Local teacher to start hurling club
During a normal weekday, Tim Fick teaches social studies at Aurora Alternative High School in Bloomington. But every weekday afternoon, he's at Woodlawn Field with a sliotar and a hurley.
During a normal weekday, Tim Fick teaches social studies at Aurora Alternative High School in Bloomington. But every weekday afternoon, he's at Woodlawn Field with a sliotar and a hurley.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Talk to Marvin Harrison's friends, teammates or opponents and they'll tell you everything still looks the same. The crisp patterns, the uncanny fakes, the relentless workouts, even the old-school flip after touchdowns.
Following Tuesday's press conference concerning his surgery for the possible recurrence of a brain tumor, IU coach Terry Hoeppner revealed that the Hoosiers will be without sophomore wide receiver James Hardy for upcoming games against Southern Illinois University and the University of Connecticut.
Three days after a victory against Ball State, IU head coach Terry Hoeppner announced he will take a temporary leave of absence to undergo surgery to remove a possible recurrent brain tumor.
IU sophomore Matt Barr has some big requests for IU basketball. Very simply, he'd like new facilities, top recruits, a successful, respected coach and a winning team. Anything else? Well, he'd like cheaper, closer seats. Maybe a student section, too. Is that too much to ask?
The 2006-07 season is now underway, and the Hoosiers saw first-hand that high expectations don't always yield better results.
Behind a balanced attack that saw the cream and crimson at the top of the charts, IU won its first tournament since the 2002 Wolverine Invitational.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- As Trent Green lay motionless on the turf at Arrowhead Stadium, more than 77,000 fans sat motionless in their seats.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- A little bit older, a little more experienced, Peyton Manning was also a little bit better than Eli in the Manning Bowl.
MUNCIE -- Kellen Lewis didn't look nervous. Before Saturday's game at Ball State University, IU coach Terry Hoeppner told the freshman quarterback to be ready to play against the Cardinals.
Though they came into the Marriott Flyer Invitational with just one loss on the season, the Hoosiers dropped two of three matches in the weekend tournament at the University of Dayton.
With parents in attendance, Carrie DeFreece showed why she is a team leader.
In the face of rising temperatures, rolling hills and coarse, wet grass, fatigue wasn't the only thing the IU men's cross country team had to combat. In addition to the challenging course and humid weather, the Hoosiers took to the trail against Butler, Huntington University, Minnesota and Purdue.
In her first race of the season, senior Jessica Gall displayed why she was named an All-American last year.
MUNCIE -- With one quarterback unable to start and a second knocked out two drives into the game, IU coach Terry Hoeppner called on one Hoosier who hasn't played in a game since high school.
After making the short trek to Ohio this weekend, the No. 15 Hoosiers extended their winning streak to five games.
Riding on the team bus back from the Indianapolis International Airport, Kevin Robson said his weekend was "a little bittersweet."
MUNCIE — In front of a record crowd at Scheumann Stadium, the IU football team rebounded from a 23-7 first-half deficit to defeat the Ball State University Cardinals 24-23 Saturday night.
About 80 Little 500 riders spoke in unanimous opposition to an IU Student Foundation initiative that would prohibit nonstudent coaches from being in the pits on race day. Almost 60 riders attended a meeting Wednesday and about 20 attended a meeting Thursday to address the IUSF "Student Coaching Initiative." The rider's forums were hosted by alumni coaches -- individuals coaching Little 500 teams who are not undergraduate Bloomington students. The IUSF initiative only permits undergraduate Bloomington campus students to coach in the pits on race day. The new rule takes effect for the race this spring.
After serving in Guam, Singapore, Japan and Australia during six years of service in the Navy, junior Eric Rogers finds himself striving to prove his endurance in Bloomington. "I want to run a mini (marathon) to prove I can do it," Rogers said. "And it's helping a good cause."