City’s new pro hockey team to be called Indy Fuel
The Fuel said they are in the process of hiring front-office and coaching staff, signing an affiliation agreement with a NHL franchise, and recruiting players to fill the roster.
The Fuel said they are in the process of hiring front-office and coaching staff, signing an affiliation agreement with a NHL franchise, and recruiting players to fill the roster.
The Indiana State Fair Commission announced Monday that it signed a deal with Indiana Hockey Club LLC, an ECHL expansion franchise that will become an anchor tenant for the fairgrounds’ newly renovated coliseum.
Jim and Meg Irsay announced on Thursday that they had mutually agreed to end their 33-year marriage, and that Jim would maintain 100-percent ownership of the Indianapolis Colts, estimated to be worth $1.2 billion.
One of the players vying to redevelop the former General Motors metal-stamping plant has set aside room in his plans for a roughly 10,000-seat stadium where his own North American Soccer League franchise could play.
The Longtime Indianapolis sports journalist and executive has left the Horizon League to join Pacers Sports & Entertainment as senior vice president of corporate, community and public relations.
At one point, about 80 percent of the households in Indy watching TV Sunday night were tuned to Peyton Manning’s spoiled homecoming.
When Peyton Manning plays, ticket prices double on the secondary market and more people watch the game on television. He has as much influence with consumers as Bill Gates and actor Tom Hanks, a celebrity marketing expert says.
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck got an equity stake to join the sports advisory board of MC10, a technology startup that released its first commercial product in July.
League sources say Indianapolis and Dallas will be among the finalists announced Tuesday for the 2018 Super Bowl. That will pit Colts owner Jim Irsay against powerful Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
The three-year deal will net the new North American Soccer League team Indy Eleven about $1 million over the term of the agreement and will offer the franchise a critical marketing partner.
Team officials have not released details, but the contract is reported to be for five years and worth $80 million-plus.
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck said he wanted to prove himself on the field in the National Football League before pursuing sponsorship opportunities off it.
Merchandise sales for the six NFL teams represented by Indianapolis-based MainGate Inc. is up 27 percent over the same period a year ago. And it could go higher as the company is planning a special line of goods for Peyton Manning's return to Lucas Oil Stadium Oct. 20.
The NFL and more than 4,500 former players want to resolve concussion-related lawsuits with a $765 million settlement that would fund medical exams, concussion-related compensation and medical research, a federal judge said Thursday.
Award-winning filmmaker Ted Green, whose previous documentaries profiled John Wooden, Roger Brown and Indiana war veterans, found Bobby “Slick” Leonard has done basically everything there is to do in basketball.
The Capital Improvement Board of Marion County is prepared to give the Pacers another $11 million to offset losses from operating Bakers Life Fieldhouse as it continues to negotiate a long-term contract with the team.
Both sides of the political aisle are howling that the $6 million transforming Post Road Community Park into the Indianapolis World Sports Park could be better spent. Yet a powerful group of people and organizations says the 48-acre park championed by Mayor Greg Ballard is already paying off and will score even bigger dividends in the future.
Fans are wild about attending Indianapolis Colts’ practices this summer on the campus of Anderson University, but they say they have little interest in sticking around and spending money in the city.
Since the Indians began their affiliation with the Pirates in 2005, they have posted a 668-604 regular-season record, including a 352-289 mark at Victory Field.
The biggest soccer match in Indianapolis history also marked the first time that a natural grass surface was was laid inside the Colts’ stadium.