It might have been wearing green road jerseys, but the Mexico Under-20 national soccer team definitely had a home-field advantage. Photos: IU Soccer vs. Mexico (04.29.2007)
Six days after the IU women’s tennis team defeated Michigan for one of its biggest wins of the season, the Wolverines got their revenge with a 4-2 victory to eliminate the Hoosiers from the Big Ten tournament.
The IU water polo team ended its season by finishing third at the Collegiate Water Polo Association Eastern Championships this weekend.
The IU softball team’s hopes of making the postseason took a huge hit this weekend when they dropped a pair of doubleheaders to Big Ten foes Penn State and Ohio State.
The IU rowing team left Lake Wingra in Madison, Wisc., with a bronze medal and seventh as a team overall at the 2007 Big Ten rowing championships Saturday. “I think in terms of our personal advancement as a team, IU did well,” said freshman Michelle Marchese. “Each boat came off the water pleased that they had great rows, but I think most of the girls were just disappointed with the outcome of the races.”
The IU women’s water polo team travels to Princeton, N.J., this weekend to play three games.
College coaches will have to recruit the old-fashioned way next year. The NCAA’s board of directors approved a ban Thursday to eliminate all text messages from coaches to recruits beginning in August, then left open the possibility of revisiting that legislation as early as 2008.
On Wednesday night, the IU baseball team took another step in the wrong direction towards qualifying for the Big Ten tournament. But beginning with this weekend’s series against Penn State, the Hoosiers will try to salvage what remains of their season.
After an opening round bye, the No. 25 IU women’s tennis team takes on the No. 7 seed Minnesota today in its first action in this year’s Big Ten Championships on the Golden Gopher’s home court.
Time is ticking…fast. As the IU softball team gets set for a road trip to visit Ohio State and Penn State, they find themselves in desperate need of a win if they are to qualify for the Big Ten tournament. The top eight teams in the conference advance to postseason play and with six games remaining in the regular season, the Hoosiers are currently in last place with a conference record of 1-13 and a 21-28 overall record.
After two weeks off from racing, the IU rowing team will be back in action at the Big Ten Championships in Madison, Wis., on Saturday.
While most trips between Indiana and Mexico begin in Indianapolis and end south of the border, this weekend a group of young athletes will do the exact opposite. The Mexican Under-20 team, known as El Tricolores, will arrive in the Hoosier state to take on both Notre Dame and IU this weekend.
Bidding is certain to be fiercely competitive when the Chicago Cubs go up for sale at the end of the season, but baseball’s commissioner stressed Thursday that all offers will have to go through Major League Baseball first.
Forget the past and move on. That is the theme for the Hoosiers after finishing a disappointing 9th at the Lady Buckeye Spring Invitational.
The IU men’s golf team will travel to Columbus, Ohio, today for the three-day Big 10 Tournament. The competition will consist of a total of four rounds, with 36 holes played today and 18 played on both Saturday and Sunday.
Casual fans didn’t discover JaMarcus Russell until the Sugar Bowl last January. Neither, apparently, did some NFL scouts – not to the extent that they’re on to him now as the likely No. 1 pick in Saturday’s draft.
The IU men’s tennis team has gone 10-0 this year in matches in which they won the doubles point. When entering singles play down 1-0, however, the Hoosiers are just 4-10.
No paint, no ink, no ketchup. Nothing but Curt Schilling’s blood was seeping through his socks in the 2004 postseason, current and former Red Sox said Thursday after a rumor resurfaced that the pitcher milked his injury for drama while helping Boston end its 86-year title drought.
Oft-injured Cubs pitcher Mark Prior will miss the entire 2007 season after surgery on his right shoulder, a setback that isn’t expected to finish his once-promising career.
Two-time champion Tony Stewart likened NASCAR to professional wrestling and accused it of using bogus caution flags to shape races in biting comments made on his weekly radio show.
