Indianapolis is the No. 1 sports city in America, according to my rankings released today.

OK, I just made that up. I haven't compiled any rankings.

But I just wrote that as a cautionary note to anyone who gets too high or too low with regard to Indianapolis being ranked No. 23 by the Sporting News in its annual ranking of America's best sports cities.

Like, you can actually measure that?

Like, Lawrence, Kan., home of the University of Kansas and nothing else, could somehow occupy a ranking above Indianapolis, or at least a couple dozen more cities that offer a far broader range of sports than that college town?

Like Indianapolis, home to the two largest single-day sporting events in the world, two major pro sports franchises, one of the best minor league baseball franchises in America, a plethora of collegiate and amateur sports and a dozen or so sports organizations has to somehow explain its status as a sports capital?

So, I repeat: Indy is No. 1.

Why? Because I said so.