Ball State

Ball State—a Cardinal squad filled with Hoosiers—is putting together a winning drive to be your Indiana college football team

Nobody expects “perfection” from Ball State. But what I expect—and what I imagine you may also expect—is a willingness to reject not only bigotry, but also deep-seated, intransigent stupidity.

Roxane Gay sent a flurry of tweets to her 421,000 followers, blasting the MWW for its “fatphobia.”

There’s more than small-town snoops, redneck farmers, and zealous theocrats in Indiana.

In her new book, Chasing Slow, Hoosier lifestyle blogger Erin Loechner puts her online celebrity in perspective.

“This is the kind of thoughtful, made-from-scratch pub food folks in this quaint town on U.S. 36 have been craving for years.”

“We [thought] Mom was taking a nap. At 7 [or] 8 o’clock we can’t find Mom… She’d gone out to the backyard and fallen asleep. My hand to God there was a deer licking the salt off the rim of her glass.”

“I see that they’re going to start handing out tickets for going slow in the fast lane. It’s going to be a demolition derby on I-465.”