Every year, the same debate rages in central Indiana – should the Indy 500 live and local TV blackout be permanently lifted? Twice in recent memory the Greatest Spectacle in Racing has been available for television viewers in the city where the race is run. Last year, when no one was allowed on the grounds […]
Right about now every year, Indy 500 fans in central Indiana are stocking up on food and beverages. When asked, they refuse to divulge their secret route to the variety of entrances that surround the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The most ambitious are trying to figure out how to be included in a police escort to […]
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It’s not like NASCAR and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway are conspiring to bore us every July. They don’t want the Brickyard 400 to suck any more than we do. But it does, and watching it rewards only our ability to endure tedium. Six hours and nine minutes. That’s how long it took yesterday’s Brickyard 400 […]
The Brickyard 400 used to be an event that rivaled the Indianapolis 500 for local excitement. It was different – slower – but still fun. Then came the mandatory red flags because of tire wear, and an admission by NASCAR that the nine-degree banking of the corners at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway are not conducive to […]
Wrigley Field still exists mostly in the same form as when my Dad first took me to a game in 1968 – a 9-8 loss to the Reds despite an Ernie Banks home run. Being able to walk up the same steps to the box seats that Dad and I used on that beautiful Spring […]
TV ratings don’t lie. Despite the extensive media coverage for the historic 100th running of the Indianapolis 500, ratings were down nationally from a 4.3 share in 2015 to a 4.1 for the 2016 race. That was despite a 33.6 local rating. If not for the massive number in Indy, the rating for the race would have […]
by Bert Beiswanger I once walked up to Ron Lemasters in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Media Center and said, “Ron, they always taught in journalism class to write for your audience at an eighth-grade level. At the Muncie Star, did they have to tell you to write at a seventh-grade level?” I got a long […]
