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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Nancy Leonard, matriarch of the Pacers, dies at 93

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

T up for a great cause at the annual MASH Golf Outing.

0:03.6

Practice your swing for the event October 7th at Woodwin Golf Club in Westfield,

0:07.8

and you'll not only have a great time, you'll be helping first responders and veterans overcome PTSD.

0:13.5

With a silent auction, swag bags for everyone who participates, fun on the links, and more.

0:18.7

Arrived by 9.30 for registration.

0:23.4

Play begins at 10.30 and awards at 4.30.

0:26.5

That's October 7th at Woodwin Golf Club in Westfield.

0:29.6

Go to mashministries.org for more details. Okay, so we did have some big local news,

0:33.9

especially to our longtime Indianapolis residents.

0:37.9

This just came down.

0:40.6

Nancy Leonard, the wife of Indiana Pacers legend, Slick Leonard, has passed away.

0:47.6

She was 93 years old.

0:50.7

And Slick Leonard, long-time coach of the Pacers, modern people remember him best as the color

0:57.7

analyst for the Pacers on radio with Mark Boyle, Boom Baby.

1:04.0

Cities are interesting in the sense that there are people who don't acquire immense power.

1:13.4

They don't necessarily have great wealth.

1:17.1

They're not business people to a certain extent.

1:21.1

They're just, they become special for a variety of reasons.

1:26.6

And they become sort of a symbolism of or a heart of

1:32.4

or an ideal of the city and in the case of Nancy Leonard I always felt that way about her

1:41.4

because she was so integral in assisting Slick Leonard in not only his career

1:49.4

arc, but also the literal saving of the Pacers in the city of Indianapolis in the late 1970s.

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