"I was shaking. Is this really happening? For the ones who need the help the most, this is life changing and, in some cases, even life saving."

Alford had known Knight since he was in third grade. And he dreamed of playing for him. "Bottom line he made me a better man and player," Alford said.

This video is snippets of a 6-minute segment Dakich did on Scottsburg. It includes cursing, talk of meth, AIDS and defecating. IndyStar recorded the podcast before it was taken down.

His cancer tissue is now living inside an animal where researchers can study it behaving in its most aggressive form.

Peyton Manning talked to IndyStar about the Colts' next quarterback. Manning greatly approves: "This team needs the leadership Matt can give them."

A petition on Change.org has started to bring back 'Query & Schultz.' On Thursday, iHeartMedia brought back fired sports radio hosts in Des Moines.

The day Emry Himes was promoted to GM, he knew exactly what that stood for: "I'm a great man," he says.

Trace Bulger had battled a degenerative brain disease that forced him to leave Wabash College, where he played football and threw shot put.

Jonathan Avalos was diagnosed with glioblastoma his freshman year at Purdue. He fought hard. He wants people to hear his story.

Chase's life may have ended up being shorter than others. But he said he was not shortchanged. Not many people, after all, find their Sadie.

"Query & Company" will launch Aug. 21 noon to 3 p.m. on The Fan. Query's spot on the morning show with Kevin Bowen will be filled by Andy Sweeney.

Colts' Yannick Ngakoue learned from his mom that life was bigger than him. So he started helping others. 'This feels better than any football play.'

Colts fans have launched an online petition in hopes of keeping Jim Irsay from hiring Jeff Saturday as head coach.

He joins co-host Kevin Bowen 7-10 a.m. weekdays. “There is an excitement in doing morning radio, seeing the city come alive, seeing the sun rise," Query said.

'This is an honest to goodness treat,' the F.C. Tucker listing for the old Wilkinson High gym boasts.

Banished from UCLA, Steve Alford is in Reno, searching for greatness again.

XFL commissioner Oliver Luck answered some questions about his son and former Colts quarterback Andrew Luck on 'The Dan Patrick Show' podcast.

From North Central High to Fox59, 33-year-old Charly Arnolt has risen to national renown as a sports broadcaster.

Ascension St. Vincent and Community Health Network either declined to comment or did not respond to requests from IndyStar this week to weigh in on the Indy 500 health and safety plan.

His parents worried how Evan's death would affect Jack. They didn't have to. The IUPUI basketball team wrapped Jack in their arms and didn't let go.

Miller's career evolved organically, a young boy who grew up on the south side of Indianapolis enchanted by the speedway.

"That was the first time she had seen me standing and walking at all," Schmidt said. There wasn't a dry eye in the room as he danced.

It was on World Suicide Prevention Day that two football players at Wabash College took their lives. Now their parents want you to ask this question.

When the movie was released in 1986, many scenes were deleted from the original script. The gym has inserted those deleted scenes for the showing.

While he was here, say those who knew the coach nicknamed Shultzy, he made an impact like no other.

Parker Adams had no idea when he woke up Monday morning he would be the first high school senior admitted to Butler's fall class of 2022.

He's 69 years old, stands 6-9 and can get an entire group of kids to hang on his every word. The Pacers' Darnell Hillman is killing it at his new job.

'He just couldn't understand why people put him on a pedestal,' his son Tommy said, 'telling us all that he did was put a ball in a round hoop.'

The two were high school sweethearts in New Jersey.

"It's just not normal to go out of your way like that for someone," people have told Aubrey Robinson. "I guess then I don’t want to be normal."

Jeff Brohm had secured commitments from seven Indianapolis-area players to play at Purdue. Now, they're left wondering what's next.

The Kellys lost their daughter, Mary Kate, nearly two years ago. Now they have two beautiful baby boys. But the journey getting there wasn't easy.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver on Pacers owner Herb Simon: 'Few people have influenced the NBA’s growth as much as Herb over these past 41 years.'

Known in press boxes as the laid back and beloved "Hutch," he had a quick wit and big heart.

Here's the inside story of how Kyle Kaiser defeated the odds, knocked out Fernando Alonso and made the Indy 500 field.

What Miller did may have been the greatest one-man comeback in the history of the NBA.

Can the Indiana Fever rookie launch a playoff run? Can she turn a team's record upside down like Larry Bird did in 1979 with the Celtics?

Dr. Eric Yancy was the first Black resident in the newborn intensive care unit at Riley Hospital for Children.

Sparks of the feisty, cursing college coach with a wicked sense of humor showed up, but there were also uncomfortable moments.

KeShawn Smith was headed to Huntington University for a basketball recruiting weekend when he died in a car crash.

A.J. Brase was in hospice, with days left to live when Slick Leonard visited. No one knows what happened in that room, but Brase is alive nearly six years later.

Chase's tumors had been growing. But scans on his lungs this week showed shrinkage. "It was exciting and a little unexpected," said his oncologist.

"When you have an elite athlete of his caliber, with a ridiculous future, you can't roll the dice and hope his shoulder is OK without the surgery."

When LeBlanc visited Green before the state tourney, Green told him: "This is the end. I'm not going to be here when you get home.'"

"In just 48 hours, I saw patients go from 'OK' to very 'not OK' over just a few hours, with no warning," said IU Health COVID-19 nurse Taryna Bradley.

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.

During a 5-minute rant, Dakich called a player a methhead, urged listeners to "take a dump" in Scottsburg and threatened to beat up the school board

His comic genius got in the way and reeled those talent scouts at HBO Max right in.

The beast named osteosarcoma came for Vivian and Cade, ending their college sports dreams. But amid the tragedy, a beautiful friendship was formed.

The day Emry Himes was promoted to GM, he knew exactly what that stood for: "I'm a great man," he says.

Capt. Andrew Luck revealed a few tidbits about the person behind the Twitter account. We still don't know who it is, but we can guess.

When Chase Smith learned he had months to live, he knew what he needed to do.

All week leading up to the Saturday wedding, Matt Overton kept Twitter up to date on the wedding and the coronavirus panic.

And now the team is headed to the World Series.

"That's not the Bob Knight I know," said Leary, who played for Knight from 1989-94 and later was a radio color commentator for the team.

Steve Alford still talks to Bob Knight. His favorite thing to do with Knight is to watch film. He still loves to soak up Knight's coaching wisdom.

The acceptance letter read: "Dear Orville, Hear you are worried about not hearing from me. We are counting on you being with us. Don’t worry anymore."

Pizzo said his goal is to work with MGM to release an official version of "Hoosiers" with the deleted scenes added back in.

For decades, two lovestruck teenagers made good on a promise to their parents to never talk again. But one day, 51 years later, everything changed.

He was as comfortable changing tires as he was leading mass. Father Glenn O'Connor was 66 years old.

Reporters Dana Hunsinger Benbow and Shari Rudavsky receive top recognition at Indiana SPJ awards, as does investigation into IOSHA and RV industry.

As millions watch the Indy 500 from recliners on home televisions, Joe Malia will be on a platform nearly 40 feet high hovering over the track.

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

His stadium job is hand-to-hand, yell-in-your-face: All things that raise flags in a Coronavirus-stricken world.

Pacers Roger Brown, who went on to be inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame, was the first pro athlete to hold a public office in Indiana.