Hoosiers

The Hollywood veteran joins the Monthly Weekly to tell a few stories from behind the scenes.

The White House Coronavirus Task Force, which is one-fifth Hoosier, has struggled with its, well, task.

Maybe some forgave on Saturday. Nobody forgot.

Are calls for the dismissal of the IU athletic director just good sense, or jumping the gun?

Freshman phenom or one-and-done?

“Back in the early 1800s, when Indiana’s political map was drawn, that many counties seemed about right.”

“If y’all don’t respect the Indiana Pacers now, I have no respect for you.”

“Whether you do or do not talk to New Albany coach Jim Shannon, that’s not changing your chances of getting Romeo Langford,” one recruiting analyst says.

Indiana basketball’s defining rivalry rekindles twice in February with two new episodes of a series Purdue currently leads by a reasonably commanding 115–89. Here’s what got (and kept) the ball rolling:

Bow down, Hoosier fans. National powerhouse Butler has THE Indiana basketball program.

To the extent that Milan’s victory inspired ‘Hoosiers,’ one could argue that ‘Hoosiers’ returned the favor, enshrining the game in the country’s collective sports-history consciousness. And here, to mark the 50th anniversary of the game that ‘Hoosiers’ celebrates, former Milan players and the film’s cast and crew hold court on making a sports movie for the ages.

Maybe the fact that almost 40 states already have film tax incentives just makes hers a better story—one with parallels to Hoosiers itself.

“I couldn’t get past episode three or four. Too scary.”

“I’ll be stocking up on “317” T-shirts—even though the things I’ll miss most about the city can’t be packed in a moving van.”

Indiana’s once-in-a-lifetime moment in the political sun has had a way humbling all five presidential candidates, as we’ve welcomed them into our watering holes, pancake houses, ice cream shops, and gymnasiums.