"I'm not here just to be in the tournament. I don't want to be that local guy... that's a great story anyway.' Anytime I tee it up I want to win." - Bo Hoag, men's golf, on his exemption to play in the Nationwide Tour event July 30-Aug. 2 at OSU Scarlet Course (Col. Dispatch July 2)
Former Boilermaker Maria Hernandez will compete in the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic LPGA tournament this Thursday through Sunday in Sylvania, Ohio.
The Indiana University men's basketball team will face Pittsburgh in the second game of the 2009 Jimmy V Classic scheduled for 9 p.m., Tuesday December 8 in New York's Madison Square Garden. Butler will face Georgetown in the opening contest at 7 p.m., with both games set to air on ESPN. This is the 15th Annual Classic, with Indiana making its second appearance in the event (1999).
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith has been appointed chairman of the Division I Men's Basketball Committee for 2010-11, the NCAA announced Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate plans to hold a hearing next week looking into antitrust issues surrounding the Bowl Championship Series. It's the second time this year that Congress is shining a light on the polarizing system college football uses to crown its national champion.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The NCAA on Tuesday rejected an appeal from former Indiana basketball coach Kelvin Sampson, who was slapped with five years of potential penalties for taking part in more than 100 impermissible calls to recruits while coaching the Hoosiers.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- University of Michigan men's basketball head coach John Beilein announced today (Monday, June 29) incoming freshman forward Jordan Morgan (Detroit, Mich./University of Detroit Jesuit HS) will have surgery on his left knee to repair articular cartilage and will be out four to five months during recovery and rehabilitation. The surgery, to be performed by Dr. Jon K. Sekiya, is scheduled for Wednesday, July 1, at the University of Michigan Medical Center.
PARKERSBURG, Iowa (AP) -- Thousands of mourners gathered Monday to remember a slain high school football coach as a man of faith who believed in leading by example.
BELGRADE, Serbia -- Corey Fisher (Villanova / Bronx, N.Y.) scored 15 points and Deon Thompson (North Carolina / Torrance, Calif.) added 12 to go with nine boards as the 2009 USA Men's World University Games Team (2-1) earned a 67-63 hard-fought defensive battle over Russia (1-2) in the 2009 Serbia International Invitational on Monday night in Belgrade.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The NCAA women's gymnastics committee is recommending changes to the national championship format: It wants four teams to compete in the finals instead of the current six.
For the fourth time in six years the University of Minnesota had two players selected in the first round of the National Hockey League Entry Draft as Nick Leddy and Jordan Schroeder each went among the top picks.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - B.J. Mullens, a 7-foot center, became the fifth Ohio State freshman to be selected in the opening round of the NBA draft in the last three seasons when the Dallas Mavericks selected him with the 24th pick Thursday. Mullens was then traded to Oklahoma City as part of a draft-day deal.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Kathy Teichert announced today (Thursday, June 25) her resignation as University of Michigan women's golf head coach effective June 26. The most successful coach in the 33-year history of the program, Teichert led the Wolverines to 24 team titles and 15 runner-up finishes, and 11 U-M players accounted for 19 individual championships during her 16 seasons as head coach.
The Senate plans to hold a hearing next week looking into antitrust issues surrounding college football's Bowl Championship Series.
It will be the second hearing on the BCS held on Capitol Hill this year, following a contentious one in the House in May.
The Senate Judiciary Committee Web site says the hearing will be next Tuesday in the committee's subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights.
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North Carolina State linebacker Nate Irving is recovering from surgery after being hurt in a car crash.
A WakeMed Trauma Center spokeswoman said Irving was in good condition Monday after surgery Sunday night. Irving was hospitalized with a broken leg and a collapsed lung after running his vehicle off the road at 4:40 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 40 in Johnston County.
State troopers think Irving might have fallen asleep at the wheel before crashing into two trees.
Texas linebacker Sergio Kindle was treated for a concussion after crashing his car into an Austin apartment building last week while he was either sending or receiving a text message, his attorney said Monday.
Kindle's attorney, Brian Roark, said Kindle lost control of the car on June 24 while looking at the message.
"It was probably something he should not have been doing," Roark said.
The crash caused about $8,700 damage and no one inside was hurt.
Arkansas linebacker Khiry Battle has been dismissed from the team after a weekend arrest on a charge of driving under the influence.
Coach Bobby Petrino announced Battle's dismissal Monday, saying only that he'd violated team rules.
The 20-year-old Battle was arrested early Sunday on a charge of misdemeanor DUI. Police say Battle failed a field sobriety test and refused to take a breath alcohol test, leading to a charge of violating the state's implied consent law.
The family of a former Rice University football player who died during a workout has settled its lawsuit with the school and the NCAA.
The NCAA has agreed to recommend that its member universities test all student athletes for sickle cell trait.
Dale Lloyd II died a day after he collapsed during a conditioning workout Sept. 24, 2006. The 19-year-old freshman's death was linked to sickle-cell trait and created the basis for the lawsuit filed in state district court in Harris County.