Freshmen football players arrested for theft and larceny
Two IU football players were arrested on charges of class-B felony theft and larceny Saturday evening after police discovered a sign taken from Memorial Stadium hanging in their dorm room.
Two IU football players were arrested on charges of class-B felony theft and larceny Saturday evening after police discovered a sign taken from Memorial Stadium hanging in their dorm room.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- In their first Indiana-Purdue game, the IU freshman four made it look like they'd been battling the rival Boilermakers for years.
It took two overtimes and three Hoosiers in double-figures to do it, but IU held on to win against the Purdue Boilermakers, Saturday afternoon in Mackey Arena. Junior guard Bracey Wright led the team with 26 points, followed by freshman center D.J. White with 16 and freshman forward Robert Vaden with 11.
It took two overtimes and three Hoosiers in double-figures to do it, but IU held on to win against the Purdue Boilermakers, Saturday afternoon in Mackey Arena.
FOXBORO, Mass. -- The New England Patriots are preparing what might be the best defense against Peyton Manning and his speedy receivers: a slippery field.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- With some of its biggest stars under suspicion and lawmakers demanding action, Major League Baseball adopted a tougher steroid-testing program that will suspend first-time offenders for 10 days and randomly test players year-round.
The Web site www.trackwire.com recently placed the Hoosiers fourth in the nation, but this weekend's Hoosier Open will measure the fitness of IU's athletes after the long semester break and if they can live up to that ranking.
When the second half began, the IU crowd stood on their feet in hopes of turning around a lackluster first half performance.
Six hundred and 19 days ago, Purdue fans suffered another defeat to in-state rival IU. On May 6, 2003, then-Indianapolis Pike High School superstar Robert Vaden reneged on his oral commitment to play for Gene Keady and the Boilermakers, only to choose their neighbors two hours south. Saturday will be the first time Vaden faces the West Lafayette crowd -- a group that once hailed him -- as the Hoosiers face Purdue at noon in Mackey Arena.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Randy Moss trudged out to his truck in the subzero cold, with a huge, black hooded sweat shirt covering almost his entire face.
Somewhere in IU graduate Max Semenick's Bloomington house there is a monkey locked in a trunk.
Four highly ranked teams will be among the competition for IU this weekend as the wrestling team travels to Hampton, Virginia.
After taking to the road for the first three games of the Big Ten season, home hasn't looked better to the Hoosiers. Tonight, they'll exercise their home court advantage as the IU women's basketball team plays Northwestern in its conference home opener at 7 p.m. in Assembly Hall.
NEW YORK -- Randy Johnson, Carlos Beltran, Shawn Green, Derek Lowe, Javier Vazquez and Juan Gonzalez finally got to their new teams following weeks of negotiations. Dioner Navarro, a 20-year-old catcher with seven major league at-bats, even got traded twice Tuesday.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Tony Dungy wants to play by the book. If defenders are holding, grabbing or pushing receivers, the Colts coach expects it to be called. If there is incidental contact, he expects officials to give players some leeway.
After enduring another tough season in which IU lost eight of its last nine games, getting to a bowl game seemed light years away for the Hoosiers. But with the hiring of new football coach Terry Hoeppner, players are looking to now for their bowl aspirations rather than later.
With students taking a much-needed three-week break from the rigors of academe, the IU men's basketball team wasn't given that fortune. IU lost the final two games of their tough six-game stretch before picking up three much-needed wins against easier foes.
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- The NCAA approved the first phase of a landmark academic reform package Monday under which about 30 percent of Division I football teams would have lost scholarships had it been implemented immediately.
Colts quarterback Peyton Manning was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player for the second straight year Monday. The award came a day after Manning directed the Colts to a 49-24 first-round win over the Broncos and a week after a season in which he set the record for touchdown passes with 49.