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Mike Metzger catches air as he jumps over the fountains at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Thursday.
Mike Metzger catches air as he jumps over the fountains at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Thursday.
CHICAGO -- Shaquille O'Neal dominated, Dwyane Wade played well despite a bruised left hip and the Miami Heat never trailed in eliminating the feisty Chicago Bulls 113-96 on Thursday night.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The New Jersey Nets overcame Anthony Johnson's 40-point effort to beat the Indiana Pacers 96-90 on Thursday night and advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The city still wants to host a U.S. team trials before the 2008 Olympics, even though the RCA Dome will have been torn down, Conseco Fieldhouse might have a scheduling conflict with the Indiana Pacers and the new Lucas Oil Stadium will still be under construction.
INDIANAPOLIS -- A Bloomington fireman plans to briskly walk the 500 Festival Mini-Marathon on Saturday in full firefighting gear, including helmet, jacket, pants, oxygen tank and breathing mask.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Baseball's 2009 winter meetings will be in Indianapolis, the northernmost venue in more than 40 years for the annual gathering of major and minor league executives.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Lawyer Ron was getting a sponge bath, the early morning sunlight glistening off his wet, chestnut coat. On the other side of the barn, the man he is named after was closing a deal to sell the colt, one of the Kentucky Derby favorites. Business as usual for the four-legged Lawyer Ron.
After former IU middle linebacker John Pannozzo suffered a season-ending hand injury against Michigan State Oct. 29 in East Lansing, IU coach Terry Hoeppner looked to outside linebacker Kyle Killion to fill the void.
Former Team Major Taylor director Courtney Bishop filed a motion for a temporary restraining order to allow him to coach and serve as a consultant for TMT April 21, one day before the Little 500.
For the past eight months my assignment has been to write columns about Indiana University's basketball team, and let me tell you, it wasn't the cake-walk you all assume it was. I was forced to sit courtside for every home game, eat free food in Assembly Hall's press room, deal with the terminally miss-informed Andy Katz and then spew my opinions onto the pages of America's best college newspaper. Seriously folks, I had it rough.
Sometimes, storybook endings aren't always meant to happen. For the No. 18 IU water polo team, that was the case as it dropped its first game of the Collegiate Water Polo Association Eastern Championship on Saturday to Bucknell University in the second overtime, 6-5, as the Hoosiers finished fifth in the tournament.
The IU women's track and field squad accomplished four personal bests, two NCAA provisional-qualifying marks and one NCAA regional-qualifying mark at the 112th Penn Relays this weekend in Philadelphia.
The No. 4-seeded IU women's tennis team entered its quarterfinal Big Ten Championships match in Champaign, Ill., against No. 5-seed Purdue, the same Purdue team it had defeated at home 5-2 March 24. At the Illini Grove Tennis Courts, however, something different happened.
Revenge just wasn't enough to drive the No. 5-seed IU men's tennis team past the No. 4-seed Michigan Wolverines in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Championships. For the second time in as many weeks, the Hoosiers succumbed to the Wolverines 4-2.
Age is no barrier for setting school records. And that's precisely what IU's first novice 8 boat proved this weekend at the Big Ten Championships in St. Paul, Minn. At the conclusion of its heat, the nine-member crew successfully earned silver medal honors and eclipsed IU's highest previous ranking of fourth in 2004.
The IU baseball team split its first road conference series since 2004 this weekend at Penn State, moving its record to 7-13 in Big Ten play and 17-25 overall.
The IU men's track and field team wrapped up competition at the Penn Relays Sunday after posting three top-10 finishes Saturday. Highlighted by sophomore Kyle Jenkins' first-place finish in the triple jump, the Hoosiers finish saw the team obtain regional qualifying marks in every event they competed in on the meet's final day.
After bolting to the top of the leaderboard at the end of the third round, the Hoosiers, with help from the inclement playing conditions, slipped down to a sixth-place finish in the Big Ten Championship.
The IU women's golf team rode a pair of top-10 finishes, which made for a solid weekend for the Hoosiers, who finished sixth at the Big Ten Championships. The championships were held in Bloomington for the first time since 1966.
IU coach ray looze was pegged for double duty this year. The men's swimming and diving coach took over the women's team and both programs excelled in his first year at the dual helm.