On a trip to Washington, with a final plea for help in East Tennessee in early 1863, he gave a speech in Indianapolis, saying: " If the institution of slavery denies the government the right of agitation, and seeks to overthrow it, then the government has a clear right to destroy it.

The Western League began play in April 1894 with teams in Detroit ( the only league team that has not moved since ), Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Sioux City and Toledo.

Indianapolis has hosted all but one of the women's tournaments since its inception in 1995, and Bankers Life Fieldhouse has hosted every tournament since 2002, as well as the 2000 edition.

Indianapolis, headquarters of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and often referred to as the " Amateur Sports Capital of the World " has hosted a number of collegiate basketball events.

Aside from the multitude of regional games held during the NCAA tournament, Indianapolis has hosted six men's NCAA Final Fours ( 1980, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2010 ) and two women's ( 2005, 2011 ).

The team also has the Indianapolis Colts Cheerleaders, which is the official cheerleading squad of the team.

McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup ( Can-Am ).

The television ratings for the Daytona 500 have surpassed those of the larger Indianapolis 500 ( which has much larger physical attendance and international attendance ) since 1995, even though the 1995 race was available in far fewer homes than the year before.

Repertory theatre with mostly changing casts and longer running plays, perhaps better classed as " provincial " or " non-profit " theatre, has made a big come-back, in cities such as Little Rock, AR, Washington, DC, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, Buffalo, and Seattle.

Texaco has also has also been involved in open wheel racing, sponsoring the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston along with sponsoring drivers like Indianapolis 500 winner Mario Andretti and his son Michael.

Schmidt Motorsports has become a top IZOD IndyCar Series team, winning the 2011 Indianapolis 500 pole position in the Firestone Fast Nine, but was the hardest hit in the 2011 IZOD IndyCar World Championship tragedy.

To date, no other Canadian has won the Indianapolis 500 or the F1 Drivers ' title.

The NFL's Houston Texans revived the name of the WFL's franchise for that city ; " Texans " has also been used by an NFL Dallas team in 1952 – the remnants of which became the Baltimore / Indianapolis Colts, by an AFL Dallas team in the early 1960s – who became the Kansas City Chiefs, by an arena football team in Dallas in the early 1990s, and by a CFL San Antonio team for one year in the 1990s.

It also has several members in the Midwest, including two member schools in Ohio, Dayton and Xavier ( located in Dayton and Cincinnati, respectively ); Saint Louis ( in St. Louis, Missouri ); and Butler ( located in Indianapolis ).

Over his career, Stairs has played for six other minor league teams: The Indianapolis Indians ( Triple-A ) in 1992, the Ottawa Lynx ( Triple-A ) in 1993, the New Britain Red Sox ( Double-A ) in 1994, the Pawtucket Red Sox ( Triple-A ) in 1995, the Edmonton Trappers ( Triple-A ) in 1996 and a few rehab games for the Nashville Sounds ( Triple-A ) in 2003.

A suburb of Indianapolis, Fishers has grown rapidly in recent decades: about 350 people lived there in 1963, 2, 000 in 1980, and only 7, 200 as recently as 1990.

Similar in appearance to the flag of Indianapolis, Vincennes ' flag is more squared in appearance and has a diamond center rather than a circle.

It is part of the Indianapolis radio / television market and has its own cable TV Government-access television ( GATV ) channel available on the Comcast system.

However, today, all passenger train services have closed, as has the line to Indianapolis and most of the line to Michigan City.

It has existed as an " included town " since 1970, when it was incorporated into Indianapolis as part of Unigov.

In 2010, Bruton Smith ( owner of Speedway Motorsports, Inc .), offered $ 20, 000, 000 to any driver, IndyCar or NASCAR, who can win both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day starting in 2011-a feat that has never been done before.

The Indianapolis 500 has been the subject of several films, and has experienced countless references in television, movies, and other media.

* Indianapolis ABCs, a Negro league baseball team that played in the early to mid 1900s

The Indianapolis Colts played in the RCA Dome from 1984 until 2007.

* 1920 – The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.

In 1978, he signed with the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association ( WHA ), where he briefly played before being traded to the Edmonton Oilers.

Gretzky only played eight games for Indianapolis.

* May 2 – The first game of Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.

In 1946, Hellman entered and won the eleventh ACA American tournament held at Nashville, Tennessee, and also the third NCA American tournament played in Indianapolis, Indiana.

It is also the home of Albert Bentley, who attended and played football at Immokalee High School and went on to play for the Miami Hurricanes and the Indianapolis Colts.

Wall, from Milledgeville, played fullback for the University of GA and had short stints with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Indianapolis Colts.

* Robert C. " Bob " Dro, who played baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers and basketball on the Indianapolis Kautskys team.

* Cory Bird ( born 1978 ), safety who played for the Indianapolis Colts.

* Cory Bird ( born 1978 ), safety who played for the Indianapolis Colts.

* Colin Ferrell ( born 1984 ), defensive tackle for the Indianapolis Colts, who played collegiate football at Kent State University.

Bourbon Bondurant, an insurance agent with prior pro football experience with the Fort Wayne Friars ; Joe Windbiel, a local high school coach who played professionally with the Detroit Heralds ; architect Earl Warweg, who had played semi-pro football for five years in Indianapolis ; cigar company traffic manager Clarence Specht ; and June Talley, an insurance adjuster also with college football experience, soon joined the team.

One of those games against an independent team, the Indianapolis Belmonts, was played in a snowstorm.

" Speros had started calling his new franchise the Baltimore CFL Colts and the NFL sued because of possible public confusion with their Indianapolis Colts, who had played in Baltimore from 1953 until 1983.

Five former NBA teams also trace their history back to the NBL: the Anderson Packers, Denver Nuggets, Indianapolis Jets ( as the Kautskys ), Sheboygan Red Skins and Waterloo Hawks played in the BAA / NBA.

While beating Wisconsin ( Leaders Division Champions ) in regular season play on a last second Hail-Mary pass, they lost in dramatic fashion to the Badgers in the inaugural Big Ten Championship Game played in Indianapolis.

Killebrew finished the season with 38 games played in Indianapolis and 86 in Chattanooga, where he hit. 308 with 17 home runs.

The following week, Brady again played well during the rematch at Indianapolis, with a passer rating of 148. 3 in a 38 – 17 win.

The Patriots and Colts had faced each other twice in the previous three postseasons at Foxborough ; this game, however, was played at Indianapolis.

He played for the Indianapolis Colts for 14 seasons from 1998 – 2011.