Indoor football returns to the Fishers Event Center this weekend, and the City of Fishers is encouraging local residents to pack the arena for the home opener of the Fishers Freight.

The Freight will host the Quad City Steamwheelers on Saturday, March 15, with kickoff set for 5 p.m. Doors at the Fishers Event Center, located at 11000 Stockdale Street, will open at 4 p.m.

To boost attendance for the team’s first home game of the season, the city is offering a special ticket discount for Fishers residents. City officials say the promotion is designed to give local fans a chance to experience the high-energy indoor football atmosphere as the Freight begin their home schedule.

Indoor football games feature a fast-paced version of the sport played on a shorter field inside an arena, producing frequent scoring and big hits that keep the action moving. The Freight are members of the Indoor Football League and are entering their second season in Fishers.

The Quad City Steamwheelers, based in Moline, Illinois, will provide the opposition in Saturday’s contest. Quad City has been one of the IFL’s established franchises and should provide a strong early-season test for the Freight.

The Fishers Freight began play last season when the Fishers Event Center opened, joining the Indy Fuel hockey team as one of the arena’s primary tenants. The venue has quickly become a hub for professional sports and entertainment in the city.

Parking for Saturday’s game will cost $10, with payment available by scanning QR codes located in the parking lot.

City officials say the goal is to create a lively atmosphere for the Freight’s first home game of the year and give residents a chance to support the hometown team.

Fans interested in attending the game can purchase tickets online and take advantage of the resident discount ahead of kickoff Saturday evening, using this link.

The Indoor Football League has settled its television and streaming plan for the 2026 season, although fans hoping to follow the Fishers Freight will need to navigate a somewhat complicated viewing lineup.

The league announced that its games will be split between two digital platforms: a free streaming service operated by Yahoo Sports and a subscription platform called Overnght.

Roughly half of the league’s games will stream live on the new Yahoo Sports streaming service, available on devices such as Roku, Amazon Fire TV and similar streaming platforms. Fans who already have access to Yahoo Sports through those devices will be able to watch those games at no additional cost.

The remaining IFL games will be available on the Overnght platform — spelled without the “i,” though it is pronounced like “overnight.” Access to those broadcasts requires a subscription that costs about $10 per month.

The league says it will release the full broadcast schedule later this week, detailing which games will appear on each platform. Early indications are that the first two games of the Fishers Freight season will be available on Yahoo Sports.

Overnght specializes in streaming niche sports, particularly Olympic-style competitions such as rowing, fencing and water polo. The service has been compared to FloSports, the streaming platform that carries Indy Fuel hockey games.

The current arrangement came together after the IFL’s original broadcast agreement fell apart. The league had planned to air games this season on FanDuel Sports Network, but that deal collapsed when the network’s ownership group ran into financial trouble — part of a broader wave of instability affecting regional sports networks across the country.

Under the new partnership, Overnght will carry several marquee IFL events. Its premium package will include the Hall of Fame Game on opening weekend, two American Dream IFL Cup games, two first-round playoff games, one conference championship and a slate of special broadcasts including IFL Friday Night Football, IFL Monday Night Football and seven “IFL After Dark” matchups.

Overnght will also become the exclusive streaming home of the IFL National Championship games in 2027 and 2028.

In addition to live games, the platform will stream original IFL programming, including the behind-the-scenes reality series Fight for the Fifty and the league’s official podcast, Inside the IFL, hosted by Brent Stover and Eric Van Beek.

All broadcasts will be produced by the IFL and distributed directly through the Overnght digital platform.

To promote the new partnership, Overnght is offering a limited-time discount of 40 percent off the first month of a subscription using the promo code IFLFAN40. The offer runs through March 31.

As the Fishers Freight prepare for their second season in the Indoor Football League, fans now know where to find the games — even if watching some of them will come with a monthly subscription fee.

One of the most unique classrooms in Hamilton County isn’t inside a school building. It’s located in a log cabin and across hundreds of acres of historic grounds at Conner Prairie.

In this podcast episode, I talk with Amy Murch, the Hamilton Southeastern Schools teacher-in-residence at the living history museum. In that role, Murch works with every fourth-grade class in the Hamilton Southeastern Schools district, helping students connect classroom lessons with hands-on experiences on the Conner Prairie grounds.

The program, known as “Adventures on the Prairie,” brings thousands of HSE fourth-graders to the museum each school year. Instead of worksheets and desks, students learn by doing — building cardboard boats to study buoyancy on the White River, trying archery and tomahawk throwing to understand forces and motion, exploring simple machines in Prairietown, and interacting with historic interpreters to better understand Indiana’s past.

Murch previously spent more than a decade teaching in the district before taking on the unique position, which blends science, engineering, and history with the outdoor setting of the museum. Her goal is to help students see that learning doesn’t only happen inside a traditional classroom.

Conner Prairie itself is one of Indiana’s best-known living history museums, recreating 19th-century life along the White River and welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. Through the partnership with HSE Schools, the museum becomes an extension of the school day for Fishers-area students.

In this conversation, Murch discusses how the program works, why experiential learning can make such a difference for young students, and what it’s like to teach history and science in a place where the past quite literally surrounds you.

Listen to the podcast at this link or the link below.

The Indy Ignite shook off a slow start Sunday and rallied to defeat the Grand Rapids Rise, winning three straight sets for a 3-1 victory in Major League Volleyball action at the Fishers Event Center, the team’s seventh straight win.

Grand Rapids came out strong and captured the opening set, putting the Ignite briefly on their heels in front of the home crowd. But Indy quickly regained control of the match, responding by taking the next three sets to secure the win.

The victory continues a strong inaugural season for the Ignite, who have been among the league’s top teams and have turned the Fishers Event Center into a difficult place for visiting clubs to play.

After dropping the first set, the Ignite tightened their defense and became more efficient offensively, gradually wearing down the Rise. Indy’s balanced attack and improved serve-receive play helped swing the momentum, allowing the home team to dictate the pace through the final three sets.

Sunday’s match also coincided with events at the arena celebrating International Women’s Day. Before the match, Ignite President and General Manager Mary Kay Huse hosted a panel discussion featuring several Indiana women business leaders as part of the team’s community programming.

The win marked another successful outing for Indy against Grand Rapids this season. The Ignite previously defeated the Rise in four sets during an earlier meeting in Fishers.

With the victory, Indy improves its position near the top of the Major League Volleyball standings as the league moves deeper into its first season. Grand Rapids, which had played the night before, was unable to sustain its early momentum after claiming the opening set.

The Ignite will return to the court later Thursday against Orlando as the home schedule continues at the Fishers Event Center.

For Fishers, the Formula 1 season opener in Australia was more than an international motorsports event. It was the first real test for Cadillac’s new F1 operation, which is building its headquarters here, and the team came away from Melbourne with one car at the finish and a realistic picture of the work ahead.

Cadillac’s debut was modest on the results sheet, but not without meaning. Sergio Perez qualified 18th and finished 16th in Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix, giving the American team its first completed race. Teammate Valtteri Bottas started 19th but retired after a fuel-system problem.

At the front, George Russell won the season-opening race for Mercedes, leading home teammate Kimi Antonelli for a 1-2 finish, with Charles Leclerc third and Lewis Hamilton fourth for Ferrari.

For Cadillac, simply getting both cars qualified and to the starting grid was an achievement for a team that only recently secured its place in Formula 1 and is still building out its full operation across Fishers, Charlotte and Silverstone. Team principal Graeme Lowdon said afterward the weekend provided “a really good start to our journey,” while Bottas called it “a proud moment” despite his early exit.

The bigger story, however, was performance. Cadillac was eliminated in Q1 with both cars and never threatened the points on race day. Perez finished three laps down, a reminder that the new team is not yet ready to fight the established midfield, much less the front-runners.

Still, as first races go, this was not a disaster. New teams often struggle just to look organized in their debut, and Cadillac at least cleared the most basic benchmark: one car reached the checkered flag, the operation functioned, and the team gathered the kind of race data it could never simulate at the factory. AP reported Lowdon believes Cadillac earned the respect of rival teams in the paddock, even after a tough opening result.

From a Fishers perspective, that makes Australia less a breakthrough than a beginning. Cadillac did not arrive in Formula 1 ready to contend. It arrived to survive, learn and build. In Melbourne, it did enough to suggest the foundation is real.

After battling to a 1-1 tie through regulation, the Indy Fuel and Wichita Thunder needed overtime to decide Saturday night’s contest at the Fishers Event Center. It was the Fuel who came out on top, thanks to Cody Laskosky’s game-winning goal with 4:40 remaining in the three-on-three overtime period.

The seven-minute overtime featured plenty of pressure from Indy, which controlled much of the play before Laskosky finally broke through to give the Fuel the victory.

Fuel goaltender Mitchell Weeks turned in one of his strongest performances of the season, allowing just a single goal while keeping Wichita at bay for most of the night.

Indy opened the scoring early in the second period. Michael Marchesan found the back of the net five minutes into the frame to give the Fuel a 1-0 advantage.

Wichita answered later in the period when Jay Dickman scored with less than eight minutes remaining in the second to even the game at 1-1.

Much like Friday night’s matchup between the same two teams, defense and goaltending dominated the contest. Both teams generated chances, but neither was able to solve the opposing goaltender again until Laskosky’s decisive strike in overtime.

The referees kept busy throughout the game, calling a number of penalties on both teams. The most notable exchange came when Indy’s Christian Berger and Wichita’s Christophe Fillion dropped the gloves, each receiving five-minute major penalties for fighting.

The Fuel now head back on the road for a Tuesday morning matchup against the Bloomington Bison in Illinois. The game is scheduled for an unusual 10:30 a.m. start.

Indy returns to the Fishers Event Center on Friday night to face in-state rival Fort Wayne.

There are a number of updates this week in the road construction report in and around the City of Fishers.  You will begin to see lane restrictions at 116th Street and Allisonville Road as that project begins this season.  Traffic signals will be undergoing maintenance all around Fishers over the next few weeks.  Also, there are important updates on construction at State Road 37 and 141st Street.

Those are just a few items included on the road construction report.  Here is the full listing, as provided by the City of Fishers:

Continue reading Fishers area road construction report for work week starting March 9 →

The Wichita Thunder relied on strong defense and standout goaltending from Gabriel Carriere to shut out the Indy Fuel 1-0 Friday night at the Fishers Event Center.

Despite generating significantly more shots on goal, the Fuel could not find a way past Carriere, who turned aside every scoring chance.

The game’s only goal came in the first period when Wichita’s Ryan Finnegan scored what proved to be the decisive tally.

The Thunder were assessed two four-minute major penalties during the game, but the Fuel were unable to capitalize on either opportunity.

Unlike Wednesday night’s contest — which was delayed by a power outage and ended with several on-ice fights — Friday’s matchup featured no such fisticuffs.

Despite the loss, the Fuel remain in third place in the Central Division of the ECHL Western Conference.

The two teams will meet again Saturday night at the Fishers Event Center, marking the third matchup between the clubs in four days.