Derek Schultz: Pacers season in free fall
We knew the 2025-2026 campaign wouldn’t be a continuation of 2024-2025 after Tyrese Haliburton crumpled to the floor last June in Oklahoma City.
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Derek Schultz: The Colts’ new CEO deserves praise for the team’s turnaround
Irsay-Gordon had to abruptly step into her father’s shoes following his passing in May, but the new head honcho of the franchise was well-prepared to do so.
Derek Schultz: 1988 Halloween game remains a milestone in Colts history
It was a perfect night for America’s introduction to football in Indianapolis.
Dramatically improved Colts offense has fans dreaming of a Super Bowl
The Colts are legitimate Super Bowl contenders, and you can say it with your whole chest.
Derek Schultz: With Kevin Wright’s return, the Greyhounds are dominant again
After experiencing its first losing season since 1997, Carmel High School’s football program lucked into rehiring one of its winningest coaches.
Derek Schultz: Despite a raft of unexpected setbacks, the Fever have lived off grit, spirit
On paper, they looked like contenders, but, on the court, they rarely were dominant.
Derek Schultz: College football pundits can’t stop talking about IU’s schedule
Now, coming off the best season in the program’s modern history, a College Football Playoff campaign that brought both ESPN’s College Gameday and FOX’s Big Noon Kickoff to Bloomington, IU is legitimately in the conversation for the first time.
Derek Schultz: Mike Chappell holds forth on his unmatched tenure as a Colts beat writer
Mike Chappell has seen the highs and the lows,from the press box as the one constant in the local media.
Derek Schultz: Indy native Brents flew out of the gate as a Colt but lost ground due to injuries
He’s just 25 years old, and the Colts are being patient with their homegrown defensive back.
Derek Schultz: Looking back at 10 years of Colts disappointments
Sadly, 10 years, 14 quarterbacks and 0 division titles later, the only consistent thing the Colts have done in the last 10 years is repeatedly fall short.
Derek Schultz: Clark’s absence couldn’t halt WNBA’s unstoppable momentum
What we’ve all been missing in the heated discourse about Clark is the fact that there’s even a discourse about professional women’s basketball at all.
Derek Schultz: Hicks becomes film star
Hicks’ gig studying the Colts spawned from a random request based on a childhood friendship.
Derek Schultz: Fever find their radio voice
Becoming the new radio voice of the Indiana Fever at the start of this season, John Nolan is capitalizing on a big break, which is directly coinciding with his new employer’s national breakthrough.
Derek Schultz: Pacers’ personnel and current league landscape set up team for prolonged success
One fact that will forever remain the same in basketball: You need to have a true star to contend for a championship.
Derek Schultz: Even with his flaws, Jim Irsay was everything a sports fan could want in an owner
What instead can be stated here is how much Jim Irsay the sports owner meant to this city.
Derek Schultz: Indy 500 lore is filled with great drivers who came agonizingly close but never won
The old saying is that Indy picks its victor. Pato O’Ward isn’t the only incredible contestant that the iconic racing venue has left waiting on the playground to hear his name called.
Derek Schultz: Ball State University’s new football coach has a history of turnarounds and an aggressive goal for MAC dominance
A conference title is something Ball State has claimed just once since 1996—a COVID-shortened 2020 campaign that also included the program’s first bowl victory and top-25 ranking in the final national polls.
Derek Schultz: Quarterback might not be only job on the line for Colts
Anthony Richardson is in a prove-it-or-lose-it spot against a veteran young enough and capable enough to unseat him.
Derek Schultz: The $60.5 million overhaul of the IMS Museum is a spectacle unto itself
The place that celebrates the world’s greatest racetrack has a brand-new look inside and provides IMS entrants a vastly upgraded experience.
Derek Schultz: Indiana underdogs have a habit of becoming overachievers at NCAA tournament time
As we enter the best three weeks on the sports calendar—with the annual opportunity to embrace a new Cinderella—here’s a look back on some of the state’s most out-of-nowhere tournament runs since the event’s last major field expansion 40 years ago.