Colts to play in 5 prime-time games
The NFL has rewarded the Indianapolis Colts’ success by giving them five prime-time games, including one against the rival New England Patriots.
The NFL has rewarded the Indianapolis Colts’ success by giving them five prime-time games, including one against the rival New England Patriots.
Tom Crean and the IU men’s basketball team will travel to Winston-Salem, N.C., to face Wake Forest in the annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge this December.
The IU Figure Skating Club rounded out a triumphant season at the 2008 Intercollegiate National Figure Skating Championships, capturing eight first-place titles and finishing second overall in the competition.
The Hoosiers’ plan wasn’t to just keep their heads up mentally, but also to play solid softball as the Big Ten tournament approaches. But reoccurring, unbalanced attacks have the cream and crimson perplexed as run production has dwindled.
Baseball is a love-hate game, IU coach Tracy Smith says. Fate didn’t throw any love the Hoosiers’ way Tuesday night, that’s for sure.
He is one of the first to arrive and one of the last to leave.
Several Hoosiers set career bests in competition this weekend at the Sea Ray Relays in Knoxville, Tenn. In some cases, the records came in fewer than 11 seconds on the track, while others, like junior Kristina Trcka’s, took nearly 39 minutes to accomplish.
The Hoosiers’ performance in April has fluctuated in harmony with Bloomington’s unsteady weather. A heated streak of two wins here, a chilled swing of two losses there – not a steady forecast in sight.
After a weekend of rough weather and tough losses, the IU baseball team gets a chance to rebound in a big way early this week as it travels to Louisville for the first of two non-conference games. The Cardinals (19-14) present a tall task for the Hoosiers (12-18) because they played in the College World Series in Ohama, Neb., last year.
Battling cold and wet conditions, the Cutters outlasted a field of 33 teams on the way to their record ninth championship, becoming the first team to repeat as champions at Bill Armstrong Stadium. BLOG: Blogging Away SLIDESHOW: Men's Little 500 VIDEO: Men's Little 500
Thanks to good strategy, Delta Gamma became the 4th sorority to win the Little 500. The team opened up a big lead in the last laps at second-place Teter could not catch them in time. SLIDESHOW: Obama visits Little 500 SLIDESHOW: Women's Little 500 VIDEO: Women's Little 500
The No. 38 IU men’s tennis team picked up its second straight win Saturday, and senior Dara McLoughlin etched his name into the record books as the Hoosiers downed the Boilermakers, 6-1.
IU coach Stacey Phillips and her softball team learned from their mistake in Friday’s 3-2 loss to Ohio State. In Friday’s game, Buckeye standout Sam Marder hit a go-ahead two-run home run in the sixth inning to put the Buckeyes ahead for good. But in Saturday’s one-hit shutout win over Ohio State, Phillips and the Hoosiers (12-27, 2-8) instead walked Marder three times.
As the school year comes to a close, so will senior captain Brianna Williams’ college tennis career. On Senior Day, Williams finished her last home match victorious as the No. 29 Hoosiers defeated No. 58 Illinois 4-3 Saturday and Purdue 4-3 Sunday.
Students who came to rapper Yung Joc’s concert at the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house Friday night more interested in student athletes than music were disappointed.
Pitching and defense again proved to be the Achilles heel of the IU baseball team as it dropped three of four games to Iowa this weekend.
Rain, thunder and lightning. The sixth running of the Little 50 was plagued by Mother Nature’s obstacles but showed the mental toughness of its competitors. With weather delays adding up to more than an hour, the runners lost rhythm but battled relentlessly during the 50-lap relay race.
Barack Obama left freshman Melissa Vargas a little disappointed.
Around lap 20 of the women’s Little 500, Teter looked like it might run away with a win. The Spring Series champions had senior Sarah Rieke, one of the top individual riders, on the bike and had pushed out their lead to close to a lap.
Alpha Tau Omega just wanted to gain back the respect it once had as a top cycling team. After a fourth-place finish Saturday in the 58th annual Little 500, they might have gotten it.