The home of the football Hoosiers has a new name. IU fans, meet Merchants Bank Field at Memorial Stadium. The naming rights deal is worth $50 million over 20 years. It also includes financial literacy courses for Hoosier athletes so they can manage their NIL income.

ALERT: #GasPrices appear to be rising to $3.39/gal in #Indiana today. This is a non-warranted price cycle after yesterday's large plunge in oil and wholesale gasoline prices.

Whether the Pacers win or lose Game 7, this is a season fans will talk about for the rest of their lives, but the In-Season Tournament run last season may have been the true beginning of this journey to the NBA Finals. www.wrtv.com/news/local-n...

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“Put yourself over everything.” -this building for some reason

Downtown Indy construction update: the old CSX building across from Gainbridge Fieldhouse is now rubble. The 13-story Shinola Hotel and a 4,000 seat concert hall managed by Live Nation will rise on the site. Info on what’s coming: www.wrtv.com/news/local-n...

The speedway calls and I must go.

This has to be the wildest week in Indiana sports history. -Pacers pull off a comeback for the ages against their hated rival -Jim Irsay dies -Indy 500, complete with Penske cheating allegations -Fever and Caitlin Clark start their season in the spotlight

Go Pacers.

Indiana weather. Sun on one side, doom on the other.

Good Lord, Pacers.

Game 3. Watching from the nosebleeds. Let’s go, Pacers.

Indianapolis progress: the quickly-rising Signia Hotel is starting to make its presence known in the downtown skyline. 23 of the 38 floors are done and it will rise more than 400 feet in the sky when it is topped out this fall.

Before these high school seniors walk the stage, they walked through the past and reminisced on their younger days.

YES, ‘CERS.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith recently called the Three-Fifths Compromise, the law which defined Black people as three-fifths of a human during slavery, “a great move.” These Hoosiers want him to apologize immediately. youtu.be/d1o68qO0WoQ?...

The end is here for (part of) Circle Centre Mall. The southern half of the mall is now closed for good as it prepares for redevelopment.

A sad day in Fishers. Hamilton Southeastern football star Mason Alexander is being laid to rest after he was killed in a car crash this month. He was a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh. His teammates made the trip to the service to pay their respects.

I did not, but it was wild living in North Carolina to hear the near-universal experience of people watching March Madness in class growing up.

I do some outrageous things to get Indiana’s attention sometimes…like pretending to be Lionel Messi for 15 seconds.

The phrases "Carmel, Indiana" and "public transportation" don't normally go together, but the city is now asking its residents if it should consider adding mass transit options.

WAIT WHERE IN INDIANA IS THIS

Spoke with @wrtv.bsky.social’s Adam Schumes this afternoon about the hit-and-run this morning that killed a woman who was in town for work. Far too many pedestrians and bicyclists in Indianapolis are being struck and killed by cowardly drivers who leave the scene. #HoosierSky #Indianapolis

People in Indy know Indiana Avenue was the center of Black history and culture...but they also know how it was mostly hollowed out and demolished through urban renewal. I dug through the archives and found this piece from 1986. It's jarring to hear how Indiana Avenue was described then vs. now.

True story: I once reported on a bank robbery in this town.

Happy Valentine’s Day from the heart of Indy.

It has taken years of planning and persistence but the Blue Line, Indianapolis’ next bus rapid transit project, is about to break ground. Check the picture for details: IndyGo hopes to start building the BRT by the end of the month.

Some day, Nike marketing will miss. Today wasn't that day

hAPPy SuPERb OWL

Sometimes I do stories about dogs.

*sigh*

Will I be the only DePaul fan at Butler today? Probably, but I don’t care. School spirit won out.

How stuck up do you have to be to keep Ichiro off of your Hall of Fame ballot? To that one writer, show yourself. I just want to talk.

The place where a jail once stood will soon become Caitlin Clark's domain. I looked into why the Indiana Fever are building a $78 million practice facility next to their arena.

There’s big money in women’s basketball. The Indiana Fever will soon build a $78 million headquarters and practice facility on the site of the Marion County Jail, which is currently being torn down.

LAC 12 - 32 HOU Final That's Scorigami!! It's the 1091st unique final score in NFL history.

The things I do for news. I’m just glad I can feel my legs again.

A historic Indianapolis car factory went through a dark chapter as Marion County Jail II. Now, the work begins to bring back the light and transform the Cole Motor Company complex into lofts and shops.

We run just like we do everyday. No excuses, no late starts, no cancelled service. Every trip matters, and we’re always here for Indianapolis. www.wrtv.com/news/local-n...

Some of these Indy sidewalks are still AWFUL after the snowstorm. This guy gave up on walking from the 38th/Meridian Red Line station and walked in the street instead.

The US Department of Transportation just awarded a $150 million grant so Indianapolis can build the Blue Line. IndyGo plans to start construction on the BRT line early this year, the contract to build it was awarded last month. The line won't start running until 2028.

Old man winter did not go easy on us today.

Look up! The 38-story Signia Hotel tower is quickly rising over Indy…it will soon be impossible to ignore if you’re downtown.

My TV station’s archive is WILD, man.

It’s finally 2025! …at the @childrensmuseum.bsky.social, but it still counts.

I just realized I have a bizarre list of team fandoms after moving around so much (and after the Oakland teams moved.) Please let me know if your teams are as random as mine. NFL: Vikings MLB: Mariners NBA: Warriors and Pacers NHL: Hurricanes College: Cal, DePaul, Iowa State

Cherish the beauties of life while they’re here. I took this video at the end of the Santa Cruz wharf back in September. Everything in the frame was just destroyed by a storm.

Oakland Coliseum, 9-26-24. My final photo of the late great Rickey Henderson. 😔