Lions' coach fired after 3-13 season, NFL's 2nd-worst record
ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Marty Mornhinweg was fired as coach of the Detroit Lions on Monday after a 3-13 season, the second-worst record in the NFL.
ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Marty Mornhinweg was fired as coach of the Detroit Lions on Monday after a 3-13 season, the second-worst record in the NFL.
America's Olympic leaders thought they had solved their latest crisis, declaring it much ado about nothing. Meeting privately two weeks ago to debate accusations of an ethics violation by CEO Lloyd Ward, they emerged with smiles and a plea for unity going into the Athens Olympics. "For us, that's the end of it," said Bill Stapleton, U.S. Olympic Committee vice president.
CLEVELAND -- LeBron James dunks like an NBA player, and drives like one, too. But he's still not a professional. The nation's top high school basketball player was cleared Monday after a two-week investigation determined he did not violate state amateur bylaws by accepting a sports utility vehicle as a gift.
IU senior offensive lineman Enoch DeMar will play in the 2003 Hula Bowl Maui All-Star Football Classic on Feb. 1 in Wailuku, Hawaii.
A kindness of heart expressed through unification of martial art technique, body and heart is the aim of Aikido, one of the many unique organizations on the IU campus.
If the past was any indication of what awaits the IU men's basketball team in East Lansing tonight, the Hoosiers may face a repeat of the past two Big Ten road games. The No. 19 Hoosiers have been unsuccessful in the last nine attempts at the Breslin Center, and have not beat a Big Ten team on the road in four tries.
CLEVELAND - LeBron James did not violate state amateur bylaws by accepting a sports utility vehicle as a gift. The Ohio High School Athletic Association concluded its two-week investigation Monday by clearing James, the nation's top prep player, of any wrongdoing.
It might have been just like any other game for the women's basketball team on Friday if there wasn't $5,000 on the line. Instead, there was money on the line. Coach Kathi Bennett made a personal donation of $5,000 to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation after the single-game attendance at a women's game was broken on Friday night at the Wisconsin game.
WEST LAFAYETTE -- The No. 14 men's track and field team stumbled in a three-way meet involving No. 13 Purdue and Ohio State Saturday. The team traveled to Purdue for the second indoor meet of the season. After controlling the opening meet of the season at Michigan, the team struggled in their first competitive meet of the season. An unimpressed coach Marshall Goss said he thought the team did not show an impressive team mentality.
IU defeated No. 27 Notre Dame in a close match of the season this weekend. Notre Dame held a 3-2 lead after winning two of three doubles matches and claiming the doubles point, but IU won four of the six singles matches, upsetting the Fighting Irish 4-3.
The IU women's basketball team dropped two home games over the weekend, a pair of 11-point losses to Wisconsin and Michigan State. IU lost a hard-fought contest, 69-58 to Wisconsin on Friday night at Assembly Hall. The Badgers (4-13, 2-5 Big Ten) held the Hoosiers to 31 percent from the field for the game.
Despite a lackluster performance in losing to their archrival Michigan, the women's water polo team had a good weekend at the Michigan Invitational.
The women's swimming and diving team lost their first meet of the season over the weekend, to the same Penn State team they lost to in the waning moments of last year's Big Ten championships. IU, now 7-1 overall (4-1 in the Big Ten) defeated unranked Michigan State, 259-111, but lost to the No. 20 Nittany Lions, 195.50-173.50.
The Hoosiers couldn't have asked for a better start to the spring season after they swept both Western Michigan University Broncos and Miami (Ohio) Redhawks this past Saturday. IU opened up with a tough 4-3 victory over the Broncos and avenged a fall defeat.
Friday night belonged to Penn State. The Nittany Lions came to Bloomington and took advantage of an IU squad bitten by the injury bug. Penn State won nine of 10 bouts to beat the Hoosiers by a final score of 37-4. It was the Penn State wrestling program's largest margin of victory since they joined the Big Ten Conference.
WEST LAFAYETTE -- The No. 14 men's track and field team stumbled in a three-way meet involving No. 13 Purdue and Ohio State Saturday. The team traveled to Purdue for the second indoor meet of the season. After controlling the opening meet of the season at Michigan, the team struggled in their first competitive meet of the season. An unimpressed coach Marshall Goss said he thought the team did not show an impressive team mentality.
IU defeated No. 27 Notre Dame in a close match of the season this weekend. Notre Dame held a 3-2 lead after winning two of three doubles matches and claiming the doubles point, but IU won four of the six singles matches, upsetting the Fighting Irish 4-3.
The IU women's basketball team dropped two home games over the weekend, a pair of 11-point losses to Wisconsin and Michigan State. IU lost a hard-fought contest, 69-58 to Wisconsin on Friday night at Assembly Hall. The Badgers (4-13, 2-5 Big Ten) held the Hoosiers to 31 percent from the field for the game.
Forty years, 11 trips to the college cup championship, five national titles and one more year to go. Men's soccer coach Jerry Yeagley has decided to call it quits after the upcoming 2003 season. Yeagley has amassed an impressive 527-98-40 overall record and has never had a losing season in 30 years of NCAA play.
The women's track and field team finished first in a three-team meet against Purdue and Ohio State in West Lafayette on Saturday. The IU hockey team got a shot at the No. 1 team in the country but couldn't contain Penn State's high octane offense. TORONTO -- Vince Carter returned and the Toronto Raptors won.