The Indy Racing League’s foray into Edmonton is looking good.
Sources on the ground there for this weekend’s race report that IRL race signage and promotional material posted by city officials is evident along streets,…
Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Tony George’s open-wheel racing enterprise has gotten a boost from its fendered brethren that few outside racing circles are aware of.
So powerful is the connection between NASCAR and the…
At a time when many professional sports teams and properties are seeing their revenue drop in the wake of a rocky economy, the Indianapolis Indians this year have seen a nearly 18 percent…
Fear not. If you didn’t get your free ticket to tour the Indianapolis Colts’ new home venue, there’s still a way to get a sneak peak—at a steep price. And this event is…
If you haven’t seen the video of Saturday’s altercation between Indy Racing League drivers Danica Patrick and Milka Duno, you can go to YouTube. More than 600,000 people have watched it since…
IUPUI men’s basketball Coach Ron Hunter is making good on a promise he made in January to personally deliver shoes to the poorest of the poor.
Thursday, Hunter and members of the Jaguars team…
AAA Hoosier Motor Club today finalized a three-year deal with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, making AAA Hoosier Insurance a primary sponsor of the inaugural Red Bull Indianapolis GP MotoGP event on Sept. 14…
Indy Racing League officials searching for a title sponsor have their short list narrowed to five companies.
Subway restaurants and Eastman Kodak head the list, according to league sources. There are also two technology…
A marketing professor at the Kelley School of Business used to proclaim he could teach all one needed to know about economics in a week. That was back in the days when faculty would spend a few minutes of the morning hours in the coffee room engaged in friendly banter as well as serious discussion. The coffee room and my friend are both gone, but to me, a teacher of economics, the insult remains. Imagine-denigrating my calling, my faith, with…
Of this, that and the other: Timing, as they say, is everything. The University of Notre Dame lost its athletic director, Kevin White, to Duke University on June 1 and has been actively engaged in identifying his successor. A couple of weeks later, Indiana University announced its athletic director, Rick Greenspan, would resign but serve in lameduck status until the end of the year. Somewhere in the middle of those circumstances was Indianapolis attorney Jack Swarbrick, a Bloomington native but…
A dearth of name players, slumping attendance and an outdated venue have some in the local tennis community wondering if the
Indianapolis Tennis Championships–formerly known as the RCA Championships–needs some serious re-stringing. Attendance at
the nine-day event, which ran July 12-20 this year, was on pace through July 16 to be at a 20-year low.
But attendance is far from the tournament’s only challenge.
New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig died in 1941 of a disease that came to bear his name. Six years later, second baseman
Jackie Robinson famously broke through baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers, earning the league minimum $5,000.
He died in 1972. Mark Roesler believes the best earning years still lie ahead for both legendary players, as well as many
others like them. But first he must untangle their image rights in federal court in Indianapolis.
Subway restaurants won’t be the last NASCAR sponsor racing to the Indy Racing League, according to motorsports marketing experts.
An idea that seemed laughable a year or two ago is now reality. Subway, a big-time NASCAR sponsor, this week announced it…
Yankee Stadium, the House that Ruth Built, the home of 26 World Series Champions, a pillar of the Big Apple since 1923, will be demolished next spring.
Yet Indianapolis refuses to put Bush Stadium…
Actor John C. McGinley, best known for his role as the sarcastic Dr. Perry Cox on the long-running network comedy “Scrubs,” was announced today as the grand marshal for the Allstate 400 at…
Sarah Fisher Racing officials today announced they signed a deal with Dollar General Stores that will put Fisher on the track for races in Kentucky Aug. 7 and Chicago Sept. 7.
Though Fisher wouldn’t…
Despite the hype surrounding Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, it’s still easy to underestimate—or simply forget about—the impact this one player has on the team. That impact goes beyond winning on the field.
The…
It looks like Indiana University can scratch one of the candidates for its soon-to-be-vacant athletic director position off the list.
Late yesterday, word began to spread that Indianapolis attorney Jack Swarbrick is a candidate for the Notre Dame athletic director position….
There will be a flurry of off-track activity in the next two weeks as the Indy Racing League finalizes its 2009 schedule. Series officials are expected to sit down with several track operators in the next few days to discuss…
This week, a visit to Symphony on the Prairie yields an unexpected treat. Plus, tips for making the most of your evening on the lawn. The crowd was already thick when I arrived a good hour before show time for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s “Glorious Fourth” concert at Conner Prairie. And so rather than squeeze my blanket onto one of the small patches of available space, I opted to sacrifice sight-lines, staking a claim instead at the upper fringe. There,…
