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“When I build a team, I want diversity,” says Fever head coach Lin Dunn. “I imagine a team like a bowl of fruit: apples, peaches, pears, bananas, and some nuts. Different perspectives and different personalities. You can’t have too many nuts, though!”

The purgatorial Pacers have put their fans through much since March, and tonight we see if they have the bite to climb back and level the series.

And she will let no one leave empty-handed: “Everybody is guaranteed to leave with a dress,” says West.

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.

IndyCar driver Josef Newgarden definitely dances best in the clip. He impresses with or without his helmet, as he bounces on the IMS track’s pavement and then in front of the Pagoda.

“There is a group of people who grew up here with tennis as a part of their year,” says Courier, “and looked forward to that RCA [Championships] tournament every year and have something to call their own.”

Eleven parties, festivals, and games you won’t want to miss in 2014.

The tennis legend put on a show, faring far better in the same arena than his favorite Knicks do this season against the Pacers. He defeated two fellow former stars and went out downtown.

Fans should love wearing the new short-sleeve jersey more than the players do.

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.

Perhaps it’s better said that the songs gave her a workout, as evidenced by her soaring performance of a literal show-stopper, the closing “So What.”

The star’s appearance elicited the expected response: stop-start traffic on downtown streets and oodles of tween screams piercing the arena air.

With her red microphone, red shoes, red guitar, red outfits, bright red lipstick, and red stage lights, fans were forced to see the color that Swift touted as being the key element combining all her feelings, feelings about which she’s obviously quite open. As gallons of confetti fell and the band waved goodbye, I realized Swift isn’t the girl you read about in the gossip magazines.

But what about our pro basketball franchise? Don’t you remember? The one born here 45 years ago on little more than a few dollars and a big dream? The one that helped Indianapolis elbow its way into national consideration as a sports town by winning three ABA titles in a span of four years? The one whose success spurred the construction of Market Square Arena, the retro-classic Fieldhouse—regarded by many as the finest basketball venue in the country—and, ultimately, downtown revitalization?