Iowa State coach Eustachy replaced found
Ames, Iowa -- Wayne Morgan was introduced Wednesday as the basketball coach at Iowa State, succeeding Larry Eustachy and ending a tumultuous two weeks at the school.
Ames, Iowa -- Wayne Morgan was introduced Wednesday as the basketball coach at Iowa State, succeeding Larry Eustachy and ending a tumultuous two weeks at the school.
The IU baseball team takes on the Northwestern Wildcats this weekend in what will be the Hoosiers' final series before the Big Ten tournament. The four-game series begins Friday, leading into a doubleheader Saturday and the series finale Sunday. All games will be played at Sembower Field, with Friday's game starting at 3 p.m., Saturday's doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m. and Sunday's finale at 1 p.m.
ALVESLOHE, Germany -- Tiger Woods rarely finishes this far back. While Padraig Harrington beat Thomas Bjorn in a one-hole playoff Sunday to win the Deutsche Bank-SAP Open, Woods was never in contention and finished tied for 29th place -- his worst finish in a stroke-play event in two years.
Accomplishments ran amok at the Big Ten Championships in Minnesota this weekend. The Hoosier men's and women's track teams placed among the top four in the conference championships. Such an impressive display came from remarkable individual performances by both teams.
After the IU baseball team sealed a spot in the Big Ten Tournament Friday and a wash-out Saturday, the Hoosiers battled the Northwestern Wildcats Sunday at home. IU beat the Wildcats 7-0 on Friday, as junior pitcher Chris Behrens took the complete-game victory, allowed only five hits and three walks, and struck out a career-best seven batters. Sophomore Ryan Parker led the IU offensive attack with a two-for-four performance and a two-run homerun in the third inning to give the Hoosiers a 4-0 lead. IU had no errors and amassed five stolen bases.
BALTIMORE, Md. -- They have come in all sizes and colors, with vastly different personalities and every conceivable advantage. There have been big ones and small ones, silver, black and brown ones, the bashful and the born entertainers. They have been piloted by wizards, trained by superstars and owned by blue bloods, princes and captains of American industry. Yet the thing each has been remembered for, finally, was failing to get the job done.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Twelve hours after one of the franchise's biggest victories, the Detroit Pistons were back on the practice court Saturday, defying the skeptics again. With barely any time to celebrate, or even sleep, following Friday night's series-clinching overtime victory at Philadelphia, the Pistons had no trouble getting motivated for the New Jersey Nets. The Nets won the matchup 96-94 in overtime Sunday.
Rain.The bane of the existence of Indianapolis 500 racers and teams struck again this weekend and took away valuable practice time from teams that could not make it into the field during the May 11 Qualification Day.
INDIANAPOLIS -- A.J. Foyt IV covered as much ground going backward as he did going forward on his first qualification attempt for the Indianapolis 500.
In the first game of the 2003 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championships, the Hoosiers fell to No. 1 Stanford Cardinal 13-2. This loss places IU at 26-10 while Stanford improves its record to 21-2.
The IU baseball team took to the field Sunday against intrastate rival Purdue for a doubleheader. The Hoosiers looked to this as a chance to earn points in the IU-Purdue Titan Series, as well as a boost before heading into the Big Ten Championships in two weeks. However, it was anything but a good day for the Hoosiers as the team dropped both games. After taking a 10-3 loss early in the day, freshman pitcher Ryan Parker stated the team would need to get better pitching and run support. Instead, Purdue picked up right where they left off by beating the Hoosiers 20-4. Things got off to a bad start for IU in the second inning when senior Daniel Underwood drove in his 11th homer of 2003. Purdue senior Nick McIntyre crushed his 10th homer of the season to start.
INDIANAPOLIS -- A.J. Foyt IV escaped injury when he crashed his car Thursday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He was cleared to continue practicing for the Indianapolis 500. Foyt, a rookie driving for his grandfather, a four-time Indy champion, spun coming out of the fourth turn and brushed the wall. The car spun back around as it skidded down the track and hit the outside wall a second time, damaging the rear end. The elder Foyt said a cut left rear tire caused the 19-year-old driver to lose control. The crash was the second since practice began this week for the race May 25.
NEW YORK -- Baseball's best-hitting catcher might eventually be moving out from behind the plate. After years of speculation, the New York Mets talked with All-Star catcher Mike Piazza on Thursday about beginning the process of learning to play first base.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- More misery for Michigan basketball. The Wolverines were barred from the next postseason and put on three-and-a-half years' probation by the NCAA on Thursday for a booster's payments to players dating to the Fab Five era. The team also will lose one of its 13 annual scholarships for four years, beginning in 2004-05.
INDIANAPOLIS -- One race has already begun at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. With less than 48 hours until qualifying, drivers were still looking for rides and teams were still debating which cars to use in the Indianapolis 500.
While many students this week seemed to be on a straight path from Bloomington to their homes, senior Pete Shaw was driving in circles. But he wasn't lost. He was driving his grandfather's Boyle-Special around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Three leaders, three positions and three people will be greatly missed by the IU softball team as they walk across the plank into the real world Saturday and out of their college sports careers. Senior Heather Suca, a 4-foot 9-inch shortstop who never crouched to make her strike zone smaller, senior Katie Joy, who improved her game immensely and brightened the morale of the team and senior Stormy Hanson, who aimed, typically with success, at the fences from the batter's box will graduate after this season.
Sitting with her legs crossed at Starbucks and her blonde hair pulled back in a bun, senior Jenny Mann, who is graduating from IU and leaving the women's soccer team, blows the steam away from her coffee.
The No. 9 water polo team will compete in their first NCAA Championship this weekend at the University of California San Diego in La Jolla, Calif. The Hoosiers' first game is at 1:30 p.m. Saturday against No. 1 seed -- and last year's national champion -- Stanford Cardinal. The Hoosiers played the Cardinal earlier this year at the Stanford Invitational, losing 15-3.
A miracle will be needed for the men's golf team to have an opportunity to play in the postseason, coach Mike Mayer said. In the Hoosiers' last tournament of the season -- the 2003 Big Ten Championships -- expectations were as high as their hopes for a run to the regional tournament. But as luck had it, a sixth place finish this weekend might have ended what hope the men in khaki and crimson had. The team will find out at 5 p.m. today when the NCAA releases its regional bids. "It's kind of disappointing," freshman Scott Seibert said. "The team didn't play as well as we would have liked to." Coming out firing, IU slowed down and eventually finished the tournament at an almost dead stop. After the first round, the Hoosiers were three strokes out of first place with a one-over-par 285, a tempo which was kept for the first nine holes of the second round.