January 9, 2012
Associated PressThe Indianapolis Super Bowl host committee has listed 17 regional airports as additional landing spots outside of the Indianapolis
area for people headed to the game on Feb. 5.
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January 7, 2012
Associated PressFans who come to downtown Indianapolis on Super Bowl Sunday had better be prepared to pay some big prices to park during the
big game.
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January 3, 2012
Associated PressThe NFL will announce its annual league awards, including Most Valuable Player, in a two-hour prime-time special, "NFL
Honors," to air on NBC on Super Bowl eve, Feb. 4.
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January 3, 2012
Associated PressNBC has sold all the commercial airtime for the Feb. 5 game in Indianapolis and even has a waiting list of advertisers. The
average cost for a 30-second spot this year was $3.5 million.
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January 2, 2012
IBJ Staff and Associated PressThe Indianapolis Colts fired vice chairman Bill Polian and his son, general manager Chris Polian, Monday after a 2-14 season.
Coach Jim Caldwell might keep his job, owner Jim Irsay said.
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December 29, 2011
Franklin College News BureauIndiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and state job-creation officials will tackle Super Bowl weekend by entertaining corporate executives
with the potential to bring more jobs to the state – but the governor has purchased his own ticket for the game.
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December 28, 2011
Francesca JaroszFor a Super Bowl-related initiative to revitalize Indianapolis’ near-east side, the hardest work will come after the
Feb. 5 game.
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December 17, 2011
Anthony SchoettleThe NFL's new broadcast agreements with CBS, Fox and NBC will make the league by far the richest in terms of professional
sports broadcast pacts. The Colts will get close to $218.8 million a year from the deals starting in 2014.
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November 19, 2011
Anthony SchoettleThe NFL is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a posh 15,000-square-foot hospitality area inside Union Station’s
Grand Hall for this year’s Super Bowl. The facility will be a perk for the league's best corporate partners, former
players and coaches, and other high-rollers.
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November 12, 2011
Anthony SchoettleFigures who played key roles in attracting the big game and for making the event a success share their insights.
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November 4, 2011
Bloomberg NewsThe winless Indianapolis Colts and Miami Dolphins are jockeying to land what one former National Football League executive
says may be the most valuable—and reasonably priced—top pick in modern draft history.
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October 27, 2011
Associated PressTerre Haute International Airport officials distributed brochures and advertisements about the facility and its hangars during
a business aircraft convention this month in Las Vegas.
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September 26, 2011
Bloomberg NewsPeyton Manning has an outside chance of returning in December, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay said on Twitter after local
media quoted him saying Monday morning that the injured quarterback would be out for the season.
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September 17, 2011
Anthony SchoettleThe Indianapolis Colts' Jim Irsay is among only a handful of NFL owners tweeting and has three times as many followers as
such high-profile owners as the Dallas Cowboys’ Jerry Jones. His offbeat tweets are seen as marketing genius by some.
Others wonder if they ramble a bit too far out of bounds or undermine Irsay's staff.
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September 10, 2011
Anthony SchoettleThe class is being launched Oct. 3 with the goal of getting tens of thousands of front-line hospitality workers—from
hoteliers, caterers and restaurant servers to cab drivers and airport employees—prepared for the barrage of Super Bowl
visitors coming in February.
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September 9, 2011
Associated PressIndianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning is likely to be sidelined for at least eight weeks and possibly all season after
having his third neck surgery in 19 months.
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September 3, 2011
Bill BennerAs the season begins, we can’t help but think about where it will end—Lucas Oil Stadium—and who might be
playing in the Super Bowl.
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July 30, 2011
Anthony SchoettleBigger player payrolls under the NFL’s new collective bargaining agreement are expected to make life difficult for small-market
teams like the Indianapolis Colts.
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July 9, 2011
IBJ StaffItems ranging from T-shirts and sweat shirts to mugs and pennants are available exclusively through ColtsProShop.com, at the
Colts ProShop in Lucas Oil Stadium and at Circle Centre mall.
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June 3, 2011
Mason King
What's
the status of the Super Bowl? Mass transit for Indy? Economic development? How is one man so connected? Mark Miles shrugs
off "power broker" but fits the bill.
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April 9, 2011
Anthony SchoettleAfter seeing how snow and ice storms hurt the Super Bowl in Dallas this year, the National Football League is requiring that
future host cities be better prepared to deal with inclement weather or disasters.
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March 14, 2011
Associated PressJim Irsay said Monday he's "optimistic" the league will not lose the 2011 season or next year's Super Bowl
in Indianapolis because of the lockout, though he is "disappointed" that players have resorted to making their case
through the legal system.
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March 11, 2011
Associated PressWith the NFL on the brink of its first work stoppage in nearly a quarter of a century, Commissioner Roger Goodell and union
head DeMaurice Smith met at a federal mediator's office Friday, the day the league's twice-extended labor contract
was set to expire.
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March 5, 2011
Bill BennerHow can Indianapolis, and cities throughout America, continue to feed the beast that is sports?
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March 3, 2011
Associated PressThe NFL and the players' union decided Thursday to keep the current collective bargaining agreement in place for an additional
24 hours so that negotiations can continue.
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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.