January 15, 2011
Bill BennerMaybe the reason the Colts insist on keeping the roof closed at Lucas Oil Stadium is to keep anyone from noticing that the
sky is falling.
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January 8, 2011
Bill BennerI love it because it I allow it to suck me in like a farm kind seeing the big-city lights for the first time. I loathe it
because it is becoming too much like the NFL.
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January 1, 2011
Bill BennerI've already begun to compose my thoughts for my just-born grandson.
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December 25, 2010
Bill BennerLast week, we looked back at the year that was in Indiana sports. This week, we look ahead to the new year and what it might
be.<
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December 18, 2010
Bill BennerButler basketball leads list of top sports stories of the year.
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December 11, 2010
Bill BennerAn open letter to Kevin Wilson, Indiana University's football coach.
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December 4, 2010
Bill BennerA Catholic university based in Indiana where football serves as a major rallying point for students, alumni and donors? The
University of Notre Dame would be a correct answer. But it’s no longer the only one.
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November 27, 2010
Bill BennerIn defense of the indefensible: Yes, I still support the man.
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November 20, 2010
Bill BennerForty years ago, Indianapolis and Louisville were both known as one-event towns. But Indy moved on while Louisville stayed
put.
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November 13, 2010
Bill BennerCollege basketball season is upon us. Thank goodness. Here in Indiana, it can serve to take our minds off college football.
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November 6, 2010
Bill BennerTony Dungy's class act, the possibilities of NFL expansion, and more.
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October 30, 2010
Bill BennerHow many collegians accept money? The percentage could not possibly rise above the low single digits, if that.
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October 23, 2010
Bill BennerThe Indiana Pacers open their National Basketball Association season Wednesday night with two questions overriding other concerns.
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October 16, 2010
Bill BennerWith the National Football League season in full swing, it is easy to forget the gathering storm clouds of a labor impasse
that threaten the 2011 schedule.
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October 9, 2010
Bill BennerAfter months of discussions, IU Director of Athletics Fred Glass has determined that IU athletics must be defined by a broader
culture than simply wins and losses
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October 2, 2010
Bill BennerAn open letter to NCAA President Mark Emmert: Welcome to Indianapolis, President Emmert. Or, if I may, Mark. We’re pretty
informal around here.
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September 25, 2010
Bill BennerIf I could add the wasted time I spent waiting outside locker rooms with the wasted time encountered once inside, I might
be able to get three or four years of my life back.
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September 18, 2010
Bill BennerOf this, that and the other while wondering what to do with my No. 21 Indianapolis Colts jersey.
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September 11, 2010
Bill BennerLast season, 22 games were blacked out. It's the highest number in five years.
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September 4, 2010
Bill BennerMy introduction to the raw reality of boxing left me with admiration for the physical skills necessary to be a fighter and
the sheer toughness it takes to get into the ring. However, at the same time, being young and naïve, I was shaken by
the brutality of the enterprise.
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August 28, 2010
Bill BennerAlthough I am a full-blooded Hoosier with basketball as part of my DNA, football—and football season—has become
the part of the sports calendar I look forward to most.
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August 21, 2010
Bill BennerFace it, Larry; you messed up. You trusted a 19-year-old with a questionable past.
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August 14, 2010
Bill BennerFeleica Locklear-Stewart’s attention. And she is on
a mission to make sure we do more, not just for athletes, but for all our young.
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July 31, 2010
Bill BennerWe need to provide some perspective. If Brickyard 400 attendance was, as estimated, somewhere between 130,000 and
150,000, that still makes it the second-largest single-day sporting event in the world and represents a healthy influx of
cash, much of it coming from elsewhere, spent in the area over the weekend.
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July 24, 2010
Bill BennerLet me be the last (quasi) sports journalist in America to weigh in on Tiger Woods.
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These higher rates Co. e about only because physicians are now hospital employees. otherwise physicians couldn't charge these rates and share the windfall with the hospital. Community/rural hospitals probably not buying physicians practices and thus weren't getting the windfall anyway.
The incentive for poor people to get themselves off public assistance and "no longer be poor" is even with help...they're STILL POOR! Being poor, even with some assistance, isn't all that pleasant. (I speak from experience) It's a stubborn myth that poor people, who are on public assistance, are sitting in the lap of luxury. You should try living on just those "freebies" that you mentioned and see how meager they actually are. By the way, I didn't mean you had to buy/own a puppy...just pet one. :)
As near as I can tell the minority has ZERO constitutional obligation to offer a quorum to the majority. A requirement for quorum was inserted into the constitution so that tyrannical majorities could not simply shove through odious and objectionable legislation (which is exactly what they did.) By allowing a tyrannical majority to charge fines against the minority for exercising their constitutional prerogative to deny quorum the court as made a mockery of constitutional governance in the state of Indiana.
The voters elected the Reps to make a vote not walk out on the vote. They had to the right to exercise their opinion and vote "no" to the bill. Let me ask you this if you walked out of your job for 5 straight weeks would you get paid? Would you even have a job to go back to? If any elected official walks out on the people they should be arrested for stealing tax dollars from the public. They were elected to do a job and not leave when the job gets stuff.
I have been to several of their locations in Pennsylvania and always go in for 1 item and leave with a basket full of things. I'm very happy they decided on Indiana, now if only they would put the other store in eastside.