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Bynum brings viral dance moves to Colts defense

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10 months ago

March 17, 2025

Bynum brings viral dance moves to Colts defense

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — There was never a doubt in Camryn Bynum’s mind where he wanted to be once the free agency offers started coming in last week. The Indianapolis Colts were at the top of the list.

The four-year safety made the decision official last Monday — agreeing to a four-year, $60 million deal at 4 a.m. Filipino time. That’s right. The newest member of the Colts defense spends the offseason living in the Philippines with his wife. So as the deals were getting done in the afternoon Eastern Standard Time, Bynum was sitting “crisscross” in his bed, weighing his options before ultimately choosing the Colts.

But even before the legal tampering period opened, Bynum had his eyes on the Horseshoe. He talked with multiple current and former Colts to get their take on the organization — including cornerback Stephon Gilmore, who he played with in Minnesota last season.

“I reached out to (Gilmore) during the process to say, ‘Okay, what’d you think about it?’ He said, ‘For your type of personality, you’re a family person. You’re laid back. I think that’s a place for you,’” Bynum said. “That’s the first thing I saw when I got here — just how tight knit everything is, and just how personable everybody is… Once everything fell down to it, I felt for sure this is the place I need to be.”

Bynum also got a positive recommendation from current Colts linebacker Segun Olubi. The two went to high school together and continue to be great friends and training partners. Olubi even traveled to the Philippines to help Bynum with his football camps during the offseason.

“That’s somebody I consider a real friend that I’ve been knowing since high school, so it’s really cool being teammates with him, especially the type of person he is – a dog and a worker like myself so we can really relate,” Bynum said.

Bynum was an impact player for the Vikings defense the last four years, racking up 342 tackles, eight interceptions and four fumble recoveries during that time. He started getting national attention when his in-game coordinated celebration dances with teammates went viral on social media — his most memorable moves coming from movies like White Chicks, Parent Trap and High School Musical. Even the behind-the-scenes videos during his rehearsals gained major attention.

But what people didn’t see was all the work he put in to get moments worth celebrating.

“I pride myself on being one of the hardest workers in the room,” Bynum said. “Putting in so much extra work, being a leader, leading by example, not a super rah-rah guy, but somebody that’s always going to be consistent being in the right spots on the field but also off the field, being somebody that’s really locked in in the meeting room and keeping my head down, focused during the week. It doesn’t seem like it because obviously, I’m really out there in the media on Sundays, but during the week, I’m locked in because I want to be able to earn those moments, to be able to have fun on the field on Sunday.”

Bynum said he’s ready to bring that energy to the Colts defense this season.

Watch the full introductory press conference in the video player above.

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Meet The Indiana University Indianapolis Librarian Billy Tringali

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1 hour ago

January 12, 2026

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Meet The Indiana University Indianapolis Librarian Billy Tringali

Photo by Michael Schrader

BILLY TRINGALI’S OFFICE at IU Indianapolis feels more like a Comic-Con booth than an academic’s hidey hole. Posters of saucer-eyed anime and manga heroes cover every vertical surface, and memorabilia line every horizontal one. “It’s like an open-air museum,” Tringali says. “There’s not an inch of wall that’s not covered.”

Tringali is IU’s instruction librarian for undergraduate health sciences, which sounds pretty buttoned up. Until he starts talking about what it entails. “I teach students to hunt things down,” he says. “I do basic AI literacy training. Essentially explaining that you don’t just trust what a chatbot says, because it’s probably lying to you.”

But that’s only part of the story. In addition to his day job, Tringali is also founder and editor of the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, which makes him arguably one of the world’s leading voices in the scholarly study of the subject.Anime has exploded in the U.S., fueled in part by its omnipresence on streaming services such as Netflix. And manga with titles like My Hero Academia and One Piece are wildly popular among younger readers. Well, not just younger readers. Plenty of grown-ups read them too.

Tringali says people are attracted to anime and manga for simple reasons: accessibility and variety. There’s decades’ worth of materials to read and watch, with subject matter ranging from horror, to adventure, to esoteric philosophic ramblings—sometimes all three in the same work. “Whatever interests you, it exists in anime, and there is a massive backlog for you to explore,” Tringali says. “Anime and manga can be powerful teaching tools for enhancing cultural understanding and improving language skills.”

In addition to reading and watching pretty much everything in the anime/manga world, he’s also analyzed this corner of the pop culture universe in great detail. His journal is the only open access academic periodical that exclusively publishes works discussing the worlds of anime, manga, cosplay, and their fans. What began as a graduate school project now attracts scholars and aficionados from around the world. Every year, Tringali helps run a standing-room-only academic conference at Anime Expo in Los Angeles. “We pack the house,” he says. “Fans are really, really hungry for academic analysis of popular culture.”

His influence is such that within the community he’s known as the anime apostle. He got hooked on the genre early, spending his childhood sitting on his grandmother’s “horrendously purple” living room rug watching endless episodes of Pokémon. When he realized his local library didn’t offer manga, he established a substantial collection simply by donating books from his own trove. “I watched them all being cataloged and thought, Oh, this is going to be a huge problem for me,” Tringali recalls.

Today, his enthusiasm burns just as hot as it did during his Jigglypuff-besotted youth. He channels his devotion by helping students see not only the academic value in his favorite pop culture genre but also the importance of other subcultures. For instance, he’s developing a student sewing circle for cosplay fans who dress up as characters to learn how to sew their own costumes. For the anime apostle, it’s all about spreading the word.

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More big temperature swings this week

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January 11, 2026

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Our Monday brings clouds, but we’re also expecting many hours of sunshine to brighten things up. Winds turn more out of the west, which will allow us to warm temperatures back above average. Afternoon highs reach into the lower 40s.

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The “warm-up” doesn’t last too long. A midweek system brings the chance for rain and snow showers followed by more typical January temperatures.

Indianapolis Weather Forecast:
Monday: Sun and clouds. High: 42°
Tuesday: Mostly cloudy. Showers possible. High: 50°
Wednesday: Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain/snow showers. High: 42°

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IU Indianapolis visits Milwaukee on 7-game road skid

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January 11, 2026

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IU Indianapolis visits Milwaukee on 7-game road skid

IU Indianapolis Jaguars (4-14, 0-7 Horizon League) at Milwaukee Panthers (7-10, 3-3 Horizon League)

Milwaukee; Sunday, 3 p.m. EST

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Panthers -9.5; over/under is 166.5

BOTTOM LINE: IU Indianapolis will look to end its seven-game road skid when the Jaguars face Milwaukee.

The Panthers have gone 5-2 at home. Milwaukee ranks third in the Horizon League in rebounding with 34.1 rebounds. Faizon Fields leads the Panthers with 6.1 boards.

The Jaguars are 0-7 in Horizon League play. IU Indianapolis allows 90.1 points to opponents while being outscored by 5.1 points per game.

Milwaukee scores 77.4 points per game, 12.7 fewer points than the 90.1 IU Indianapolis gives up. IU Indianapolis averages 5.6 more points per game (85.0) than Milwaukee allows to opponents (79.4).

The Panthers and Jaguars square off Sunday for the first time in Horizon League play this season.

TOP PERFORMERS: Isaiah Dorceus is averaging 5.8 points and 4.2 assists for the Panthers. Danilo Jovanovich is averaging 12.5 points and 6.2 rebounds while shooting 55.4% over the last 10 games.

Kyler D’Augustino is scoring 17.8 points per game with 3.2 rebounds and 3.1 assists for the Jaguars. Jaxon Edwards is averaging 10.4 points and 1.9 steals over the past 10 games.

LAST 10 GAMES: Panthers: 4-6, averaging 74.2 points, 33.9 rebounds, 13.4 assists, 5.5 steals and 2.4 blocks per game while shooting 41.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.0 points per game.

Jaguars: 2-8, averaging 79.1 points, 28.4 rebounds, 20.2 assists, 9.6 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 43.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 83.5 points.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

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