By CHUCK SAMPLES ISL Correspondent – Boston is healing. Yes, I know, I can’t say that with any legitimacy whatsoever. But it sure looked like it if you saw the pregame activities of the Bruins-Sabres hockey game last night. Something unprecedented happened, and it didn’t take long to develop. Before the second stanza of the […]
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From Purdue Athletics WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue football team met for the final time as a group this semester and head coach Darrell Hazell announced the winners of the spring awards. Started under Joe Tiller in 1997, Hazell and his staff continued the tradition by naming Most Improved, Newcomer, Pit Bull and Hammer […]
From the Indiana Fever INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Fever selected California guard Layshia Clarendon and a pair of forwards during the 2013 WNBA Draft presented by State Farm. Led by Clarendon as its first-round selection (ninth overall), the Fever also chose Georgia’s Jasmine Hassell (21st overall) and Jennifer George (33rd overall) of Florida. Clarendon, an […]
By CLIFF BRUNT ISL Founder In early March, at the height of Sandi-mania, I decided to have a little fun with Purdue fans. I asked them to come up with alternate nicknames for Sandi “Chooch” Marcius. This, of course, was after his hustle-laden efforts against Northwestern, Wisconsin and Michigan left the faithful begging for more, […]
Jim Johnson and Cliff Brunt at the 2012 Indianapolis 500. Founder’s note: After being laid off in 2012, I was re-hired by The Associated Press in Jan. 2014 as a sports writer in Oklahoma City. As a result, I’ll add an 11th thing to this list: Never burn bridges. I faithfully worked as a […]
By CLIFF BRUNT ISL Founder Note: Cliff Brunt covered the Indiana Pacers for seven years for The Associated Press and Indiana University basketball this past season for The Sports XChange (Reuters) and his website, Indy Sports Legends. With Indiana’s Cody Zeller and Victor Oladipo heading to the NBA, here is Brunt’s assessment of what their chances of […]
By CHUCK SAMPLES ISL Correspondent During my teenage years, I knew I was in big trouble when my dad told me, “You’ve got some explaining to do.” Simply because I was a teenager and also because my dad and I saw eye to eye on practically nothing, I heard that a lot for about a […]
From Butler Athletics INDIANAPOLIS, IND. — Former player and coach Brandon Miller is returning to Butler. Miller has been named assistant men’s basketball coach for the Bulldogs, filling the spot that opened when Associate Head Coach Matthew Graves left to become head coach at South Alabama. Miller, whose resume includes stops at Illinois, Ohio State […]
By CLIFF BRUNT ISL Editor The Big Ten was a powerhouse during the non-conference season and a dominant force in the national rankings throughout January and February. Now, it’s hanging by a thread. Michigan is the conference’s only hope in the Final Four. Yes, Michigan. The same team that needed an out-of-this-world second-half performance by national player of […]
By CLIFF BRUNT ISL Editor I know, the word legend gets thrown around quite a bit. Heck, I used it in the title of the very site you’re reading. I believe you can get away with that in Indiana, though, because that word applies quite often here. It makes sense. Legend applied to the coaching […]
By CHUCK SAMPLES ISL Correspondent How busted is your bracket these days? Maybe I should ask what’s in your wallet, but I can pretty much guarantee there ain’t as much in there now as there was last week. And however much you spent on your pool, you ain’t getting it back. Wow. Talk about a crazy week […]
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