Kenny Thompson

Instead of filling out an NCAA tournament bracket this week and losing to someone who picked winners by school mascots, I decided on an eight-team fantasy tournament based on the hometowns of Purdue basketball players. The top seed as voted upon by me is Fort Wayne, which edged Indianapolis for the honor. Both cities have…

Sometimes it feels good to be wrong. When the Purdue men’s basketball team wilted down the stretch, falling from first place to a share of fourth, I figured Big Ten Player of the Year honors would go to someone whose team finished ahead of the Boilermakers and not preseason favorite Braden Smith. Credit the league…

There’s really no such thing as an unbreakable record but some standards are more out of reach than others. In Major League Baseball there’s Cy Young’s 511 victories and Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak. Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game hasn’t been approached by another NBA player. No NFL team has come close to the 73 points…

Barring the unexpected, yet another rewrite to the Purdue men’s basketball record book will take place sometime tonight in Mackey Arena. One season after Zach Edey broke the career scoring and rebounding records that stood for 54 and 44 years, respectively, Braden Smith will supplant Bruce Parkinson’s 48-year-old standard as the Boilermakers’ career assists leader…

Remember when Darrell Hazell was a home run hire for the Purdue football program? “Hazell produced one of the more remarkable feats of 2012, leading Kent State to not only its first bowl game in 40 years but also an 11-win season and MAC championship game appearance,” Stuart Mandel, then with SI.com, wrote. “Hazell ……

Like his five predecessors as Indiana basketball head coach, Mike Woodson was asked to do the impossible: be the second coming of Bob Knight for a fan base that cannot let go of the past. Like Mike Davis, Tom Crean and Archie Miller, Woodson was pressured to step down last week during the midst of…

Last week’s 81-76 victory against Indiana inside Mackey Arena was historical for the Purdue men’s basketball program. Already the winningest school in Big Ten Conference games only (1,047-712), the seventh-ranked Boilermakers moved past the Hoosiers into 10th place on the NCAA’s all-time wins list with 1,946. Victory No. 1,947 came Tuesday night, a 90-81 triumph…

Former Purdue star George Karlaftis and the Kansas City Chiefs can make NFL history Feb. 9 with a victory against the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans. No team has won three consecutive Super Bowl championships. Only three other franchises have played in at least three consecutive Super Bowls: the 1971-73 Miami…

If Purdue football is home to the Cradle of Quarterbacks, shouldn’t the Boilermakers’ basketball program be referred to as Big Man U.? The latest in a long line of talented centers in the Matt Painter era was honored on Monday as the Naismith Men’s College Basketball Player of the Week and Big Ten Player of…

If there were still such a thing as gameday programs, Purdue football fans would need one to figure out who is wearing the gold and black these days. Name a Boilermaker other than running back Devin Mockobee who is expected to suit up this fall? There have been 32 transfer portal entries from last season’s…