Doyel: My mom dies, and I’m reminded – you remind me – we’re not going through this alone
My mom dies, but I'm not going through this alone. Powerful stories fill this week's Mailbagg, including a reader's personal story of life after death
The man on the right? A HS principal I met in 2015. Wonderful man. That's his wife on the left, and their kids.
He died of cancer. I found out from a reader who read about my Mom, and told me about his brother, Keith Fessler of New Pal.
Column is open.
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07.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Colts captain Zaire Franklin:
"I think after we played L.A., we realized that we're that team. We're a team that's a test for everybody else, and everybody else needs to start responding to how WE play."
06.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Enormous response to this column - from friends, strangers, family, colleagues, competitors, even Colts.
Thank you for your positive thoughts and welcome prayers. Thank you.
02.10.2025 01:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Colts might just be really good. And fatally flawed.
30.09.2025 13:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Four games into the season, we learned who could beat the previously undefeated Colts:
The Colts.
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28.09.2025 23:02 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Column | Colts owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon is acting like a boss, no notes
After inheriting the team from her father, she is captivating NFL broadcasts like no woman has.
Watch any NFL game, and women are everywhere. During these broadcasts, however, women are introduced in a way that comes across as merely complementary.
That is until, Colts owner & CEO Carlie Irsay-Gordon fills the screen.
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25.09.2025 18:12 — 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Doyel: IU is heading toward the top of college football. So is quarterback Fernando Mendoza
When IU returns to the College Football Championship and Fernando Mendoza heads to NYC for Heisman Trophy ceremony, remember the play that beat Iowa.
I’m writing about Indiana football’s latest win, and I get caught up in the emotions of it all, and pretty soon I’ve got #iufb making it back into the CFP field and Fernando Mendoza making it to NYC for the Heisman ceremony.
One day later? Not sorry.
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28.09.2025 18:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Doyel: The Fever were a super team. Can they be super while again facing elimination?
Red-hot Kelsey Mitchell and the Indiana Fever caught a chill vs Las Vegas, shooting themselves out of Game 3 – and onto the brink of elimination.
The Fever-Aces playoff series has been like so many WNBA games this season: horribly officiated. The near-violence is out of control, as we saw last night at Game 3. Both coaches have given amazing sound bites.
And the visuals on the floor are absurd.
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27.09.2025 16:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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