Butler's stellar on-court performance drew big crowds to Hinkle Fieldhouse this season. But some still wonder if the Bulldogs
will have enough financially to retain Brad Stevens as coach.
With six days left to vote, it looks like the vote for the Madden 11 cover is down to two. For the first time, fans have a
say in the outcome, but Colts fans may have good reason to cheer against their man this time.
Indy Racing League officials hope to leverage their growing relationship with Brazilian president to attract U.S. President
Barack Obama to the Indy 500. It would mark the first time a sitting president has attended the 100-year-old event.
After years of providing TV viewer ratings for individual sporting events, Nielsen Media Co. today said no more. The new policy
means fans and media now have few ways to gauge success or failure of the IndyCar Series.
A full season of televised games will give franchise a platform to promote attendance at Victory Field.
With 75 percent of its sponsorship deals expiring at the end of last season, there were lots of reasons for the Indianapolis Indians to panic. Instead, the team invested big bucks in Victory Field and had faith its sales staff would come through in the clutch.
The 21-year-old son of Indy 500 champ Bobby Rahal has scoffed at a two-year offer from Dale Coyne Racing, and by doing so
may be endangering the future of open-wheel racing.
While top prospects were on display at yesterday's NFL Combine in Indianapolis, members of the league's competition
committee were hotly debating a rule that could change the game next year.
Indianapolis-based Interactive Motorsports and Entertainment Corp., which went public in 2002, has filed for Chapter 11 reorganization.
The Indianapolis Colts' decision to increase ticket prices in 2010 pulls another $4 million or so of discretionary dollars
out of this small market. It could also inch the team higher above NFL league ticket price average.
Ratings for the Feb. 20 NASCAR Nationwide Series Race, Danica Patrick's second, were down nationally and in the Indianapolis
market compared to the season opener Feb. 13. But Danica has another chance to shine Saturday in Las Vegas.
USA Football officials toured Indianapolis and met major sports brass on Feb. 26 and are considering several local sites,
including the former Citizens Gas facility on the southeast side, to be its new home. The organization, part-owned by the
NFL, is set to move from its Virginia home later this year.
Indiana Pacers officials believe with a late surge they can register their second straight season with an attendance increase.
If the Pacers can boost ticket sales by a few hundred per game, the team would be one of only 10 in the 30-team National Basketball
Association to score an increase.
The ongoing smoking-ban debate is getting a new spark from convention leaders trying to light a fire under
lawmakers, who have been reluctant to approve the kind of comprehensive smoking ban that
health—and now tourism—officials say is needed here.
Some Indiana Pacers fans are upset with Larry Bird for not upgrading the team's roster in front of the Feb. 18 NBA trade
deadline. But team owner Herb Simon and Pacers Sports & Entertainment President Jim Morris believe in Bird's long-range
plan.
Race car driver Paul Tracy said IndyCar fans need to stand up and let series officials know what they want. Meanwhile, Derek Daly said the open-wheel series has turned its back on a generation of new American drivers.
In the 1970s and 1980s tobacco sponsorship cash was auto racing's life blood. Reliance on the money helped kill CART,
and the IndyCar Series is still trying to figure out how to survive without it.
Indianapolis Indians turn traditionally slow night into big money-maker by cutting profit margin at concession stand.
Indianapolis’ largest ad agency has achieved a rare coup in the advertising world, winning back one of its biggest former
clients: flooring and upholstery cleaning firm Stanley Steemer.
The world's most famous golfer made his first public appearance today in three months. But it's difficult to say if
sports fans and sponsors will accept him back with open arms.
