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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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NFL Combine happy in Indy
February 20, 2008
Comments(6)With all that’s happening on the local sports scene, it’s easy to forget about the NFL Scouting Combine,
which begins today in the RCA Dome. The Combine, which was first held in Indianapolis in 1987, is an event
that has...
MoreDanica look-alikes at LaGuardia
February 20, 2008
Comments(2)AirTran Airways, a sponsor of Danica Patrick’s, recently announced that passengers at LaGuardia Airport in
New York will have the privilege of their own personal pit crew to get through check-in fast, thanks to
a hustling team of Danica Patrick...
MoreOpen-wheel deal raises questions
February 19, 2008
Comments(10)The Indy Racing League series will hold a press conference tomorrow to announce its unification with Champ
Car, sources close to the series said. John Griffin, Indy Racing League vice president of public relations,
said though the exact timing of...
MoreIrsay remains key to Super Bowl bid
February 19, 2008
Comment(1)While Mayor Greg Ballard and his team plan to announce today their intent to bid for the 2012 Super Bowl,
sources within the league said Indianapolis Colts’ owner Jim Irsay will be the determining factor.
“They could be the Emerald City,...
MoreA positive spin for IRL defections?
February 18, 2008
Comments(5)With its season opener six weeks away, the Indy Racing League is getting some preseason exposure from an
unlikely source. During the run-up to NASCAR’s biggest race, the Daytona 500, the spotlight shined on two
IRL alums vying for the...
MoreDoes IU already have a short list?
February 15, 2008
Comments(11)Indiana University President Michael McRobbie announced Feb. 15 that the university will launch an immediate
investigation into new NCAA allegations against men's basketball coach Kelvin Sampson.
Athletics Director Rick Greenspan will oversee an assessment as to whether allegations of potentially “major”...
MoreManning vs. Manning II
February 15, 2008
Comments(4)Less than two weeks after Super Bowl XLII, N.Y. Giants quarterback Eli Manning is already picking up ground
on older brother Peyton, Indianapolis Colts QB, at least in terms of jersey sales.
Merchandise sales is a big revenue line for the...
MoreBig Ten tourney interest rising?
February 14, 2008
Comments(2)Thirty six hours ago, it looked like the Big Ten tournament at Conseco Fieldhouse March 13-16 would be an
attendance blockbuster. Indianapolis has had difficulty matching the tournament’s crowds at Chicago’s United
Center, but this figured to be the year...
MoreBurton's prime time smack down
February 14, 2008
Comments(6)Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., was front and center yesterday at the hearings on steroids in baseball. Burton appeared
to side with pitcher Roger Clemens, while repeatedly attacking Clemens’ former trainer Brian McNamee.
McNamee has said he injected Clemens on numerous occasions...
MoreIU phone flap packs financial sting
February 13, 2008
Comments(15)With the revelation that the NCAA discovered more possible wrongdoings by Indiana University basketball coach
Kelvin Sampson than the school reported in October, the embattled coach and his boss, athletic director Rick
Greenspan, could become marketing liabilities for the school...
MoreDanica races into SI swimsuit issue
February 12, 2008
Comments(4)You can’t say Indy Racing League driver Danica Patrick doesn’t make a splash. Patrick can be found gracing
the pages of Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue, which hits...
MoreSmart strategy or spinning wheels?
February 12, 2008
Comments(5)While the lights for an Indy Racing League-Champ Car merger appear to be turning green, smoke is apparently
pouring from Champ Car’s balance sheet. Two well placed sources confirmed Champ Car will likely file bankruptcy,
possibly as early as today.
Champ...
MoreBatter up: Indians score big profit
February 11, 2008
Comments(5)While it’s still frigid outside, it will be heating up inside the corporate offices at Victory Field today,
where the Indianapolis Indians will conduct the franchise’s annual shareholders meeting at 3 p.m. It’s difficult
to say how the team will...
MoreOpen-wheel unity talks rolling again
February 8, 2008
Comments(8)Sources close to the Indy Racing League and Champ Car say both sides have agreed on terms for a merger
that will take place this year.
Indy Racing League boss Tony George is set to help any Champ Car teams that...
MorePan Am Plaza building exodus
February 8, 2008
Comments(2)IBJ reported Jan. 21 that USA Diving, USA Gymnastics, USA Track & Field and U.S. Synchronized Swimming
were considering relocating to the Disciples of Christ building on East Washington Street. None of the officials
for those sports-sanctioning bodies would confirm...
MoreWill taxpayers support Super Bowl?
February 7, 2008
Comments(10)Arizona residents’ willingness to pay higher taxes may have a strong impact on Indianapolis’ effort to land
the 2012 Super Bowl. Funding from Arizona’s corporate community paid for 80 percent of the host city’s Super
Bowl bill this year. But...
MoreSparks fly over unification talks
February 6, 2008
Comments(7)Two recent revelations left open-wheel racing fans and sponsors wondering if the unification of the Indy Racing
League and Champ Car is finally at hand. What is less clear is if unification of North America’s two largest
open-wheel racing circuits...
MoreKnight moves make waves
February 5, 2008
Comments(10)Bob Knight leaves a tsunami-like wake wherever he goes. Even in retirement, the waves from his larger-than-life
persona are being felt from Lubbock to Bloomington and beyond. The business impact of Knight’s retirement
looms large locally. There are numerous central...
MoreMajor League Winners
February 5, 2008
Comments(2)Author and former IUPUI dean Mark Rosentraub is writing another book.
This one, titled “Major League Winners,” focuses on the five U.S. cities he thinks have most successfully
used sports as an economic...
MoreManning vs. Manning
February 4, 2008
Comments(12)The day after the New York Giants’ improbable Super Bowl XLII triumph, sports marketers are already lining
up to talk with the game’s MVP, Eli Manning. And there’s speculation that Manning’s sudden success will have
a profound effect on older...
MoreDeal's dead for race track
February 1, 2008
Comments(0)The deal to sell O’Reilly Raceway Park in Clermont is dead, and racing insiders said the opportunity to
raise the local facility’s profile even higher might have died with it. Some within the racing community
felt the suitor, a Santa...
MoreBig Ten Network battle boils
January 31, 2008
Comments(24)The good news for Indiana and Purdue basketball fans is that there are a slew of games scheduled to be
aired on a channel Indiana cable television operators actually carry.
The bad news is the Big Ten Network and Comcast Cable...
MoreIU, Purdue enter arms race
January 30, 2008
Comments(6)Two donors recently came forward to support the $82 million renovation of Purdue University’s Mackey Arena.
Tom Spurgeon, a 1961 alumnus and current Purdue trustee, has contributed $3 million toward the project. The
gymnasium in the student-athlete academic center will be...
MorePacers fan fallout
January 29, 2008
Comments(31)There’s been a lot of feedback regarding the article about the Indiana Pacers’ attendance problem that appeared
in this week’s IBJ. A growing number of readers say they won’t be going to Pacers games anytime soon—even
if the team starts...
MoreSuper Bowl study
January 29, 2008
Comments(3)Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard has made quite a production of putting together an executive team to study
whether bidding to be the host of the 2012 Super Bowl is a worthwhile endeavor.
Some in the sports business sector are not quite...
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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.