WRTV widening local content streaming to devices
WRTV-TV Channel 6 plans to begin broadcasting high school sporting events over a streaming service for smartphones and tablets.
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Indianapolis aims to become top center for cricket
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.
Summer basketball league has become big draw for NBA, college stars
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.
$225M Westfield project in works
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.
Defining the Indianapolis Cultural Trail
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.
New pro soccer team to be called Indy Eleven
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.
Mini-Marathon, Speedway review security after Boston blasts
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.
Indiana law change allows younger children as referees
A southern Indiana boy has successfully spurred a change in state law that will allow sports leagues to hire youngsters like him as referees.
BENNER: Criticism heaped on NCAA takes toll on rank-and-file
The list of lightning-rod issues is long and, unfortunately, growing.
Running events proliferate; sponsor dollars pour in
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.
BENNER: Can Crean handle winning as well as he handled losing?
He has made Indiana basketball nationally relevant again. Yet with that relevance comes responsibility.
Indiana House backs bill allowing younger sports referees
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.
BENNER: From the NBA to the Big Ten, putting butts in seats is king
Even watching the game from home on ESPN, a casual observer might have thought Bankers Lie Fieldhouse was a neutral court.
New Indy soccer team tops 1,500 season tickets
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.
Well-known Indianapolis developer launching pro soccer team
Keystone Group President Ersal Ozdemir plans to launch a soccer franchise in 2014 and build a soccer-specific stadium by 2017.
Group aims to create nation’s largest rugby complex
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.
BENNER: 2012 had an abundance of moments to savor
The spices of sports come from the unpredictable outcomes, the ability to rise above adversity, and the comebacks from the depths.
Face-lift nearly complete at Eagle Creek golf courses
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.
BENNER: There’s plenty to ponder in sports world as autumn arrives
Questions for the Colts, the Fever, and more.
BENNER: Why Michael Phelps laps other great Olympic athletes
Thoughts on this, that and the other while watching the world’s athletes.