Today (NBC show)

“I have always identified my most Hoosier characteristic as being authentic. Just being myself.”

Champion Ryan Hunter-Reay is now on a national tour, blitzing the media and sipping champagne with his wife—but still not milk with his young son, that’s for sure.

The Star has more local stuff than it once did, I’ll grant you that, and much of it is good. Sometimes, though, you must get desperate to fill space, as with the piece you ran about a deer beaten on the head with a hammer on I-70.

The Indy native and 1972 IU graduate will join her former co-anchor Bryant Gumbel and current anchor Matt Lauer to lead on the show.