A year later, I still remember the look on the Oklahoma player’s face as they hustled him out a back door at the hotel, hoping no one would notice. A van to whisk him out of town was waiting, and here he came, in a full mask and nearly a hazmat suit. What a way […]
After what’s happened to the Colts, to IU football, to the Pacers, to Butler basketball … well, you’d think the 16th state admitted to the Union is due.
Memories. Chesterton is certainly stacking those up this season.
It is 20 years now since Indiana showed up in the national championship game.
Sightly perturbed to see our striped-helmeted neighbors down Interstate 74 in the game? The Colts keep searching for the secret to building a big winner. Look southeast.
Forty-four schools in Division I basketball this season are coached by former players, and central Indiana has somehow ended up the epicenter of the trend. Nine percent of those 44 are here
Georgia’s 33-18 victory over Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship had to mean so much to Bulldogs everywhere, even Butler’s Blue was probably cheering.
This is your cue, Lucas Oil Stadium. You’re on again. This time for the College Football Playoff National Championship.
You might be barely a teenager, but you’ve seen a lot.
Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl, Wisconsin at Purdue and Ohio State at Indiana are among the choice matchups in the first day of January. Oh, and the College Football Playoff Championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Only two No. 1 teams in the final Associated Press poll in the past 25 NCAA Tournaments have ended up national champions—Kentucky in 2012 and Duke in 2001. Only four of the past 12 even advanced to the Final Four.
The Old Oaken Bucket rivalry will be rekindled this year, and in Indiana’s case, it will be one last chance to find shelter from the Category 5 hurricane this season has become.
Gaze around the state of Indiana landscape in Division I basketball. Find the one and only program voted to win its league this season.
The first rankings from the College Football Playoff committee had the contenders lined up, so now we look at the top names and try to figure out why each would be a good fit for the championship Indy in January.
Bounce, bounce, bounce. Yeah, college basketball is coming.
If you think Stancombe has the playbook down backward and forward by now, just think how well he must know campus. “Like the back of my hand,” Stancombe said.
Clarity. That’s what October is for.
There was a lot of news in the sports world that Tuesday morning.
Wasn’t it just yesterday that Indianapolis was basking in the glow of pulling off the NCAA Tournament, with COVID banging on the door? But the calendar moves on, and now Indy and its 425-person playoff host committee prepares for their next moment of truth on the big stage.
Whoever opens against Seattle September 12—Jacob Eason seems the choice—will be the 11th different quarterback starter in the past 161 games. There are other questions bouncing around the state’s football landscape.
But I’m starting to feel like my old self. I know things are getting back to normal when I feel peanut shells being crunched on my walkways. Funny, the things you miss.
