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Indiana high school softball: Ranking top 10 players in the Class of 2021

With the 2020 softball season approaching, it's time to break down the top Indiana prospects in each class.

       




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IndyStar Sports Awards 2020: Winter sports, premier award nominees

This year's IndyStar Sports Awards show will be streamed online and available on-demand starting June 18.

       




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best Broad Ripple basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

       




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best Franklin basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

       




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best Cathedral basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

       




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best Indianapolis Washington basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

       




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best Shelbyville basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

       




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best North Central basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

       




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UPDATED: Exploring great Indiana high school gyms

Landmarks of Indiana basketball

      




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best Shortridge basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

       




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best Martinsville basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

      




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best Ben Davis basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

      




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best Carmel basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

      




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best Pike basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

      




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best Lawrence North basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

      




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best Southport basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

       




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best Tech basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

       




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best Arlington basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

       




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Build-A-Team: Putting together the best Crispus Attucks basketball team

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

       




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Mooresville teammates pass 'eye test' as Purdue builds future offensive line

The Boilermakers have seven commitments in the 2021 recruiting class, including two from Mooresville

       




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Brady Allen remains one of the most coveted Indiana quarterbacks in Class of 2022

Gibson Southern quarterback Brady Allen remains one of the most coveted Indiana recruits in the Class of 2022

       




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State's top QB prospect Donaven McCulley on his top five, lessons learned from basketball

While McCulley became a key part of Lawrence North's run in basketball, there is no doubt that his collegiate future is in football.

       




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Build-A-Team: Kyle Neddenriep puts together the best Indiana basketball teams by school

The 2020 high school basketball tournament didn't get to finish. So Kyle Neddenriep built a 64-team bracket of his own.

       




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Preps podcast: Kyle Neddenriep talks basketball with 3 guests

High school basketball players Sincere McMahon and Connor Hickman, and coach Jeremy Rauch talk with IndyStar's Kyle Neddenriep

       




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It was the hottest basketball sectional. Then attendees started dying of coronavirus.

On March 6, there were five people in the Lawrence Central gym who later died after testing positive for coronavirus.

       




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IndyStar Sports Awards transforms to on-demand broadcast, loaded with star pro athletes

Carmel and IU grad Sage Steele will co-host and star athletes like Drew Brees and Venus Williams will announce winners during the online broadcast.

       




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Help us salute Indiana high school senior athletes who didn't get to play this spring

USA Today Network will pay tribute to senior high school athletes who did not get to participate in spring sports.

       




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Mother's Day: Here's what loved ones want you to know about some amazing sports moms

For 2020 "Sports Mom of the Year," Kyle Neddenriep received heartfelt nominations from fathers, mothers, husbands, sons, daughters and friends.

       




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'It may not be easy, but I'll be here.' Kathy Loggan is this year's Sports Mom of the Year

The past several weeks have brought a whirlwind of emotions for the Loggan family as beloved North Central AD Paul Loggan died from COVID-19.

       




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The importance of love

Sometimes it's the "Davos fringe" which provides the most stimulating discussions. To that end, I just enjoyed a constructive 15 minute diversion from the sub-prime blues, chatting with an American anthropologist called Helen Fisher about love. (You should be able...



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Cathartic recession?

Is there such a thing as a "cathartic recession"? A recession that purges the demons of excess from the economy and punishes the badly-behaved for their sins? I'm not sure there is. But I unwittingly found myself in an argument...



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Today's number: Eight billion

I don't like to reduce the hard work of the much respected Institute for Fiscal Studies and Morgan Stanley to a single number. Their annual Green Budget is after all 299 pages long. (It is nothing to do with environment...



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Splitting the difference

Today's decision was unusual in that it could have gone three ways - it could have conceivably been a half point cut or no cut at all. The reason there's such a wide span of options is that the economy...



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Banking parallels

Nationalising a bank is a big deal. But it is not unprecedented. It is worth reading the history of Continental Illinois, nationalised by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1984. You can get the full story from the FDIC...



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Migrants go home

This title is not a BBC correspondent adopting a slogan the British National Party might use. It is a statement of fact. Migrants go home, as well as arrive in our country, with consequences for the economy. And at this...



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Flat market

Have we overdone it with city centre flats? Or apartments as they are often called in the sales literature. Arrive at almost any railway station - from Norwich to Nottingham - and you can't help but be struck by how...



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Central banks get together

The world's central banks are back. They're taking collective action again - all for one and one for all. They learned back in December that co-ordinated action works better than individual action. In any case, moving together at least prevents...



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Not so cautious

The economic forecast is more realistic than it was, having been downgraded this year and next. For 2008 1.75 to 2.25, for 2009 2.25 to 2.75 and for 2010, 2.5 to 3.0. The current consensus among outside forecasters is for...




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Real change of direction

Alistair Darling adopted the technique beloved of his predecessor of rattling through the borrowing figures. But the news this year was good - it seems lower than it was expected to be. The bumper tax receipts that the government received...




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As expected

The Budget has the shape I expected… a downgrade of the near term, and a bounce back in the medium term. By 2012, the golden rule measure of borrowing actually looks better than it did back in October. I suspect...




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Shrinking economy

I was wrong an hour ago, to say the Golden Rule measure of borrowing was looking better than it had been in 2012. Sorry, bit rushed. Looking at the data, the chancellor is conceding that by 2011, the economy will...




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Chancing it

The slogan for the Budget - you mustn't grumble, it's not too bad. Sure, the next year or two is not what we thought it'd be, but it's not all permanent damage to the economy we're facing. In other words,...




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Taboo of nationalisation

Is it a good time to nationalise the banks? The taboo of nationalising a bank – evident in the government’s reluctance to accept that option for Northern Rock – may have to be overcome in the next few years. This...




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Are we stupid?

As we sit in the midst of what seems like an historic episode I find myself struck by one question: how can we have let ourselves get into this again? Didn’t we know this might happen? At least we should...



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Evan's new blog

Evan Davis is now writing a new blog, as part of his new role at the Today programme. You can find it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/evandavis.




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Doyel: Cowards had their say, and now it's Colts QB draft pick Jacob Eason's turn

Anonymous sources ripped Washington QB Jacob Eason, and ESPN gave the cowards their say after the Colts selected Eason in the fourth round Saturday.

       




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Colts boost defensive line with Penn State DT Robert Windsor

Scouts regard Windsor as undersized and say he may need to add some weight to thrive at the NFL level.

       




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Colts select DT Robert Windsor from Penn State

The Indianapolis Colts select Penn State defensive tackle Rober Windsor with the 193rd pick.

       




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Colts add another big target in Washington State WR Dezmon Patmon

Patmon is big (6-4) and fast (4.48-second 40-yard dash) but lacks polish and production

       




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Colts select WR Dezmon Patmon with the 212th pick

The Indianapolis Colts select Washington State wide receiver Dezmon Patmon with the 212th pick.