By Kathy McKimmie Wellness programs, health risk assessments and carrot-and-stick employee incentive programs to encourage healthy lifestyles have been around for decades. Their effectiveness has been mixed for many reasons, including their voluntary nature, the lack of a convincing return on investment and the inability of fully insured small employers to impact their current insurance […]
By Rick A. Richards The landscape at BP’s Whiting refinery on the shore of Lake Michigan is a Rubik’s Cube of pipes, derricks, construction cranes and scaffolding. Through a mindboggling maze of pipes, hissing steam, narrow roads and steel beams, it’s hard to tell where the refinery process ends and where construction on a $3.8
WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University and HVM Racing have partnered for the Indianapolis 500. The relationship will bring the HVM team advanced engineering technologies in aerodynamics, manufacturing and advanced materials, providing opportunities for Purdue students and faculty to participate in motorsports with HVM. “HVM Racing is one of IndyCar’s leading competitors with 2010 Indianapolis 500
Indianapolis Motor Speedway celebrates 100th anniversary of the Indy 500. by Rick A. Richards If there is any doubt about the impact the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has had on Indiana, look no further than the state’s commemorative quarter. While other states featured the face of a famous person or their state bird, or some other
The Chicago Bulls and Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association are separated by a three-hour drive along 200 miles of Interstate 65, but their history is a lot closer than that. The Bulls joined the NBA in 1967, the same year the Pacers became one of the original franchises of the now defunct American
Chicago Bears For ticket and team information, visit chicagobears.com. (All seats in 61,500-seat Soldier Field are sold out for the 2010 season, but additions to the waiting list are accepted with a $100 non-refundable deposit.) Training camp opens July 30 at 3 p.m. at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Ill., and ends Aug. 19. Admission
Sports Play Ball! Pros take the field in Chicago and Northwest Indiana. Ticket information Chicago Cubs www.chicago.cub.mlb.com Chicago White Sox www.chicago.whitesox.mlb.com South Bend Silver Hawks 574/235-9988 www.silverhawks.com Gary RailCats 219/882-2255 www.railcatsbaseball.com Chicago baseball is smiling. The season has just begun and both the Cubs and White Sox are in the thick of a pennant race.
Sports School Spirit College football is a big deal at Indiana’s big three sports institutions. Major college football in Indiana For more information on Indiana’s major college football programs, visit these websites: University of Notre Dame www.und.com Purdue University www.purduesports.com Indiana University iuhoosiers.cstv.com College football fans in Indiana are excited about a new season. Fall
Hockey isn’t a major blip on the radar of Northwest Indiana sports fans. But given the less than stellar seasons exhibited thus far by the NFL’s Chicago Bears and NBA’s Chicago Bulls—and spring training for the Cubs and White Sox still a few weeks away—fans might want to reconsider. According to executives with Chicago’s two
