Earnhardt Jr. still looking for Nextel Cup with DEI
After his best finish in almost a month, Dale Earnhardt Jr. had one thing on his mind. “I’m ready to go home, get on the lake!” he said, pumping his fist.
After his best finish in almost a month, Dale Earnhardt Jr. had one thing on his mind. “I’m ready to go home, get on the lake!” he said, pumping his fist.
IU men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson confirmed Saturday at a press conference that senior guard and prolific three-point shooter A.J. Ratliff will miss the first part of the 2007-2008 season. Ratliff is ineligible for academic reasons, and may regain his eligibility if his grades allow after the first semester is completed.
The IU volleyball team starts its season Friday with a tournament at Northern Illinois University. The Hoosiers take on Western Kentucky University at 5 p.m and will take on Northern Illinois and Western Illinois on Saturday.
This weekend, the IU men’s soccer team will play their only preseason exhibition game of the 2007 season. The Hoosiers will take on the University of New Mexico in Fort Wayne, the first meeting between the two teams in nearly three years. The teams last met on the pitch in 2004, when the Hoosiers lost to the Lobos 1-0.
The IU men’s basketball team is a week away from leaving for the sunny, beautiful, Bahamas to play four games in their first foreign tour in a decade.
Junior center Ben Allen will transfer from the IU men’s basketball team, coach Kelvin Sampson said in an IU Athletics Department statement.
The IU field hockey team opens a promising season this weekend with a trip to Berkeley, Calif., to face the University of the Pacific on Saturday and the University of California-Berkeley on Sunday. Last season, the Hoosiers, led by senior All-Americans Lydia Schrott and Morgan Miller, fell just short of an NCAA tournament bid. This year, with Schrott and Miller having graduated, IU will look to a new group of seniors to lead it into the postseason. The Hoosiers have six seniors returning and three in particular – forward Kate O’Connell, midfielder Meredith Brown and goalkeeper Haley Exner – have taken an early leadership role with the team during the preseason.
Craig Monroe quickly found himself back in a pennant race Thursday when the Detroit Tigers traded the slumping outfielder and cash to the Chicago Cubs for a player to be named.
Junior center Ben Allen has played his last game for the Hoosiers and will transfer from the program, the IU Athletics Department announced today. For more analysis check out the IDS Basketblog.
While other students at IU went on vacation or took classes over the summer, seniors Mike MacDonald and Ben Oprinovich spent their time filling out paperwork for Indiana and the Internal Revenue Service.
The IU Alumni Association helped kick off the start of the college football season with a tent party Tuesday night at the Virgil T. DeVault Alumni Center.
Matt Roth, a 6-foot-2 shooting guard from Illinois, announced Wednesday he will sign a letter of intent to play for IU in 2008. Roth chose IU over Bradley and Saint Louis universities. Roth is the second player from a neighboring state to join next year’s recruiting class, and the third commitment overall. He joins Bud Mackey, shooting guard from Kentucky, and Devin Ebanks, small forward from Connecticut.
As the Hoosiers held a public scrimmage at Memorial Stadium Aug. 18 , something was noticeably absent. Not the scoreboard in the north end zone, nor the red 1993 Independence Bowl banner that hangs as a 14-year-old reminder of the Hoosiers’ last bowl game.
The IU women’s soccer team dropped its only exhibition match of the preseason 5-0 to the University of Missouri Tigers on Tuesday night in Columbia, Mo.
First came the massacre on campus, leaving 33 dead and a nation horrified. Then came federal dogfighting charges against Michael Vick, Virginia Tech’s favorite son.
Jerry Colangelo insists he was not out to build a team of All-Stars when he created the USA Basketball national team program. But maybe an All-Star team is exactly what the United States needed.
The NCAA placed Purdue on two years’ probation Wednesday after it determined that a former assistant women’s basketball coach wrote a paper for a player and made more than 100 impermissible recruiting calls.
Matt Roth, a 6-foot-2 shooting guard from Illinois, announced Wednesday he will sign a letter of intent to play for IU in 2008. For more analysis check out the IDS Basketblog.
Eric Gordon is coming to campus, and he’s bringing some friends with him. And they’re all exceptionally good basketball players.
Despite a persistent gray haze, officials said Tuesday an exercise that removed more than 1 million private vehicles a day from Beijing’s gridlocked streets was a success that could mean a clearer sky during next summer’s Olympics.