When it comes to basketball coaching greats with Indiana ties, the question is not where to start the list—John Wooden,
Bob Knight, Tony Hinkle and Bobby Leonard would qualify as an initial Mount Rushmore—but where to end it. Among
women, the list is significantly shorter, but there’s one name that would be right at the top.
A year ago, we opened Lucas Oil Stadium. We’ve been arguing about it ever since.
Coach Caldwell knows that his success rides on No. 18’s taking the snaps.
Ten years ago this week, the National Collegiate Athletic Association opened the doors to its new headquarters in White River
State Park.
On the eve of the U.S. Senior Open Golf Championship that will be played at Carmel’s Crooked Stick Golf Club, designer
Pete Dye’s first great masterpiece, I was fortunate to be invited to play his latest creation and maybe one of his greatest.
A few years ago, when cyclist extraordinaire Lance Armstrong was in the midst of his phenomenal seven
straight Tour de France titles, those yellow Livestrong bands seemed ubiquitous. But when Armstrong left
competitive cycling, gradually those rubber yellow bands faded from view. I kept wearing mine, however, to remind me of the
courage of my mother, Emma.
Reports of a Hulman-George family feud proved dead-on accurate when matriarch Mari Hulman-George issued a statement June
30 confirming the ouster of her son, Tony, as CEO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the family business empire. Shortly
thereafter, Tony George also resigned as CEO of the Indy Racing League.
Last week’s column about the wide array of events on our July sports calendar in Indy was glaringly lacking in
one aspect: The Indiana Fever. As of this writing, they are the hottest team in the WNBA, reversing an
0-2 start and racing to six straight victories.
Last week’s column about the wide array of events on our July sports calendar in Indy was glaringly lacking in one aspect: The Indiana Fever. As of this writing, they are the hottest team in the WNBA, reversing an 0-2 start and racing to six straight victories. The streak put the Fever in first place […]
For all the heat and sunshine, July can be a cold, dark hole in the Indianapolis
sports calendar. Other than the ever-beloved Indianapolis Indians, sometimes there’s not much going on.
For all the heat and sunshine, July can be a cold, dark hole in the Indianapolis sports calendar. Other than the everbeloved Indianapolis Indians, sometimes there’s not much going on. Not this July. This month marks the arrival of two national championships (golf’s U.S. Senior Open and swimming) to join with the Indianapolis Tennis Championships […]
SPORTS Sports questions of all sorts as I ponder the future Ch-ch-ch-changes, sang David Bowie. Questions that arise while pondering future ch-ch-chchanges in sports: If we are seeing the beginning of the end of the internal combustion engine, how does that affect the Indianapolis 500 in particular and motorsports in general? Will we see a […]
Ch-ch-ch-changes, sang David Bowie. Questions that arise while pondering future ch-ch-chchanges in sports: If we are seeing the beginning of the end of the internal combustion engine, how does that affect the Indianapolis 500 in particular and motorsports in general? Will we see a day in which either hybrid, totally battery-powered, hydrogen-powered, or natural gas-powered […]
Indianapolis is more than up to the task of hosting the Super Bowl.
“I’m biased,” Hizzoner said recently, “but I think Indianapolis winning the Super Bowl bid in 2012 was nothing short of spectacular.” That makes two of us, Mayor Ballard. Both in bias and thought. It was indeed a spectacular victory for our city on that May day in 2008, capstone of a 30-year effort to use […]
The Indiana Fever still haven’t taken hold of this market, despite making the playoffs each of the last four years and twice
reaching the conference finals.
We have seen our fair share of teams come and go from the Indianapolis landscape. Once upon a time, there were the Indiana Loves of World Team Tennis, the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association (for whom a 17-year-old Wayne Gretzky scored his first professional goal), the Indiana Firebirds of the Arena Football League, […]
I went away after the Indianapolis 500 once again convinced I’d experienced the Greatest Spectacle in Racing, but I didn’t
view the race with a critical eye like my pal Robin Miller did.
Of this and that while wondering what happened to the month of May: Rex Early, former Marion County Republican chairman, is the author of one of my all-time-favorite lines. Said Rex, “It’s a mighty thin pancake that doesn’t have two sides.” Early even wrote a book using that as the title. So it was that […]
The media and other hackers gathered at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel recently to hear about plans for the upcoming U.S.
Men’s Senior Open, then tested their limited skills on the golf course.
