A local charity which uses bicycles to promote health and fitness in central Indiana schools is pursuing a $125,000 Lids Foundation award. The public can vote for one of five finalists.
Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean said one of Major League Baseball’s winningest managers taught him to test and toughen his bench players during the regular season to prepare them for postseason pressure.
A change to long-standing NBA regulations regarding marketing areas could mean a solid seven-figure windfall for the Indiana Pacers. The team can now market to places like Fort Wayne, Louisville, Lexington and Champaign.
Sales at the 2014 Super Bowl in New York were huge. But sales at this year’s 50th Super Bowl featuring the aging Peyton Manning were even bigger for Indianapolis-based MainGate Inc.
An acquisition this week by its parent company, CSM Sports & Entertainment, could mean significant growth for Zionsville-based Just Marketing International.
Local event organizers had hoped for more to assure LGBT rights in Indiana, but they remain convinced Indianapolis is in a good position to continue winning bids to host NCAA events.
Fieldhouse staffers will work around the clock to host 54 youth, high school, college and NBA games during an unprecedented 43-day stretch. The events are projected to score the city an economic impact of more than $40 million.
Indianapolis’ relatively low key approach to the NFL Combine, which will attract all 32 team owners and around 2,000 team and league personnel, is part of what makes the Circle City such a great host of the event, said event organizer Jeff Foster.
The Pacers are the only professional sports team that owes its survival to a telethon, and that strange story is being told between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday as part of ESPN’s “30 for 30” shorts series.
Mike Smith wasn’t looking for a job—and certainly not one as potentially controversial as the one he accepted earlier this month. By his own admission, he’s stepping into a position with “lots of complicated issues” and just as many agendas.
Any sort of official Manning farewell in Indianapolis or elsewhere now has the potential to devolve into a first-rate public relations fiasco as new questions arise about an alleged sexual assault in 1996.
There will be pressure on the new agency to increase attendance in Tamika Catching’s final year. Last season the Fever’s attendance declined 5.3 percent.
The co-founders of Diamond Charts LLC said their new high-tech product was well-received by a group of NFL executives, team owners and venture capitalists.
Spurred by a love of quarterback Peyton Manning, a higher percentage of people in the Indianapolis market watched Sunday’s Super Bowl than almost any other city in the U.S.
Once upon a time Super Bowl stars used to shout “I’m going to Disney World.” On Sunday—on one of America’s biggest sporting stages—Manning chose to shout: This Bud’s for you!
Indiana Pacers President Rick Fuson’s trip to Toronto next week is the first outward sign the team and perhaps the city have a serious interest in hosting the NBA All-Star Game for the first time since 1985.
The deal means the Japanese carmaker will not only continue to supply engines to the series but also spend tens of millions of dollars to promote the open-wheel series.
Bearded, tatted Discovery Channel star promises to make the month of May in Indianapolis more colorful.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wants as many as 2,000 fans admitted into the Combine, which would nearly triple the current number allowed to see the tightly-run event, said a league source.
The TV ratings for Sunday’s AFC Championship game were nearly 25 percent higher in the Indianapolis market than they were nationally, according to Nielsen Media Research.
