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Yamaguchi’s softball career comes full circle

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Practices are tough to watch these days for Tory Yamaguchi. Whenever she spots a catcher’s mitt, the former IU softball standout can’t help but reminisce of the days when she signaled for changeups and fastballs.


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Sisters share more than sport

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The IU campus has a way of selling itself to the many prospective student-athletes who visit each year, but a random guy making fun of a dog usually isn’t in the plan.


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IU tries to break 11-game skid

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Mired in an 11-game losing streak – tying for the longest in school history – fresh off an 0-for-January and still winless in the Big Ten, the Hoosier faithful, once whispering, now see those whispers evolving into an honest question.

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Crean: We’ll bring the moxie

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It’s been 56 calendar days since the IU men’s basketball team last tasted victory. Defeat, in that span, has come in all forms: large, small, close – and heartbreaking.



Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin and linebacker LaMarr Woodley celebrate the team's 27-23 win over the Arizona Cardinals in the NFL Super Bowl XLIII football game, Sunday in Tampa, Fla.

Super Bowl XLIII: A look back

The Steelers’ 27-23 win Sunday night over Arizona was another classic in an era of great games – “a game for the ages,” commissioner Roger Goodell called it.


Fans paint their faces with the  color of Iran's national flag in attendance of a freindly match between Iran and Bosnia-Herzegovina in Tehran May 31, 2006.

US team sent to Iran for culture swap

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is sending a women’s badminton team to Iran this week as part of a broad bid to engage the Iranian people through educational and cultural exchanges, the State Department said Monday.


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Track and Field pole vaulter Jeff Coover received a Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week honor, and the IU men's basketball team had two games previously "to be determined" on their schedule set.


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US Soccer to place bid for World Cup

Sunil Gulati, president of U.S. Soccer, announced Monday that the U.S. Soccer Federation has officially declared interest in hosting either the 2018 or 2022 FIFA World Cups.




Freshman guard Nick Williams fights off a Buckeye defender during a shot attempt Saturday afternoon at Assembly Hall. The Hoosiers fell to Ohio State 93-81.

Lack of ‘D’ contributes to IU's 11th loss

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As agitated as IU coach Tom Crean and the Hoosier fan base appeared toward the referees, the numbers don’t lie: The Hoosiers’ inability to stop Ohio State’s offense is what doomed them.


Freshman guard Matt Roth launches a 3-point shot from the corner during the Hoosiers 93-81 loss to Ohio State Saturday afternoon at Assembly Hall. Roth scored a career high 29 points shooting 9 of 11 from beyond the arc tying the IU single-game record.

Roth shines from range in loss to Ohio State

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Matt Roth doesn’t look the type to bring 17,202 people to their feet. He’s certainly not one you would expect to drop Ohio State coach Thad Matta’s jaw. “I honestly wanted him to keep shooting,” Matta said after Saturday’s game, “because I was like, ‘This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.’”



Arizona Cardinals' offensive lineman Lyle Sendlein (63) reacts on the bench late in the fourth quarter of the NFL Super Bowl XLIII football game, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009, in Tampa, Fla.

Dreams dashed in a second

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A Super Bowl, it seemed, was ready to head home to Glendale, Ariz., on the back of a redemptive quarterback and a wide receiver with impossible talent. Then a second ticked away.


The Hoosier Relay team passes the baton Saturday afternoon at the Gladstein Fieldhouse. IU won thirteen events during the Indiana Relays held on Friday and Saturday.

Around Sports

Check out all of the happenings in IU athletics this weekend.



Hoosiers drop 11th straight in front of raucous crowd

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The Hoosiers (5-15, 0-8) reluctantly made history Saturday with their 11th consecutive loss, tying a 66-year-old school record. Ohio State outscored IU by 14 points after halftime and outlasted an unconscious shooting performance by freshman guard Matt Roth to beat IU 93-81.


Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Santonio Holmes celebrates following Pittsburgh's 27-23 win over the Arizona Cardinals in the NFL Super Bowl XLIII football game, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009, in Tampa, Fla. Holmes caught the game-winning touchdown pass.

Turbulent Super Bowl ends with black-and-gold victory

TAMPA, Fla. – Their Steel Curtain shredded, Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh offense ended a Super Bowl of incredible swings with a final-minute touchdown for a historic victory.