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Kim and Todd Saxton: Go for the gold! But maybe not every time.
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Q&A: What you need to know about the CDC’s new mask guidance
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Carmel distiller turns hand sanitizer pivot into a community fundraising platform
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Lebanon considering creating $13.7M in trails, green space for business park
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Local senior-living complex more than doubles assisted-living units in $5M expansion
Speedway rolls out $1,750 club seats
If all the seats in the new club area are sold, more than $1.75 million in additional revenue will be generated next year for the Speedway.
Insurer to be title sponsor of IU Radio Network
The Indiana University Radio Network will have a new name when the men’s basketball team kicks off its season Friday at Eastern Illinois. Ohio-based CareSource has signed a deal with Learfield Sports to be the network’s first title sponsor.
Manning-themed beer hits market, Mountain Dew sponsors Pacers’ fan space
Indianapolis microbrewery Tow Yard Brewing Co. and Denver-based Factotum Brewhouse are partnering to make a Peyton Manning-themed beer—named Oatmaha—ahead of this Sunday’s Broncos-Colts clash at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Boston mayor becoming upset with IndyCar officials
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh is giving IndyCar Series officials and their race promoter two weeks to finalize deals with Massachusetts state agencies needed to run a street race on Labor Day weekend. If that's not done, the race could be shelved.
Colts set to break ground on $3.2M training complex expansion
The Indianapolis Colts are adding a swimming pool and administrative office space as well as expanding the cramped lobby at its 30-year-old training facility.
IndyCar driver featured in children’s book aimed at finding next-generation fans
Josef Newgarden is teaming with Charlotte, North Carolina-based content development firm, Apex Legends, to publish a children’s book, “Josef, The IndyCar Driver,” that he hopes will not only teach youngsters to love reading—but racing as well.
Pacers, Sun King partner to launch Tip-Off Ale
Pacers and Sun King officials think the commemorative blue-and-gold cans will be as popular at Bankers Life Fieldhouse this season as the beer inside. The new brew debuts Thursday.
Statehouse lobbyist starts campaign to attach asterisk to Patriots’ record
Indianapolis resident Jim Purucker has launched a bold marketing plan to get the attention of NFL executives. He’s already drawn the ire of New England Patriots fans.
Hickory-themed Pacers items becoming hot sellers worldwide
Hickory merchandise has been sold and shipped to fans in 41 states and seven countries as the Indiana Pacer's merchandise sales surged 55 percent in August compared to the same period a year ago. Team officials think sales could get even hotter.
Author Katina Powell talks to ABC, ESPN—not UofL or NCAA
Powell, who wrote a book alleging that prostitutes and strippers were used to lure recruits to the University of Louisville basketball program, makes her first national media appearances this week. Amazingly she still hasn't talked to NCAA investigators.
Statewide marketing plan aims to draw horse farms, bettors
The Indiana Horse Racing Commission is poised to make sweeping changes in the wake of the dismissal of its long-time executive director.
Patriots may get revenge against Colts, but that won’t make them righteous
Members of the national media have labeled the Indianapolis Colts, and General Manager Ryan Grigson in particular, as instigators of the DeflateGate fiasco. And for that, Jackie MacMullan says on ESPN, it's time for the Colts to pay the price. How messed up is that logic?
Emmis adds third sports-talk radio station to its Indy arsenal
Emmis Communications Corp. has bought another radio station from Frankfort-based Kaspar Broadcasting and is set to simulcast all of its local shows on the FM dial. Most of its ESPN national content will be broadcast on a sister FM station, which will be re-branded.
Patriots fans mimic stoic coach, shrug off rivalry with Colts
New England Patriots fans have taken a page out of Bill Belichick's playbook, and are shurgging off any notion of a rivalry with Indianapolis. The smugness is bound to make Colts fans even madder.
Report: OSU freshman confirms escort’s story about U of L recruiting transgressions
Katina Powell voiced confidence on Wednesday to her Indianapolis-based book publisher that her unsavory story about strippers, prostitutes and the University of Louisville basketball program was about to be confirmed. She was right.
WISH-TV adds Chicago Blackhawks to growing stable of sports programming
WISH-TV Channel 8—and its sister station WNDY-TV—continue to add sports programming to their offerings and in the process may become the go-to stations for Chicago area transplants.
Reporters’ tweets in response to Lucas Oil Stadium incident unfortunate
Graham Watson, Joey Chandler and Katie McInerney were at the Colts-Jaguars game Sunday as part of an Associated Press Sports Editors diversity fellowship weekend. The first lesson for Watson and Chandler might be to appreciate diversity in all its forms.
Katina Powell: ‘This story is the truth’
In a lengthy interview before publication of "Breaking Cardinal Rules," former stripper and escort Katina Powell said she expects many people will be critical of her for arranging sex with University of Louisville recruits but that she did it to survive.