Little Fifty
Beautiful weather helped jump start the inaugural Little Fifty running event Sunday. Top competition and stands nearly filled to capacity made the event even more successful.
Beautiful weather helped jump start the inaugural Little Fifty running event Sunday. Top competition and stands nearly filled to capacity made the event even more successful.
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- A Maple Leaf grows among the towering pines of Augusta National. Mike Weir became the first Canadian to win the Masters, making two clutch pars to force a playoff with Len Mattiace, and winning on the first extra hole with a simple tap-in for bogey.
Men's tennis heads north The IU men's tennis team will travel north again this weekend to face off against Iowa and Minnesota.
Senior Anthony Oakley, an eight-game starter for IU last season, is no longer with the football team.
When the Hoosiers head out to Camden, N.J., for the Knecht Cup this weekend, it will be their first trip out East in three years. The two-day event will feature over 50 different schools from all over the country.
Allen Iverson and Jermaine O'Neal will be asked to join the 2004 U.S. Olympic men's basketball team, a source told The Associated Press on Thursday.
After winning against Michigan State and losing to Michigan last weekend, the IU women's tennis team continues its homestand with back to back matches over the weekend.
Coming within one pitch of snapping a two-year conference losing streak is something that can be disheartening to any team.
The No. 15 Hoosier water polo team will begin postseason play this week as they travel to Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa.
The IU baseball team faces a crossroad. On one road the Hoosiers, tied for second in the Big Ten, can separate themselves from the rest of the pack this weekend against Michigan State at Sembower Field.
After several NCAA Regional qualifying performances at season-opening meets, the No. 9 women's track and field team plays host to its first outdoor meet this Saturday at noon against Central Michigan and Indiana State.
Most second novice eights aren't considered fast. In fact, most second novice eights generally are made up of the rowers that aren't quite good enough to be in the first novice eight.
This weekend the men's track and field team races at home for the first time of the outdoor season. This is one of only two home meets the team will compete in all season.
Thursday night at the track brought injury upon insult at Team Pursuit as the women's final heat between Kappa Kappa Gamma and Team Athena was called because of a race-ending injury to Athena senior Allison Ware.
The "Little 500 week" is kicking off a little earlier this year. This weekend begins with the inaugural Little Fifty track race. The Little Fifty is a 12.5 mile relay race in which each team runs 50 laps around the outdoor track at the Haugh Varsity Track. Most teams will use a strategy of one or two lap exchanges. Tickets for the event came with the purchase of a Little 500 ticket. During fall registration 6,000 tickets were sold, well over the 3,000 person capacity of the track and field complex.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Roy Williams and North Carolina will talk through the weekend about his interest in returning to the program where he learned to coach under Dean Smith.
The final series event is tonight, and Little 500 weekend is only two weeks away. The calendar may show time is running out, but a better gauge of the dwindling time is the fierce competition on the track. The men and women's fields are both full of tight competition and experienced teams. "There's a lot of competition in the women's field," junior Phi Mu rider Annika Hosni said. "There are a lot of teams that have a chance to win, which makes the race that much more exciting."
Despite the end of the college basketball season, the sports world continues to intrigue all as the NHL and NBA seasons wind down and biggest of all, the Masters tee off. Tiger Woods once again is the favorite and will be in search of his third straight Green Jacket.
Prior to Wednesday's game against Valparaiso, coach Bob Morgan said his young pitchers had to step up if IU was to stop its two-game non-conference losing streak. They must have been listening.
The men's basketball team's non-conference schedule next season includes a home game against Butler and a game at Notre Dame.