CHICAGO -- Mark Prior was as surprised as anybody when he found out that he was going to get a chance to pitch his first career complete game.
The Bloomington City Council gave preliminary approval to the Monroe County to rezone a part of the old Thomson factory property.
IU point guard Tom Coverdale was named to the 2002 Big Ten Men's Basketball Foreign Tour Team after leading the Hoosiers to the NCAA Championship game. The 6-2 senior ranked second on the tour team with a season average of 11.9 points per game and was third in the Big Ten Conference in assists (4.81 apg) and seventh in steals (1.54 spg).
Race driver Kurt Busch shows his displeasure with fellow driver Jimmy Spencer (41) after crashing in the third turn during the Brickyard 400. Busch thought Spencer forced him into the third turn wall.
EAST TROY, Wis. -- It's been seven years since Jerry Garcia's guitar fell silent, but the kaleidoscope of wriggling humanity he kept on the road for more than 30 years is very much alive.
Mimi Zweig knows that some great musicians are born and not made. Violinist and IU graduate Joshua Bell is one of these. "His music making is something that comes from within him, and I doubt this can be taught ... just nurtured," Zweig said.
It is a day we dream about from the time we are little girls until the day a ring is slipped on our finger. The real event is never as perfect as the fantasy, and the bride and groom rarely live happily ever after. The purpose and meaning of marriage has been changing rapidly in the last 100 years. Why we still hold such a deep connection to what is left of this institution is often a mystery to me.
CAIRO -- The United Nations chief arms inspector said he will not go to Iraq for technical talks until Baghdad approves the return of weapons inspectors.
There are high school basketball programs in the state of Indiana that have an auxiliary gym and various practice facilities, but the biggest and best basketball program in the state must practice on the same floor that they play on. What's wrong with this picture?
Michael Jordan. Dominic Hasek. John Elway. Ray Broque. Bill Russell. All of these athletes retired after winning their respective sports championship (even though Jordan is wearing some funny-looking blue jersey now). I have no right putting my name along side the names of these great athletes, but for one brief, shining moment I will. No, I've never won a championship in pretty much any sport I've participated in, but I do feel like I am going out on top.
My time is up at IU. Soon, I'll look back and remember all the fun things about this university that I came across over the course of four years. But it's not the legendary parties I'll yearn for, and it won't be the friendships I made that I will miss the most.
IU Athletics Director Mike McNeely recently laid out his goals to go along with a $40 million project to upgrade the athletic facilities.
Dane Fife wasn't selected at the NBA draft last month, and most basketball fans don't expect to see him wear an NBA jersey anytime soon. But the former Hoosier has worked hard this summer to keep his NBA dreams alive. Fife played for the Houston Rockets' summer league team at the Southern California Summer Pro League July 7-21 in Los Angeles. Although still a long shot to find his place in Houston's backcourt, Fife impressed the Rockets staff during the eight-game stint. Rockets assistant coach Melvin Hunt said Fife conducted himself like a professional throughout the two-week tournament.
Acclaimed writer/director Todd Solondz's latest film, "Storytelling," met mixed reviews upon its release this past winter, and justifiably so. While Solondz retains the glibness and sick, sardonic wit of his previous films, "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and "Happiness," "Storytelling" ultimately lacks bite, and in some ways, serves as a cowardly apology for his earlier works.
The "John Q." Infinifilm DVD is packed full of thick and juicy bonus material. Infinifilm once again nails solid the extra features section of the medium with commentaries, deleted scenes, documentaries and fact lines (they're displayed at the bottom while the movie plays). But no matter how tight the bonus section of a DVD is made, it stands for nothing if the movie isn't what it's cracked-up to be.
As soon as the Rolling Stones announced their 40th anniversary tour, a friend from my undergrad days scurried to the Internet and managed to pick up one ticket -- for $300. On top of that, I think the show is in L.A., which means that by the time he's done, he will probably have shelled out well into four figures to see four 60-year-olds creak around for two and a half hours.
So this summer pretty much blew. Nothing exciting or noteworthy happened at all. And, despite my plans to put something exciting and noteworthy in this magazine, that didn't happen either. Most of this year's highly anticipated summer movies didn't live up to the hype. "Star Wars Episode II" came and went with half the fanfare of the obviously worse predecessor "The Phantom Menace."
Complete with square-tipped acrylics, a silver line separating the red from the white paint, Sylvia answered the door for the first time in three weeks. Alas, she had finally predicted my arrival (if one doesn't count the call ahead). And where exactly do fortune-tellers venture to vacation? Miami. She and her family had been in Miami enjoying the torrential downpours that drowned every day of their excursion. Shouldn't she have known that?
Okay, ha ha, laugh it up, I went to see "The Country Bears." And you know what, it was every bit as excruciating as I imagined. Actually, that's an understatement. It was fair to expect the worst from a live-action Disney film based on a mechanical bear singing show, but there have been very few 90-minute periods in my life during which I felt as duped. It's really that bad.
Okay, ha ha, laugh it up, I went to see "The Country Bears." And you know what, it was every bit as excruciating as I imagined. Actually, that's an understatement. It was fair to expect the worst from a live-action Disney film based on a mechanical bear singing show, but there have been very few 90-minute periods in my life during which I felt as duped. It's really that bad.
