PHILADELPHIA – From losingest team to longest game, the Philadelphia Phillies are World Series champions.
Junior Tiffany Fick knows when America will really be ready for a black president. Fick, president of the Black Student Union, said when racism is really gone, “he doesn’t have to be Barack Obama ‘the first black president,’ but just Barack Obama, ‘the president.’” There are few times in history when race did not matter: the Olympics and 9/11, said Eric Love, director of diversity education at IU.
Junior Tiffany Fick knows when America will really be ready for a black president. Fick, president of the Black Student Union, said when racism is really gone, “he doesn’t have to be Barack Obama ‘the first black president,’ but just Barack Obama, ‘the president.’” There are few times in history when race did not matter: the Olympics and 9/11, said Eric Love, director of diversity education at IU.
Playing its first midweek game since early in the season, the IU field hockey team never adjusted to the different routine, falling to Louisville 2-1 Wednesday on Senior Day. No. 12 Louisville (13-5) took advantage of many penalty corner opportunities – especially in the first half – to score its two goals. IU gave up nine penalty corners in the first half and 12 for the game. Louisville’s Nicole Youman took advantage of one of the first-half penalty corners, scoring the period’s lone goal. IU coach Amy Robertson said she felt “bewildered” by her team’s play. They were sloppy and lacked confidence for the first 35 minutes, she said.
The IU men’s basketball team is not the only Hoosier squad undergoing a major roster turnover from last season. With six freshmen and only three returning players on a 10-man roster, the men’s tennis team heads into this weekend’s Big Ten Singles Championship in Madison, Wis., light on experience and full of untested potential. “There are a lot of new faces this year,” said sophomore Lachlan Ferguson. “Some of these guys are pretty green, fresh out of high school and still a little wet behind the ears.”
The IU club hockey team will take on Michigan this weekend and look to put last weekend’s tough losses at Davenport behind them. After winning their first six games of the season, IU now sits at 6-2. The team is still winless in the Great Midwest Hockey League. The contention between IU and Michigan is just as intense in hockey as in other sports. “Michigan is another team we have a lot of history with,” IU coach Tom Orr said. “We know they’re going to be hungry. They’re going to be ready for us.”
Carl Edwards did all he could last Sunday to bring Jimmie Johnson and the Chase for the Sprint Cup back into reach. But despite his best effort in winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Edwards made little ground on Johnson after the two-time defending champ finished with his No. 48 in second place on the scoring pylon. With 10 laps to go, a runner-up result didn’t look possible for Johnson.
All season long, the IU women’s golf team has tried to put a tournament together where everyone fires on all cylinders at the same time. This week in Las Vegas, they managed to do that for one of their three rounds. The Hoosiers used a school-record, 11-under 277 third-round total to slide up the leaderboard and finish in 10th place on Wednesday in the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown at the Boulder Creek Golf Club. The three-round total of 860 also betters the school record by four shots.
Did you know there is a presidential election coming up Tuesday? I just found out about it when this old lady called me to tell me I should vote for some Nader guy. That explains all those damn commercials I fast forward through when I watch my DVR’d episodes of “Yes, Dear” every day. I decided I should look into this election thing. I figured it is kind of a big deal. But how do I make such an important decision?
Syria is demanding an American apology and compensation for a U.S. commando raid near Iraq’s border that killed eight.
Not even the fastest goal in NCAA Division I history could propel the IU men’s soccer team to its fourth win in a row, with the Hoosiers’ match against Kentucky ending in a 1-1 tie after two overtime periods Wednesday night. On the opening kickoff, sophomore forward/midfielder Andy Adlard sent a long ball deep into the Kentucky zone. After bouncing off of a Wildcat defender, Kentucky goalkeeper Dan Williams came out of the goal to attempt to scoop up the bouncing ball. IU senior forward Kevin Noschang took advantage of the miscue by gaining control of the ball and firing it past Williams for the 1-0 advantage six seconds into the game. “For the past two games, we decided to attack them right off the bat,” Noschang said. “I was just able to one-time it in. Obviously, when you get a goal six seconds into the game and can start a game up 1-0, there is nothing better than that.” Noschang’s early goal sparked aggressive offensive play from the Hoosiers in the first half. But while the team looked to continue its scoring attack, Kentucky evened the score.
Thousands of utility customers around the Northeast awoke without power Wednesday morning, a day after the season’s first big snowstorm blew through the region.
New South Korean intelligence indicates that ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il suffered a serious setback in his recovery from a stroke and has been hospitalized, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
The Middle East has a growing yearn for democracy, said Mark Tessler, a professor of the University of Michigan, on behalf of the second annual Iliya Harik Memorial Lecture.
Students can take advantage of an opportunity to obtain internships and full-time positions in these industries at the first Retail & Design Career Fair hosted by the Career Development Center, which will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday in Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union.
Hannah Montana ran by Superman as a cow sat in its stroller, peeking into a plastic pumpkin. This was the scene at Wednesday’s Safe Halloween.
The race for Indiana’s 9th Congressional District is coming to a close, and Indiana voters will choose Tuesday between two very familiar candidates, and one newcomer. Mike Sodrel and Rep. Baron Hill (D-Ind.) have contested Southern Indiana’s congressional seat each election since 2002, making the 9th district one of the most competitive swing districts on the national stage. At the same time, Dr. Eric Schansberg, an IU-Southeast New Albany professor of economics, is shaking up the race with an independent perspective.
Bloomington’s non-profit organization Pets ALIVE will host its first fundraising event, the Fur Ball, at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Fountain Square Ballroom.
Ricky L. Underhill, 35, of Bloomington, was arrested at about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in connection with two recent Bloomington bank robberies, said Joe Qualters, Bloomington Police Department captain.
’Tis the season for B-grade horror movies with moaning, stumbling, rotting, flesh-eating zombies and screaming victims. And an annual Bloomington tradition brings these movies right to the middle of Kirkwood Avenue.
