Sports: IU football’s skid to the end of a rocky road
The Old Oaken Bucket rivalry will be rekindled this year, and in Indiana’s case, it will be one last chance to find shelter from the Category 5 hurricane this season has become.
Mike Lopresti
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Sports: These Jaguars are on the hunt for redemption
Gaze around the state of Indiana landscape in Division I basketball. Find the one and only program voted to win its league this season.
Mike Lopresti: The road to football glory in Indianapolis
The first rankings from the College Football Playoff committee had the contenders lined up, so now we look at the top names and try to figure out why each would be a good fit for the championship Indy in January.
Mike Lopresti: College hoops are back
Bounce, bounce, bounce. Yeah, college basketball is coming.
Sports: UIndy quarterback starts seventh season
If you think Stancombe has the playbook down backward and forward by now, just think how well he must know campus. “Like the back of my hand,” Stancombe said.
Mike Lopresti: October should bring clarity to sports
Clarity. That’s what October is for.
Mike Lopresti: Holtmann, Patberg share milestones on Sept. 11
There was a lot of news in the sports world that Tuesday morning.
Mike Lopresti: Excitement, some challenges mount ahead of football playoffs in Indy
Wasn’t it just yesterday that Indianapolis was basking in the glow of pulling off the NCAA Tournament, with COVID banging on the door? But the calendar moves on, and now Indy and its 425-person playoff host committee prepares for their next moment of truth on the big stage.
Mike Lopresti: Early dates in Indiana football should be revealing
Whoever opens against Seattle September 12—Jacob Eason seems the choice—will be the 11th different quarterback starter in the past 161 games. There are other questions bouncing around the state’s football landscape.
Mike Lopresti: Victory Field celebrates 25 years with unusual season
But I’m starting to feel like my old self. I know things are getting back to normal when I feel peanut shells being crunched on my walkways. Funny, the things you miss.
Mike Lopresti: Athletes’ livelihoods, life-long dreams hang on Olympics
You think Indianapolis had its hands full hosting the NCAA Tournament without the walls crumbling in from COVID? Multiply that by a hundred and you get Tokyo.
Mike Lopresti: It’s an Indiana summer at the ballpark
Four men, who might be having the summers of their baseball lives. Four roads that led through the state of Indiana.
Mike Lopresti: Pitcher has faced adversity, but still looks to big league
Mears made four appearances for the Pirates, striking out seven in five innings. And now here he is in Victory Field in 2021, working to get back.
Mike Lopresti: IHSAA commissioner’s first year was anything but normal
This is the last week of the first year of Neidig’s era as commissioner. It was never going to be easy. Not the rookie season. Governing high school sports can be so … complicated.
Mike Lopresti: Champions prove age is just a number
Remember Helio Castroneves proving that old guys can still climb fences?
Mike Lopresti: Baseball’s back
Good times have been happening all over the place, even if hardly anyone has been allowed in to watch.
Mike Lopresti: Baseball is coming back to Victory Field
What happens to a ballpark when it must sit idle for so long? Maybe we should ask the guy who takes care of the place.
Mike Lopresti: Hamilton Southeastern grad is first-round draft pick
Bachman had good freshman and sophomore seasons, then dropped his pitching release slot a tad; toned up his 6-1, 235-pound frame; developed a killer slider, and turned into a flame thrower.
Lopresti: 20 keeper moments from the NCAA tourney in Indianapolis
How to remember the past three weeks in Indianapolis?
Mike Lopresti: It isn’t Indiana’s year for basketball, despite the Big Dance
Only yesterday, the Big Ten was the baddest bunch in the land. Today, it has as many teams in the Sweet 16 as the Summit League.