Indianapolis outbid Chicago for the rights to host the Big Ten Conference football championship game through 2015 and also landed the 2014 and 2016 title games in men’s and women’s basketball.
Qatar was selected as host of the 2022 World Cup, beating out a bid by the United States to bring soccer's showcase back to America for the first time since 1994.
CEO Allison Melangton deliberately hired only Indiana residents to tap a deep talent pool and play up Hoosier hospitality.
The Big Ten announced Thursday that the conference and the Indiana Sports Corp. will spend the next 30 days working out details
of the one-year deal. After that, the Big Ten will conduct thorough research to determine future locations.
Three of the six additions are executives on loan from the Indiana Sports Corp. and the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors
Association.
But promoters of effort to bring global soccer competition here in 2018 or 2022 aren’t concerned about repeat of financial
failures of World Basketball Championships.
Retiring Indiana Supreme Court judge Ted Boehm played a leading role in the city’s emergence as an amateur sports
capital.
It started as a meeting seven years ago between the NCAA, city and state officials, representatives of the Indiana
Sports Corp. and a few others. The result was an agreement
assuring Indianapolis hosts a major NCAA event every year between now and 2039.
Organizers credit stronger ticket-selling efforts and new promotions for boosting attendance to more than 81,000, the highest
it’s been since the tournament became an annual event in Indianapolis.
The Big Ten men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will be held in Indianapolis the next two years, but the conference’s
future in the city is uncertain after 2012.
Indianapolis was one of 18 cities included in United State’s bid to host World Cup Soccer event in 2018 or 2022.
I loved [Benner’s Dec. 14] column [about Indiana Sports Corp.]. Thirty years is not a long history, but I’ll bet most folks in Indy don’t
know about this.
Lucas Oil Stadium suite holders are upset that the NCAA is taking their luxury boxes for the men’s basketball Final Four
in April and reselling them on the secondary—or scalpers—market.
Dramatic decreases in sponsorship and ticket revenue this year and the recent resignation of the Circle City Classic’s
new executive director have some questioning if the event can survive. Now Classic leaders are considering a bevy of bold changes.
The director of the Circle City Classic announced his resignation Monday, just four months after taking the job.
A little more than six months before the 2010 NCAA men’s Final Four is set to tip off at Lucas Oil Stadium, the NCAA
has not yet finalized a rental deal for the facility. While officials for the NCAA and Local Organizing Committee,
the group charged with operating the event in Indianapolis, downplay any problems, sports business experts say it is unusual
not to have an agreement pinned down in the months leading up to the event.
Ten years ago this week, the National Collegiate Athletic Association opened the doors to its new headquarters in White River
State Park.
Indianapolis’ hard-earned title of amateur sports capital seems to be peeling away like the paint on some of the city’s sports
venues.
The woman chosen as CEO of the city’s Super Bowl host committee isn’t exactly a household name, but those who hired her think
she’ll make Indianapolis the best host city ever.
If the city is serious about continuing to use amateur athletics as an economic tool, more collaboration among the university,
city leaders and sports organizations is clearly needed.
