The Indianapolis Indians have had a good month. The Triple-A Minor League Baseball team signed a rent-free, 20-year lease deal with the city for Victory Field two weeks ago and this week locked up a deal with its parent club.
Andre McGee, a University of Missouri-Kansas City assistant basketball coach, has resigned in the wake of what he called "false allegations" that he arranged sex parties for recruits while he was a coach at Louisville.
The lawsuit seeks class-action status, claiming the career prospects of all University of Louisville students have been hurt by Katina Powell’s book, which alleges she supplied strippers and prostitutes for basketball recruits.
Sales of season tickets, merchandise and sponsorships are all up. Attendance is expected to match—or even exceed—the 2013-2014 season. And the stadium deal the Pacers struck with the city’s Capital Improvement Board last year has freed the franchise to make investments it hopes will pay dividends long term.
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.
Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino vowed that he “will not resign” as investigations continue into allegations that one of his former staffers hired dancers to strip and have sex with recruits and players.
The renovated Mollenkopf Athletic Center would house a locker room, players' lounge, meeting rooms, a sports performance training area, a sports medicine facility and coaches' offices.
The NCAA has decided not to meet with executives from two popular fantasy game websites as part of a plan to distance itself from the industry.
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.
Roderick Perry, senior associate director of athletics for Wright State University, will assume his new role with IUPUI on Jan. 1. He succeeds Michael Moore, who held the job for 19 years.
ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” which aired an interview with Katina Powell on Tuesday, said it received confirmation of her story from five former Louisville basketball players and recruits.
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.
The Indiana Horse Racing Commission is poised to make sweeping changes in the wake of the dismissal of its long-time executive director.
It was the boner heard round the NFL world. Pagano’s Folly. And the question Monday morning is the same one as Sunday night. What was that?
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?
Former National Collegiate Athletic Association student athletes have asked a U.S. appeals court to reconsider its ruling that schools don’t have to pay them beyond covering the cost of their education.
It was a stunning collapse for the previously unflappable Fever, who had staved off elimination five straight times in the playoffs leading into Wednesday night’s loss to the Minnesota Lynx.
The SCCA National Championship Runoffs will take place on the Speedway's road course Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2017.
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.
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.
