New tri-captain steps up for men's soccer team
INDIANAPOLIS - Pat Noonan stood next to his teammates at midfield with a black-and-white captain's armband on his left bicep before Sunday's match at the Butler Classic.
INDIANAPOLIS - Pat Noonan stood next to his teammates at midfield with a black-and-white captain's armband on his left bicep before Sunday's match at the Butler Classic.
INDIANAPOLIS ' IU's men's soccer teams, traditionally, have several trademarks. One, for example, is that the Hoosiers do not give up many goals.
INDIANAPOLIS ' Matt Ahumada hadn't played a minute with the men's soccer team until Friday's loss against Creighton, but coach Jerry Yeagley couldn't stop talking about the freshman defender before the season began.
The women's soccer team was shut out twice in losses to Northwestern 1-0 and Michigan 2-0 this weekend at Bill Armstrong stadium. The losses are the first for the Hoosiers this year.
The Bourbon Barrel doesn't exist anymore, but that doesn't mean the IU/Kentucky football game doesn't mean anything. Travel to parts of Southern Indiana or almost anywhere in Kentucky and the annual border war between the Hoosiers and Wildcats is a topic of conversation. "When you go down to Southern Indiana, Louisville, Owensboro, Evansville, that game is the number one thing that they talk about when I come down to the golf outings and speak," coach Cam Cameron said. "They are pointing towards the Kentucky game, but it is important to us all."
With the first Olympics of the new millennium officially beginning today, some local athletes and a professor ' who is gaining national attention for his stand against a new trend in swimming ' will be paying close attention. Former IU softball player Michelle Venturella, junior diver Sara Reiling, former IU track and field athlete De Dee Nathan and IU assistant wrestling coach Charles Burton are among thousands of athletes reaching for gold at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
The volleyball team has been undefeated in each tournament thus far, and hopes the trend continues as they host the Blimpie/Hoosier Invitational this weekend.
Game information Indiana (0-1) at Kentucky (1-1) When: Saturday Time: 5 p.m. Where: Commonwealth Stadium Capacity: 67,530 Series Record: Indiana leads overall series 16-13-1 Last Meeting: Sept. 18, 1999 at Memorial Stadium, Kentucky won 44-35 TV: ESPN 2 Announcers: Mark Jones (play-by-play), Gino Torretta (analyst), Rob Stone (sideline) Radio: IU Radio Network - B97, 96.7 FM, WIUS 1570 AM
Whether the women's soccer team wanted it or not, they received an added challenge this week. As if starting the Big Ten schedule wasn't enough and playing one of the top teams in the conference wouldn't suffice, a certain Sunday press conference added another aspect to this week's practices ' focus.
The men's soccer team took more than 84 minutes to score a goal against unranked IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis Wednesday night at Bill Armstrong Stadium.
Fullbacks are often the players on a football team who are suppose to do the dirty work. Whether it's clearing the way for the tailback or throwing a block to protect a quarterback, fullbacks often do things that don't find their way onto the stat sheet.
IU basketball secretary Mary Ann Davis said last night she is not filing a grievance against Jeanette Hartgraves, a secretary in the athletic department. In an interview with the IDS Wednesday, former coach Bob Knight said his secretaries were filing a grievance, but it was later clarified that Knight was talking about an event in the past. The IDS regrets this error.
“The General” had his last stand Wednesday night in front of more than 6,000 people. Coach Knight bid IU goodbye in an emotional speech in Dunn Meadow. Bob Knight fans and protesters from across the region turned out to hear what he had to say. Knight addressed everything from his future plans to the reason for his termination.
The tradition of great cycling at IU has long been at the center of campus attention. The student body embraced the annual Little 500 and the nation fell in love with the inspirational Bloomington-based film "Breaking Away." So it should come with no great surprise that the IU Cycling Club has attained great success.
One might think when a team loses its leading scorer to graduation, the second leading returning scorer would feel added pressure to pick up the lead. Someone forgot to tell that to junior midfielder Kelly Kram. Kram shrugged off the pressure going into this year and is more focused on having fun and working together as a team to accomplish goals.
IU's men's soccer team was as unlucky as possible Wednesday against IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis. The Hoosiers outshot the Jaguars 25-3 but still only managed two goals in a 2-0 victory. Both goals came in the final six minutes of play, with sophomore midfielder Pat Noonan finally giving the Hoosiers a 1-0 lead with 5:38 remaining. Junior midfielder Ryan Mack got IU an insurance goal just 59 seconds later, tapping in a rebound from just one yard away.
To put it in nice terms, the IU defense struggled in the Hoosiers' season-opening 41-38 loss to North Carolina State Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Things won't get much easier for the Hoosiers this Saturday night when they travel to Kentucky to take on the Wildcats and their "Air Raid" offense. Last weekend, IU saw Wolfpack freshman quarterback Philip Rivers throw for 401 yards and five touchdowns as he rallied his team back from deficits of 18 and 15 points. This week, Wildcat redshirt-freshman quarterback Jared Lorenzen will have his crack at the Hoosiers.
Indiana was down 73-72 with under 15 seconds to play. Smart passed to Thomas in the post. Thomas kicked it back out to Smart. From the baseline, Smart, to win the game … In the 1987 NCAA title game, senior guard Keith Smart's 15-foot jumper from the left corner with six seconds remaining in the game won the national championship, 74-73 against Syracuse.
Bob Knight sat on his back porch Wednesday morning with his attorney to his left and one of his best friends to his right. His wife Karen was inside their home. These are now the people he surrounds himself with ' family, friends and attorneys. These are the relationships the former coach has sustained. After about three days of "I-said-he-said" debates, a man who is arguably one of the country's greatest basketball coaches, was fired. But the tension began long ago.
Pure. Sensitive. Genius. It only took a few seconds for former Hoosier star Isiah Thomas to narrow Bob Knight down to those three words. Now Thomas wants those characteristics working for him and the Indiana Pacers.