BENNER: It’s too late to turn back clock on single-class basketball
It’s funny in a way, too, when I hear folks from elsewhere trying to redefine those things that make/made us real Hoosiers.
It’s funny in a way, too, when I hear folks from elsewhere trying to redefine those things that make/made us real Hoosiers.
Really, has there been a more surprisingly successful team during this chaotic, shortened season?
I am often asked to give presentations recounting the success of the Indianapolis sports strategy. Of course, I speak to the event history and infrastructure investments going all the way back to the construction of Market Square Arena in 1974. But I also talk about the human impact.
Perhaps those of us who are not exactly Kentucky fans should be happy that the likes of Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Indy’s own Marques Teague won’t stay for four years,
Thoughts on this, that and the other.
There is one test Peyton Manning hasn’t passed yet: He has not been hit in nearly two years by a blitzing opponent.
Feel free to congratulate former Indiana Pacers star Mel Daniels on his long-overdue selection to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
Peyton Manning’s presence in Indy has been profound, his stamp on this city indelible. He was—and is—a class act.
On a recent list of great sports venues, The Indianapolis Motor Speedway was not included. Are you kidding me?
Those of you have followed my ramblings over the years may be surprised to learn there are a few things on which I agree with former Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight.
The city should aggressively pursue Olympic Trials for 2016.
She was atop an eight-story perch for a ride that had come to symbolize the free-spirited, all-out fun, wheeeeeee! atmosphere Indy had stamped upon America’s biggest sporting event
Remembering the overblown reaction when the Super Bowl passed us by.
Stan was 97 when he passed. His name long ago slipped from the newspapers and local broadcasts. His monument was the Indianapolis Tennis Center.
Let the record show I renewed my Indianapolis Colts season tickets before Jim Caldwell was fired as head coach. But I do feel a sense of affirmation.
The oft-maligned NCAA absorbs much of its criticism from football.
I’m shocked that Peyton Manning is shocked.
Just a warning: Even if we catch a week of sunny skies and temps in the 40s, some will be unhappy.
A look back at the great, the good, the bad, the ugly and the worst of our year in sports.
It would take at least another season like this for the Colts to experience the amount of ill will that has been tossed the Indiana Pacers’ way.