Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard’s administration has chosen five local contractors to run 12 municipal golf courses for
the next 10 years, and expects to get $6.3 million in capital improvements out of the deal.
Jim Irsay and Peyton Manning could earn huge financial rewards if the Indianapolis Colts complete a perfect season. NFL brass
putting pressure on team to try.
New Brickyard boss may realize that the cost of financing the Indy Racing League is outstripping the shrinking profits of
the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
According to a statement released Tuesday afternoon, the Big Ten Council of Presidents/Chancellors “believes that the timing
is right for the conference to once again conduct a thorough evaluation of options for conference structure and expansion.”
Belt tightening for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Indy Racing League continues with the much-anticipated announcement
that the Brickyard’s "month of May" activities will be shortened in 2010.
IUPUI says it needs about $15 million to renovate the aging Natatorium swimming complex and wants the city’s Capital Improvement Board to fund part of the expense.
In some strange way, Indianapolis may have Raiders owner Al Davis to thank for having the winningest team this decade.
Some people still ask why L.A. didn’t lasso the Colts when it had the chance.
For the first time in almost five decades a wingless race car may be returning to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the Indy
Racing League seriously ponders bold, new changes to its chassis formula for 2012.
For the first time in nearly five decades, a wingless car could circle the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Indy Racing League is studying a radical new chassis design for 2012.
With the move, IBE hopes to rejuvenate the annual football game and related events, which have been suffering from declining attendance.
The NCAA might expand its annual men’s tournament from the current three-week, 65-team format
to one featuring an added week and a whopping 96 teams. Proponents of the plan say it will generate a bigger
television rights-fee deal for the not-for-profit NCAA, which disperses 95 percent of the income to member institutions.
Talk of expanding the NCAA tournament is almost always done in public, most notably by Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim in 2006.
Now, the Indianapolis-based NCAA is looking into it behind closed doors—at least preliminarily.
MainGate holds an exclusive license to make and sell Patrick’s IRL-centric merchandise, and is
now in negotiations with New York-based IMG to get part of her NASCAR-related business.
Thirty years ago, the first so-called “sports commission” came into being. The rest is Indianapolis history.
The show held in Indianapolis Dec. 3-4 is picking up speed much faster than event organizers and local
convention and tourism officials expected. But the nation’s biggest motorsports trade show, Performance
Racing Industry Show, is considering competing with the local show head-on in 2010.
There’s more than free shots of whiskey at the annual winter baseball meetings held this week at the Indiana Convention Center.
There’s a song and dance man wearing nerd glasses and another who does amazing things with a saw and sander.
A familiar face is leading Danica Patrick’s charge into NASCAR. But it could be a bumpy ride.
Last week, Patrick signed a three-year contract extension with Andretti Autosport to stay in the IndyCar series, but its schedule
gives her enough time to also try NASCAR.
Indianapolis Colts’ linebacker Gary Brackett has what it takes to be the next NFL defender to hit commerical pay dirt. A Super
Bowl victory could put him over the top.
