Team remains undefeated in Big Ten road matches
In all his years of coaching, IU coach Lin Loring had never experienced a win like the one his team had Sunday.
In all his years of coaching, IU coach Lin Loring had never experienced a win like the one his team had Sunday.
When members of the IU football team checked their e-mail Friday, there was a message from coach Terry Hoeppner, who has not been present for spring practice due to health reasons.
NEW YORK – Rachel Robinson still has vivid memories of April 15, 1947, when her husband changed America forever.
Facing ninth-ranked Illinois this weekend, the IU men’s tennis team fell 5-2 on Saturday at the IU Tennis Center.
The IU softball team embarked on its first road trip of the Big Ten season, facing the Minnesota Golden Gophers on Sunday in Minneapolis for a doubleheader.
Apparently no one told the men’s and women’s track teams that the weather in Columbia, Mo., would be miserable, and that they wouldn’t be able to perform well at the Tom Botts Invitational. That or the teams simply were not listening as, despite horrid conditions, the men and women combined to win 15 events.
After another tournament weekend with less than desirable weather, the men’s golf team finished 10th at the Kepler Intercollegiate tournament in Columbus, Ohio. After a shortened 36-hole competition, the Hoosiers’ final score was a combined 625 (313-312).
Although the winter weather is making a late appearance in the year, a key spring win for the Hoosiers soccer team couldn’t have come sooner.
The IU baseball team scored 20 runs in its weekend series against Purdue, but it only managed to win one of four games in West Lafayette.
The IU rowing team fell to Michigan and Michigan State on Saturday at the Big Ten Duals in East Lansing, Mich.
This weekend the IU men’s soccer team will travel up to Indianapolis to take on in-state rival Notre Dame. Although the game will be played on neutral ground, it’s not the venue that will be a challenge for the Hoosiers – it’s the competition.
The IU men’s golf team looks to improve its record this weekend at the Kepler Intercollegiate tournament in Columbus, Ohio, hosted by Ohio State. The team hopes to play 54 holes, but weather might prevent two full rounds of play on both Saturday and Sunday.
IU softball coach Stacey Phillips said road trips can be one of two things: They can be long and difficult or they can be important bonding moments for the team. As the Hoosiers prepare for their first road trip of the Big Ten season, they said they hope it’s the latter of the two.
The IU football team has seen it all since it started spring practice four weeks ago. The first day of practices saw spring-like warm weather and clear skies. Last Saturday’s intrasquad scrimmage saw snow as the temperatures dipped below freezing. “Any weather’s football weather for me,” said senior cornerback Leslie Majors. “We play in it all. It’s hot in the summer, then it gets cold in the winter. It’s the whole season combined in three little short weeks; we got the heat and the cold.”
DURHAM, N.C. – The local prosecutor who charged three Duke lacrosse players with raping a stripper apologized to the athletes Thursday and said the North Carolina attorney general’s decision to drop the case was right. “To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three students that were wrongly accused,” Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong said.
The IU rowing team will get its first taste of Big Ten competition in East Lansing, Mich., this weekend. IU’s varsity and novice crews will face Michigan State, Ohio State and Michigan in an all-day double-duel race.
When it comes to hitting, IU coach Tracy Smith knows his team can do better. “It better,” Smith said in regards to his team’s need to pick up its offensive play. “The guys know they’re better than what they’re performing. It’s just a matter going out and taking a deep breath, go out and do what you do.”
NEW YORK – CBS fired Don Imus from his radio program Thursday, the finale to a stunning fall for one of the nation’s most prominent broadcasters.
The fun and games are over for the No. 66 IU men’s tennis team. Coming off an exciting, come-from-behind win at then-No. 57 Northwestern, the Hoosiers (13-8, 3-3) face a pair of tough matches this weekend at home against No. 9 Illinois (13-6, 5-1) and rival Purdue (8-9, 1-5).
During Saturday’s Cream and Crimson football game, action will not be limited to the turf of Memorial Stadium. The IU Athletics Department plans to set up ticket booths in hopes of raising season ticket sales.