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“I just really want to play football,” he says. “The love and the joy I get out of it eats me up on the inside.”

Wabash and DePauw meet on the football field for the 121st time.

Six Indiana University basketball players have made headlines for off-the-court shenanigans since last February.

SI and GQ stuff the Pacers, Tony Dungy tweets his wisdom, Hinkle prepares to show off its makeover, and more.

When Luck first arrived in Indy, he explored the city and was struck by IU Health’s footprint and Riley’s iconic red-wagon logo.

For Bird, the commitment to giving goes back to his upbringing in French Lick, “growing up in a small town” where he and his family “didn’t have a lot,” he says. “But we were greatly benefited by gifts.”

We’re debuting The Replay, your weekly roundup of the best, worst, and just plain offbeat stories in the sports realm. We trust they’re all worth your timeout.

Where else are you going to wear all that gold? You know it’s not really your color.

It hit us like a sack from a 300-pound lineman: Interview Bailey—the Colts receiver who nearly caught that Harbaugh Hail Mary—and then talk him into posing for a photo while wearing the shirt that honors his place in Colts history.

Via @JayNilla: “At halftime, the Union leads the Confederacy 27-14.”

Via @KennyEarlz: “Nice to see the Evansville chapter of Mensa coordinate a welcoming party for POTUS today!”

“It almost sounds like Jeter and Peyton were sitting down at a candlelit dinner, and that really wasn’t the case.”

In 30 years, Indy has shared as many good times—and bad—with our Colts as Baltimore ever did. We’ve laughed. We’ve cried. Most of all, though, we’ve cheered.

In the show’s season opener, Irsay played the de facto leader of a shadowy cabal of NFL owners.

“I was like, ‘Hey, do NOT kick it to him,” Colts defender Robert Mathis recalls. “‘Kick it to him, and I’m going to fight you.’”