Ready for hysteria
Friday night’s Hoosier Hysteria might be the first official practice for the IU men’s basketball team, but D.J. White knows better.
Friday night’s Hoosier Hysteria might be the first official practice for the IU men’s basketball team, but D.J. White knows better.
Kelvin Sampson would have given the Hoosiers a freebie.
A team can never go into a game assuming it will be an easy win. It may end up being just the opposite. Despite owning a 14-0 record against the Louisville Cardinals, the IU men’s soccer team had a tough match against the regional foes, losing 2-1 in overtime.
College tennis is broken into two seasons: fall and spring. In the fall, coaches send players to various tournaments to get them match experience as they prepare for the spring. When January rolls around, teams begin head-to-head competition with the best 64 teams competing in the NCAA tournament at the end of the spring season.
Developer Donald Trump’s plans to build “the worlds greatest golf course” on a stretch of remote and stunning Scottish coastline are drawing opposition because the land is home to some of the country’s rarest birds.
There are young ones, old ones, thin ones and fat ones. Some show up in chicken suits, others in G-strings. There are highly trained athletes, of course, but also many people who look like a starting line is, well, the last place they should be. These days, big-city marathons cast an increasingly wide net, drawing tens of thousands of serious and not-so-serious runners to prestigious races in New York, Chicago, Boston and elsewhere.
The IU Student Foundation Fall Cycling Series kicked off with the first of three events Oct. 7 with the men’s and women’s Cyclocross at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Katie Haft and Pam Loebig – who competed on different teams in last year’s Little 500 – won the women’s race, while Tyler George and Andy Haas of Delta Sigma Pi rode away with the men’s title.
Six years ago, IU men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson dealt with something far more difficult than any Final Four loss. His mother, Eva, had colon cancer.
The IU Athletics Department will refund part of the cost of student season ticket packages because it received a record number of applications – about 9,200 – for an 18-game ticket package. Now, students will only get about 16 games.
They work day in and day out and get beat up over and over again, only to stay in Bloomington on the weekends. Then they get the crap kicked out of them some more.
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The IU hockey team might have needed swimming trunks in case the ice melted during the home opener Saturday. Despite temperatures outside reaching 90 degrees, the Frank Southern Ice Arena was ready to host IU’s game against rival Kentucky. On a soft ice surface, IU (3-0) dominated the Kentucky Cool Cats, winning 6-2 and completing a weekend sweep against Kentucky.
Three seems to be the number of choice for the IU women’s golf team lately. At the Johnie Imes Invitational in Columbia, Mo., IU netted its third straight third-place finish and placed three golfers in the Top 11. IU coach Clint Wallman said his team is capable of even better results.
When it comes to IU and Louisville competing on the soccer pitch, “no contest” could be the two words that best describe the series. The IU men’s soccer team will be defending its 14-0 all-time record against Louisville when it faces the Cardinals at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Cardinal Park in Louisville, Ky.
Colts running back Kenton Keith walked into a whole new world Monday afternoon. His cell phone was ringing and reporters surrounded his locker. The former Canadian Football League player, who never had a serious chance in the NFL until this season, had become an instant star.
Marion Jones has given up the five medals she won at the Sydney Olympics, days after admitting she used performance-enhancing drugs.
Mark Dantonio expected growing pains in his first year as Michigan State’s head football coach. After back-to-back losses to Wisconsin and Northwestern, there’s little doubt that he’s smarting.
For the second straight week, the IU men’s golf team took its game to the suburbs of Chicago for a weekend invitational.
Despite three top-five finishes to open the season, the IU women’s golf team feels they could be doing better and finishing even higher.
Sophomore back Kevin Alston has been a standout defender and playmaker for the No. 17 IU men’s soccer team (7-3-1) for two years, but the one thing that eluded him was a goal.