Halfway through the 12 o'clock hour in Indianapolis, for that matter, it's halfway through the 12 o'clock hour everywhere in the eastern time zone.

My name is Jake Quarry, Jimmy Cook, Eddie Garrison, the other voices you hear on this program called Quaring Company on 935 and 107.5, the fan, opened the show today by talking about the passing of the vice chair of Pacer Sports and

Entertainment Jim Morris. And many may not, they may know the name, but not necessarily know

the footprint of Jim Morris. If you hear that title, you think that it would be limited to

the Pacers. It was not. It was oh so much more. And I thought a good person to shed light and

illuminate on the impact of Jim Morris

would be the CEO of Penske Entertainment and the president of the company as well.

Mark Miles, who joins us now on the program and who himself has a long list of sports impact,

notably in business impact throughout Central Indiana. Mark, I appreciate the time. I'll get right

to the matter, which is, and I'm sure this is not the easiest thing to do because it is so

vast. So my condolences to you on the passing of what I would assume is a friend of yours in

Jim Morris. But if you had to put into words, what is the legacy of Jim Morris in Indianapolis?

Yeah, thanks, Jake.

Yeah, I'd rather talk to you on another occasion, but Jim was so important.

I'm happy to speak with you for your listeners today.

I guess if you had to boil it all down, and I know people will think this is hyperbole, but I knew Jim and was sort of a

sometimes participant, at least close observer from the late 70s. I think Jim was really kind of the father of the downtown

and the sports initiative and the downtown university.

In so many ways, he wasn't just the guy that would convene

and the guy that would, you know, he was, he had much of the vision

and a huge part of the execution for the creation of our downtown.

When we, when we, you know, when I graduated from high school, it was in inno place,

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