INDIANAPOLIS -- College basketball teams may have to contend with wider lanes, longer 3-pointers and more replays on game-winning shots as early as next season.
SAN ANTONIO -- Gregg Popovich won the NBA Coach of the Year award Monday for leading the San Antonio Spurs to the league's best record. Popovich, the first Spurs coach to win the award, received 40 out of a possible 121 first-place votes from a panel of sports writers and broadcasters.
Three IU football players signed rookie free agent contracts with NFL teams Monday. After the weekend draft, players who weren't picked could sign with any team. Defensive tackle Kris Dielman signed with the San Diego Chargers, offensive lineman Bobby Brandt signed with the New York Jets and offensive tackle Enoch DeMar signed with the Cleveland Browns.
The Hoosiers capped off a successful weekend with victories in the first varsity four and second novice eight races at the Indianapolis Invitational. This was an important weekend for the team with Big Ten Championships just a week away.
In its quest for an NCAA berth, the men's golf team battled the top teams in its region and Big Ten on its way to an eighth place finish this weekend at the Fossum/Taylor Made Invitational. The men in crimson and cream started the weekend shooting one of their worst rounds of the season, a 16-over-par, 306 as a team, Saturday in the first round. IU regained its composure in the second round Saturday and shot a five-over-par 293.
For the first time in the six-year history of the program, the IU women's water polo team has made it to the NCAA Championships. The Hoosiers defeated Brown on Sunday afternoon, 7-5, and reserved a place in the NCAA women's water polo final four.
Friday, after more than six years of living in the United States, my parents and I, along with 55 others truly became American citizens.
Are Americans savages? That question has been hinted at on many editorial pages by various writers and readers.
Webmail is getting a new look. But we say the whole e-mail system should be looked into.
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement on Monday supported the Cabinet proposed by incoming Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, boosting the team's chances of winning the parliamentary approval required for release of a new peace plan.
State troopers who are inches from possible death when motorists race by them during traffic stops along Indiana's roadways have begun a ticketing campaign to convince them to slow down.
The following activity was reported by the IU Police Department: April 25 •Matthew H. Shapiro, 19, resident of McNutt, was cited at his residence for possession of marijuana less than 30 grams.
Ioana Popa's red sash and belt of tiny bells swished quickly and smoothly as she danced barefoot to the exotic Persian music. The room stared in awe as all tried to emulate her captivating ethnic dance.
Attention aspiring artists: you MUST buy a copy of this book. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. "Bullsh*t or Fertilizer," a portable pep talk written by Pierre Bennu, a self-described artist, painter, teacher, deejay, and filmmaker, is an amazingly succinct and well-written guide for self-supporting artists to get out there and make a name for themselves. Though some of the advice is evident, many times we need others to point out the obvious. "Bullsh*t" provides the reader with practical, step by step ways to get out there, do their craft, and make a living doing it. It doesn't matter what you do; Bennu just wants you to go out there and do it.
Winner of four 1996 Tony Awards, "Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk" will play at 8 p.m. tonight and Wednesday at the IU Auditorium. The show uses tap dance to illustrate and celebrate the history of African-Americans. It is a journey through the colonial era, the Civil War and the present using tap, poetry, lighting, song and percussion.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Eli Lilly and Co. shareholders Monday rejected a union pension fund's proposal to count stock options as an expense against earnings -- a move supporters contend would provide a more accurate picture of the drug maker's finances.
With the war all but over, the short term economic impact now seems to be amazingly small. In the old industrial economy increases in defense spending would lead to increased growth, as factories would increase production and output. Defense spending accounted for 37.91 percent of Gross Domestic Product at the height of WWII, 14.1 percent during the Korean War and 9.41 percent during Vietnam, according to Business Week. But this is not the case in today's economy where the war represents only 4.1 percent of GDP.
Three IU football players signed rookie free agent contracts with NFL teams today. After the weekend draft, all players who weren't picked can sign with any team. Defensive tackle Kris Dielman signed with the San Diego Chargers, offensive lineman Bobby Brandt signed with the New York Jets and offensive tackle Enoch DeMar signed with the Cleveland Browns.
Ten candidates' names for the student trustee position were sent to Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon last week. Finalists were nominated from a pool of 31 applicants by a 13-member committee from six of IU's eight campuses.
IU entered its match Friday against top-ranked Illinois, hoping for the biggest upset in team history. Unfortunately the Hoosiers were unable to pull off the upset and dropped the match to the Fighting Illini 4-0.
