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Michigan deals IU 1st Big Ten loss of 2008 season

The roller coaster continues, but for the struggling 20th-ranked IU men’s soccer team, the ride has not been thrilling.The Hoosiers lost 1-0 to unranked Michigan on Saturday, their second straight home loss. The defeat was also IU’s second shutout loss of the season.         PODCAST: Hoosier SidelinesIU came into the weekend’s game hoping to build on its 3-2 overtime road victory against Evansville. But the Wolverines needed just seconds to clinch the win in the second minute, when senior midfielder Alex Morisset sent the ball in to senior forward Jake Stacy. Amid a sea of defenders, Stacy fired the ball in the right side of the net.

Time to see more of Chappell

Offense falls short in 16-7 loss this weekend

MINNEAPOLIS – Converting on only one of 10 third downs and recording just a single score, the IU football team’s offense sputtered to a 16-7 defeat on the road at Minnesota. The loss shoots IU’s record below .500 at 2-3, and marks the team’s second straight Big Ten loss to open conference play at 0-2.

Frustrated: Football team falters on 3rd downs in loss to Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS – Coming into Saturday’s matchup against Minnesota, it looked as though the IU football team’s offense might be able to score big against the host Golden Gophers.The Hoosiers (2-3, 0-2) came into Saturday’s game ranked second in the conference in both total offense and rushing offense.By contrast, Minnesota entered the contest ranked ninth in both total defense and rushing defense. Statistics aren’t always what they appear to be.Despite the difference in rankings, the Gophers prevailed to defeat the Hoosiers, 16-7.In the first half, the Hoosiers only held the ball for 9:27, and out of their seven possessions in that frame, the visitors from Bloomington went three-and-out four times, and none lasted more than three plays.As a result, the Hoosiers were limited to 17 first-half plays as opposed to the 40 plays the Golden Gophers ran.

Ineffective offense dooms Hoosiers on the road at Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS - Converting on only one of 10 third downs and only recording a single score, the IU football team’s offense puttered to a 16-7 defeat on the road at Minnesota. Marcus Thigpen was the lone star for the Hoosiers, who for the second straight game scored a touchdown of more than 77 yards. This score came courtesy of a Ben Chappell loft, which found Thigpen wide open for a 77-yard touchdown reception.But unfortunately for the Hoosiers, Thigpen’s reception was the only time they would force the scoreboard technician to punch any buttons in the frame for their scoring

Runners compete in 72nd Jamboree

Looking to make long strides forward in their season, the IU men’s and women’s cross country team will travel to Stillwater, Okla., this weekend, home to the nation’s oldest cross country race.

Allenspach, men's golf team return to Windy City

Senior Drew Allenspach helped the IU men’s golf team to its best finish since 1980 at the NCAA Championships last season.

Classic brings tough women's tennis teams to Bloomington

Halfway through season, field hockey coach gives team ‘B’ on midterm

With nine games down and at least nine to go, IU field hockey coach Amy Robertson gave a simple midterm assessment of her team.

Urgency strikes volleyball team after 3 consecutive losses

The IU volleyball team will finally get the luxury of facing an unranked team in the Big Ten.

Reeling women's soccer team heads for conference road games

The IU women’s soccer team comes off a weekend where it was unable to pick up its first Big Ten win, losing two at Bill Armstrong Stadium by a 1-0 count in each.

Up and down No. 20 men's soccer team look to build on win

Whirling. Tumbling. Soaring. Dropping. The IU men’s soccer team has been on a wild ride, and only halfway through the regular season, it can’t get off yet.

Who will be Mr. October?

Metrodome notoriously unkind to visiting Hoosiers

The last time the IU football team knocked off the Minnesota Golden Gophers in Minneapolis, the price of a gallon of gas was about $1.08. Now at .500 through four games, IU faces Minnesota, who “is a good football team and a much-improved football team from a year ago,” said IU coach Bill Lynch. IU pummeled Minnesota 40-20 at Memorial Stadium last season, but this weekend, the team plays in Minneapolis, a place where the Hoosiers haven’t won in 15 years. This time around, there could be some fresh faces taking the field for the Cream and Crimson.

IU falls to top-ranked Penn State

Despite hanging around for most of the match, the IU volleyball team was eventually out-clawed by the Nittany Lions in straight sets Wednesday night. Penn State continued their undefeated season, improving to 15-0 on the year. They still have not lost a single set.

Two simple choices

This stinks rotten, no matter how you look at it. As I read these scores of pages – both of the NCAA’s exhibits in the failure to monitor allegation and the University’s response – one thing becomes increasingly clear: I can’t tell exactly who is lying – though I have a pretty good idea – but there ain’t nobody telling the truth. The departed half of this shotgunned wedding, Kelvin Sampson produced on Tuesday a statement stringently denying IU’s response, which basically said Sampson and his staff lied their pants off and IU shouldn’t be held responsible for that.

Pacers looking to score – plenty

Seventeen players. Sixteen guaranteed contracts. Fifteen available roster spots. One Jamaal Tinsley. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the 2008-09 Indiana Pacers. On Monday, the Pacers kicked off training camp with media day, when players moved station to station to take photos and give interviews.

A Jimmie Johnson 3-peat won’t come easy

Reading the box score of the final laps of last Sunday’s Camping World RV 400 at Kansas Speedway would certainly have left one thinking the finish of the race was all Jimmie Johnson – and that would be partially correct.

Beat-up IU football team hits the road

The score was not the only painful thing about IU’s loss to Michigan State. The list of Hoosiers wounded almost out distanced the number of mistakes.  The Hoosiers (2-2) have little time to rest, as they head to Minneapolis – their first road trip of the year – this weekend to take on a rising Minnesota (4-1) team led by Eric Decker, one of the top pass-catchers in the nation. “They have an outstanding quarterback, a very good wideout in Decker, and the defense is very sound,” IU coach Bill Lynch said to the media Tuesday. “They have some new guys over there that are very athletic.”

Tired and true: ‘Old Man Favre’ needs to go