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Colts’ championship finally gives Indianapolis some sizzle

February 7th, 2007


CBS Sportsline - Indianapolis sports fans had been starved for a championship for decades. The gaudy regular-season records of the Colts and the playoff runs by the Indiana Pacers left a sense of inevitable disappointment each season. Somehow, a

Capsule Preview | Sonics at Pacers, 4 p.m., TV: FSN
Seattle Times - TV/radio: FSN/770 AM. Records: Seattle 17-31, Indiana 26-22. Injuries: Sonics F Rashard Lewis (strained tendon sheath in right hand) and F Danny Fortson (sore left knee) are out. Pacers F Jermaine O’Neal (bruised left knee) is probable and G

Page 2 sent Sam Alipour on a road trip with Ron Artest and his
ESPN.com - Ah, Ron Artest, our forgotten son,” says Eric of the former Indiana Pacer. “I only want to know one thing: Is he crazy?” Eric The Pacers “When the Pacers gave me $6 mil a year, I was grateful for the money and I thank (GM) Donnie Walsh, but I wasn’t

Elias Says
ESPN.com - Jackson may have reminded some Pacers fans of “Super” John Williamson on Monday. In January 1978, Indiana traded Williamson to the Nets, for whom he had 38- and 50-point games against the Pacers later that same season. The Nets lost another

SuperSonics-Pacers Preview
Ledger - The frustration of a franchise-record road losing streak may be getting to coach Bob Hill. The SuperSonics (17-31) will try to avoid dropping their 16th straight game away from KeyArena when they meet the Indiana Pacers (26-22) on Wednesday night

NBA Monday Roundup
WZZM 13 - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Jamaal Tinsley scored a season-high 28 points and the Indiana Pacers handed Boston its 12th consecutive loss by whipping the Celtics 103-to-96. Jermaine O’Neal added 25 points and eight rebounds for the Pacers, who shot a season

Which players should Colts keep?

February 7th, 2007


Fort Wayne News-Sentinel - Let s play armchair general manager for the Indianapolis Colts. It s a fun, free game. We get to say who stays and who goes. If we make the wrong calls, who cares? Technically, we don t even have to admit saying a year ago the Colts needed to

The Ravens’ loss has a silver lining for some
Baltimore Sun - At 4:30 p.m., my beloved Baltimore Ravens were scheduled to take on the Indianapolis Colts, whom I call the Baltimore Colts Playing in Indianapolis. Should I stay home and watch my favorite sport on television or head to Goucher and watch my really

Steady Colts make heady memories
USA Today - MIAMI In the opening seconds of Sunday’s tough, grinding Super Bowl XLI, the Indianapolis Colts were struck by their worst fear. Devin Hester, a little returner with shifty hips and explosive speed, ran the opening kickoff 92 yards for a Chicago

Super Bowl: Rain can’t prevent Colts’ celebration
Herald Tribune - MIAMI: In a rainy Super Bowl XLI, the Indianapolis Colts refused to let an elusive championship slip away. Peyton Manning, named the game’s most valuable player, no longer has to worry about a career without a Super Bowl title. Tony Dungy, who joined

Barkley not the man to put your money on
Baltimore Sun - Charles Barkley had a big weekend in Las Vegas. The basketball Hall of Famer said he won about $700,000 on a combination of blackjack and betting the Indianapolis Colts in the Super Bowl. But he could use some weekends like that. Barkley also said he

Colts celebrate Super Bowl title with rally at RCA Dome
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Indianapolis, IN (Sports Network) - The Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts escaped the rainfall that deluged Dolphins Stadium, returning home for a festive rally inside the RCA Dome on Monday night. Despite a delayed arrival of nearly two and a

NUMBERS RACKET

February 7th, 2007


Philadelphia Inquirer - Isn’t that the entire population of Indianapolis? 13 Percent of congressional Republicans who believe global warming is caused by man. The rest are too busy listening to a tiny bell that Santa Claus gave to them after a midnight train ride to the

Contrasting couple help Indianapolis make history
Times Online - Two men with heavy but different burdens to shed finally lifted them in the early hours of yesterday when the Indianapolis Colts won the Super Bowl for the first time. Tony Dungy became the first black head coach to win American football s biggest

Indianapolis is a super choice
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Colts owner Jim Irsay hoists the Vince Lombardi Trophy Monday. Scripps Howard News Service Indianapolis history of playing host to big sporting events like the Final Four makes the city a prime candidate to land the 2011 Super Bowl. Lost in

Today’s forecast: Frosted, minus the flakes
Indianapolis Star - Officials said most main roads should be clear for this morning’s commute after the biggest storm of the winter blanketed the Indianapolis area with up to 6 inches of snow Tuesday. Traffic came to a standstill along northbound I-69, near 116th Street

Colts return to frigid Indy, rally in Dome
USA Today - INDIANAPOLIS The Indianapolis Colts shared triumphant shouts and high-fives with fans who braved the 8-degree chill to flock to their floats as the Super Bowl champions paraded through downtown Monday night. An estimated 40,000 fans packed the

Indianapolis 400

February 7th, 2007


FOXSports.com - Just another Sunday romp in the park for Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts. Manning completed passes to nine different receivers on his way to a 400-yard, three-touchdown performance as the Colts improved to 9-0 all-time against the Texans

Cold Weather Impacting Many Indianapolis Residents
WISH-TV - INDIANAPOLIS - Local celebrations have been during the coldest period in two years. Monday morning, the low temperature hit five below with a 22 below wind chill. A fire roars in the fireplace of Rosetta Sciff. She says her furnace stopped working

Indy ranks No. 9 in bioscience jobs
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis — home of such life-science heavyweights as Eli Lilly and Co., Dow AgroSciences and Roche Diagnostics — ranks No. 9 in the nation for total bioscience employment, beating out larger tech hubs such as San Diego, Seattle and Washington

Road to the Super Bowl
TSN - Peyton Manning put on a show for the ages Sunday, rallying the Indianapolis Colts from 18 points down and driving them 80 yards for the winning score in a wildly entertaining victory over the New England Patriots. Joseph Addai capped Manning’s late

Winter wallop
WTHR - Several crashes forced the closure of eastbound I-70 near SR 267 in Hendricks Co. State snowplow clearing a section of I-465 in Indianapolis. Man pushing car out of ditch just off I-69 in Hamilton Co. Indianapolis - The year’s first major snowfall

Indianapolis celebrates Super Bowl win 7:31 AM

February 7th, 2007


WCNC - INDIANAPOLIS — Hundreds crowded in subfreezing temperatures Sunday night in downtown Indianapolis to celebrate the Colts’ Super Bowl victory. Standing shoulder to shoulder on the steps of Monument Circle, jubilant fans didn’t seem to mind the cold

Indianapolis Colts
USA Today - MIAMI Nothing lasts long in the NFL. The Indianapolis Colts knew it Sunday night as they celebrated their 29-17 victory against the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI. Hug your teammates now because soon they might be lining up for another team. It

Colts, fans celebrate Super Bowl title
Baltimore Sun - INDIANAPOLIS // About 40,000 Indianapolis fans showed up to thank the Colts for their Super Bowl victory and all the players wanted to do was praise their boisterous supporters. A frenzied crowd descended on downtown Indianapolis and filed into the

Sonics’ downfall is third quarter Seattle looks to snap 15-game road
Seattle Post Intelligencer - INDIANAPOLIS — Diagnosing the reasons for a 15-game losing streak is easy, and the Sonics certainly have figured out, whether it be at their own discovery or being exposed by opponents, why they continue to lose road games. They practiced at the

Field for EVSC job narrows
Evansville Courier-Press - Finalists to be the next Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp. superintendent are expected to be made public next week. Thirteen of the original 37 candidates were interviewed in Indianapolis over the weekend by search firm BWP Associates and retired

Indianapolis 29 Chicago 17
USA Today - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -For long-suffering Indianapolis Colts fans, it’s not just their beloved team that’s made the big time - it’s their hometown, too. ‘’The city’s been waiting for a long time,'’ Dax Peterson of Indianapolis said after the Colts won

College kids score in retooled Nielsens

February 7th, 2007


Los Angeles Times - The Super Bowl between Indianapolis and Chicago on CBS was seen by 93.2 million people, behind only the 1982 “MASH” finale and the 1996 Super Bowl as the most-watched TV broadcast of all time. Prime-time TV rankings Here are the rankings for national

CBS 2 Cameras
CBS 2 Chicago - Bears’ Super Season Washed Away In Miami Bears, Colts, Bears lose, Super Bowl XLI Colts Fans Celebrate, Bears Fans Mourn Indianapolis Colts, Chicago Bears, Super Bowl XLI, Miami, Dolphin Stadium 4 Kids, 2 Adults Hurt In West Side Apartment Fire fire, west

Miami gets chance to smile
FOXSports.com - To assuage this civic teeth-gnashing, Miami is opening its arms to Super Bowl XLI, a main event co-starring the Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts. Factoring the relative calmness radiating from the competing head coaches, Miami’s madness ratio is

Top Technology News
KVOA 4 - The video game did get the winner right: the Indianapolis Colts downed the Chicago Bears 38-to-27. And the game also got the point spread on the nose, picking the Colts to win by the same 12-point margin as the actual contest. The game got the

Chicago LB Briggs to Miss Pro Bowl
Forbes - Four of the NFC champion Bears’ eight Pro Bowl selections have been forced to give up starting jobs in the NFL’s all-star game because of injuries, including three in the last two days following their loss to Indianapolis in the Super Bowl. Briggs

CBS News Video
WBZ-AM - Indianapolis Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy talks about the victory the season the historical impact of being the first black head coach to win the Super Bowl and his Hall of Fame chances. Bacon Game Promotes Charity The Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon game is

Colts Return to Indy and Rally at Dome
Baltimore Sun - INDIANAPOLIS // About 40,000 Indianapolis fans showed up to thank the Colts for their Super Bowl run and all the players wanted to do was praise their boisterous supporters. A frenzied crowd descended on downtown Indianapolis and filed into the RCA

Students Raise Money for 14-year-old Colts Fan’s Transplant

February 7th, 2007


WISH-TV - INDIANAPOLIS - Two days after the Super Bowl, a 14-year-old Indianapolis girl will travel to St. Louis to await a double lung transplant. Taylor McLeod is such a big Colts fan that her travel was delayed a few days so she could watch the game with

To 1970 Colts, franchise has identity crisis
Baltimore Sun - It’s difficult to associate Indianapolis with the Baltimore Colts. They’re two entirely different organizations. “To me, the Baltimore Colts were the pride of the city and in a league by themselves.” According to Mark Waechter, information services

Top Technology News
KVOA 4 - The video game did get the winner right: the Indianapolis Colts downed the Chicago Bears 38-to-27. And the game also got the point spread on the nose, picking the Colts to win by the same 12-point margin as the actual contest. The game got the

Reworked fireworks plan has more pop
Evansville Courier-Press - INDIANAPOLIS - On perhaps the coldest day of the year, with six inches of snow falling on the state’s capital city, legislators had the Fourth of July on their minds Tuesday as they again tinkered with Indiana’s fireworks law. Senate Bill 9 is an

L.T., Belichick in Harmony at Pro Bowl
Forbes - Though Peyton Manning and his four offensive teammates from the champion Indianapolis Colts hadn’t yet arrived, the star-studded AFC squad enjoyed the first day of workouts Tuesday on Oahu’s gorgeous west shore. While league MVP Tomlinson no longer

NATIONAL NEWS

February 6th, 2007


NorthJersey.com - More children and teens are being exposed to online pornography, mostly by accidentally viewing sexually explicit Web sites while surfing the Internet, researchers say. Denied a chance to debate the legality of the Iraq war in court, an Army officer

Miami gets chance to smile
FOXSports.com - To assuage this civic teeth-gnashing, Miami is opening its arms to Super Bowl XLI, a main event co-starring the Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts. Factoring the relative calmness radiating from the competing head coaches, Miami’s madness ratio is

Cold Weather Impacting Many Indianapolis Residents
WISH-TV - INDIANAPOLIS - Local celebrations have been during the coldest period in two years. Monday morning, the low temperature hit five below with a 22 below wind chill. A fire roars in the fireplace of Rosetta Sciff. She says her furnace stopped working

CBS 2 Cameras
CBS 2 Chicago - Bears’ Super Season Washed Away In Miami Bears, Colts, Bears lose, Super Bowl XLI Colts Fans Celebrate, Bears Fans Mourn Indianapolis Colts, Chicago Bears, Super Bowl XLI, Miami, Dolphin Stadium 4 Kids, 2 Adults Hurt In West Side Apartment Fire fire, west

Coach Tony Dungy and quarterback Peyton Manning led the Colts to their
Winston-Salem Journal - A wet and wild night of Super Bowl firsts brought Dungy, Manning and the Indianapolis Colts to the top of the NFL with a 29-17 victory against the Chicago Bears last night. A team built for indoors found its footing on a rain-soaked track. The Colts

National Sports Headlines
WTKR - On a night when the rain fell, the wind swirled and even Prince got dripping wet during the halftime show, Peyton Manning came up big. The Indianapolis Colts have won Super Bowl 41 by thoroughly dominating the Chicago Bears 29-to-17 in a rainy N-F-L

Sports Watch

February 6th, 2007


KTRE - DAVIE, Fla. (AP) _ The Indianapolis Colts added two starters, defensive end Robert Mathis and cornerback Jason David, to the injury report after their last full practice before the Super Bowl. Mathis left practice early because of back spasms and was

Castaways Of Survivor: Fiji
CBS 11 News - A cast of 19 new castaways are set to compete in “Survivor: Fiji” when the reality series premieres Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007. (CBS) Bears Take Quick 7-0 Super Bowl Lead Over Colts Super Bowl XLI, Super Bowl, CHicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts, Miami

Bulldogs march for Super Colts
Martinsville Reporter-Times - Dedicated Indianapolis Colts fans waited hours Monday night on the streets of Indianapolis in the freezing temperatures to see the returning Super Bowl champions. Thousands of fans crowded the streets during the parade, and more than 50,000 were in

Freezing fans greet Colts
MSNBC - INDIANAPOLIS - The Indianapolis Colts shared triumphant shouts and high-fives with fans who braved the 8-degree chill to flock to their floats as the Super Bowl champions paraded through downtown Monday night. An estimated 40,000 fans packed the RCA

Miami gets chance to smile
FOXSports.com - To assuage this civic teeth-gnashing, Miami is opening its arms to Super Bowl XLI, a main event co-starring the Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts. Factoring the relative calmness radiating from the competing head coaches, Miami’s madness ratio is

Baldwin & Lyons, Inc. Announcement of Regular and Extra Dividend

February 6th, 2007


MSN MoneyCentral - INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Baldwin & Lyons, Inc. (Nasdaq: BWINA, BWINB) announces that at its quarterly meeting today, the Board of Directors of Baldwin & Lyons, Inc. declared the regular quarterly dividend of $.25 per share on

CBS 2 Cameras
CBS 2 Chicago - Bears’ Super Season Washed Away In Miami Bears, Colts, Bears lose, Super Bowl XLI Colts Fans Celebrate, Bears Fans Mourn Indianapolis Colts, Chicago Bears, Super Bowl XLI, Miami, Dolphin Stadium 4 Kids, 2 Adults Hurt In West Side Apartment Fire fire, west

Dungy return sounds likely
San Diego Union-Tribune - Indianapolis Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy holds the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the packed crowd of fans. MIAMI They presented the car yesterday to Peyton Manning, but it might have been better had there been two cars and two other men from the

Colts, fans celebrate Super Bowl title
Baltimore Sun - INDIANAPOLIS // About 40,000 Indianapolis fans showed up to thank the Colts for their Super Bowl victory and all the players wanted to do was praise their boisterous supporters. A frenzied crowd descended on downtown Indianapolis and filed into the

Miami gets chance to smile
FOXSports.com - To assuage this civic teeth-gnashing, Miami is opening its arms to Super Bowl XLI, a main event co-starring the Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts. Factoring the relative calmness radiating from the competing head coaches, Miami’s madness ratio is

Verizon Wireless Rolls Out Faster EV-DO Revision A Wireless Broadband
MSN MoneyCentral - INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 6, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — Verizon Wireless, the nation’s leading wireless provider, announced today that its next-generation high-speed broadband network is now available in the greater Indianapolis and Fort Wayne areas. Based on