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Hoop dream: Big economic impact

March 26, 2009
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Today starts a big four-day weekend for Indianapolis. Given the sports-business strategy this city is built on and the soft economy, this weekend dotted with NCAA and high school state championship basketball events...
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Indy golf icon makes PGA Hall

March 16, 2009
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Former PGA of America Rules Committee Chairman, Don Essig III, is among the eight-member 2009 class of inductees in the PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame. Essig is the PGA Director of Golf at South Grove Golf Course in Indianapolis...
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Star names McKee replacement

June 20, 2008
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It’s not easy filling the shoes of a 26-year news veteran. But Kristen Leigh Porter is going to try. Officials for the Indianapolis Star recently announced that Porter has been named to replace...
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Can all-star hoops game survive?

June 18, 2008
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After the Indiana vs. Kentucky All-Star basketball games at Conseco Fieldhouse June 13, drew only 5,097 spectators, some within the local hoops community are calling for changes. Sports marketers said moving the game from Saturday to Friday hurt attendance. Others suggested...
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Indy Star loses another sports vet

May 30, 2008
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The Indianapolis Star is about to lose its third sports department veteran since April. Star Sports Editor Jim Lefko announced this week that assistant sports editor Pat McKee will depart the state’s largest daily...
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Marketers teach biz of school sports

April 23, 2008
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The looming property tax crisis has Indiana high schools fearful that athletic department budgets could be the focus of future fiscal cuts. Ray Compton, one central Indiana’s most successful—and unconventional—sports marketers has a plan...
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Hoosier hysteria reborn?

March 25, 2008
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Boys high school basketball hasn’t returned to its glory days of the 1960s, but this year’s final between Brownsburg and Marion drew a sell out crowd of 18,305 Saturday. Tournament officials said lots more tickets could have been sold if...
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  1. Mr. M. would never use this paper to his financial benefit, plus he is to busy bashing Emmis and Simon when he can.
    This is OLD news, unless upcoming investigations by Durham land something with Brizzi involved with these transactions.
    What is most uncomfortable is a public servant who cuts deals to benefit himself, he is brazen in that regard, too open and in many cases reckless. BTY, he used to use National Bank of Indianapolis alot, so I doubt Mr. M is too upset

  2. How new are they? He has won three times at the ballot box, so evidently less than 50% of those who vote dont think he has done much wrong.

    Also, these stories with no attributable quotes to the main people involved at typical IBJ reporting. At a minimum how does the reporter not interview another high profile Commercial Real Estate broker (Paul Dick, Bill French, John Crisp, etc) and get their opinion on the fairness of these deals between the City of Indy and Bales?

    Poor reporting.

  3. Mike, are you kidding me? Do you really think Bales has done nothing wrong? So do you think the driver of a get away car isn't doing anything wrong because he didn't commit the bank robbery?

    How do you think Brizzi got all that money to enter into investment deals with Bales? Bales was clearly buying influence...cutting deals and kicking money back to Brizzi in the form of of investments. Do you think that is legal?

  4. Again, two prime examples of why there should be a multi-year "cooling off" period before public employees can go work at for-profit companies soliciting and lobbying the same employers where they just worked.

  5. Is the IBJ determined to kill Bales' career? I mean, he has done nothing wrong and continues to get slammed on here. This is very upsetting to see. Is Maurer trying to help his son's company out or something? Seriously, wtf?

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