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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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In motorsports, does 1+1=3?
February 28, 2008
Comments(3)Does Gov. Mitch Daniels’ anointing of auto racing industry veteran Rollie Helmling as the state’s motorsports
development director--or the unification of the Indy Racing League and Champ Car--create more motorsports business
opportunities here? While state officials say yes, others in...
MoreMove over Danica
February 27, 2008
Comments(12)There could be as many as four women drivers in this year’s Indy Racing League season. Danica Patrick and
Sarah Fisher already have signed deals to race this year. Yesterday, Venezuelan Milka Duno...
MoreLilly puts name on tennis title
February 26, 2008
Comments(2)The local stop on the ATP Tour now will be known as The Indianapolis Tennis Championships Presented By Lilly.
Eli Lilly-which will use the tournament to promote specific drugs such as Humalog...
MoreTennis event gets title sponsor
February 26, 2008
Comments(0)Despite rumors-and a report in this space yesterday-that WellPoint will be announced as a title sponsor of
the Indianapolis Tennis Championships today, WellPoint and tournament officials say that’s not the case.
Officials for the Indianapolis Tennis Championships, formerly the RCA Championships,...
MoreNFL Combine, Ice smash records
February 25, 2008
Comments(2)It was a big weekend in Indianapolis. A record 420 credentialed media poured into town to report on the
NFL Scouting Combine at the RCA Dome, while a 2007-08 league-high 12,575 fans...
MoreIU donors could stage own boycott
February 22, 2008
Comments(7)The situation at Indiana University is so bad, several former athletes and big-time donors are calling for
Athletic Director Rick Greenspan’s termination. Some think financial support to the school will be hurt if
the situation regarding the men’s basketball program...
MoreIU players threaten boycott
February 22, 2008
Comments(14)CBS Sports this morning is reporting that Indiana University men’s basketball players are threatening to boycott
the remainder of the season if coach Kelvin Sampson is forced out. Quoting unidentified sources, CBS Sports
reported that players and IU Athletic Director...
MoreColts change strategy with Clark
February 21, 2008
Comments(3)Indianapolis Colts tight end Dallas Clark is getting a raise. A big one. Two years ago, Clark was making
$650,000. With the six-year contract Clark inked yesterday, he now figures to make $6 million plus per year.
That doesn’t approach...
MoreAt last, open-wheel unity!
February 20, 2008
Comments(5)UPDATE (Feb. 22): Owners of Champ Car and the Indy Racing League completed an agreement in principle today
that will unify the sport for 2008, said a statement released at 4:40 p.m. by the Indy Racing League. Several
Champ Car...
MoreNFL 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...
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Saw the Indy Men's Chorus "Music of Gilbert & Sullivan" at the Indiana Historical Society on Sunday evening.
Temporary workers are not "tools" they are people and companies that keep large amounts of temp staff are cheating.
I miss having them around. I hope one of their stores is in the general Meridian/86th Street area. I will make good use of it.
The Fringe! Plus, the simple fact that there are so many local faves in such close proximity to each other.
I remenber, watching the toll road, being built, through South Bend, when I was 10 years old. I believe, back then that it was estimated, that the toll road, would be paid for in 20 years and then it would be free. I am now 71, what happened? Since the power is in the people, by that, I mean that, we the people are in total control of everything. I, suggest that no one ever use the toll road again, let it go broke. We the people can control the price of everything, from groceries to gas, if we would just do it. If we don't pay the asking price, the sellers will lower the price and if we wait awhile, they will lower the price to what we accept as reasonable. I would like to know why a highway like interstate 94, is so well maintained, a much better highway, than the toll road, but has no tolls. I would also like to know why, a sitting governor, with a term limit, maximum of eight years, can lease, public property, for 75 years. Even though I have transponders in both of my trucks and will not be affected by the increase, I have been and will contine to avoid using the toll road. I make many trips from northern Indiana to Chicago, every year, and I prefer the better highway, I94!