The home of the Indiana Pacers now has a new name. CNO Financial Group (formerly known as Conseco) has opted to rename Conseco Fieldhouse, now Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
The change comes a couple years after Conseco went through bankruptcy and changed their company name for a new image.
The Fieldhouse, which cost Indianapolis about $183 million, opened in November of 1999 and has hosted dozens …
As a sports fan, you have to love what’s going on in Indianapolis this weekend….everything!
Beginning tonight, there are four days of quality sports action that may draw your interest. It’s the holiday time so I’d suggest taking your significant other or best of all a good friend and enjoy some of these tremendous games going on.
Friday:
Ahh….NBA is back. The Indiana Pacers host …
Four in-state programs come together for the Close the Gap Crossroads Classic on Saturday at Conseco Fieldhouse. Butler, Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame. Two games, four local schools. In Indiana, a basketball crazy state, it makes perfect sense.
This isn’t a new idea by any means, just a reboot of an old classic, the Hoosier Classic. Led by the athletic directors of these four schools, …
No surprise here, because Indiana is basketball country.
The first annual Close The Gap Crossroads Classic at Conseco Fieldhouse sold out as of Monday afternoon, six days before the back-to-back games featuring four Indiana schools.
This Saturday, December 17th, Butler (4-6) plays Purdue (9-2) at 2 pm EST. Ian Eagle and Bill Raftery are the announcers for this one on CBS. (Eagle will call the …
Indianapolis is determined and committed to put on a Super Bowl to remember.
The hosts of Super Bowl XLVI are ensuring that the experience is one that will leave an impression on visitors. They’ve hosted Final Fours, the Big Ten Basketball Tournament, thousands of conventions and the largest single-day sporting event, the Indianapolis 500.
Hoosier Hospitality is second to none and Indy is pulling out …
Less than two weeks after Mark Patrick’s last show on 1260 WNDE in Indianapolis, the station has hired his successor.
Jake Query, 38, will be heard once again in Indianapolis, hosting the afternoon local sports talk show on WNDE.
“Derek Schultz will be on board with me,” Query tweeted. “And..it’ll be a VERY twitter friendly show.”
The show will debut August 15th and can be …
I don’t think there was any question whether the inaugural Big Ten title game would be a hot attraction.
With the addition of Nebraska this year, the conference now has enough schools for a title game. Before, the active week in college football had always been gray and quiet on the Big Ten front.
For at least the next five years, Lucas Oil Stadium in …
In case you didn’t know, and you probably didn’t, the Brickyard 400 is this weekend in Indianapolis. The annual spectacle use to be a strong event, maybe the second biggest race of the year behind Daytona for NASCAR, now is a few years from meaningless.
NASCAR has had it’s problems over the years at the Brickyard with the tire fiasco being the most prominent. I …