clark, with no hint of being rebellious, is just that.
Siakam appears more likely than the others to remain a Pacer throughout his contract, despite history’s red flags.
The Pirates life is for him, with the Indians’ major league affiliate in Pittsburgh, and given recent trends, that seems a realistic possibility.
The award doesn’t convey the status it did in the era when winners were told with tongue only slightly planted in cheek that they were now more famous than the governor, because high school basketball doesn’t have the same hold on the public’s attention.
“Blessing” is a word he uses to describe his experiences with this place and this race since he arrived at the speedway in 1965—not to mention the rest of his career.
No other month has captured a greater share of the city’s best memories.
Pickleball is now played as an intramural or club sport in schools, from junior highs to universities.
It seems appropriate the Boilermakers would be playing in the final game on the same day as a total solar eclipse, given the rarity of both events.
The Milan story is basketball’s version of “The Andy Griffith Show” and seems to rerun nearly as often. It reflects wholesome small-town values that never existed as perfectly as our nostalgia-tinted lenses would have us believe but still reminds us of a simpler, more innocent time.
When they pulled the breathing tube out of his mouth the day following his Feb. 16 surgery at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Scot Pollard burst into song.
Shots that once were nicknamed home runs because of their rarity and distance are now sprayed like singles.