Sports

As AP reporter Tom LoBianco churned out hit after hit, politicos quietly talked about how he was able to get so much dirt on Tony Bennett. But the blogosphere erupted with more pointed talk of foul play by the Glenda Ritz administration.

Says Bird about his return to the NBA team based in Indianapolis: “I don’t know if I’d be doing this if it was anywhere but here.”

Meet the Flockers—Indy’s urban chicken farmers—plus look back on Indy 500 Snake Pit hijinks, the State Fair food romp, and a pair of brew-drenched events.

“The atmosphere in Assembly Hall is truly unmatched anywhere in college basketball,” says Cindy Simon Skjodt, for whom the arena will be named.

Efron, the High School Music alum, played guest to Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay on Sunday as the home team won. He was hardly the lone star in town this week, either.

Despite the accolades and compliments, the 18-year-old has kept his focus: “I try not to pay too much attention to that stuff.”

On the latest leg of his first tour in six years, Justin Timberlake is in Indy for a concert stop and took in some Pacers-Heat action during his downtime.

“It’s a great event, and this year is going to be bigger than ever,” said one football fan, who himself fancies the IU Hoosiers, themselves nowhere near this game. “[IU] being in the Big Ten championship game is the longest shot ever.”

While a clunky read at times, Leonard’s biography serves as a good introduction to the history of Indiana basketball.

Pop star Pink stormed Indy with her gravity-defying live act, and NFL observers sent up the Colts’ inept effort today on the heels of their NBC sitcom repeat appearance.

Colts fans won’t have to go through the emotionally stunting experience of having to spend weekdays with Meg Irsay and weekends and holidays with Jim. (Even so, we bet holidays with Jim are never dull.)

Granted permission to begin making their movie just two weeks before the season started, Cohn and Rothbart picked up and moved from where they lived in Ann Arbor to spend a year in Medora. Six hundred hours of footage later, the duo has an 82-minute film that Cohn says is all about identity.

Despite the country’s unconditional passion for “the beautiful game,” college sport is simply not a big deal there. Aside from the teams, players, and trainee media students looking to make names for themselves, interest is virtually nonexistent.

The show, now in its sixth season, is always worth a watch, but this week’s episode should be considered mandatory viewing for Hoosiers.

Sports observers waxed sarcastic and mournful about the Colts’ ugly home loss to the Rams—but hey, they won four nights later! Meanwhile, Dario Franchitti closed his IndyCar and 500 racing career as the Indiana State Museum’s resident mastodon tweeted, “I’M STILL HERE.”