"The Simons just can't pick up the team and move."

"This morning [16 May] Francesca Jarosz of the Indianapolis Star has an interesting front-page article about the Pacers contract suggesting it is unlikely that the team would move. The article (which apparently is not on-line) for the first time contains the correct observation by a reporter that in order for the Pacers to even exercise the early termination provision, the team has to be relocated and sold."

Read more at Paul K. Ogden's blog: "The CIB Continues to Misrepresent the Pacers-Conseco Fieldhouse Contract".

Maybe, surmises this Indianapolis Observer, the Capital Improvements Board thinks that if they want something to be true, and repeat it often enough, it will become true....