Author Archives: Frank Therber

Yogi Ferrell ends high school career with back-to-back state championships

INDIANAPOLIS — 2012 Indiana basketball commit Yogi Ferrell saw his high school basketball career end in familiar fashion Saturday afternoon at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

Not only was the setting familiar, but his stat line was also a flashback to his sophomore and junior seasons.

Ferrell scored 17 points, grabbed nine rebounds and recorded two steals to go along with his state championship 12 assists in …

As football evolves, Brian Kelly instills hope at Notre Dame

Six games into the 2011 season, it seems as if Notre Dame football has finally found its identity after dropping its first two games of the year to South Florida and Michigan.

Sitting at 4-2, Notre Dame and its fans have found themselves back in the BCS race with realistic aspirations of the type of season so many expected in South Bend. And this time, …

Heinous Maryland uniforms prove it’s more about business than tradition

How would you feel if you’re team wore these outfits in place of their typical uniforms? Ugly, hideous, embarrassing.

Nike, Adidas, and now Under Armour all set out to see who can gain the most attention with various uniforms that are totally outrageous. All three companies have expanded their normal college football gear in select schools and pitiful.

Phil Knight of Nike began this whole …

College is easier for an athlete – or is it?

It’s easy to think that in this day and age, athletes have it easier — exponentially easier — than your average student. In fact, on the surface, it’s almost hard not to think that.

When the public only hears about agent-organized parties, discounted 2011 Pontiacs and leased beach houses along the Southern California waterfront, it’s a no-brainer to conclude athletes are living the life of …

Despite NFL lockout over, teams battling through ‘organized chaos’


Now that a sort of relative decency has finally set in among franchise owners — and, yes, some of the players sitting across the table — it’s time to get back to the 2011 NFL offseason that should have begun months ago.

Slated to begin August 4, the start of the NFL league year will mark one of the most frenzied and shortest official offseasons …

It’s time for Coach Knight to forgive IU

One of two things has happened during the last three or four years. Either someone forgot to send the memo to Bob Knight that it was time to get back to reality, or the three-time national champion and all-time Division I wins leader decided long ago he’d let his arrogance take center stage.

On June 18, IU saw one of its glory boys return to …

Public holds misinformed view of lockout’s good and bad guys

Here we sit in the third month of the NFL lockout, and it seems as if not much has improved.

Judging from the media scrutiny and daily reports surrounding the talks — or lack thereof — nothing really has changed since the Collective Bargaining Agreement expired.

One of the few measurable things continuing to change from the public’s perspective is its increasing hostility towards the …

Buckeye turmoil – Jim Tressel failed to practice what he preached

What has taken place in Columbus, Ohio over the last six months, but especially over the last four days, is nothing less than a crying shame.

A crying shame for the landscape of college athletics and college football, which is arguably the new American pastime thanks to baseball’s downfall.

A crying shame for Terrelle Pryor, once the most prized recruit in the game’s recent history, …