Author: Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star

Ten days after Larry Bird helped the USA win the Olympic gold, he sat in front of a microphone in Boston, choking back tears, and retired.

Dan Dakich offered $5,000 for anyone who could name the player he referred to as a ‘methhead’ during a 2020 rant. That player came forward on Tuesday.

About 115 former American Basketball Association players are eligible for payments from the NBA, ending a years-long battle for recognition.

An 11,000-square-foot single-family residence, nestled among farm fields in Indiana, went on market last week. It’s half basketball court, half house.

Nancy Leonard: “It was a disaster. I thought, ‘We just ruined the franchise.’ We could have had a wonderful gold coin in the palm of our hands.”

Sam Smith won a title in the ABA. He died last month. Weeks before his death, he posed in a photo, a message to the NBA.

Did Paul Tracy or Helio Castroneves win the Indianapolis 500 in 2002 ? History says Castroneves. Twenty years later, Tracy maintains it was him.

Joey Chestnut, the No. 1 ranked competitive eater in the world, will try and devour as many donut holes as he possibly can in his next competition.

Purdue’s Rod Woodson didn’t know what a combine was when he came to Indy’s first NFL Scouting Combine in 1987. “I just did what they asked me to do.”

“There’s nothing for me in the past. The only thing for me is in the future,” said Lucas Grounds. And that future means racing again.