Without senior leadership, Hoosiers still upbeat about start
The women's basketball team takes the floor for the first time this year in an exhibition match-up with the Athletes in Action, 2 p.m. Sunday at Assembly Hall.
The women's basketball team takes the floor for the first time this year in an exhibition match-up with the Athletes in Action, 2 p.m. Sunday at Assembly Hall.
The Hoosier women's soccer team ended their season with a close loss to Purdue in the Big Ten Tournament, 1-0 Thursday.
This weekend, the women's swimming and diving team will head to Wisconsin and Northwestern for a pair of Big Ten conference dual meets. These will be its first Big Ten dual meets of the season.
The men's swimming and diving team will try to avenge two straight road losses last weekend. The Hoosiers continue their season away from Bloomington, facing No. 10 Wisconsin today and No. 22 Northwestern Saturday.
Something has to give. Saturday, IU will play host to Illinois in a game between the Big Ten's two bottom dwellers, each in search of its first conference win. IU, loser of six straight, hasn't won a conference game since October of last year.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The season wears on, the turnovers mount and all his friends and coaches tell the rookie quarterback to hang in there. Peyton Manning lived through it five years ago. Byron Leftwich is going through it right now.
PHOENIX -- A man found driving a vehicle that belonged to slain Cincinnati Reds outfielder Dernell Stenson was booked on a charge of possession of stolen property, police said Thursday.
HOUSTON -- Tiger Woods let a good round get away from him Thursday in the Tour Championship. The goal for Charles Howell III is not to waste another good start.
The first two games of IU's basketball season likely won't be televised, as officials said an agreement could not be reached with its main broadcast station.
Seeking their ninth-straight victory, the second longest current win streak in the country, the Hoosiers will conclude the regular season Saturday night against Penn State for IU coach Jerry Yeagley's final regular season game. IU (10-3-4, 4-0-1 Big Ten) needs a victory Saturday to ensure the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten tournament, which begins Thursday in Bloomington. A loss would hand the top seed to Michigan, who currently is two points ahead of the Hoosiers but with one conference loss -- that coming to IU 2-1 on Oct. 5 in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Even after a rough practice, IU coach Mike Davis says he loves his team. And while Davis said he thinks the team's offense may be struggling, the defensive part of their game is actually ahead of schedule.
The IU women's field hockey team enters this weekend's Big Ten tournament with its best record in school history, 8-9. One of the reasons for the Hoosiers' improvement this year has been simple; they have done a much better job at putting the ball in the back of the net. Last year the team totaled 22 goals for the entire season. Entering this weekend's tournament, the Hoosiers have already scored 31 goals.
IU junior Jeff Overton did not win a golf tournament in his first two years as a member of the IU men's golf team. But the coaching staff still saw potential in the quiet Evansville, Ind., native. This fall, Overton lived up to that potential when he won all four tournaments the Hoosiers participated in earning a great deal of attention, including the No. 1 ranking in the country. It seemed every tournament in which Overton teed up, he broke some kind of record. At the Northern Intercollegiate, Overton tied his career 36-hole low score of 136 en route to his first collegiate victory. Next at the Hoosier Invitational Sept. 27-28, he finished with a 10-under-par 203 -- a school record for 54 holes.
You won't find their names on the stat sheet following a game. In fact, they haven't seen action in a match in their college careers. Yet they are considered members of the team. Many fans might take for granted the job they do. They get equipment for players both before and after games and practice. They are the managers for the men's soccer team, and they happen to be brothers.
LOS ANGELES -- The Williams sisters and Lindsay Davenport are out of the WTA Championships, leaving Belgians Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin-Hardenne in a race for the year-end No. 1 ranking. Clijsters holds the top spot this week by a slim 135-point margin over No. 2 Henin-Hardenne.
Saturday's game was perhaps the most injury-riddled contest of the 2003 season. The Hoosiers played without senior captains Joe Gonzalez and Brian Lewis. Lewis didn't play because of a concussion, and Gonzalez left the game in the first half limping off the field. Gonzalez's X-rays were negative. Junior Matt LoVecchio missed the game because of lingering effects of a concussion. Junior right guard Chris Jahnke was injured in the first half, as well, but X-rays were also negative on the Louisville, Kent., native. In addition, senior Glenn Johnson bruised his ribs. IU coach Gerry DiNardo commented Tuesday on the current status of the injury situation and who would be practicing. "What I know today, I believe Joe (Gonzalez) will go, Matt (LoVecchio) will go, I believe (sophomore) John Pannozzo will go," DiNardo said. "I don't believe Chris Jahnke will go. Now that could change, as well, but this is what I know as of noon. Glenn Johnson is fine."
LOS ANGELES -- The Williams sisters and Lindsay Davenport are out of the WTA Championships, leaving Belgians Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin-Hardenne in a race for the year-end No. 1 ranking. Clijsters holds the top spot this week by a slim 135-point margin over No. 2 Henin-Hardenne.
NEW YORK -- Don Mattingly hopped into the fire with no hesitation. After eight seasons in George Steinbrenner's collection of beloved former Yankees, the former New York captain agreed to become the team's hitting coach.
CHICAGO -- Conference USA added five new schools on Tuesday, responding swiftly to the departure of three of its top basketball programs to the expanded Big East. Rice, Southern Methodist and Tulsa agreed to leave the Western Athletic Conference for Conference USA. The league also added Marshall and Central Florida from the Mid-American Conference.
NEW YORK -- The Big East finalized its expansion plan Tuesday, inviting five schools to help rebuild the conference after defections of three key schools to the ACC.