The men's swimming team will play host to the Indiana Open at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center.
The water polo team heads to Erie, Penn., this weekend for its first trip to the Collegiate Water Polo Association tournament, where the Hoosiers will play four games.
The women's tennis team has its work cut out for it at 11 a.m. Sunday in Lexington, Ky. The Hoosiers will attempt to avenge last season's 5-4 loss to a Kentucky squad that returns eight players.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. - Lisa Bluder still has Kathi Bennett's number. Between the two coaches, whose career paths have moved in similar directions, Bluder's teams have beaten Bennett's.
Dinner with Doubles? Most would consider this a double date. While it is a date of some sorts, the men's tennis team does not plan on treating its guests kindly on the court.
Simply put, the softball team is unhappy with how its season has gone so far.
The IU baseball team will face the University of Illinois at Chicago in a three-game series at 3 p.m. today at Sembower Field. Coming off a 6-0 shutout of DePauw Friday, the Hoosiers are going to try to avoid becoming UIC's third victim in 10 games.
The hockey team tied New York University 5-5 Thursday in its second-round game in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II tournament in Fishers, Ind.
Junior Dane Fife sported a cherry-red mark on the side of his neck Thursday. "Yeah. Kyle (Hornsby) gave it to me," Fife said jokingly.
For a Big Ten wrestler to become a national qualifier, he must place in the top seven in his weight class or earn one of three wild-card spots at this weekend's conference championships.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. - Coach Kathi Bennett didn't want her team to play on the Big Ten Tournament's first day. Against Minnesota Thursday, they really didn't have to.
The pressure is rising. This weekend marks the beginning of the end for each wrestler who has dreamed of becoming a national qualifier, All-American or national champion.
Once again, the ICLU is taking issue with the display of the Ten Commandments on a courthouse square. In the wake of successful court battles with Indianapolis and Elkhart, the Indiana Civil Liberties Union is now targeting Vincennes.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- The women's basketball team has shown many similarities to its male counterpart this season. Both squads are operating under a first-year coach, have unnerving tendencies to blow big leads and had the ability to beat a Minnesota basketball team within 24 hours of each other.
When IU selected Michael McNeely as its new athletics director, it got what a University vice president described as a "football guy." McNeely has spent the last two years as the vice president and chief operating officer for the NFL's San Diego Chargers. He's also had stints with two college athletic departments and was director of operations for the NCAA.
As an assistant football coach at the University of Colorado in the early 1980s, Michael McNeely helped rebuild the Buffaloes to a national power. He's being asked to do it again. Only this time, it's as IU's athletics director. IU President Myles Brand announced the hiring of McNeely at a press conference Thursday.
Once there was a boy who was going to take over the world. He had a natural gift that was his and nobody else's. The gift was special, and he was the only one who could give it to the world. But he was not going to use his gift for political means or for monetary gain. His only hope was to bring some beauty to this world. And beauty came from the sky.
ABC News Anchor Cokie Roberts told aspiring IU journalists the other day that George W. Bush's current "honeymoon" with the press is because he's busy pushing his campaign promises through Congress. Bill Clinton enjoyed no such indulgence during his first 100 days because he got embroiled in the controversial issue of gays in the military.
The recent discovery that someone downloaded 3,230 names and Social Security numbers, including mine, from the Bursar's computerized records has shaken my confidence in IU. What upsets me most about the situation is the amount of time that passed between discovery and notification.
