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IU defeats Notre Dame in Indianapolis

By Linnea Coulter · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

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.

IU drops 3 of 4 in series with Purdue

By Lee Hurwitz · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

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.

IU loses 2 at Big Ten Duals meet in Michigan

By Whitney Mitchell · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

The IU rowing team fell to Michigan and Michigan State on Saturday at the Big Ten Duals in East Lansing, Mich.

IU set to face Notre Dame in Indianapolis

By Linnea Coulter · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

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.

IU looks for 3rd tourney win of spring season

By Mandy Eid · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

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.

Minnesota, Wisconsin await Hoosiers on road

By Joel Sanders and Joel Sansers · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

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.

Head-to-Head

By John Wustrow · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

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.”

Duke DA apologizes to lacrosse players after pursuing case for year

By Aaron Beard · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

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.

Squad travels to Michigan to face conference foes, won’t race Ohio State

By Whitney Mitchell · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

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.

Hoosiers travel to West Lafayette for 4-game series

By Lee Hurwitz · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

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.”

CBS fires radio personality Don Imus over racial comments about Rutgers

By Aaron Beard and David Bauder · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

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.

Hoosiers face No. 9 Illinois, rival Purdue in final home set

By Jordan Cohen · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

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).

IU seeks more students in stands

By John Wustrow · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

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.

Team travels to Missouri for meet

By Ryan Gregg · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

Despite unfavorable weather for meets, the men’s and women’s track and field teams will continue to clear hurdles this season. After canceling last weekend’s Indiana Relays, the teams will be taking their top athletes to Columbia, Mo., this weekend to compete in the Tom Botts Invitational held by the University of Missouri.

Hoosiers face pair of rivals this weekend

By Kevin Kane · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

The toughest weekend of the season has passed, but the IU women’s tennis team can’t fall asleep on this weekend’s opponents. The No. 33 Hoosiers lost to No. 2 Notre Dame and now-No. 9 Northwestern last weekend in what was the team’s most difficult pair of matches this season. IU’s schedule eases up this weekend, but only by comparison.

Treading through adversity

By Tom Kir · Thursday, April 12,2007 12 a.m.

For most IU seniors, their life perspectives change after graduation. For one IU women’s water polo player, it changed before her senior year even started. In August 2005, Emily Schmitt was preparing for her senior year of college, just a few months before the start of her last water polo season. She set out for a bike ride in an attempt to make the most of one of the last remaining days of summer. While traveling down an unfamiliar road, she was hit by a van and blacked out. “I don’t remember the few minutes before it happened,” Schmitt said. “I had no recollection of the impact or sound. The first real recollection of that night was being in the hospital.”

N.C. prosecutors drop charges in rape case against Duke lacrosse players

By Aaron Beard · Thursday, April 12,2007 12 a.m.

RALEIGH, N.C. – The Duke lacrosse rape case finally collapsed Wednesday, with North Carolina’s top prosecutor saying the three athletes were railroaded by a district attorney who ignored increasingly flimsy evidence in a “tragic rush to accuse.”

Colts get prime-time slots, slew of late games in ’07

By Aaron Beard and Michael Marot · Thursday, April 12,2007 12 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – The Indianapolis Colts will be working late next season. League officials made the Super Bowl champions their feature attraction in 2007, giving the Colts five prime-time games including a Thanksgiving night game at Atlanta and four late-afternoon Sunday contests on the 16-game schedule. It won’t bother coach Tony Dungy.

Cardinals knock off Pirates with late home run

By Aaron Beard and Alan Robinson · Thursday, April 12,2007 12 a.m.

PITTSBURGH – So Taguchi couldn’t have had a much better day, going 3-for-3 with two doubles and reaching base four times. With the game on the line in the ninth inning, Cardinals manager Tony La Russa felt he had an even better option.

Sampson inks 6th recruit for next season