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Washington Post
10 hours ago
- Business
- Washington Post
Colts left tackle Bernhard Raimann gets 4-year, $100 million deal
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Colts have signed left tackle Bernhard Raimann to a four-year, $100 million contract extension. Team officials made the announcement Tuesday before practice. The Austrian-born Raimann started his college career at Central Michigan as a tight end. Indy thought he could be its swing tackle when it drafted him in the third round out of Central Michigan in 2022.
Al Arabiya
10 hours ago
- Business
- Al Arabiya
Colts Left Tackle Bernhard Raimann Gets 4-Year, $100 Million Deal
The Indianapolis Colts have signed left tackle Bernhard Raimann to a four-year $100 million contract extension. Team officials made the announcement Tuesday before practice. The Austrian-born Raimann started his college career at Central Michigan as a tight end. Indy thought he could be its swing tackle when it drafted him in the third round out of Central Michigan in 2022. But injuries forced Raimann into the lineup at left tackle, and he blossomed into one of the team's top offensive linemen. Raimann said last week at training camp that he wasn't sure his agent and the Colts were on the same page regarding an extension. Things changed quickly though, and now they have him locked up for four more years. Bernhard has worked extremely hard, and this contract extension is a testament to his character, dedication, and persistence, general manager Chris Ballard said in a statement. He exemplifies each of our team's four pillars and is a leader in our locker room. I'm excited for him and his family on this well-deserved contract extension.
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Business Standard
4 days ago
- General
- Business Standard
Supreme Court's ruling muddies debate on Indy dog population control
Loving or hating dogs is beside the point. For the good of both people and animals, the Indy population needs to be controlled Kanika Datta Mumbai Listen to This Article Earlier this month, a two-judge Bench of the Supreme Court advised a Noida resident who had complained of being harassed for feeding stray dogs to feed them in her home or open a shelter. Predictably, responses to these passing comments — which the frenzied social media world mistakenly interpreted as a judgment — revealed the deep fault lines over the issue of stray dogs. In India, you are either a dog lover or hater, with no scope for mutual comprehension. In fact, the barrage of uninformed comment from both sides of the divide following this 'advice' from the apex court
USA Today
6 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
The Colts' Daniel Jones experiment is off to a predictable start
The Indianapolis Colts knew Anthony Richardson was raw when they drafted him. For all the physical tools the 6-4, 250-pound quarterback possessed, he lacked experience. After one season as a starter at Florida, it was never going to be smooth sailing as he attempted to learn on the fly in the NFL. That's what made Indy's decision to bring in "competition" for Richardson this offseason so confusing. Were they actually giving up on their 23-year-old former No. 4 overall pick after just 15 starts? Did they not brace for the always likely scenario that he wouldn't be immediately great? Bringing in someone to challenge Richardson had disaster written all over it -- because what if that someone actually won the battle? Where would the team go from there? Those questions became a little less pressing after the first day of Colts training camp Wednesday. We got a swift reminder about who the "competition" is, and... well, the joke's on us. The new question is why on earth did anyone ever think Daniel Jones was an actual threat to Richardson? On second thought, why did the Colts think that? Actually, are we sure they ever did? Listen, I know it's not wise to judge any player off one practice, especially not the first practice of camp. And by all accounts, Jones wasn't bad -- though he may not have been good either. The IndyStar described Day 1 as a "mixed bag" for both quarterbacks. But let's be clear about something; Jones isn't any player (especially not to me, a Giants fan who's very familiar with these bags 'o mixed results). We've seen his movies before. Jones will always have a few positive plays -- like this deep ball to Anthony Gould -- offset by some really bad lows -- like his late throw intercepted by Kenny Moore II. BROWNS CAMP: Bad news for Shedeur Sanders That's Daniel Jones. We have six years of tape as confirmation. And what he has to offer was never going to be enough to supplant Richardson in Indy, where the fans remain incredibly high on his potential and are making their voices heard at camp. As they should. It's still too early to know what Richardson is or will be. I'm guessing the Colts know that too. That's why they brought in Jones. He was the perfect quarterback to give Richardson the impression of a competition without actually threatening to take his job. If I'm wrong, Jones has about a month to prove it before the team officially names a starter for Week 1 against the Dolphins. Oh no, Jets There's no quarterback competition in New York where Justin Fields is slated to start for the Jets, but the team might still be battling bad luck. Fields was carted to the locker room Thursday morning with a lower leg injury and... yikes. Head coach Aaron Glenn did deliver a bit of good news on this front, saying it was a toe injury for Fields, but this remains a nightmare scenario for Jets fans who remember all too well what happened the last time they brought in a veteran quarterback to stabilize the franchise. And after all Fields has been through to get back into a position to prove himself, you can only hope the injury isn't too significant. If Fields does have to miss time, Christian D'Andrea has you covered on New York's backup and where the team goes from here. Quick Hits: Staged splash ... Jeff Teague walks back LBJ rumor ... and more It's been real, y'all. We'll be back with more next week. This was For The Win's daily newsletter, The Morning Win. Did a friend recommend or forward this to you? If so, subscribe here.
Indianapolis Star
7 days ago
- Automotive
- Indianapolis Star
'The dream is still very much alive': IndyCar interest gives Linus Lundqvist belief he'll return
Linus Lundqvist has attended nearly every IndyCar race in 2025, despite not having a ride, in hopes of remaining on teams' radars for 2026. TORONTO — It's been a painful 10 weeks for Linus Lundqvist, spending nearly every weekend watching Indy cars race around the Midwest from the sidelines. But it's a purposeful agony he's chosen, and the 2024 IndyCar Rookie of the Year is hoping the emotional scars he talks over with his therapist will before long pave the road back to the cockpit of the only job he's ever wanted. 'It's hard, because my passion is driving and winning, and it hurts to be at a racetrack and watching everybody else do it and not me,' Lundqvist told IndyStar while serving as a reserve driver for Arrow McLaren, a one-off opportunity spurred by the mild concussion Nolan Siegel suffered last weekend at Iowa Speedway. Lundqvist, who has 20 IndyCar starts under his belt with a resume that includes a pair of podiums, a pole and a 16th-place finish in the championship as a rookie with Chip Ganassi Racing a year ago, was tabbed to be on standby this week and weekend in case the team's full-time driver of the No. 6 wasn't cleared to return. Lundqvist actually traveled with the team Thursday morning with Siegel back in Indianapolis awaiting clearance – a call the young American driver eventually received, meaning the 26-year-old Swede will roam the IndyCar paddock this weekend in a papaya uniform instead of plain clothes, his seat marginally different while on the timing stand instead of the grandstands. Ultimately, Sunday was largely the same. 'I'm very up front about the fact that in this sense, it sucks, but I also know that it's my best shot at being back at a track and driving next year is being here and going through all of that and being ready,' Lundqvist continued. 'It's like, yeah, it's pain, but pain I'm willing to go through to hopefully be on the grid next year.' Days ahead of this season's IndyCar opener at St. Pete, Lundqvist announced he wouldn't be on the grid full time in 2025, noting he'd been 'formally notified' by CGR in January that what he described as a 'multi-year agreement' had been terminated after just one year. The writing appeared to have been on the wall for some time, with his former home announcing back in October that its roster for 2025 was set and seats elsewhere around the paddock largely having been almost entirely set for months. Whereas his former teammate Marcus Armstrong, who similarly had inked a multi-year deal with CGR, had been loaned out to Meyer Shank Racing, a team CGR entered into a technical alliance with ahead of this season, Lundqvist felt he'd been left high and dry as IndyCar's newly launched charter system that allows teams to run a maximum of three full-time cars for guaranteed entry into each race forced CGR to scale its lineup back from five cars to three. 'I am hopeful that through the provisions in my CGR agreement, we will be able to reach a resolution that would place me back in a competitive seat,' Lundqvist wrote on social media in February. 'In the meantime, I will continue to pursue other racing options, preferably in IndyCar where I hope to continue my career and build on my open-wheel successes to date.' That pursuit, Lundqvist has explained, has involved attending most IndyCar races within driving distance of his Indianapolis home, taking his helmet and safety equipment with him and preparing as if he was scheduled to be in the car, so that if such an opportunity were to come about, he'd be ready to best prove himself, knowing he may only get one more shot to audition for a second chance. After all, in a short three-race substitute stint for Meyer Shank Racing near the end of the 2023 season coming off his rather dominant 2022 Indy Lights championship run, Lundqvist made his IndyCar debut and took the paddock by storm, starting in the top 12 for all three races and notching a 12th-place finish on the IMS road course in his second career race. Just a couple weeks later, he'd been scooped up by the hottest team on the paddock of late. Siegel energized for Toronto return: 'I have a greater appreciation for what I'm doing.' 'For me, this is very much a no-brainer. (IndyCar) is my Plan A, B, C and D. There's no backup plan,' he said. 'I'm very determined to make this work somehow, and the only thing I know is to be here, ready and available and staying sharp, because I know that if you're at home feeling sorry for yourself, nothing's going to come of it. 'So every race I can be at, the best thing I can do for myself is to be here, be ready, and when I got the call from Arrow McLaren, it was, 'OK, I must be doing something right. I'm still in the ballpark to be considered in case something were to happen.'' When at the track, Lundqvist can be frequently seen chatting up various team owners and officials, doing his best to ensure he's top of mind for anyone who may have an opening, whether that's a short-term one like Arrow McLaren this weekend, or a full-time shot for 2026 and beyond as IndyCar's silly season begins to kick into high gear in the coming weeks. 'I'm still quite positive about my chances of being on the grid next year. Obviously, this is IndyCar and motor racing, and you never know until something is done, but I also think if those conversations I've been having with teams were, 'No, we're not interested,' then I'd probably at some point stop showing up to races and say, 'OK, this isn't going to work,'' Lundqvist said. 'But I keep showing up because people keep saying they're interested and that there might be opportunities, so that's what I live on right now, that the dream is still very much alive.'
