Thank You, Coach Hoeppner
Andrew Shaffer, a former sports columnist for the Indiana Daily Student, remembers Terry Hoeppner's arrival on campus
Andrew Shaffer, a former sports columnist for the Indiana Daily Student, remembers Terry Hoeppner's arrival on campus
Matt Mattucci, former Indiana Daily Student sports editor and men's basketball and football beat writer, remembers Coach Terry Hoeppner
Kelvin Sampson fulfilled his promise to bring the state of Indiana’s best players to IU. Now the Hoosiers coach has recruited New York’s finest.
Only a handful of IU baseball players have had success at the major league level. Now another former Hoosier, catcher Jon Fixler, is looking to be the next. The junior from Riverwoods, Ill., will forgo his senior season and play for the Houston Astros Single A affiliate Tri-City Valleycats after being selected in the draft’s 19th round.
Carlos Zambrano lost his no-hitter in the eighth. One inning later he lost the game.
Nearly three months after IU head football coach Terry Hoeppner took a leave of absence, the IU Athletics Department announced Friday he will not return to the Hoosiers for the 2007 season. Watch the press conference
Justin Verlander shared an exhilarating hug with catcher Ivan Rodriguez, a quiet moment with Tigers manager Jim Leyland and made Comerica Park history.
Indiana Mr. Basketball Eric Gordon scored 32 points as the Indiana boys’ All-Stars beat the Kentucky All-Stars 97-79 Saturday night.
The IU Athletics Department announced Friday that IU head football coach Terry Hoeppner will not return to the Hoosiers for the 2007 season nearly three months after he took a leave of absence for medical reasons.
Although he is an accomplished NBA player, former IU and Bloomington High School North standout Jared Jeffries put his fame aside and came back home for a week. Jeffries held a weeklong camp for about 100 children at the Banneker Community Center, 930 W. 7th St., and ended the week by giving a $4,000 contribution to the City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department.
Roger Federer missed another chance at the French Open.
Roger Clemens popped out of the clubhouse in full uniform about 55 minutes before his first pitch Saturday, bouncing down a Yankee Stadium hallway with his cleats click-clacking on the cement floor.
• 10,000 meters Senior Jessica Gall, 33:46.69, 9th place in finals, All-American • Women’s Pole Vault Freshman Vera Neuenswander, 3.90 meters, 12th place in finals • Women’s 100-meter Hurdles Senior Lorian Price, 13.59 seconds, 9th place in semi-finals heat • Men’s Pole Vault Sophomore Blayne Burkholder, no height, 16th place in finals
Three players with IU connections were chosen in Major League Baseball’s first-year player draft last week.
When E’Shaunte Jones committed to the Hoosiers last November, he knew his college-playing days would be at IU, but he wasn’t sure where he would play prep school after high school.
In the gym where Jimmy Chitwood – the character based on Bobby Plump in the movie “Hoosiers” – became a legend, Eric Gordon showed the Hoosier Gym’s standing-room-only crowd why he is IU’s most heralded recruit since Damon Bailey.
One out of every seven Major League Baseball players has played in the Cape Cod League. IU sophomore catcher Josh Phegley hopes to follow in the footsteps of those players.
When the older kids in his Houston neighborhood would pick on him or beat him up, little Daniel Gibson would run home crying to his mother. She gave him a nickname for not fighting back.
Former IU quarterback Trent Green is finally with the Miami Dolphins in South Florida, where Daunte Culpepper’s time is running out.
When Danica Patrick gets fire in her eyes, look out. Last Sunday at the Milwaukee Mile, she had run-ins with Dan Wheldon both on the track and off.