Monthly Archives: July 2017

Andrew Luck to open training camp on the PUP list

Indianapolis Colts General Manager Chris Ballard met with local media on Monday afternoon and provided an update on franchise quarterback Andrew Luck.

Ballard said that Luck will start training camp on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list, but that he expects Luck to come off PUP before the start of the regular season. However, Ballard also noted there remains no specific timetable for Luck …

Colts set to embark on 2017 season

The Indianapolis Colts’ 2017 rookie class reports to the Indiana Farm Bureau practice facility on Saturday at West 56th street, one week before the veterans report to training camp on July 29.

Next Saturday, Colts Owner Jim Irsay, General Manager Chris Ballard, Head Coach Chuck Pagano and the remainder of the coaching staff will begin to get a better feel of the kind of roster …

Archie Miller laying blueprint for new era

Indiana basketball coach Archie Miller has been on the job for less than four months.

In that span, Miller has witnessed three former Hoosiers depart campus for life in professional basketball — OG Anunoby, Thomas Bryant and James Blackmon, Jr. Former scholarship player Grant Gelon also left town, informing the coaching staff he intended to transfer.

The aforementioned players are all losses to the program …

Troy Williams reaches multi-year agreement with Houston Rockets

Troy Williams will return to the Houston Rockets for another season, reaching agreement with the team on a multi-year deal, a league source confirms to VigilantSports.com. The first year is fully guaranteed.

The Rockets are loaded in the competitive Western Conference, adding perennial All-Star point guard Chris Paul via trade to go alongside MVP finalist James Harden, Eric Gordon, Nene, Trevor Ariza and more.

Williams, …

KeyBank enters agreement to become the Banking Home of the Pacers

KeyBank has signed a larger sponsorship deal with the Pacers that will make them the team’s “Official Banking Partner” and rename the lower-level suites floor to the “KeyBank Suite Level.”

The five-year deal was announced at a press conference held at the top of the lower bowl of Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Wednesday (July 19).

“This partnership is a huge, huge up-step here,” said Rick …

Three years later, Lance Stephenson is stilling answering questions about blowing in LeBron’s ear

Kids not only say, but ask the darndest things, right?

That was the case Monday at the Irsay Family YMCA at CityWay when Pacers guard Lance Stephenson took questions from campers.

With Lance, somehow it always goes back to blowing in the ear of LeBron James during Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals in 2014, a 93-90 Pacers victory. That will be part of …

Lance Stephenson ‘heartbroken’ to see Paul George leave Pacers

Lance Stephenson was “hyped” to be back home with the Pacers, signing a three-year deal to return to Indy at the end of March. He fully expected to play alongside four-time All-Star Paul George for the rest of the season, and for many more years to come.

George, however, felt that staying with the Pacers was not in his best interest and so he had …

Damezi Anderson announces commitment to Indiana

Head Coach Archie Miller and the Indiana Hoosiers received their third commitment in less than 24 hours as class of 2018 wing Damezi Anderson has announced his decision to join the Cream and Crimson.

Brian Snow of Scout.com was the first to report the news.

Anderson, a 6-foot-6 wing from James Whitcomb Riley High School in South Bend, IN, is rated the No. 91 prospect …