AROUND THE GAME
Phegley earns All-Star start, Track and field adds 5 to coaching staff
Phegley earns All-Star start, Track and field adds 5 to coaching staff
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig was at home watching Barry Bonds and the Giants play when he decided he needed to be at the ballpark to see the San Francisco slugger break Hank Aaron’s career home run record.
David Stern has seen college basketball and German soccer overcome point-shaving scandals. He never imagined his own league would be thrown into one. The NBA commissioner blamed “rogue, isolated criminal” Tim Donaghy for that, creating a betting scandal that has devastated the league and threatened the credibility of every referee.
Tour de France leader Michael Rasmussen of Denmark has been removed from the race, a devastating blow to cycling’s premier event which has been rocked by a series of doping scandals.
For two IU soccer players, a run at Pan Am gold is over. Sophomore midfielder Kevin Alston and redshirt freshman midfielder Daniel Kelly and the rest of the U.S. soccer team were sent home with a 2-0 loss against Mexico on Saturday in the group play of the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
About 600 fans gathered in Bloomington’s AmVets Post 2000 on Saturday night to watch 30 fighters compete in the Elite Cage Fighting 15 competition. Friends, parents, siblings and wives as well as training partners and coaches were treated to 15 mixed martial arts-style cage matches, including three title defenses.
Padraig Harrington finally learned the lesson of Carnoustie, surviving a calamitous finish in regulation and a tense bogey putt in the playoff to win the British Open on Sunday.
Barry Bonds is finally willing to recognize his own countdown to the home run record.
Two members of the IU football team were arrested early Sunday morning in Greenwood, Ind. Senior linebacker Adam McClurg and senior offensive lineman Sean Edmundson as well as University of Indianapolis defensive back Joshua Kimbowa were charged with failure to pay after a taxi ride from Indianapolis, police said.
Michael Rasmussen of Denmark extended his overall lead in the Tour de France on Sunday against all of his top challengers – except Alberto Contador.
David Beckham began his daunting challenge to convert America into a soccer-mad nation with an uneventful 12-minute debut for the Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday night.
When a Bad Newz Kennels dog was wounded in a losing fight, NFL star Michael Vick was consulted before the animal was doused with water and electrocuted.
The Big Ten Network may be at a stalemate with major cable companies, but IU’s cable system, Campus Cable TV appears to be persuaded that the Network has value and plans to pick it up eventually.
Cage fighter Luke Taylor manically pounds on the short bag in the balmy confines of the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation’s “Dungeon,” throwing his entire shoulder, hip and torso into each alternating blow. “Take his side!” fellow fighter Mike Griffin yells, and Taylor swings his hips and legs over to the right side of the bag. “Knees!” Griffin shouts as he paces around the bag, keeping one eye on the clock.
Never known as lovable losers, cursed, or even affectionately as bums, the Philadelphia Phillies have long held a more pitiable title: The losingest team in sports.
After several weeks of flag football, water volleyball, basketball and dodgeball, the incoming freshmen with the Groups program only have one more week of intramurals before the summer season is officially finished.
Three IU student-athletes have been selected to compete in the ongoing Pan American Games this month in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Ball State University’s Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Tom Collins officially announced the resignation of men’s basketball coach Ronny Thompson at a 1 p.m. press conference Friday.
Senior forward D.J. White is one cut away from making the roster for the American team in the Pan American Games after competing in five trial sessions over the weekend.
There was only one champagne bottle in the San Jose SaberCats’ locker room, and that fit the spirit of the celebration.