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Welcome to The Score, your place for hard-hitting sports business news, fast-breaking updates and fuel-injected debate. Buckle up. I'm your host, Anthony Schoettle, IBJ sports reporter.
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Butler's Brad Stevens' success haunts IU
April 6, 2010
Comments(58)Should IU have hired Butler basketball coach Brad Stevens two years ago? That's debatable, but the non-hiring of the young
coaching gem is a sign of a bigger problem that has plagued the Hoosiers for more than a decade.
MoreColts' Irsay takes on unusual role as car salesman
April 5, 2010
Comments(4)Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay makes an unusual pitch for one of the team's biggest sponsors, Toyota.
MoreTwo more victories = $10M in Butler merchandise sales
April 2, 2010
Comments(3)Butler University is bracing for a siege of publicity this weekend. The school's Web sites have been bolstered and retail
shelves are being stocked. Already more than $1.7 million in Butler merchandise has been sold.
MoreButler's Bannister chose to chase an impossible dream
April 1, 2010
Comments(8)Butler's run to the Final Four has its roots in a decision two decades removed by a former school president and a group
of trusting trustees who dared to believe the impossible was possible for the Bulldogs.
MoreMarch Madness expansion looking like a go for 2011
March 31, 2010
Comments(12)The pendulum of support is swinging and the idea of expanding the men's NCAA basketball tournament from 65 to 96 teams
is now gaining support from the Big Ten.
MoreNCAA Final Four offers key lesson for IndyCar survival
March 30, 2010
Comments(18)A proposal to launch a college auto racing series could be the answer to boosting open-wheel racing popularity to the level
it enjoyed when the first Final Four visited Indy in 1980.
MoreButler's march could cost city businesses $7.5 million
March 29, 2010
Comments(16)Butler's triumph has likely eliminated some of the direct visitor spending the city would have seen if Syracuse or Kansas
State would have made it to Indy for this year's Final Four. But corporate excitement could wipe away that loss.
MoreBob Knight betrays his former self on ESPN
March 25, 2010
Comments(14)Watching the transformation of Bob Knight from a take-no-guff head basketball coach to the type of glad-handing media type
he would have detested in his previous life has been truly shocking, and a little sad, to behold.
MoreRahal gets driver's seat, IndyCar leaders get hot seat
March 24, 2010
Comments(36)Graham Rahal's new full-time deal to drive for Newman Hass/Lanigan this year is positive for the Izod IndyCar Series on
many fronts, but it dramatically intensifies pressure on series leaders to turn a profit.
MoreColts' Irsay sparks war of words with Pats' Kraft
March 23, 2010
Comments(12)Indianapolis Colts' owner Jim Irsay's recent proclamation could dramatically escalate the salaries of the Colts'
and New England Patriots' franchise quarterbacks.
MoreSponsors have close eye on IndyCar TV ratings
March 22, 2010
Comments(13)The Izod IndyCar Series is off to a solid start in terms of TV viewership. But sponsors are demanding much more, starting
with this Sunday's race in Florida.
MoreQuestions remain about Big Ten tournament's future in Indy
March 16, 2010
Comments(8)Despite a 20 percent attendance increase at this year's men's Big Ten tournament at Conseco Fieldhouse, there are
still cities looking to steal the event from Indianapolis.
MoreButler basketball attendance sees big bounce
March 11, 2010
Comments(12)Butler's stellar on-court performance drew big crowds to Hinkle Fieldhouse this season. But some still wonder if the Bulldogs
will have enough financially to retain Brad Stevens as coach.
MoreReggie Wayne, Drew Brees battle for Madden cover
March 9, 2010
Comments(4)With six days left to vote, it looks like the vote for the Madden 11 cover is down to two. For the first time, fans have a
say in the outcome, but Colts fans may have good reason to cheer against their man this time.
MoreSpeedway extending Obama Indianapolis 500 invitation
March 8, 2010
Comments(55)Indy Racing League officials hope to leverage their growing relationship with Brazilian president to attract U.S. President
Barack Obama to the Indy 500. It would mark the first time a sitting president has attended the 100-year-old event.
MoreNew Nielsen policy cloaks IndyCar Series in secrecy
March 5, 2010
Comments(42)After years of providing TV viewer ratings for individual sporting events, Nielsen Media Co. today said no more. The new policy
means fans and media now have few ways to gauge success or failure of the IndyCar Series.
MoreIndians sales staff faced down big-time pressure
March 4, 2010
Comments(4)With 75 percent of its sponsorship deals expiring at the end of last season, there were lots of reasons for the Indianapolis Indians to panic. Instead, the team invested big bucks in Victory Field and had faith its sales staff would come through in the clutch.
IndyCar's Graham Rahal playing dangerous waiting game
March 3, 2010
Comments(31)The 21-year-old son of Indy 500 champ Bobby Rahal has scoffed at a two-year offer from Dale Coyne Racing, and by doing so
may be endangering the future of open-wheel racing.
MoreColts' Bill Polian finds himself in middle of NFL overtime debate
March 2, 2010
Comments(7)While top prospects were on display at yesterday's NFL Combine in Indianapolis, members of the league's competition
committee were hotly debating a rule that could change the game next year.
MoreColts ticket price hike has far-reaching effects
March 1, 2010
Comments(23)The Indianapolis Colts' decision to increase ticket prices in 2010 pulls another $4 million or so of discretionary dollars
out of this small market. It could also inch the team higher above NFL league ticket price average.
MoreDanica Patrick's popularity already fading in NASCAR?
February 26, 2010
Comments(39)Ratings for the Feb. 20 NASCAR Nationwide Series Race, Danica Patrick's second, were down nationally and in the Indianapolis
market compared to the season opener Feb. 13. But Danica has another chance to shine Saturday in Las Vegas.
MorePacers brass gives Larry Bird vote of confidence
February 25, 2010
Comments(5)Some Indiana Pacers fans are upset with Larry Bird for not upgrading the team's roster in front of the Feb. 18 NBA trade
deadline. But team owner Herb Simon and Pacers Sports & Entertainment President Jim Morris believe in Bird's long-range
plan.
MorePaul Tracy throws gas on fiery IndyCar debate
February 24, 2010
Comments(48)Race car driver Paul Tracy said IndyCar fans need to stand up and let series officials know what they want. Meanwhile, Derek
Daly said the open-wheel series has turned its back on a generation of new American drivers.
MoreOpen-wheel racing still trying to kick tobacco habit
February 23, 2010
Comments(17)In the 1970s and 1980s tobacco sponsorship cash was auto racing's life blood. Reliance on the money helped kill CART,
and the IndyCar Series is still trying to figure out how to survive without it.
MoreIndians pack Victory Field with $1 concession special
February 22, 2010
Comments(6)Indianapolis Indians turn traditionally slow night into big money-maker by cutting profit margin at concession stand.
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.