Team on the attack for season opener
For the IU field hockey team, the saying "third times a charm" sounds more than fitting as the Hoosiers prepare for their third season of existence.
For the IU field hockey team, the saying "third times a charm" sounds more than fitting as the Hoosiers prepare for their third season of existence.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Tip-Off Celebration wasn't much of a celebration as few people came out to attend the festivities at the Pan American Plaza Thursday. To kick off the 11-day 2002 World Basketball Championships, an opening ceremony was planned. While bands performed and celebrities made appearances, there was a noticeable lack of fan interest and most obvious was that hardly any U.S. fans were found milling around outside the RCA Dome.
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The IU women's soccer team kicks off their 2002 campaign tonight in the Nike/Tiger Invitational, hosted by the Missouri Tigers. The two games are the first of the regular season, and begin the tenure of new coach Mick Lyon.
The IU soccer team begins the 2002 season as the consensus No. 1 team in the nation. They will be facing two fellow top ten teams this weekend, No. 9 Rutgers and No. 8 Clemson. Coach Jerry Yeagley will embark on his 30th season with Indiana this Friday. Yeagley, the winningest coach in college soccer history, has led IU to five straight Final Four appearances in the NCAA tournament including a trip to the championship game last season.
INDIANAPOLIS -- It didn't matter that at the end of the first period the U.S. team only scored 11 of its 20 field goal attempts. Or that U.S. team member Elton Brand scored all but 2 of the first 13 points for the team that has admitted an offensive weakness.
NEW YORK -- After seeing the Los Angeles win the WNBA title its first time out, the New York Liberty feel they're more than a little due for some rings of their own.
NEW YORK -- Little was ordinary about the start of the U.S. Open for third-seeded Tommy Haas, from being ordered to change out of a sleeveless shirt to three straight double faults in the fifth set.
NEW YORK -- As baseball moved within two days of another work stoppage, commissioner Bud Selig arrived at major league offices and negotiators worked late into the night to try to avert a planned strike.
Terri DiNardo, wife of football coach Gerry DiNardo, showed the Marching Hundred just how much the football team depends on their support. Dinardo hosted an Outback Steakhouse dinner for all 270 band members Wednesday night at the Mellencamp Pavilion.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Downtown Indianapolis, the middle of America, is getting an international flavor for the next 10 days. The Circle City has been taken over by 16 different countries to battle each other on the basketball court. The World Basketball Championships, a four-year event running opposite the Olympics, have landed in America for the first time.
Out with the old, in with the new. When Gerry DiNardo was named head football coach, he brought with him a new staff. With a new staff comes new philosophies, and the biggest change may occur on the defensive side of the football. Defensive coordinator Tim Kish brings a lot of Big Ten experience to IU, working last with Illinois in 2000. He brings a new style that will be a stark contrast to the previous seasons.
This Saturday, Gerry DiNardo will take the field in his first game as coach of the IU football team. While he's not likely to drive the team into Memorial Stadium on a double-decker bus a la Lee Corso, DiNardo's road to Bloomington has been a wild one. He's seen Heaven, Notre Dame football, and the other place, Vince McMahon's folly, the XFL. Now he's here in Bloomington trying to lead the Hoosiers from football purgatory.
CHICAGO -- Whether it's the picturesque views of San Francisco or the powerful story of New York, the United States is confident it has a winner. San Francisco and New York beat out Houston and Washington, D.C., on Tuesday when a U.S. Olympic Committee task force chose two finalists to be the American candidate for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
So far, so good for new women's soccer coach Mick Lyon. The Hoosiers tied Valparaiso in their first action of the year last Wednesday and defeated IU-Purdue University Fort Wayne 6-1 Saturday. Although both games were exhibitions, they provided Lyon some insight into the make-up of a team buoyed by a new coaching staff and featuring eight freshman players.
Marat Safin runs the gamut of emotions. Anybody who saw Safin beat Nicolas Kiefer in a fifth-set tiebreaker at the U.S. Open saw it all Tuesday.
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NEW YORK -- While baseball negotiators intensified their meetings in hopes of completing a deal, teams began pushing back travel plans to prepare for a possible strike Friday. The Chicago White Sox called off their Thursday charter to Detroit and said they would travel Friday only if there isn't a walkout. Boston rescheduled its charter to Cleveland for Friday, too, but St. Louis will travel Thursday for the following day's game at the Chicago Cubs, which would be the first game affected by a strike.
After being tabbed No. 1 in two different preseason college soccer rankings, the IU men's soccer team traveled to the Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne Soccer Showcase in Fort Wayne last weekend to take on Kentucky and Virginia in a pair of exhibition games. IU was ranked No. 1 by both the College Soccer News and the National Soccer Coaches' Association of America in their rankings released earlier this month.
After months of research and surveys by the Athletic Department, the university unveiled IU's new colors and logos last spring. Monday, the new uniforms for IU's athletic teams with the new looks were unveiled at a Varsity Club event held in Indianapolis. The athletic department has gone back to the old cream and crimson and the block IU symbol. Athletic Director Michael McNeely said the new logo was the most recognizable icon by fans of IU and its athletics.