The Midwestern city best known for its basketball and auto racing is gearing up for a proper game of cricket — the ball-and-bat sport most Americans know only from British films or by surfing through international sports channels.
Carlos Knox runs The Knox Indy Pro Am Summer League, one of only a few nationwide where basketball fans can find top college and professional hoops stars facing off against one another on the hardwood.
Developer Steve Henke’s vision for Grand Park Village is grand: a 20-acre lake surrounded by an East Coast-style boardwalk lined with restaurants and shops. He sees a carousel at one end of the lake and a Ferris wheel at the other—with a beach, mini marina and watering hole in between.
After more than a decade of planning, The Indianapolis Cultural Trail will have its official ribbon cutting May 10 with a coming-out party on May 11. And that’s when boosters and skeptics alike will be watching to see what exactly Indianapolis is going to do with its difficult-to-grasp landmark.
Indianapolis’ pro soccer team doesn’t make its on-field debut until April 2014, but organizers on Thursday unveiled the club’s name: Indy Eleven.
The Indianapolis 500 and 500 Festival Mini-Marathon will evaluate security procedures for their events after explosions Monday hit the Boston Marathon. An Indiana Pacers game in Boston was called off.
A southern Indiana boy has successfully spurred a change in state law that will allow sports leagues to hire youngsters like him as referees.
The list of lightning-rod issues is long and, unfortunately, growing.
The 500 Festival Mini Marathon in May will once again focus Hoosier attention on distance running—a sport where shifting demographics and rising interest have combined to generate strong sponsorship revenue.
He has made Indiana basketball nationally relevant again. Yet with that relevance comes responsibility.
The Indiana House voted 92-4 on Monday in favor of the bill adding youth sports officials to the list of jobs for which children younger than 14 can be hired.
Even watching the game from home on ESPN, a casual observer might have thought Bankers Lie Fieldhouse was a neutral court.
Organizers of the team say they’ve received deposits for 1,500 season tickets just two weeks after local developer Ersal Ozdemir unveiled his plans to launch the minor league squad.
Keystone Group President Ersal Ozdemir plans to launch a soccer franchise in 2014 and build a soccer-specific stadium by 2017.
A long-vacant drive-in theater just east of Fountain Square soon could be home to the nation’s largest rugby facility. The Indiana Youth Rugby Foundation has raised $1.2 million for the ambitious project and is seeking another $500,000 to break ground this spring.
The spices of sports come from the unpredictable outcomes, the ability to rise above adversity, and the comebacks from the depths.
Eagle Creek Golf Club received a long-awaited face-lift this year under a contract that will rescue the city from most of its expenses stemming from the previous operator’s loan default.
Questions for the Colts, the Fever, and more.
Thoughts on this, that and the other while watching the world’s athletes.
Memories of the big Indy event on the 25th anniversary
