Sports

Will this make you want to run right out and change your insurance over to Farm Bureau?

Hope you enjoyed the Indianapolis 500 while it lasted:

Would you call this a Hoosicer-centric point of view?

Has anybody ever gotten more out of brief moments at sporting events than milk producers through the Indianapolis 500? (Possible exception: the "I'm going to Disneyland" crap at the end of Super Bowls.) This year, Hooser Ag Today even trots out an "Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian" to tell us happened that one fateful year when an Indy winner balked and didn't drink his milk:

Does it occur to anybody else that the more "rights" students have, the less the adults are in charge and the less likely real education is being concentrated on? Those rights now extend to the most frivolous of all school activities:

The Indiana High School Athletic Association's executive committee has unanimously approved a rule change allowing girls to try out for baseball and other boys sports, formalizing a move made following settlement of a lawsuit.

At least one good thing came out of state legislators' incompetence in failing to pass a new state budget in the waning days of this General Assembly session. It took so much energy to fail there that they didn't even get around to a measure to give Indianapolis revenue options for the money-hemorrhaging Capital Improvements Board, which will now have to call an emergency meeting:

A student athlete learns that being talented does not always mean bad behavior will be forgiven:

In the end, Kellen Lewis never figured it out. He never met the leadership burden that comes with being a quarterback and Indiana's best football player. The result — his Hoosier career is over.

The Colts keep saying "no," but Indianapolis keeps asking the question in different ways in hopes of getting a different answer:

Rather than try to reopen its 30-year contract with the Indianapolis Colts, the city might ask the team to donate money to area arts and culture groups now supported by the struggling Capital Improvement Board.

The Indianapolis Colts, 2001, in an Associated Press story:

Three years after signing a lease to play in the RCA Dome, the Indianapolis Colts are looking for a new stadium.

Colts owner Jim Irsay intends to commission two studies by spring or summer to examine prospects for a new stadium in Indianapolis.