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...Mark II, Mark twain and the Marks brothers in a city that can say Miamarino without blushing. Disavowing his family name, Dupas, for one that rhymes with super, Duper started out as Marino's bright particular sidekick both last year and early this season. Then the untaciturn Hoosier Clayton came babbling along. As the defenders flowed to Duper, Marino turned to Clayton. A more mature Smurf, Nat Moore, took a pensive look at the pair and made a note to retire after this season, his eleventh...
...team has a 20-year lease agreement to play in the newly built, seven-acre, 61,000-seat stadium known as Hoosier Dome. The $78 million complex is in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, its white-fabric, air-supported, 257-ton roof puffed up like a huge blanket. The stadium, built with a combination of public and private funds, including multimillion-dollar endowments from foundations and a 1% tax on food and beverages, is a major reason why the Colts have come to Indianapolis, and a tribute to the foresight and business acumen of the people running the city...
...their Colts, as the Irsays of the world are a fickle breed, and a booming city like Phoenix or San Jose will always be beckoning with an eager checkbook. Of course, Indianapolisites will learn soon enough what price love demands: the average tab for a day at the Hoosier Dome this fall will be about $25. It the newest Colts lovers don't have that kind of money, they can always sell a pint of blood...
...Napa, Calif. Born into a Quaker family (Richard Nixon is her distant cousin), West set much of her fiction in her native Indiana, although she lived most of her life in California. "I am by all I know a Californian," she once said, "and by all I imagine a Hoosier...
...went on to Hanover in 1972, where his teams accounted for four Hoosier Buck eye Conference Championships in five years, earned two NAIA playoff berths, and ran up an overall record...