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“Folsom Prison Blues” has become something of a standard for the five-time NFL MVP.

Via @TheJennaBee: “My boyfriend is watching wedding shows with me, in case you were looking for real life examples of Stockholm Syndrome.”

In another game of note, the Colts will visit the Dallas Cowboys’ Death Star—err, AT&T Stadium—for the first time ever on December 21, one of three away games that month.

Tickets just went on sale for the U.S. Cricket National Championships in August. But wondering (aloud) what we might have paid for instead has already made for compelling sport.

@IUBloomington offers the week’s best #humblebrag: “Just another day at IU (with Grammy Award winner Joshua Bell and Academy Award winner Meryl Streep).”

“Hopefully the word is out that I’m coming, and I’m looking to have some fun and enjoy the festivities,” he says.

Why race fans will spend up to $1,100 for a four-night stay in a tent.

A phrase repeated a few times during the contest: “Give it to the IU guys!”

At stake tonight: possible home-court advantage in the upcoming NBA Playoffs. Who wants it? Who knows?

About tonight’s match-up against the Heat, via @trehagen, “Friday’s shaping up to be a doozy—I mean, if you think the No. 1 seed means anything.”

“There are a lot of historic things that have happened in Indianapolis,” says Wilbon, “whether we’re talking about Negro League baseball or Crispus Attucks High School.”

What Daniel Foster knows for sure is that by 2:15 a.m., his brother lay in the club’s parking lot, blood seeping from his ear.

Special interests pay handsomely for the chance to put their stamp on Indiana politics. But in 2013, lobbyists themselves spent a comparatively paltry $4,000 on meals, hotel stays, and tickets to events and attractions for individual lawmakers.

She visits all IPS high schools to invite junior and senior girls to her dress giveaway on April 16.

Via @urbanophile: “Last time there were 8 murders in Indy, the mayor issued a statement and jetted off to Phoenix.”